Anne Gower Cockrill (née Robertson, formerly Johnson (or Johnston); February 10, 1757–October 13, 1821) was an American pioneer, teacher, land owner, and one of the first white settlers of the Cumberland Settlement in Tennessee.
[1] Her brother, James Robertson (1742-1814), founded Fort Nashborough alongside John Donelson (1718–1785).
[1][2] When it was attacked by Native Americans, she led a group of women to throw boiling water at them to ward them off.
[2] Her first husband (surnamed Johnson or Johnston) was a justice of the peace in the Washington District of East Tennessee and was killed in an accident.
[2][4] The land was then known as Cockrill Springs and was situated on what is now Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, near the campus of Vanderbilt University.