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| Charlotte Love, age 96 |
Charlotte Rose Love, pictured here at age 96, was born
before the Revolutionary War of 1776 and is the earliest- born person buried in
the Cooksville (Waucoma) Cemetery. She
was born March 29, 1772, in Connecticut, and died April 11, 1868, in the Town
of Porter. Charlotte’s memorial stone is located in the old section at the
southern end of Cooksville’s cemetery.
Charlotte married Richard Love (1772- 1847) and lived in
Chautauqua, New York, where she had nine children. At least five of her children moved to Cooksville
about 1845-46, and Charlotte soon joined them in the village after her husband
died in New York State. One of her grandsons operated Waucoma House, Cooksville’s
stagecoach inn in the 1850s.
Besides Charlotte Love, eleven other persons born in the 18th
century are buried in the Cooksville Cemetery. (The original name is Waucoma
Cemetery because it is located in the portion of the village next to Cooksville
platted as Waucoma by Joseph Porter in 1846.)
The others include: Isaac
Porter (1783-1854), Mary Nibbs (1789-1870), Amey Pitman Porter (1789-1871),
Jasper Billings (1790-1869), Jane Billings (1791-1869), Betsy Hume (1793-1880),
Andrew Smart (1793-1880), Polly More Bassett (1793-1886), John Seaver
(1795-1886), and Allen Hoxie (1797-1862).
By Larry Reed
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