The home and family cemetery of John & Ann Cockrill were located in the present-day area of Centennial Park, West End Avenue. Their graves were removed from the family cemetery to Nashville City Cemetery in 1911.

A bronze plaque on large granite stone in Centennial Park reads:

Ann Robertson Cockrill. Near this spot stood the home of John

Cockrill and his wife, Ann Robertson Cockrill, sister of General

James Robertson. Born in North Carolina, on February 10, 1757,

Ann Robertson came to the Cumberland Settlement with Donelson’s

flotilla early in 1780. Here she organized a school for the pioneers’

children, thus becoming Nashville’s first school teacher. Also she

organized and taught Nashville’s first Sunday School class. She

died here on October 15, 1821, and is buried in the City Cemetery.

[Erected by the School Children of Nashville and Davidson County

and the Tennessee Historical Commission, 1946]

At the Nashville City Cemetery, two plaques cover the two stone slabs

of Ann and John Cockrill:

Ann Cockrill

Formerly Ann Robertson

Born 10^th February 1757

Departed this life

October 13^th 1821 (death day differs from above plaque)

John Cockrill

Born 19^th December

Departed this life

11^th April 1837

Report: 10-20-2003