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Hello,
Hope others out there might connect or be able to help with the following.
My maternal grandfather was Robert Frederick Cochran; born 1886 in
Carbon County, PA. His father was Emanuel Cochran; born 1852; died
1937, Carbon County, PA. His mother was Elsie (Drumboro) Cochran;
1869-1958. His grandfather was Leonard Cochran; born about 1821,
possibly in Ireland.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Bob Phillips
Columbus, OH
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Subject: Jacob Benjamin
> http://discoversd.tie.net/continuing/resources/daughter/hand/lovell.html
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> my great grandfather who was married to Clora Jane Miller.
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Kim - Your information corresponds to that in my files. Can you tell me your sources? Much of mine had not been corroborated. Also, any known revolutionary war service? The other thing I am looking for, probably in Jane Boggs line, is Indian blood. Our family has it as Choctaw, but I believe now that it is in fact Cherokee. Any more detailed information? Thanks - and over the holidays I will try and get into my files and relaly my sources. Don
Based on proximity and names, I would like to ask if you have ever run
across any information about a John Cochran (b: 1803) who arrived with wife
Ann (b: 1801) and daughter Jane (b: 1825) in Jefferson County, Ohio in 1826.
They had two sons, George (1827) and James W. (1829). In 1831 they moved to
Coshocton County, had three daughters and the entire family moved to
Jefferson County, Iowa in 1841.
Data included in John's Obituary identifies that they originated in Donegal,
Ireland and that John, Ann and Jane were all born in Ireland.
Any information or possible leads will be appreciated.
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In a message dated 11/23/2003 1:10:38 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Samuel Cochran was a practical surveyor
> and a consistent member of the Tyrone Presbyterian church up until his
> death, July 2, 1837. His children were: Samuel Cochran Jr, James Cochran,
> John Cochran, Thomas Cochran, Isaac Cochran, Mordecai Cochran, and Esther
> Cochran, wife of John Strickler, the latter an only child by a second
> marriage.
Would you happen to have any further information regarding Samuel Cochran's
son Thomas Cochran?
Theresa Ashley Kingsley
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Wow - thanks for the info!!!! That helps me out so much. Also, if you have any more details or find any more, just let me know. Also, where did you get all of this info? I thought I searched everywhere?
Thanks,
Cory Cochran
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> Samuel Cochran was a practical surveyor
> and a consistent member of the Tyrone Presbyterian church up until his
> death, July 2, 1837. His children were: Samuel Cochran Jr, James Cochran,
> John Cochran, Thomas Cochran, Isaac Cochran, Mordecai Cochran, and Esther
> Cochran, wife of John Strickler, the latter an only child by a second
> marriage.
Would you happen to have any further information regarding Samuel Cochran's
son Thomas Cochran?
Theresa Ashley Kingsley
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and
Wiley, 1889, p322
Clark G Cochran, the leading and prosperous liveryman of Dawson, Penna,
is a son of Isaac Cochran and Lydia C Merrell Cochran, and was born in
Lower Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penna, February 17, 1852.
Isaac Cochran, grandson of Samuel Cochran, was born at what is now
Dawson, June 22, 1821. In early life he engaged in flat-boating coke and
a few years later in coke manufacturing. As agent for Alfred Howell he
laid out the town of Dawson in 1857, and has been agent for the sale of
its lots ever since. He is a democrat, Free Mason, and large land holder.
In 1851 he married Miss Lydia Merrell, daughter of Abraham Merrell. They
have three children: Lizzie J Cochran, wife of M Keepers, dentist at
Latrobe; Sarah J Cochran, wife of Dr McKay of Fayette city, and Clark G
Cochran.
Clark G Cochran received the advantages of a common school education and
at twenty one years of age he became superintendent of the coal works,
now known as the Jackson mines. From 1877 to 1884 he was engaged in
farming in Dunbar township, and then removed to his present beautiful
farm near Dawson in Lower Tyrone township.
In 1873 he married Mary L Given, daughter of Robert T Given, a prominent
citizen of Dawson. They have seven children: Maud Cochran, Millie
Cochran, Isaac E Cochran, Robert Cochran, Clark G Cochran Jr, Lydia
Cochran and Edward Cochran.
Clark G Cochran has the finest livery, feed and sale stables at Dawson,
and are well equipped with all facilities for the accommodation of the
traveling public. The stock consists of eighteen head of horses and a
large number of fine carriages and buggies. He is a democrat, a member of
K P, and Junior Mechanics. He is one of the enterprising and live
businessmen of Dawson.
From: "Susanne B. Jones"
Emma Whitsett who married M.M. Cochran, was the granddaughter of William
Wirt Whitsett, aand James Estep Whitsett was William's oldest son. Both
of M.M.'s children died without ever marrying or having children. Percy
Cochran died of a burst appendix in Pittsburgh in 1908, and the daughter,
Emma Whitsett Cochran died in 1976, after being institutionalized her
entire life. M.M. Cochran remarried after his first wife, Emma Whitsett
died, but he and his second wife had no children, this particular line
ends here.
Susie
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and
Wiley, 1889, p152
Mark Mordecai Cochran. Among those who have cast their fortunes with
their native county, and who might worthily be placed in the van of young
professional men of the county is Mark M Cochran, a rising young lawyer
of the Fayette county bar. He is a son of Morcdecai Cochran and Susanna
Welsh Cochran, and was born at the old Cochran homestead, Tyrone
township, Fayette county, Penna, July 13, 1854; and is the youngest of a
family of thirteen children, of whom three died in infancy, three after
middle age, and seven who are now living.
His father, Mordecai Cochran, was born on the old Cochran homestead in
Tyrone township, October 8, 1797, where he lived until his death December
29, 1880. He was among the first to engage in the manufacture of
Connellsville coke, and the first to introduce it in the Cincinnati
market.
In 1843 he with two nephews, Sample Cochran and James Cochran, floated
two boats loaded with coke to Cincinnati, and after a favorable test sold
the same to Miles Greenwood, a prominent foundryman of that city. It was
the first Connellsville coke ever sold for money, and thus being
enthusastically reassured of the value of
this product, he and his nephews returned home, determined to push
forward the industry, which they afterward did most successfully. They
and their sons became prominent in the business, and so remain up to the
present time.
Samuel Cochran, the paternal grandfather of M M Cochran, was born in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1750, and was a son of John
Cochran, a Scotch Irish Presbyterian, who had emigrated from the north of
Ireland, and settled in Chester county about 1745.
February 12, 1776, Samuel Cochran, as a private soldier, enlisted in the
War of the Revolution in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Hay; his
company belonged to the Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion. He re-enlisted the
following year with Captain Hay, this time with the Seventh Pennsylvania
Regiment. He did hard service at Paola, Brandywine, Germantown and Valley
Forge. At the close of the war he went to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and
there married Esther John, daughter of Daniel John, the latter a
prominent Quaker and the grandfather of Gideon John, the last named
elected sheriff of Fayette county in 1832.
Samuel Cochran came "West" and located in Fayette county in 1789, for a
while in the "Washington Bottoms" near the present day site of
Perryopolis, remaining there until the spring of 1792 when he removed to
Tyrone township and purchased a farm of Captain Joseph Huston of 300
acres. On this tract of land he built a primitive log cabin, but he soon
replaced it by a more commodious structure, and in 1811 he erected the
large barn recently rebuilt by his grandson, Lutellas Cochran.
Besides being a splendid farmer, Samuel Cochran was a practical surveyor
and a consistent member of the Tyrone Presbyterian church up until his
death, July 2, 1837. His children were: Samuel Cochran Jr, James Cochran,
John Cochran, Thomas Cochran, Isaac Cochran, Mordecai Cochran, and Esther
Cochran, wife of John Strickler, the latter an only child by a second
marriage. He devised his farm to his two sons, Mordecai and James.
The other sons of Mordecai Cochran were: James W Cochran, known as "Big
Jim," Alexander C Cochran, and Lutellas Cochran. They all engaged early
in making coke with their father and boated it down the river. In 1867
they purchased their fathers plant on the Youghiogheny river and
afterwards entered into partnership with W H Brown of Pittsburgh,
enlarging their original plant "Sterling" and in 1871 built a large coke
plant on Hickman Run, called Jimtown, in honor of the managing partner,
James W Cochran. This farm of Brown and Cochran were the largest coke
producers at that time in the state; but in 1873 the partnership
dissolved on account of the death of two of its member, W H Brown and
Alexander C Cochran. The affairs in a few years thereafter were settled
by the surviving members of the family.
M M Cochran grew to mans estate on the old farm in Tyrone township. He
was educated at Bethany College, West Virginia, from where he graduated
in 1875. He immediately entered the law office of Hon C E Boyle as a
student-at-law and was admitted to the bar June 5, 1877, and has
successfully continued in the practice of law ever since.
In 1883 he was elected by his partythe democratsdistrict attorney of
Fayette county, the duties of which responsible office he discharged with
fidelity to the interests of the people and with honor to himself for a
term of three years. In 1881 he was elected a member of the board of
trustees of Bethany College, his alma mater, and in this position he has
ever since continued to serve.
January 1, 1879, he was married to Miss Emma J Whitsett, daughter of Dr
James Estep Whitsett of Bethany, West Virginia, but now of Perry
township, this county. Two children have blessed their union: Percy B
Cochran and Emma Cochran. In 1880 Mr Cochran with his two brothers, James
W Cochran and Lutellus Cochran, and H S Darsie purchased a fine field of
coking coal in Georges township, and are the present proprietors of the
same.
He took a leading part in the construction of the excellent bridge at
Dawson, that spans the Youghiogheny river, being one of the original
corporators and directors of the company. Mr Cochran is mild and
unassuming in manner, yet firm and determined in whatever he undertakes.
He neglects nothing which tends toward developing the material resources
of old Fayette.
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and
Wiley, 1889, p388
Norval P Smith, a youthful soldier of the Civil War and a leading
merchant of Dawson, was born near Bruceton, Preston county, Virginia (now
West Virginia), May 10, 1846, and is a son of Squire Henry Smith and
Martha King Smith.
His grandfather, Jacob Smith, was a son of a Revolutionary soldier and
was born in Somerset county, Penna, in 1764. He was a farmer and removed
to Preston county, where he died March 230, 1860, at ninety six years of
age.
His father, Squire Henry Smith, was born December 7, 1805, in Preston,
then Monongolia county; he was a farmer and served as justice of the
peace in Grant district for over twenty years. He owned the present
well-known "Smith farm" near Bruceton. On this tract is the celebrated
"sulphur spring," whose waters are said to possess remarkable curative
properties.
Norval P Smiths maternal grandfather, James King, was raised in Old
Town, Virginia, and was a color bearer in the War of 1812. He died in
Preston county, West Virginia, at the age of eighty seven years; Emma
Short King, his wife, died at the age of sixty four years.
Mr Smith owned over one thousand acres of land, engaged largely in
stock-dealing, and was ruling elder in the Presbyterian church. His death
occurred July 29, 1862, occasioned by the running away of his team. His
wife was born April 30, 1807, was a member of the Presbyterian church,
and died September 20, 1882. Four of his sons served in the late war:
Lucian Smith, Asabel G Smith, N P Smith and Henry C Smith, the latter
dying in the service.
Norval P Smith was raised on a farm until fifteen years of age, when the
war began. He was too young to enlist, so he became a wagoner in the
Federal army in February, 1862, but was soon promoted to wagon master,
and was engaged in hauling between Harpers Ferry and Winchester. Having
attained to the proper age for enlistment, he joined Company K, Third
Regiment Maryland Infantry Volunteers, served until the close of the war,
and was honorably discharged at Camp Carroll, Baltimore, in May, 1865.
After the close of the war, he completed his education at the Upper Iowa
University, Fayette county, Iowa, and subsequently turned his attention
to mercantile pursuits. Mr Smith was engaged for several years as a clerk
with Rush & Smith of Uniontown, dealers in dry goods and notions;
afterward held a position with Brown & Hancock of Osceola, Mo; next was
in the employ of Morehouse & Carson of Pittsburgh for a short time, when
he became a successful traveling salesman for John A Horner & Co of
Baltimore. He left their service to accept a clerkship with P G Cochran &
Co at Spring Grove, Penna. From 1876 to 1881 he engaged in the general
mercantile business as a partner of the firm of Chidester & Smith at
Bruceton,
West Virginia. In May, 1881, he engaged with John T Cochran at Dawson in
the general mercantile business under the firm name of Smith & Cochran,
and have successfully continued since in that line of business.
On August 4, 1880, he was married to Miss Annie H Cochran, only daughter
of James Cochran. To this union have been born three children: James H
Smith, Lucian P Smith, and Martha C Smith.
Mr Smith is a staunch republican, and is a good business man. Special
adaptability and many years of valuable experience well qualifies him for
most any business pursuit.
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You're working on the same line that I am. James died April 16, 1857 in Lewisburg, TN--Marshall Co. Thomas was born in 1744 and died in 1794 in Charlotte, NC. He was married to Sarah Flenniken who was born about 1748 in PA. I think Thomas' father was William, born 1710 in Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, Scotland. He married Helen, born about 1714, same place. They immigrated to Mecklenburg, NC and bought 200 acres on 12 Mile Creek. They died in NC but don't have the exact dates yet.
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Really could use whatever iinformation you have. Andrew Cochran and Jane Boggs are my direct ancestors. Would also like to know your sources. I will check my files at home (I'm at work now) and see what I have that might be of use to you. Many thanks for the reply. Do you know if there was Revolutionary War Service by Thomas? You can email me directly at redriveraz(a)hotmail.com. Thanks again - Don
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I'm looking for information on Jethro Cochran & Frances Prater. They were my great grandparents. I know they had 4 children named Mark, Maude, Mabel & James or Jim. James was my grandfather. I would like any info that I can get on the family.
You can contact me at sonshiners(a)kcisp.net. Thank you.
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Don - I'm Cory Cochran - the son of the Kenny Cochran listed on this site that you replied to. I'm trying to pick upt he ball where he left off. I think I have some info you could use and you might have some I could use. I'm related to Andrew Cochran b. March 22, 1807 and married Jane Boggs on June 5, 1828. Andrew died Nov. 15, 1855 and is burried in Talladega, Alabama. I have their kids's info and all the way down to me and my dad if you need it. I'm insterested in Andrew's father. I have it as James Cochran born 1773 in Virginia. His wife was Nancy (born 1775), but I also don't know her last name. I have James dieing after 1833, but not a for sure date. I have he was married inbetween 1795-1802, but not sure of a correct date.
I recently found out this information...
James' father was Thomas Cochran born 1744 in Pocahontas, Virginia.
If you have anything I'm missing, please let me know. Also, if you need anything else, please let me know.
Thanks,
Cory
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You don't know how happy I am to find out this info.
I think we could help each other out...
Check out my post...
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.cochran/2061
The oldest Cochran I have is James Cochran b. 1773 in Virginia. I have from him all the way down to me. Our family is from the N. Louisiana area and S. Arkansas.
Do you have any more information about James Cochran and his father Thomas (which I didn't know - THANKS!)? or anything even older? If you need any newer details, let me know and I'll be glad to help any way I can.
Thanks for the info!!!
Cory
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I don't think the James I'm looking for is the same James you have. Since I have he was born in 1773 and you have 1809. He already had 4 kids by 1809. The Andrew might be the same one though. Here's what I have from him...
Andrew Cochran
b. March 22, 1807 in Tenn.
Married Jane Boggs June 5, 1828 in Madison County, Ala.
Died Nov. 15, 1855
Burried in Talladega County, Alabama.
This was taken from:
1850 U.S. Census, Talladega County, Ala. page 959 (963)
1840 U.S. Census, Talladega County, Ala. page 13.
I have info on all of his children and on down the line all the way to me. I just would like to get his Father's info. The only things I have is James Cochran b. 1773 in Virginia - and all ther other info I listed on the first page.
Please let me know if anyone has any more info on this James Cochran - It would really mean a lot to me and my family.
Thanks,
Cory
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In my data base I have a James Cochran b. Va. who moved to Blount co., Tenn. There are also Andrew Cochrans listed in that county. This James was b. 1809. I have included the family you listed in my files. Do you have the birth places for the children listed? I am always ready to search my data base for any individual or family. Records are added on a continuing basis from any/all sources found.
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Can anyone identify the following James COCHRAN for me?
William Sunderland (father: Peter, grandfather: Samuel, great-grandfather:John) was born 1778 in PA, and died Abt. 11 October 1852 in Allen Co., OH. He married (1) Jane Van Arsdale 01 December 1814 in Montgomery Co., OH, daughter of Willem Van Arsdalen and Mary Sunderland. She was born Abt. 1797 in IN, and died Unknown. He married (2) Elizabeth West Newton Abt. 1830 in OH. She was born 1810 in PA, and died Unknown.
Child of William Sunderland and Jane Van Arsdale is:
Isabel Sunderland, born Bet. 1806 & 1818 in OH; died Unknown. She married James Cochran; born Abt. 1805-1810 in OH; died Unknown.
Terri Rene DaVar-Howard
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A while back (02/02/02) "Del in Michigan" posted the following: "I am looking for info. on James & Isabell Cochran in Allen Co., Ohio in 1852. Their children were Jane, Kathrine, & John H. Cochran."
James Cochran appears in the 1850 & 1870 & 1880 census for Marion Township, Allen Co., Ohio. This is the data:
1870 Federal Census, James Cochran, 65 years old. Wife Isabel, 52 years old. He is a farmer, she is "keeping house", property valued at $3600 and $5821. Children: John (aged 19), Harriet (aged 16), Nancy (aged 14), Orlando (aged 12), Almond (?) B. (a boy, aged 8). All were born in Ohio. Next door is a James W. Cochran (aged 24) and his wife Ellen / Eilene (aged 19).
1880 Federal Census, Family #110. James Cochran, aged 76, a farmer living with his 76 year old wife Isabel. Children: Hatter, daughter (aged 26); Nancy, daughter (aged 24); Orlando, son (aged 21).
This IS the same family, yes???
Is this Isabell the same Isabella Sunderland who is the daughter of Dye Sunderland and his wife Masey / Mercy Berryman?
I am looking for connections to *my* George W. Cochran who married Mary Sunderland in 1836, Allen Co., Ohio. I am wondering if *my* Mary Sunderland could be a sister or sister-in-law to Dye Sunderland . . . . and could James Cochran be related to George W.???
Thank you for any assistance / clues.
Terri Rene (also in Michigan)
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I'm researching my family tree and the farthest I can get back to it to a James Cochran born 1773 in Virginia. I think he lived in Tennesse and moved to Alabama in the 1820's. His wife's first name was Nancy and her maiden name could have been Henderson. She was born around 1775 in North Carolina. They had the following kids...
William - born - 1803
Obediah - 1805
Jane (Jenny) - 1806
Andrew - 1807
Nancy - 1810
Edmond - 1812
James F. - 1815
Robert H. - 1824 or 1820.
I have info on Andrew and his kids and up until the present time. I've searched all over and I can't get past this person. If anyone has any information, please let me know.
Thanks,
Cory R. Cochran