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Index to Locations
Lea Springs Cemetery
Private or family graveyards
Rutledge Methodist Church Cemetery
Lea Springs
Cemetery
Grainger County, Tennessee
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Luke Lea (1810-1898) —
of Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss.
Born in Grainger
County, Tenn., November
16, 1810.
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, 1876-85.
Died in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., May 9,
1898 (age 87 years, 174
days).
Interment at Lea Springs Cemetery.
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Major Lea (1771-1822) —
of Grainger
County, Tenn.
Born in Leasburg, Caswell
County, N.C., April
21, 1771.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1810.
Baptist.
Died in Grainger
County, Tenn., July 16,
1822 (age 51 years, 86
days).
Interment at Lea Springs Cemetery.
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Private or family
graveyard
Grainger County, Tennessee
Methodist Church
Cemetery
Rutledge, Grainger County, Tennessee
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John Alexander Cocke (1772-1854) —
also known as John Cocke —
of Rutledge, Grainger
County, Tenn.
Born in Brunswick, Brunswick
County, Va., December
7, 1772.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1796-97, 1807-13, 1837-39; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1811-13,
1837-39; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1799-1801, 1843; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1819-27 (at-large 1819-25, 2nd
District 1825-27).
Slaveowner.
Died in Rutledge, Grainger
County, Tenn., February
16, 1854 (age 81 years, 71
days).
Interment at Methodist Church Cemetery.
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