Horton and Bryan Family History

On 2 May 1868, Syrene Cockerham was born in Wolfe County, Kentucky, the eldest child and only daughter of James Kash Cockerham and Zerilda Manervia Puckett. She had three younger brothers. At 22, Syrene married Robert Pepper McCoun (1860-1940). During the first 11 years of marriage, Syrene and Rob had seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood. Syrene and Rob owned a farm in a tiny hamlet called Vortex, three miles south of Campton, the county seat. The central role in Syrene’s life was farm wife, reigning over a large, close-knit family who revered her. She died in Winchester, Kentucky, at age 94 on 19 October 1962.