"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.---------
Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Monday, August 26, 2013
William Cocke and his 2nd wife, my GGGG Grandmother, Kissiah Sims Cocke, Widow of Parish Sims
One of the first 2 U S Senators from Tennessee--perhaps they met when he was agent to the Chickasaws after she had been one of the Sims Intruders on Chickasaw lands, before Alabama was opened to white settlement.
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