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PART ONE — SCOTTISH HISTORY .

DERIVATION OF THE E ARLIEST MENTION I N HISTORY TH E HOUS E OF DUNDONALD — DES CRIPTION OF TH E COAT- OFARMS TH E COVE NANTERS AND GRAHAM OF CLAVE RHOUSE SCOTTISH CLANS

TH E RYE HOUS E PLOT . TH E STORY OF GRIZEL COCHRANE SIR J OH N COCHRANE AND HIS DES CENDANTS S K TCHES OFTHE E IGHTH NI NTH AND TENTH E ARLS E , D NA D’ AR P THE E V A UNDO L S W LAN . SECRET R E LED TH E TW ELFTH E ARL AND THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH

LETTERS FRO M SCOTLAND . ANOTHER DERIVATIO N OFTHE NAME COCHRANE TH E GAELIC LANGUAGE TH E HIGHLAND COSTUME NOTED W OMEN OF THE COCHRANE FAMILY TH E FIRST S COTCH - IRIS H E MMIGRATION TO AMERICA

PART TW O— PIONE E R HISTORY .

W H Y DID THE SCOTCH - IRISH COME TO AMERICA ? MASSACRE OF THE W YOMING VALLEY INDIAN COMPLAINTS ! UES TION OF B OUNDARY LINES SETTLEMENT OF THE ZANES SETTLEMENT OFW ILLIAM COCHRAN IN 1772 LAST B ATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY W AR THE DEATH OFW ILLIAM COCHRA N SURVEY OFL F M R AND O W . COCH AN

RR S P . B CO E ONDENCE W ITH S S . J ACO S TH E FAMILY OFW ILLIAM COCHRANE TH E GENE LO OF TH OMAS TH E DE SON A GY , OL ST TH E GENE LO OF ROB RT THE SECON SON A GY E , D 6 — TAB LE OF CONTE NTS Continue d

NOTHER DERIVATION OF TH E NAME E NE ALOGY OF J AM S THE YOUN ES T E , G S ON HE I I OF Two C L R RESCU D F O A B DENT TY HI D EN , E R M AND OF CHIPPEW A INDIANS HE DESCENDANTS OFJ A MES AND B ETSY COCHRAN

PA TH — MI E LA HI Y RT RE E SC L NE OU S STOR .

JTRODUCTION 91 OME PENNSYLVANIA COCHRANS 92—97 H E FAMILY OF J AME S AND NANCY MCCORD COCHRAN —107 KE TCH OF NANCY COCH RAN 108— 112 “ ” OE M— ON TH E B ANKS OF OLD W EGEE 113— 114 E NE ALOGICAL HISTORY OF TH E MCCORD FAMILY 115 E MINIS CE NCE S OF TH E AUTHOR 121

' HE DAVIS GENEALOGY 130 ' HE GENEALOGY OF CHRIS TIAN KREB S 133

' ’ “ ” 0E M— MOONLIGHT ON TH E RIVER 14 8 PR E FACE I S the author of these chronicles , beg to submit to a critical public

ﬁrst . my literary venture , a family history and biography Family e histories in general that have come to my own notice, have b en rather tiresome and uninteresting because of their extreme length , and absence of anecdote to enliven their pages .

I . ff s e o f ﬂatter myself that my work is di erent , becau of the free use _ m I extracts fro standard authorities , and hope this use may prove an c in entive to further research , on the part of my reader ; to send him back to the original sources to refresh his memory, and to make him appreciate , by comparison , his own happy lot . The authors and publishers quoted have been most kind in permitting r me the use of their works , whether of copyright in fo ce , or expired .

“ Other sources of information have been State and County Records , the crumbling gravestones , old deeds , the voluntary contributions of the various branches of the same family trunk, the Cochrans . I have endeavored to be authentic , and to refrain from criticism or unplemasant comment, or a too close adherence to presenting rigid detail in so e cases . I have also tried to weld a chain of events , from the earliest mention in the year 1262 to the present time most of the links being furnished nl o . by others , mine y the part to assemble them

I am Hoping for a favorable reception from this same critical public ,

Very truly yours ,

IDA C H U G T OCHRAN A H ON . M H 1 COLU B U S O IO 19 5 . , , November , P A R T O N E

SCOTTISH H ISTO RY

F AME H A E DERIVATION O THE N COC R N .

omn i F c en o u u i A o e amH Co h n e . ( r t W db ry, by J dg Will . t r )

ve The name Cochrane is deri d from two Gaelic words , which ” “ ” n : co . v . . together signify the roar of war , the battle cry, viz . g , , to

ﬁ ht o - - C . : ran war or to g ; whence gai che , adj , warlike , genitive rain , r h c . a roar, a loud y or s riek It was variously spelled by the Highland

- s Co - Co - - er - an Co - - Co - - er- Scot ; gach ran , gaich , gach rain , gaich ain , — - ﬁrst Cog ran , and Cog rain , with guttural sound of syllable of which ,

e being afterwards repr sented by the proper letters of modern Gaelic ,

’ r n an ~ n c a w e raz . gives Co h , or , or

ﬁrs t si niﬁcance When surnames were assumed by men , they had a g , and represented some characteristic of the appropriator, or some cir

umstance . c in relation to his personal history From occupations comes

i ns . . comex o Cook, Farmer, etc ; from M comes White, Brown , etc ; some came from places ; others again d escribe some mental or physical ”

s . quality , or personal incident in the life of the pos essor The reason for taking the name of Cochrane is not known beyond the fact that

ﬁ hters they are all born g , and are to be found enrolled with soldiery or military f rom earliest mention down to the present time .

Some who have not achieved distinction by means of arms , have done so by strategy and forensic ability . The name , to my way of

s i niﬁcance thinking , as to its general meaning , or g , is very appropriate to the families I have known intimately .

EARLIEST MENTION IN HISTORY “ r W ald enus - - o ran ﬁ st o C v e The kn wn of the name is de o r Cochran , a witness to the charter of date Wednesday, twenty days after the

1262 . feast of S t . Hilary in The next of the name on record is e the William of Cochran , who sign d submission to King Edward 1 296 . First , in the Ragman Roll of John of Cochrane , the next on

a mus inu as u l s s Go cel s C ms 1346 G o . rec rd in , or de Cochran , next

* ’ S c ra o . o umee . o e C w V e Th t s P e rage . f rd l r 11 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

smus G 7 H e Ca appears in 136 . is styled de owran , and is succeeded ratiﬁcation by his son , William , who is probably the one who received a of the barony of Cochrane from King Robert the Second , on Septem H 2 138 . e , ber 2 , 9 was succeeded by his son and heir , Robert Cochrane who was succeeded by a son , John . In the Paisley rental book of 14 60, there are various entries of the assessment of John Cochran , then Lin liff living at c , whence William Cochrane of that Ilk , dated his 1 03 Lincliff will in 6 . It would appear , therefore , that was their residence before the building of Cochrane Place . John Cochrane was

14 80. succeeded by his son Allan in Allan left two sons , James and

1484 1493. Robert . James succeeded in , followed by Robert in

Robert was succeeded by his son john , who was seized in the lands of

r f 148 1509 Cochrane and Co s e o rd in 9 . In he obtained a license under

- the Privy Seal , to sell or mortgage all his lands of Nether Cochrane i f 1519 w P t a ur . in Renfre shire , and of in Perthshire In he sold the

- - barony of Easter Cochrane , which included Nether Cochrane , to James

Beaton , Archbishop of Glasgow . Crawford mentions this deed as in 1710 the , being among the Dundonald charters , and that it carried ’ seal of john Cochrane , which showed three boar s heads erased , and

— — — D . was circumscribed SIGILLU M ! 0 HANNIS E COCH RANE . john 1 1 2 530. served heir to his father , May , Then William Cochrane n mi 30 1556 co ﬁr n obtained a charter at Edinburg , November , , g to

ﬁv e - him as the son of John , the Mark lands in the barony and county of Renfrew, which his father had resigned under a reservation of life “ rent . To this William is attributed the building of the Freestone

- Tower , which was added to the manor house of Cochrane , which since Lin liﬁ' 1460 c P . , appears to have been known as , or lace of Cochrane “ ” After the building of the tower , it was known as Cochrane Castle .

- It was to this castle , or the old tower house of his ancestors , that Sir ” John ma de his escape in 1685 after the Argyll insurrection .

An o account of Robert C chran , an architect and favorite of King “ ” m : Ja es the Third of Scotland ( From Story of Scotland , John ’ McInt h B P os . m G. . ) y per ission Putnam s Sons , New York and Lon d on , Publishers . “ Relations between Scotland and England had become menacing . 1482 B ur h moor In July , , an army mustered at g , near Edinburg , with

King James the Third at its head , and marched toward the border .

d . When it reached Lau er , a tragic action happened Cochran , one of TH E HOUSE OF D U NDONALD 13

’ he the King s favorites , ( was originally a mason ) , had charge of the ’

. ﬁnall King s artillery The nobles , who had met in a church , had y ’ 0 11 determined to sweep the King s favorites . While the nobles were n the talking , Cochra e, with a message from King , knocked at the door . ’

Lord Angus seized and pulled a chain from Cochran s neck , saying ’ ‘ beﬁ t . that a rope would him better My lords , he said , is this j est or ’ earnest ? H e was told that it was earnest ; was quickly bound and

- placed under guard . A party of nobles were then sent to the royal tent, where they seized the musicians , servants, and the rest of the royal favorites , and with Cochran at the head , they were all led to the Bridge of Lauder and hanged . The King was killed later at

Stirling . TH E HOUSE OF DU NDONALD

’ a en m o u i s on f e s e a e mh u s r on on T h H e e s o t e s e a s S . ( k fr B rk P r g , by p r i P bli r , r i )

This family , which derived its surname from the Barony of e Cochran , Renfrewshire , is of great antiquity in North Britain , and under the name of Blair , was of baronial rank several centuries previous to attaining to the honor of the peerage .

- - Warden De Cochrane in the reign of Alexander Third , was witness to the grant made by Donegal , son of Swaine , to Walter Cumming , 126 . 2 Earl of Monteith , of sundry lands in County Argyle ( )

o t William De Cochrane , his successor, perf rmed homage o King

Edward First , and was succeeded by another William , who erected the ancient seat of Cochranes from their foundation , and ornamented

“ H e it with extensive plantations . married Margaret , daughter of Sir kelmorl f o o S . Robert Montgomery , y, County Ayr Their issue , an only daughter , Elizabeth Cochrane , married Alexander Blair , the third son of John Blair of that Ilk .

Alexander Blair assumed the surname and arms of Cochrane . Their issue was seven sons and three daughters . Sir John , the oldest son , a ir s t Colonel in the army of King Charles the F , died without issue , and was succeeded by his brother William . Co wdon Sir William Cochrane , Knight of , was elevated to the m26 1647 o peerage , Dece ber , , as Bar n Cochrane of Dundon ; advanced 1669 May 12, , to the dignity of Earl , and was at the same time created and d Lord Cochrane of Paisley Ochiltree , with remainder, in efault n wh o of male issue , to eldest of female heirs , without divisio , should assume or bear the arms and name of Cochrane , and in failure to the ” heirs general . CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

h m E ue c e Sir William Co hran , the First Earl , married p Scott of

r ss s Ard o County, Fife , by whom he had i sue

Grizel , married George , Tenth Earl of Ross .

' a 1653 . William , the heir , m rried , Lady Catherine Kennedy

John , married Margaret Stricklan , of Boynton County, York , whose ’

m. father w as one of Cromwe ll s Lords of Parlia ent i : v z. William , the heir , had four sons and three daughters , 1 ( ) John , who became the Second Earl because of the death of his father before succeeding to peerage .

(2) William of Kilmarnock .

P lsk ll (3) Thomas of o e y.

li sh (4 ) Alexander of B o n aw .

5 . ( ) Susannah , married Alexander Ninth Earl of Eglinton

6 . ( ) Helen , married John , Fifteenth Earl of Sunderland

7 n as ( ) Jea , married Viscount of Dundee , (known in history

Grahame of Claverhouse) .

ir s t Sir John Cochrane , the second son of the F Earl , succeeded to

H e the estates of Ochiltree . was the father of several children, viz

Grizel , a daughter , and four sons , of whom William , the eldest , who also succeeded to the estates of Ochiltree , married Lady Mary Bruce , e the oldest daughter of Alexander, Second Earl of Kincardin and heir of her brother, Third Earl , who died unmarried in The issue of William Cochrane and Lady Mary Bruce were nine sons and four daughters . e 169 1 S John , S cond Earl mof Dundonald , died in and was ucceeded by his oldest son , Willia .

1691- 1705 William , Third Earl , , died unmarried and was succeeded by his brother , John .

John , Fourth Earl , was succeeded by his oldest son , William .

: 1725 William , Fifth Earl , died , unmarried , and the title went back

to his cousin Thomas , only son of William , who was a second grandson

of the First Earl . b Thomas , the Sixth Earl , was succeeded y his son William .

ofﬁcer William , the Seventh Earl , was a military and fell at the 1758 Battle of Louisburg in America , in , unmarried , and the title now

went back to the grandson of Sir John , the second son of the First Earl and we have

Thomas , the Eighth Earl , also the heir to Culross , which he inherited TH E HOUSE OF DU NDONALD 15

from his mother , and Ochiltree , was twice married ; to Elizabeth Ker of Morristown , Berwick, by whom he had two children , both of whom s 1 . 744 d died in infancy His econd marriage in to Jane , a aughter of A rchibald Stuart of Lanark County, (probably a descendant of the

Royal House of Stuart, with whom the fortunes of the Cochranes e were closely interwoven) . Their issu was one daughter and twelve sons .

son Thomas , the Eighth Earl , was succeeded by his oldest , Archibald , : in 1778. His issue were

Achibald . , Ninth Earl

1749 a d 2 . . c ( ) Charles , born , Major in English Army, . to Lord

Cornwallis , killed while passing French ﬂeet in an Open boat , head

ff - 18 1781 o . shot by cannon ball , October m, 3 ( ) John , Department of Com issary to forces in America , born 1 1 1750 80 . , died 1751 d 1823 4 a . ( ) J mes Atholl , born , ied , in holy orders Was Vicar

Mansﬁeld . . of , Yorkshire Married Mary Smithson (The only min

ister discovered inthe family . ) 1753 1826 5 o . ( ) Basil , born , died , married Caroline G shing

G. C B . . 1 8 6 75 . ( ) Alexander Forrester Inglis , Admiral of Fleet, born

(7 George Augustus Frederick.

(8) Andrew James Coutts .

Archibald, Ninth Earl , was thrice married , issue , seven children ,

lived to a great age , and was succeeded by his oldest son , Thomas , the

Tenth Earl . 1775 1860 m Thomas , Tenth Earl , born , died , arried Katharine H . e Frances Corbett Barnes of Rumford , Essex has never been

excelled by anyone in daring naval exploits . Was succeeded by his 1 s 186 . olde t son , Thomas Barnes , in

th e n 1814 Thomas , Eleventh Earl , was bor in , married Harriet

M Kinnon 1847 1885 . c in , died in Succeeded by his second son ,

Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane , the Twelfth Earl . 29 18 Douglas , Earl of Dundonald , Twelfth , was born October , 52, 1885 1878 succeeded to the title in , married March , , Winifred , daughter

of Robert Bamford Hesketh , Esquire . The present Earl , like many of a his predecessors, is noted in milit ry circles , having served in Canada , e the Nile Expedition , and lat r in command of the Imperial Mounted

Brigade in South Africa, when he rode to the Relief of Ladysmith . CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

- H e is now a Lieutenant General , retired . His issue is

Lady Grizel Winifred Louise Hamilton , d Lor Cochrane , heir , Thomas Hesketh ,

Douglas Blair , Lieutenant Scots Guard ,

Lady Jean Alice Elaine ,

L ad- y Marj orie Gwendolen Elsie ,

Honourable Douglas Robert Hesketh Roger .

me Gw r ch Their fa ily s at is at y Castle , Abergele , Denbigh ; town residence 34 Portman Square West , London .

* DESCRIPTION OF COAT - OF- ARMS

A n s coat of arms are the ensig s armorial of a family , consi ting of ﬁ ure s g , colors , borne in shields and banners , as marks of dignity and

d . istinction , and descending from father to son Heraldic achieve o ments . Used to describe some mental or physical quality, or pers nal firs t incident of the possessor . Such is the meaning of the name Office Cochrane . The ancient Dundonald arms are recorded in Lyon r ’ . o at Edinburg, Scotland Argent , a chev on gules , betwixt three b ars first heads erased azure , armed and langued of the . Crest, a horse e t a e r . wo o passant argent Support rs , greyhounds rg nt ; collared , ;

. et labo ra re 1672 leashed , gules Motto , Virtute , , and by a later matric ulation 7 1774 the of date December , , above arms are quartered with

I . that of Blair of that lk , with the same crest and motto and supporters

TRANSLATION OF TH E ABOVE

Ar ent g , the white color of the shield or escutcheon , used to represent ﬁ urati el v silver ; g y it means purity . Ch evron , , one of the nine honorable ordinaries consisting omf _two broad bands of the width of the bar , issuing respectively fro the dexter and sinister (right and left) bases of the ﬁeld and conjoined at the center . ul G es , the tincture red by which escutcheons are engraved , poetical , ’ e o off the color red ; betwixt three boars heads rased , means t rn with j agged , uneven edges , used especially with head or limbs of a beast ; A u z r e , blue ; L u an ed g , having their tongues visible , Arm ed , having beaks , talons , or claws .

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TH E COVENANTERS AND GRA HAM OF CLAVE RH OU SE 17

Cr es t o , a h rse passant argent , means a horse or animal represented as walking with its left front limb raised , color white .

uters ﬁ ure or man S o f a pp , a g , sometimes of a , usually an anim l , it ﬁ ure placed on either side of an escutcheon and outside of , same g on both sides .

Collared or s , wearing a collar , ( , yellow fa tened by a long cord , red . Cres t on is a bearing worn usually above the shield , not it or sepa f an ately as ornament for plate , liveries , etc . “B b Motto , y Virtue and La or , (The meaning to my American mind is the ,that the family were fond of the chase , and by some incident in ﬁrst life of the possessor , the present symbols were adopted to illustrate or keep in pe rpetual memory that incident)

* TH E COVENAN TERS AND GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE When King Charles the Second was restored to the throne of his 1660 ﬁrst father in , one of his acts was to destroy the military power of the army, built up by Cromwell . His next act was to restore the

Episcopal as the established religion . This was accomplished in

England without much trouble, but not in Scotland , where the people covenanted together to maintain the Presbyterian faith as their national religion . ’ ‘ Accord ing to the King s ruling no-ne but Episcopalians could sit in ’ Scottish parliament or vote for members , and in Scotland an Epis

- copal was always a tory or time server . The King ordered them to provide new penal laws against the ‘ - a w o Presbyterians , th t h ever should preach in a conventicle under a f roo , or attend either as a preacher or a hearer , a conventicle in the ’ nﬁ n f - co sca i . open air , should be punished with death and t o o property

The King hated the Puritans , so the most violent persecutions were n n waged against Scotla d . The shires or estates of cove anters most e i ’ prominent were given over to lic nse of the K ng s army . The militia

- m . was co posed ofmthe most violent Episcopalians Pre eminent were the Dragoons , co manded by John Graham of Claverhouse , a soldier distinguished by courage and p roﬁcient skill ; but rapacious and pro e fane ; of violent temper and obdurat heart . H e has left a name , regarded with particular hatred by the Scottish H e race wherever settled omn any part of the globe . was the oldest son of Sir William Graha of Claverhouse , an estate with an old castle

’ *Mac u1e a s H s o o f En an y i t ry gl d . CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

D . attached, near undee . His family was a branch of the Montrose ’ H e U n1vers it n 1660 1670 was educated at S t . Andrew s y betwee and ; began his military career fir st as a volunteer in the foreign service . In 1677 he returned to Scotland and was appointed Captain of the first of three troops of horse for enforcing compliance with the established religion . Upon the accession of James VI , he was left out of the privy council on pretense that having married into the family of fittin Dundonald , it was not g that he should be trusted with secrets 1 of the King . In 688 he w a s created a peer with the title of Viscount

H e of Dundee and Lord Graham of Claverhouse . married Lady Jean

Cochran , third and youngest daughter of Sir William Cochran , brother to the Earl of Dundonald , and became notorious through his cruelty ’ to carry out the King s orders in regard to the Covenanters . A b Ki proclamation was issued my the ng, requiring his subj ects , both civil and ecclesiastic , to confor to the mode of worship as laid down o B in a b ok called The Liturgy or Service ook , compiled by Wedder n R b . ur , Bishop of Dumblane and Maxwell , Bishop of oss This book

: v iz. contained some parts of the Catholic ritual , the benediction or thanksgiving fo r departed saints ; use of the cros ring in marriage consecration of water ; it was founded upon the of commmon prayer and was introduced into Sco tland without h been sub itted to the Presbytery and sanction of the General Assembly . i ” t . All who refused to adopt , were denounced as rebels

SCOTTISH CLA N s

omm on n i Ra es in Euo L a A so Mo on e e s . ( Fr bl r p , by rd lli rr ) It is instructive to note the rise of clanships ; their growth an power , and sometimes their decay , dissolution and the dispersion e their members . No country in the world has be n so divided ha s w n clans as Scotland , and no country so rich , varied and o d In a history . olden times , the European nations were divided int tribes the Scottish people were divided into clans .

woul When territory was overrun and conquered by a clan , the chief divide a portion of the land among his own family , and as their safet e and prosperity were m rged, the members of the clan clung to w with onderful tenacity .

The clan was distinguished by some common name , either 1 patronymic . This was before the introduction of surnames , or C armorial . The relations and descendants of every hieftain a his r an a ms d bore his name . TH E RYE HOUSE PLOT 19

1249 Alexander III came to the throne of Scotland in , aged eight d years , and it was uring his illustrious reign that the Clan Campbell became prominent in history . There were two families of them , Ar hur M il nmor ‘ Mac t and acCa ea e : from the latter was descended fir st . Colon Campbell , the Earl of Argyle a m The Campbells , aspiring and mbitious , ade rapid advancement in i fl n uenc . power and e during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries I 1 50 i fluenti l n 7 n a , they were the most family in Scotland . Their fi numerical strength was ve thousand men . Their ancient home included the larger part of Argyle, a strip of country one hundred and ” - twelve miles long and forty two miles broad . It has been asserted that the Cochrane family were members of Clan

Campbell . This may have arisen from the fact of Sir John Cochrane having been associated with Sir Archibald Campbell of Argyle , both in the Rye House Plot, and later in the Monmouth Rebellion . “ Morrison says , The family of Cochran was never so large as to be a sept or clan .

TH E RYE HOUSE PLOT

’ o l H s f En an mMacaue o . ( Fr y s i t ry o gl d ) Y Both King Charles II and his brother , James the Duke of ork, e to i w re favorable the Catholic relig on , and the English people who had , since the early years of the Tudor dynasty , been ruled by Protest ’ ants , would in the event of the king s death , be subject to a Catholic

King . A band of plotters met at a place near Newmarket , called the Rye

House , and debated how to overthrow the King and his successor , the Y Duke of ork . This plot was discovered and those who were not

and executed , escaped to Holland . Among the latter were ibald Campbell , ninth earl of Argyle ; Richard Rumbold , who ’ i a commission in Cromwell s own Reg ment, but after the

troops disbanded , he became a maltster and carried on his Hoddesdon in that building from which the Rye House

its name ; Robert Ferguson , a Scotchman and one of the principals in the Monmouth Rebellion , in which he incited the others to engage ; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth , a natural son of King o Charles II and Lucy Walters , to wh m it was alleged the King had been lawfully married ; Lord Grey ; Hume of Polwarth , Berwick ; and

Sir John Cochrane of Ayrshire .

These men had all taken refuge in Holland . King Charles II CH RONICLES OF THE COCH RANS

- ﬁve reigned twenty years , and having no heir by his queen , the crown Y would descend to his brother James , Duke of ork , an avowed Catholic , hence the desire to aid the Duke of Monmouth . As the Scotch refused to serve under James Scott o r any other

English leader , Argyle was chosen to command , but must be under the a e direction of a committee . His father, as a leader of the Coven nt rs , had been put to death, but the son was still permitted to retain his i fam ly seat and arms . The Scotch people were not anxious to engage in the insurrection because of the illegitimacy of the birth of the Duke of Monmouth .

Argyle counted on his supporters in the Clan Campbell , but Hume of

Polwarth , in Berwick , and Cochran of Ayrshire were both utterly impracticable ; their j ealousy of Argyle exceeding their wish for suc cess in the invasion . They claimed the Lowlanders were the only ones that had the good of the cause at heart ; that the Campbells took up arms , neither for M l a a l m . cC u liberty nor religion , but for More (Argyle) alone o Cochrane declared he would g to Ayrshire , if he went alone , with no thing but a pitchfork in his hand .

ﬁnall H e Argyle y consented to divide his army . and Rumbold were to remain with Highlanders , while Hume and Cochrane were placed at the head of the force which sailed from Holland to invade the

Lowland s . difﬁ ult c After great y, Cochrane entered Greenock and secured a ﬁndin supply of meal , but g the inhabitants had no desire to engage th e in the insurrection , he returned to Argyle , who had encamped on island of Bute .

Later they all attempted to take Glasgow , but failed , and were over ’ Humf o . e come by the King s tro ps escaped , but Argyle and Cochrane were taken to London and Argyle was executed , but Cochrane was held for trial , and later removed to the Tolbooth at Edinburg to await execution .

That Cochrane should be forgiven by a prince, vindictive beyond all expression , seemed incredible , but he was the younger son of a s rich family . It was therefore only by paring him that money could oﬁered ﬁve be made out of him . His father a bribe of thousand o pounds to the priests of the r yal household , and he was spared . Sir John held the s ame rank among Scotch rebels that Grey held in the ” West of England . TH E STORY OF GRIZEL COCHRAN 21

In ’ Wilson s Tales of the Border , a series of historical events ,

o - diﬁ erent gathered from traditions and f lk lore largely, there is a very l account of how Sir John escaped execution as. fo lows

TH E STORY OF GRIZEL COCHRAN

e th e Wh n tyranny and bigotry of King James the Second , drove his subj ects to take up arms against him, one of his most formidable ’ o enemies was Sir John C chrane , a prominent actor in Argyle

Rebellion .

e As the uprising had end d disastrously , and the leaders had been ’ and n captured by the King s Troops , tried condem ed to be hanged ,

Sir John now lay in prison , with but a few more days to live . His jailers were only waiting for the death - warrant to be signed by the

King . His friends and family had all been with him for the last sad farewells , except his oldest daughter Grizel , who was the pride of his heart and house .

H e But at length , she came just at twilight, tall and commanding . ‘ ’ said, within three days , thou and my little ones will be fatherless , the ‘ s faltering on his tongue . Three days she asked , lifting her — ‘ from his breast , but eagerly pressing his hand three days ! there is still hope . My father shall live Is not my grand

r n the frie d of Father Peter , the confessor and master of the

From him , shall he beg the life of his son and my father shall H ’

B . e . nay, Grizel . not deceived There is no hope My doom

(1! fo r The King has already signed the order my execution , h ’ n e ue . e ss e g r is o t way

of . evening the second day after this interview , a traveler

- e draw bridge at Berwick, from the north and proceeding

ate . yg , sat down on a bench , outside a tavern ern seemed to be above his station in life ; for it had been ’ u fe n w a d ell s headq arters , a years before , still earlier

that James Sixth of Scotland and First of England ,

on his way to his accession to the throne of England .

o b a coarse jerkin around his b dy, fastened y H e it a short cloak . seemed to be a young

- hat drawn down so as to conceal his features . ff 3 sta . Having called for a CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

glass of wine, he took a crust of bread from his bundle , and disposing few of them and resting a minutes longer, he took his departure .

In d or a heavy storm he crosse the moor, ( muir) which for miles n was a desert of whins and fer s , and stunted heather . Here and

wa s - there , a dingle , covered with brush wood . The traveler pushed he on till he had covered two or three miles from Berwick , when sought shelter among some bramble bushes . n u . O Nearly an hour passed , whe a horse and rider appeared account of the storm , the rider was bent forward over his horse . Sud denl y, the bridle was grasped by the stranger , who pointed a pistol at the rider and commanded him to ‘Dismount

The rider tried to reach his own pistol , but was prevented by the traveler seizing him and throwing him forcibly from his horse , whence he fell to the ground unconscious . The traveler then seized the mail

’ bag and rushed away .

The next morning the inhabitants of Berwick rushed to the spot , but

- there was no trace of the robber or his booty . Since the mail bag had

- contained the death warrant for Sir John, he was granted a reprieve

’ i s for fourteen days till another could be s ued .

Both his father , the Earl of Dundonald , and Father Peter , of the ’ King s household , now interceded for Sir John , but to no avail ; and ’ Grizel was now her father s daily companion .

- ba For the second time , the mail rider with a warrant in his leather g , approached The Muir of Tweedmouth . This time he was on his guard and looked cautiously around , holding his pistol in his hand . The moon , shining brightly , showed nothing but desolation , until suddenly turning an angle of straggling copse , his horse reared violently at the repo rt of a pistol and his own weapon being discharged at the same i off t mée . , his horse became unmanageable , and he was thrown ’

- Instantly , the robber had his foot upon the rider s breast and pointing his weapon at the head of the fallen man , demanded both his weapon ‘ ‘ n f ll ’ thi be a . and his horse , lest a worse g him For the second time the death warrant for Sir John had disappeared e n and for the second time he was grant d a reprieve of fourtee days .

ﬁve His father was at last successful , ( History says by the payment of wa l s . thousand pound s Sterling) , and Sir John at ast set free With

his father , he hurried from prison and while surrounded by his family , a stranger craved admittance , and handing him two documents , said ’ ‘ ﬁre when you have read these , cast them into the . They were the

- two death warrants .

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9 1680 Cochran, of Ochiltree ; her father , dying on July , , had been succeeded by his son Alexander, third Earl of Kincardine ; who also 1705 died in November , , without heirs , when his sister , Lady Mary

Cochrane laid claim to the honors , by virtue of a resignation in her favor , by the late Earl , not completed by a crown charter ; (but which it was legally held to be within the power of the Crown to accept and complete , ) but the ! ueen would not interfere, as it was held that she w a s the not entitled to , after Union of England and Scotland , o The male heir w as a son of Sir Alex . of B ro mhall and he was a son

rt - of Robe , a grandson of George , who had extensive coal works in n . O Culross , which he also represented in Parliament account of all this litigation Lady Mary had to sell her estate of Carnock to Lord

- Erskine , a cousin german . Sir William and Lady Mary Cochrane had a family of nine sons and four daughters . Upon the death of William , the estates of Ochil tree passed to his eldest son , Charles , who also acquired the estates of

Culross , upon the death of his mother . Charles died unmarried , in 1752 , and was succeeded by his brother James , who was a Lieutenant e 1758 General in the army , and who di d in , leaving two daughters ; but the estates passed to Thomas , a brother who also succeeded to the peerage and became the eighth Earl of Dundonald . There is no further mention of the other sons of William and Lady ’ Mary Cochrane , and it is the writer s Opinion that one of the six remaining sons was the father of that William Cochran , who became ﬁr s e her t Am rican ancestor . The father may have emigrated to

Ireland , and the son later to America ; but we have no reliable proof

- o that we are of Scotch Irish descent , even th ugh many of the o lder members of our family have asserted that we are .

K OF E T E N TH OF D D LD S ETCHES THE IGH H , NINTH AND T EARLS U N ONA

Under the heading of the House of Dundonald , there is brief mention

H e of Thomas , the Eighth Earl , and his descendants . was a Maj or

Peebleshir i A , i i , L , i e 1778 n the rmy and d ed at h s estate a Mancha n , , and was succeeded by his elder son , Archibald . “ * A r mong those given a place in early histo y was Archibald , ninth E H e 1748 arl of Dundonald . was born January l st , , and began life as a Cornet in the Third Dragoons , but resigned to become midship H . e 1 man under Captain Stair Douglas succeeded to the title in 778,

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ie tiﬁ H e and gave himself up to s c n c research . was the author of many inventions and secured a patent for making tar from coal , to be appliedmto vessels ; but copper sheeting having been introduced mean while , ade his venture ruinous, and so burdened his estates with debt that he was compelled to part with Culross Abbey, and died in poverty

- 1831 . at Paris , in , aged eighty three

H s on e was succeeded by his oldest , Thomas , who became the celebrated Admiral and daring navigator , famous in history . Owing ’ to his father s unfortunate investments , Thomas had to begin at the B very foot of the ladder . y the help of friends, he was provided with a commission in an Infantry Regiment , and at the same time put on

~ - o f war the books of a man , by his uncle , Captain Alexander Forrester

’ H e Inglis Cochrane . His promotion was rapid . became a Lieutenant

H oﬁi cer - 1796. e in quarreled with his superior , Lieutenant Philip

- Beaver , and was court martialed . Discredited and on half pay, he I 1814 still pursued his crusade against naval corruption . n , having

S been led into peculation on the Stock Exchange , by report of ’ Napoleon s overthrow , he with two others was arrested , brought to

ﬁne trial , sentenced to one hour in the pillory , of one thousand pounds , and imprisonment for one year ; struck off the Navy ; expelled from

H e Parliament and the Order of the Bath . broke out of prison and 1815 appeared in his seat in the House in March , , but was returned to In 1831 prison and served out his sentence . he succeeded his father , 1832 the Ninth Earl ; was granted a free pardon in , restored to his

- position in Royal Navy , and gazetted Rear Admiral . In 1848 he was appointed Admiral of the North American and West ﬂ ” Indian eet .

the s Some time later, he visited Cochrane familie in New York and “ h vicinity, and said There was no doubt in his mind t at all the Amer ” e ican Cochrans were descended from the anci nt Scottish families .

’ H e In 54 the ! ueen restored his honours as Knight of the Bath .

R - was appointed ear Admiral of the Fleet , and a month later was named H by Prince Albert as Honorary Brother of Trinity House . e died

85 d a in 1860, aged , and is burie in Westminster Abbey, where Engl nd

pays her last great honor to her most illustrious sons . Some writers

say he was persecuted , because he exposed the evils and corruptions ials chieﬂ s among higher ofﬁc of the Navy, y ; but , at any rate , if per e

uted it c in life , he was honored at the close of , by the recognition of CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

A n G . his masterly abilities . . He ty has immortalized his daring career “ on the seas , in a work called Cochrane the Dauntless .

’ DU NDONALD S W AR PLAN— TH E SECRE T REVEALED

s n n 6 1 15 B e ms . s e kl H ra l o f a ua 1 9 . o T en mGla w W e ( ak fro g o e y d J ry , y p r i i )

s o From time to time during the last hundred years or , everyone ’ has heard of Lord Dundonald s plan for the total annihilation of an di enemy, but the sclosure of the secret has been left to Lord Ellen b ‘ borough , who, in his ook , The Guilt of Lord Cochrane in gives details of the invention . In ff brief, the plan is death by su ocation from sulphurous ﬂames , and is set out as follows as proposed for use in the Crimean War ; Memorandum Material required for the expulsion of the Russians from Sebas topol ;

i ﬁv e eff e tu Exper mental trials have shown that about parts of coke c

r ally vaporize one part of sulphur . Mixtures for land se vice where weight is of importance may , however, probably be suggested by Pro fessor Faraday ; as to operations on shore I have paid little attention .

Four or ﬁv e thousand tons of sulphur and two thousand tons of

sufﬁ i nt . coke would be c e

Besides these materials , it would be necessary to have , say, as much man d bitu inous coal a couple of thousand barrels of gas , or other tar ,

th e s e f o rtiﬁcations be for purpo of masking to attacked , or others that

ﬂank the assailing positions .

A firewoo d quantity of dry , chips , shavings , straw , hay, or other such combustible materials would be requisite quickly to kindle the fires; which ought to be kept in readiness for the first favourable and ” steady breeze . DU D A D N ON L . 7 1 855 . August ,

i ‘i Lord Ellenborough po nts out, however , that f these enormous amounts of combustibles had been stored in our trenches before

Sebastopol , a hostile shell might have ignited them while we were

waiting for a wind to blow the smoke in the right direction , and that n ’ we should then have bee driven from our trenches . TH E TWELFTH EARL AND THE RELIEF OF LADYS MITI—I 27

The Dundonald plan was ﬁrs t submitted to the British Government 1 At 181 . it in once a committee was appointed to examine . The Y II I Duke of ork, second son of George , was the chairman , and among his colleagues were Admirals Lord Keith and Lord Exmouth and Sir

William Congreve, the inventor of the military rocket . Lord Dundonald claimed that his device afforded infallible means of securing at one blow our maritime superiority and of the reafter ” “ maintaining it in perpetuity, and that no power on earth could stand ” against this attack . While the committee agreemd that his lordship had not claimed too much , they would not recom end it for adoption n . S o o because its destructive ess was too great nothing was d ne . No o matter how earnestly and eloquently L rd Dundonald pleaded , he could not move the Government .

A 1846 he e gain , in , when trouble was feared, urged Minist rs to take it afﬁrm ed advantage of . Another committee the opinion of the Duke ’ of York s that the plan was certain to bring victory to our arms . Still , i the Government would have nothing to do with t . D uring the Crimean War, the Government were twice approached . n " O the second occasion they came near to acceptance , for Se bastopol then still appeared impregnable . But as the Government desired that e ee ofﬁcers it ngin r should use , and Lord Dundonald insisted that no n — o e should use it but himself , once more the opportunity passed and Lord Dundonald died in

TWELFTH EARL AND THE RE LIE F OF LADYSMITH

The Twelfth Ea rl o f Dundonald is known to the American families

chicﬂ bearing the same name , y through his military exploits during the ff Boer War , as related by the di erent war correspondents in the Ameri can magazines and other publica tions

THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH

nd o in u ca B r on e S o . ms H a s ea in a h A e s ono f ohn ( B y M. l t d B it B r t fri y p r i i J

n o . ue s a e . ns o C s h h a C. Wi t , P bli h r , P il d lp i ) Lord Dundonald had two squadrons when he went to the Relief

ﬁve s of Ladysmith ; brigade of infantry , a considerable amount of 1600 k ‘ a rtillery , and about mounted men , nown as Imperial Light

’ Horse . The Boers were posted strongly on the south side of the

‘ river , and pressing at close quarters the right wing of the B ritish , but CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

’ ‘ Latfans were kept back by Lord Dundonald . Agency says Cavalry

Brigade had a hot engagement, Lord Dundonald in command ; tried

Lhan wana to take g Hill on the right , occupied by Boers ; for two hours they were under heavy shell ﬁr e and at last re treated under heavy ’

ﬁre . . The Boers used smokeless powder The loss of Lord Dun ’ e donald s Brigade was more than 100 men killed and wound d . A ’ mental picture of Ladysmith is that of an inverted horse s hoof . Ten ” thousand men were shut up there . “ ” B Romance of Modern Sieges , by Edward Gilliatt . y Permission

B Co . . J . . Lippincott , Publishers “ They rode in slowly , two by two , Dundonald , Gough , and

Mackenzie , of Natal , at the head of the column . All through Main d Street they rode , nod ing to a friend here and there , for the Imperial ” Light Horse had many friends in La dysmith . i ” ’ Relief of Ladysm th , by Richard Harding Davis , from Scribner s

- 1 B 1 rib 900 . . 900 S c July December , y permission Copyright , Charles ’

S New Y . ner s ons , ork “ General Buller was two months and ﬁfteendays in advancing twelve 15th miles from Colenso to Ladysmith , from December to February h u 28t . O the day after the battle of Pieters Hill , ( Majuba Day) Feb ur 2 h r 7t a y , Lord Dundonald settled this question by riding into Lady 200 me n smith at sundown with . It was not the way General Buller lanned had p that the Relief of Ladysmith should take place , as ’ Dun nal do d s orders were only to reconnoitre and avoid an action ; his entering town in advance of his commanding ofﬁcer was a breach of

e . tiquette , nothing more The question of etiquette did not weigh heavily with the besieged garrison ; some of them gave the troopers

a nd a generous hearty welcome as they entered town . Once inside , much cheering ; singing of the national hymn ; speech by Sir George

White , who as he rode down to meet them , raised his helmet and ordered three cheers for the ! ueen . The men , having come in and demonstrated that the way was clear , rode forth again , and the Relief ” of Ladysmith had taken place . LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND 29

TH E RESULTS OF SCOTCH CORRESPONDENCE 1912 L In January , , I wrote a letter to ord Cochrane , the Earl of

Dundonald of Scotland , asking his permission to use a print of the i fam ly coat of arms , in the history of the Cochran family , upon which l I was engaged . I also wished to know if the ﬁnal e was used in al the o ld — family documents . His reply is sub joined ;

L P MA D W DO AR K W . B S . INS O GE , IM LE N , 2 ’ 12 eh . 6 . F ,

Dun n ’ The Earl of do ald s compliments to Mrs . Cochrane Haughton and in reply to her letter In all the old letters and papers in his possession the e was sometimes — used sometimes not . The old House of Cochrane is now pulled down but the family arms which used to adorn it were built into the walls of the Cochrane Castle — at Golf Club Johnstone , close to Paisley , Scotland . Lord Dundonald had a very good photograph of these arms but cannot la y his hand upon it— but any good Glasgow photographer would easily photograph the arms— these arms were placed in the original building about the year 1550 it is thought— and consist of three ’ — — a a boars heads the s_ ame arms as are used today great m ny o f the Cochran family emigrated about the year 1690 after the Monmouth rebellion . CHRONICLES OF THE CocH RAN s

MA INS E LO DG .

W M I B L E DO N PA R K. S W

Fa d “ Z J ' /L

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( M i . LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND 33 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

MAINS LODG E

“ . S W W IMB L E DO N PAR K .

’ Acting upon the Earl s advice , I secured from Mrs . Janet Mann , of O Martins Ferry, hio , the names of several Glasgow photographers ,

Mr and the address of . Andrew Walker , also of Glasgow , Scotland , a e relative o f her late husband , William Mann , formerly of Coatbridg ,

Scotland .

Mr Then I wrote to . Walker , who became greatly interested in my literary venture and took up the matter personally ; securing photo graphs and consulting authorities , that I might have the most authentic information obtainable ; and I wish to assure my readers , that by his help , this work has assumed historical proportions , beyond my greatest

be expectations hitherto . Some of the correspondence will found in the following extracts . Other parts of it are embodied in former pages “ ” under the heading , Earliest mention in history .

bruar 1914 Mr : e . Under date of F y , Walker writes I went to

uesd a Johnstone on T y, to look up the matter of the original coat of

3 O HRA T W E R 1896 OH O E E AR PA SL — MARKS THE ( ) C C N O . , J NST N N I EY SITE

O FTHE O R G A L MA R - H US I IN NO O E . LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND 35 a rms of the Corh ran family and I found th e stone inthe build ing of ’ u o b aﬁeld an the Ladies G lf Cl , very disappointing but I went farther d was rewarded with something of more value . I will enclose some prints in their order with a few words of history to explain them ’ Number one is a view of the gable end of the Ladies Golf Club

House at Johnstone . This is probably the stone mentioned by Lord

Dundonald in the letter you received from him some time ago . The stone is scarcely visible ; it is of round shape , about nine or ten inches in it diameter , with a raised moulding all around ; in the center is a

- small carving , three or four inches in diameter , but so weather worn , Y . u that one cannot really say what it has been o will notice in th is photo , two rows of houses these are all that remain of the old home rai stoun stead of C g . 1 3 5 6 4 4 2 d the win The farm house stoo in the center ; the end portion , with d ow n and the porch , was added to the older building about seventee years ago, when the old stone was inserted up in the gable ; but where it e had been before that time , no one whom I saw while th re could tell i t . me anything about This building which extends a good way back, ’ is used entirely a s the Ladies Department of the Golf Club the new n buildings are across the road . Altho the club is known as the Cochra ” b e r i n a C a t u. Castle Golf Clu , the plac here still retains the n me of gs o

- Print number two is Cochran Tower . About one half mile west of e the golf club house , I came upon this tow r quite unawares . It is built on the site of the old Castle of Cochrane , which must have existed as 181 8. a ruin as late as This tower stands on a waste piece of ground , as you will see . I photoed it from the garden of the house adjoining . “ You will notice a tablet on the wall with the words , Cochran Tower ,

ﬁve The door on the north side is reached by steps , and the door which measures six feet by two feet, six inches , is kept bolted and

‘ l . ocked There is nothing in the tower , not even a stairway . I have r not yet been able to learn who built this towe .

Number three , another view of the tower . This view of the tower “ ” - . o al is taken from the south It shows Red H use ongside . You

- - r will notice there is only one Loop hole window here , but in the easte n

- th e side there are two narrow, iron stanchioned ones , for pur

. e its pose of light and air, perhaps I measured the tow r and found o north and s uth sides are fourteen feet , ten inches ; and its eastern a re e and western sides fourte n feet , seven inches ; and I judge it is e fully tw nty feet high . CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

Number four , the original coat of arms . It was while measuring m n e . : the walls here , that I ad an importa t discovery , viz the original ’ 2 ; W . C. d 159 . stone with the three boars heads the initials mand the ate , w a The stone is about half way up the all . I sure this must be the ’ stone referred to in the Earl s letter to you , but I doubt if he ever

- thanﬁv e saw the place , where his fore fathers lived for more hundred years .

o As you are no d ubt aware , the name of the estate, where the

ﬁeld Cochran Castle stood, was Cochran . The eastern portion of the

- estate was called Easter Cochrane , and was purchased by the anmcestors of the present owners in the seventeenth century and has re ained An in this family, the Houstons , ever since . (Note . The Honorable drew Cochran , twelfth and youngest son of the Eighth Earl , at one time the Governor of Dominica , married Lady Georgia Hope John stone, third daughter o f the Third Earl of Hopetoun , and he assumed

to his o wn. the name of Johnstone , in addition )

d A 1 1914 ' From a letter ated pril , “ am I glad that you are pleased with the photos I sent you , in regard i to your history of the Cochran fam ly . The writing of this work is a big undertaking ; there are so many branches that have sprung from ’ th e w w the parent tree ; but when one s heart is in ork , it is onderful what can be accomplished , and I can see from your last letter , that th r l you are o o y familiar with their history . Are you aware that d Graham of Claverhouse , Viscount of Dun ee, married Jean , the third c and youngest daughter of William , Lord Co hran , the oldest son of ’ ’ the ﬁrst Earl ? His ( Graham s) family residence then was Marr s

Castle , near Dundee , part of which is still standing and has lately been restored . As a Cochrane married a daughter of the Montgomery m kelmorl a S o family, I sending a photo of y Castle ; the oldest part a at the right hand corner is the origin l , which would then be most a 1502 h as likely , a square keep . It d tes from , but been enlarged from time tmo time . a I enclosing a copy of Dundonald Castle ruins, situated in Ayr ﬁ shire , in parish of Dundonald , about four miles from Troon , and ve

Ki mk - ﬁ ma c l o v e miles from ; six miles from Ayr , and about thirty miles d 1124 1153 from Glasgow . Dun onald was built between and and was o l once the abode of the r ya Stuarts , and King Robert the Second 1 died here in 390. It crowns a beautiful round hill , a little west from the village of Dundonald, and according to legend , it was built entirely

4 RUI S O FD NDO NALD A TLE IN A RSH ) N U C S Y IRE . LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND 37

of wood by one Donald Dun or Din , whose enrichment came from ’ a the discovery of a pot of gold thru a dream . (See Ch mber s Popular 1870 Rhymes of Scotland, edition . )

There is a castle in the North , They call it Donald Din ; ’ ’ a f There s not a nail in its roo , ” Nor yet a wooden pin .

Tradition relates that it was shorn of its topmost story, to build or improve their neighboring castle of Auchen ; but it still forms a mas 113 ft 40 sive two story ruin , . by , and retains on its western wall in high relief, but much obliterated by time , the armorial bearings of the At Stuarts . its southern end are the shattered remains of two or three ‘ ’ and m arched cells , which belonged to its keep , or prison , it see s r from vestiges still visible , to have been su rounded by a ramp art

. m and a moat Not far fro these ruins , stands the ancient and

sufﬁcient deserted looking House of Auchen ; maj estic still and showing traces of its former grandeur , to indicate the important position it a ll once held in the district . The building is not of the same age , but 1644 the date , which is to be found on one of the newer portions , leads us to discover the principal builder, Sir William Cochrane of Cowden , ’ Coldoun or . (A house is still standing at Barr s Head , now called w enh al Co d l . )

“

Sir William purchased the lands of Dundonald , from the Wallace 1638 and family, who had owned it for ages , in , to him may be as cribed the building of that p art of Auchen which bears the d ate 1644 . l m As already mentioned , some of the materia came fro Dundonald

Castle . A few years ago the huge castle of Auchen was occupied by ‘ ’ new cotters (those employed to work on the estate) since , a house b has been built close y.

A Auchens 1773 t in , Samuel Johnson and Boswell spent a day in visiting Susannah , Dowager Countess of Eglinton , the witty beauty, ‘ ’ 172 n 5. to whom Alle Ramsay dedicated his Gentle Shepherd , in

1780 . She died here in , aged ninety years The lands of Dundonald , ’ a which means Donald s Hill or Fort, passed eventu lly to the Earls n w of Eglinton ; and o the Castle only, with a small portion of land — ﬁfteen ﬁve — around it some say acres , others , only roods are all that

a the e c . am remain to the Earl of Dundon ld , of state in S otland I not able to t ell you to what church the family now adheres ; wh ether

Presbyterian or Catholic . CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

24 1914 Third letter, April , “ m the I had your letter all safe ; a glad to know you got rest o f photos safely and glad to hear that you have permission from the

t . Messrs . Harrison o use the Dundonald pedigree I also looked it up ﬁnd ‘ ’ d Co . oo o A . r and the Sc ttish Nation by Fulle ton , a very g am work also for ancient Scottish history , and enclosing some extracts i ‘ t . : a from , viz Sir Willi m Cochrane , of Cowden , of the ancient mi o 1640 A fa ly of Ren frewshire , ab ut possessed the lands of uchen his l o alt and Dundonald in Ayrshire , and for y y was created a peer 27 164 7 Dec . , , by the title of Lord Cochrane of Dundonald , and on 12 1669 w as May , , created Earl of Dundonald , and Lord Cochrane of ” Paisley and Ochiltree .

26 1914 Fourth letter, May , “ Sometimes it is not an eas y matter to trace family history . It takes much reading and I may also say, it takes much patience . I have m ’ a 1898 copied and enclosing the coat of arms from Burke s edition , a s 1895 1913 1914 same that of and also of , but in the edition , there

h lme ‘ ab is a e t ove the co ronet and oak leaves at the bottom of the

. d o crest I not think it so good as the one enclos ed . In reading up h r ff ﬁnd family isto y , by di erent authors , I they repeat the same ff a matter, but tell it in a di erent way and they lso have the coats of ‘ ‘ ’ ’ diﬁ r n e e t . a arms I have also been reading The Scot s Peer ge , by n w Crawford, taken from a old ork , which I consider one of the best ” e I have ever s en yet , and will send some extracts not found elsewhere . “ ” (These extracts are found in Earliest Mention in History )

ul 13 1914 Fifth letter, J y , “ Your letter safely to hand . Glad you are pleased with the photos

. r I sent you It will certainly add to the beauty of the coat of a ms , to Now have the proper colors . , in regard to the Cochranes , who crossed over to Ireland and ﬁnally to America ; I can ﬁnd no tmrace of them in historical narrative , but there is no doubt , some o f the went there and some of the families are still there, for in tracing the lineage of the Cochranes in Ireland , there is mentioned one Thomas Cochrane Grauh h lou 1789 of g g House, County Cavan , who married there in

1793 1873. and died in , leaving a son William, who died in h ﬁrst William left a son w o became Sir Henry Cochrane , Baronet of Woodbrook , county of B ray , Wicklow ; the Castle Bailie borough , H e . 21 County Cavan , and Kildare Street , Dublin was born Dec . , 1836 7 18 7 . 8 1903 , was knighted in ; created Baronet on Oct , , died LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND 39

11 1 . 904 . d b d Sept , Succeede y his ol est surviving son , Sir Ernest

H - at o Co . . e Cecil C chrane, Second Baronet , Cavan is a Barrister

Law, of the Inner Temple, and Chairman of Cantrell Cochrane , The Universal and Aerated Water Manufacturers ; he was bo rn Sep 12 tember , i e m The arms of this fam ly are in some resp cts si ilar to the Dun

a re . donald family, of which I have no doubt, they a branch

A - in- rms ; Argent , on a chevron engrailed ; Argent , between chief, ’ s d a u in two boars head , erase z re and base , a sun in splendor of the r last ; a thistle , p . p . . between two trefoils , slipped vert . Crest , in

r . front of two tilting spears in saltire , a bay horse passant , all p . p . o t L ab r r e o a e . M tto, Virtute o 1604 There was a Sir John C chrane , born about , who entered the d army and served in Ireland, where he acquire some land thru his

n . . O t o an marriage his return Scotland , he became active Covenanter, a nd 1639- 40 l . H Co . e in was mentioned as Cochrane , of that ilk left n o . family One Sir James Cochrane , Chief Justice of Gibraltar, son of

e o Thomas Cochrane, Speaker of the Hous of Assembly in Nova Sc tia, 1798 d Glenrock was born in that colony in and ied at y, his home in 24 188 3 . Gibraltar , June , , leaving one son , Rev Thomas , the Rector of

A E . Stapleford bbot, in ssex ow There is also a monument at Glasg Cathedral , to Andrew Coch who rane of B righouse , for several years , was Provost o f Glasgow , and Preceptor of Hutcheson Hospital , for more than forty years .

16 d 1777 . H e was born. 93 and ied o ba There is also quite a strong associati n of Cochrans in Al ny , h . A t e New York Doctor Cochran , at head of the Homeopathic Hos

. . O pital , is the president His grandfather came from Paisley ther ’

r o . families in Albany came from Co se Gowrie , in Perthshire

21 1 14 h . 9 Sixt letter, Oct ,

i “ I . mu Your letter received in due course st thank you for the ‘ ’

e . magazin you sent I read the Haunted Heart with much interest , r i st un and thought you were trying to identify the C a g o with Craigston ’ n at Johnstone . I don t think there is any co nection , for I think the Ar leshire Invernesshire place in the magazine must be either in gy , or ,

- o . and on the Atlantic sea board , while J hnstone is inland The word ‘craig or crag’ in Scotch means a little hill and comes

‘ ’ “ s o from the Gaelic cruach , and the name is common in many forms ,

c rai . am t S otc such as , Craig on , Craighead , g, and so forth I sorry 40 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

‘ r e l f r m you had no p y o the Secy . of the Cochran Society in Albany , Y et . n A N Our frie ds returned there at the end o f ugust, glad to g away , owing to the outbreak of the war . E e You ask i f the arl of Dundonald has again b en called, but I ﬁnd h be e . e cannot her about him I rather think must , for I enclose ’ o a cutting fr m yesterd ay s paper, about his Countess arriving in

London .

i th e . As you may imag ne , war is the sole topic of conversation It

! is really heart - rending to read of the atrocities in Belgium from our back windows we can look into th e vacated Sick Children 3 Hospital : 120 i n ; where there are Belg amn Refugees , men , wome and children G there are over of the in lasgow, and it makes one sad to r fo r th e meet them, d iven out of house and home ; and but brave i an mi n o Belg s the German hordes ght now be over in Engla d and Sc t ” land .

22nd 1915 Seventh letter, January , “ m G as Your letter came safely to hand . I a glad you received the l gow W eekly H eral d ; in these war times we are ne ver sure that news - f

' papers are d elivered and I knew you would be interested 1n the k H a d c . am ee l er l Co hran article I now sending you another W y , ’ amou containing the Admiral s War Secret , which I also sure y will treasure . I spoke to the Editor about the articles and he tells me , m — that you are quite at liberty to use the in any way you wish even

- h e to copy them verbatim and as a safeguard to you , says to mention

o e r that they are taken from the Glasg w W ekly H e al d .

Regarding the origin of the name Cochrane , I was quite sure it never came from the Gaelic ; however, he sent a note to their Gaelic ’ d H er correspondent and the enclosed cutting was the reply in to ay s ald . In l a i t : . ( reply o Wa ker , Glasgow Cochr ne is not of Gaelic orig n It is an ancient surname in Scotland ; and the family name of the Earls of e Dundonald . ) You will see ther is a Gaelic column each week .

And now about the Tales of the Border ; the copyright is expired , and you are at liberty to copy as much as you like abo ut Grizel Coch mi a rane . I enclose another cutting, which I sure w ll please you , showing that the Earl is at the front . You are quite right to have all t r these things correctly , as critics are always on the alert to y and trip

an . up y writer of an article upon historical events I spare no pains , to get at the foundation of any subj ect I take up and especially when ’ Lantern not you give f Lectures , as I have for years , for my own LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND 4 1

interest, but to try to raise funds for various church organizations , for

‘ m- - mf e a a o altho I an Elder the Establish d Church , I broad minded _ enough to assist other denominations as well .

I see you are also perturbed about this terrible war, but I do not i th nk there is any chance of America being involved . Christmas and New Year passed off very quietly ; public d inners and entertainments ff ' o . having mostly been put , except the usual dinners for the poor ‘ ’ ’ o e off Feb 16 h Our Mission W men s treat com s on . t . It is the treat of the year, and they look forward to it from one year to the next . 148 to o We have away the front fr m our church , and there will likely

o . be m re yet The most of these got large parcels at Christmas , from the church , besides what we have been doing for Red Cross work as well . Nearly every Saturday we have had Flag Days ; tomorrow is for h as the the horses , and to help Veterinary work . Glasgow headed list on every one of these occasions ; put Edinburg quite in the shade . We still have over one hundred Belgian Refugees in the old Sick ’ u s t e ff Children s Hospital beside , and next door, some of h su erers in the Hartlepool Raid , who got their houses damaged with shells so u ” s these things bring the war very near and make one think abo ut it .

6th 1915 Eighth letter, March , “

. am Your letter arrived in due course I glad to learn that you are

Ms s . getting your . into order for the printers Perhap s you have been waiting to hear from me , in regard to the origin of the name Coch rane . I have bmeen rather busy of late , but have at the same time, been making so e inquiries of those likely to have a thorough knowl

- - edge of place names , as well as family names . There are several bo oks in our libraries here on these .

' ﬁr st I o b it was From the , , as well as those to whom I sp ke a out , convinced that the name was not Highland ; so this week I called upon

- the principal Gaelic book seller, here , also the Secretary of the Gaelic e and Soci ty, both advised me to interview the Principal of the Uni McAllister versity , Sir Donald , and the enclosed document I had from d him yesterday . You will see that it is clear and concise in every etail , a and coming from one , who is an authority , you can take it that wh t he says is correct . I suppose he would not obj ect to your quoting him as your authority . b ou th e Perhaps the author of the ook , from which y secured mean a ro ing of the name , as being of Gaelic origin , may have he rd it p 42 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

‘ ’ ‘ - i : Th e nounced . as Cog ran The Gaelic Patronym c says Sassenach ear being ignorant of Gaelic, often transcribed by ; the copy bearing a faint resemblance to its original ; and they give as an example, ’

- h ran McE ach r n an . McE ac . a , into Cochrane me s a horse man ’ McAl ine s co - ko ﬁ ht ee r p Gaelic Dictionary gives g gg, to war, to g ; j R an Co adh . Ch o iad . g , they warred g , war , warfare , a drawling,

a . S o dissonant roar, or cry ; a mel ncholy cry o r roar you will see ,

- as Sir Donald said , Cog ran was wrong .

Mr . I trust you will send a copy of your book when published , to t so D ail W eekl H erald Porteous , the Edi or, that the y as well as the y it may review , and thus bring it before the public , for you know the e H r ald circulates all the world over .

Ochiltree is in Ayrshire . John Knox was married in the house of Gw r ch O . chiltree y Castle is in Denbighshire , North Wales and

- s Abergale is the Post town . I ee in the papers this week that the has d and Countess o f Dundonald returne to the castle , the Earl is

- - in- Gold Stick Waiting , on the King, during the month of March . O now ur streets are alive j ust with soldiers , but I suppose the most of them will be at the front next month . We are to have a march 9000 as out this afternoon o f something like , to help recruiting, and

ﬁne r - the day is , there will likely be a large tu n out of the general ” public .

R V F ANOTHER DE I ATION O THE NAME COCHRANE.

MacAllister From Sir Donald , Principal of the University of Glas ow a g , Scotl nd — i COCHRANE . The name is territor al , and refers to the lands ,

( Easter Cochrane , Nether Cochrane, in Renfrewshire . The i no t fam ly is Highland there is neither clan nor sept of the name . But the territorial place—name may be Celtic ; as Strathclyde was r o r fo merly Cymric ( Welsh) and afterwards Gaelic . ’ r Cov rcm The oldest fo m of the name is e ( Balfour Paul s ’ Cowra/n C h e Scots Peerage , then (before then oc ran .

' Cio - mn - Coc bh ra/n This suggests some form like g f , (Welsh) , or , be Cochvr an a nd ( Gaelic) which would pronounced , is an old name

- r aven car rier cr ow . e for the , or the In mod rn Gaelic, it is applied to the J a ckdaw .

hadr ean u Coveran On Cob the other hand , (prono nced ) , is Gaelic Mos n — uilders o s D ke b for , or y ; and it will be remembered that Coch ‘ ’ ‘ ’ f th e rane, the architect o James , Third , was spoken of as the Mason .

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— If c e (Note . some of the earlier families of Co hran lived in the o uplands of Ayr, there is still some foundati n for the belief that the name h as a Gaelic signiﬁcance ; a belief to which many of the family fondly cling . ) “ Gaelic is such an expressive language and has been kept alive by f m generations o bards ; na es seem to caress ; to lull one into dreams of old days , when a free race lived on the islands , and when there were ” real castles and monasteries , perched on the heights is the way a i recent writer expresses t .

s o oc And , whether or not , the C hranes are descended from the inner circle ; the great Scotch hierarchy ; the hardy men of the North of “ whom they say , their bodies may cross the Tweed , but their hearts ” never ; it is interesting to know of these old family traditions and

mr e e t to preserv he for futu generations , and to rescue them from

o n iff oblivion , and for those reas ns I have give all the d erent versions , me as they were presented to . n Geographically , the Highla ds of Scotland are separated from the

Lowlands , by the Grampians Mountains . General Stewart says that , “ to for seven centuries , Birman Hill at the entrance Athole has formed the boundary between the lowlands and the highlands ; also l o n a s between the Saxon and the Gaelic languages . O the southern and eastern sides of the hill , breeches were worn and Saxon spoken ; d on the northern and western , are the kilt and the plai , and the ” Gaelic . H IGHLAND COSTUME

The origin of the ancient Highland kilt is lost in obscurity , as there is much uncertainty as to its precise period , and there is a striking similarity between the Scoutch tartan and the checks worn by the Irish in ancient times . The fo ndation of the old Scotch tartan was red ﬁve and green , but gradually other colors , blue , black , white , yellow and purple , were introduced , thus reaching the magical number of s seven , which in the times of the Druid , was only used by the kings and high priests . The Irish had a peculiar reverence for color, and the number of colors denoted the rank of the wearer . It is possible, ma i niﬁc n s a c that the colors of the tartan y have had a similar g e . Before the accession of James Sixth of Scotland to the throne of and Great Britain , the tunic kilt formed a single garment , but during his reign the kilt became a separate garment to be adj usted about the waist , reaching not quite to the knees . The vest or tunic , also being a NOTED WOMEN OF THE COCHRANE FAMILIES OF SCOTLAND 4 5

. A separate garment cap or bonnet without any peak , decorated with ’ a spray of heather , or eagle s feather, if a chief . A the plaid , or scarf of ample dimensions , across the person of wearer, having the ends hanging down , fastened by a brooch on the shoulder .

NOTE D WOMEN OF THE COCHRANE FAMILIES OF SCOTLAND

The writer feels that she cannot leave the records of th e Cochrane a o a Family in Scotl nd , with ut some mention of the women , s they also ﬁ have itted across the pages of history .

ﬁrst o f e The one whom special mention is given is Elizabeth, daught r who and only child of that William , married Margaret Montgomery who th e e also established ancient seat of the family , now mark d by the freestone tower, in which is built the original coat of arms , 1 2 b 59 . A a earing date Elizabeth married lex nder Blair, whose Christian name has been handed down thru the ages and still survives e d in the annals of the family . Alexand r Blair assume the arms and

min own. m na e of Cochran , addition to his Their second son beca e ﬁrst a ma the Earl of Dundon ld ; and Elizabeth y have been said to have e p rp etuated the race of the Cochranes .

ec the s av ed h er The s ond to acquire fame was Grizel , heroine , who ’ father s life .

o i The third was Susannah , the C untess of Eglinton , noted as a w tty beauty . She was six feet tall , the most beautiful woman of her day, and the mother of seven tall and beautiful daughters .

th e Susan, daughter of Fourth Earl of Dundonald , than whom there was no lovelier nor prouder maid in all Scotland , achieved

o . notoriety by taking as her second husband , George Forbes , her gro m

‘ A - ll her high born relatives , the Stewarts , Hamiltons , Murrays and

‘ have an thin Cochranes refused to y g to do with any one , who could so

. o far forget herself Her husband , a very handsome man , pr ved altogether undesirable and this led to a separation one year after b fonever marriage , and the Countess with a ba y daughter , left Scotland and went to live in France . She placed the child in a convent at and Rouen , spent nine years in restless wanderings; till her death in 1754 Paris in .

an to The daughter, also named Sus , may be regarded as the next one claim a special mention . She was reared in ignmorance, as regarding her family connections , until her father, having arried again , one of 46 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRA NS

n o she was his own statio in life, sent to the c nvent for his daughter and

h er - to be el taken to Leith , Scotland . As step mother proved a cru off d a e tyrant, Susan slipped one y with a piece of money in her pock t, e a a nd took the packet boat to the coast of Fife . She spent s ev ral dmys n e in wa dering, and at last came to the hospitabl home of a far er o wn named Lauder, who welcomed her as one of his , which she later

a . bec me, by marrying his son They had several children and lived happily enough till his death in the village of S t . Ninians near Stirling . o o f he r During all these years , she had kn wn nothing high born rela

i e th e E o . t ves , till an accident rev aled her to her kinsman , arl of Dunm re

H e . and Lord Galloway, Duke of Hamilton and Mrs Stewart of MacKenzie , provided liberally for her, till her death at the age of t eigh y . There appeared this item in the foreign exchange column of the “ t - mis a c : 2. O o uuD ch . C l b s p , some few years sin e London, ct Lady Grizel Hamilton has had herself photographed with the leopard she shot while on her honeymoon trip in West Africa . She had the uﬁF st ed o o creature skinned , and the skin and m unted by a L ndon th e taxidermist . Lady Grizel is the oldest of the three daughters of E H on A arl o f Dundonald , and is the wife of the . Ralph Gerard lex ” ander Hamilton , of Belhaven .

TH E DEATH OF LADY ALICE NEWTON

8 1 14 d . 9 Die at her residence, La Brea, Dec , , Lady Alice Laura

65 th e o o o f Sophia Newton , aged , wid w of George Onslow Newt n ,

am . Croxton Park , C bridge , and Pickhill Hall , Denbigh Lady Alice was the second daughter of the 1l th Earl o f Dundonal d by his mar ria e g with a daughter of the late William Alexander Mackinnon , of n Mackinno . She was the sister of that distinguished soldier, Maj or 12th General , the Earl of Dundonald , who received that rank fo r his services in the South African War in command of the Mounted

. H on B rigade of the Natal Army Her other brother, the . Thomas

— Cochrane , for a long time represented North Ayrshire th e Cochrane

— l in - ancestra county Parliament, and was Under Secretary of State f r o the Hom e Department . Lady Alice was old enough to remember d m her istinguished grandfather, Ad iral , the Tenth Earl of Dun d onald , whose oldest grandchild she was . That eminent sailor, best known as Lord Cochrane, left a name o f high distinction in our naval 1808 d ’ . o annals In , his estructi n of th e enemy s ships in the Basque TH E FIRS T SCOTCH - IRISH EMIGRATION TO AMERICA

’ to e ff Roads dealt a crushing blow Napoleon s maritim e orts . His career was one of brilliant exploit and d aring in almost every quarter

Gl s ek e . a ow e l H md W l 12 of the globe ( Copied from the g y , of Dec . ,

TH E FIRST S co-TCH - IRISH E MIGRATION TO AMERICA

romo of o an li H s s . ( F i t ry P rtl d, Wil ) a 1718 In the utumn of , a vessel arrived at Falmouth , now Port h M a . land, ss , wit twenty families of emigrants from Ireland . They

a Ar leshire o were the descend nts of a colony from gy , Sc tland, who led 17 s ettt . had in Ireland , in the middle of the th century They were rigid Presbyterians and had ﬂed from Scotland to avoid the persecutions o f Charles , the Second . North Ayrshire also contri buted to the emigration of Scots to Ireland . They were call ed — Scotch Irish , but they refused to marry with the Irish , thus preserv ing their pure Scotch descent .

The ﬁrst emigration of these people to America is known as The 171 8. Governor Shute Company , and occurred in In the spring of

r o that yea , with Scottish prudence and foresight , they sent ver the

Mr . Reverend Boyd , their agent , with a paper duly executed and subscribed , setting forth their intention to emigrate to this country . Of which this is a copy ;

T H is E x cell enc the Ri h t H onor able Colonel S amu o el S h ite y, g , i , Gover nor of N ew E ngland :

W e - Ye , whose names are under written , inhabitants of North of in a Ireland , Doe our own names and in the n mes of many others our

Neighbors ; Gentlemen , Ministers , Farmers and Tradesmen : Com mis sionate s and w- - o i n and appoint our tru ty ell bel ved fr e d , the Mac k Mr . as Reverend William Boyd , of y, to His Excellency , the ui te n S t New Right Honorable Colonel Samuel , Gover or of England , e ‘ and to assure his Excellency of our sincer and hearty indication , to

transport ourselves to that very excellent and renowned plantation , upon our obtaining from his Excellency, suitable encouragement and further to act and doe in our own names as his prudence shall direct . 26th Given under our hands , this day of March , Anno Domini ,

1718.

319 th e who There were of Ulstermen, signed this document and n am. all but thirteen, or four per cent , were able to sig their own n es 4 8 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

A L In an admirable paper by Professor . . Perry, of Williams

o - 1890 C llege, read before the Second Scotch Irish Congress in ; in “ a : It spe king of this , he says may well be questioned , whether in o ne any other part of the United Kingdom at that time, hundred and

- a o d o r seventy two years g ; in Englan , Wales , Scotland Ireland ; so large a proportion as 96% o f promiscuous house - holders in the com f ” mon walks o life could have written their own names .

We are proud to see the names of three John Cochrans , one

te B n A . a d . James , William, Andrew, Pe r, . Cochran lex Cochran

On 4 1718 ﬁve o August , , small ships anch red at the foot of State

- on. 125 . Street, Boston , having board families , of Scotch Irish people

L ondo nber r This company mostly settled in y, New Hampshire , and and th e the adj acent towns of Antrim , Chester , Windham , becoming

- largest and most important Scotch Irish settlement in New England . B all mn o They had emigrated largely from Colrain , y y and the adj a

- cent towns of the Bann Water valley . The original manuscript petition that Boyd presented was gi ven to

E . Mr . McGre o r s Daniel g , o f New York City , by Alden B radford , q , secretary of the state of Massachusetts . ew l One of the very early settlers of N England was Robert C ark, 2 h uhte 16 5 t e d a who came about . His wife , Lucretia , having been g of John Cochran , of Londonderry , Ireland . P A R T T W O

PIONE E R H ISTORY

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1759 1763 th e th e s o f From to , after defeat of French , hostilitie r c m h fo od o t e Indians were abated a peri , and since Fort Pitt was mn - a ded mby Scotch Irish at this time , settlers began to migrate in great nu bers from the Cumberland Valley to Western Pennsylvania, over ﬂ owing to the Panhandle of Virginia .

’ Braddock s Trail was the route selected by many, coming by way

- d . of Forts Bedfor and Ligonier, on horses and pack saddles Wash in ton 1764 g reported that the town of Pittsburg was laid out in , four

squares about the fort . The manor of Pittsburg was withdrawn from

the market in 1769 and given as the property of the Penn family . In 177 0 there were about twenty log houses on the Monongahela river, ” abo ut three hundred yards from the fort .

MASSACRE OF WYOMING VALLEY

1762 men e In the spring of , two hundred from Connecticut mad th e ﬁrst settlement in the Wyoming Valley , one mile above the present e e sit of Wilkesbarre, Penna . Here they lived in peac for two years , th e D the th e until murder of a elaware chief by Six Nations , aroused

an c h men. h e suspicions of the Indians d they a cused t e white of t

murder .

On O 15 1764 the ctober , , Indians attacked the settlement and d o ﬂed massacre twenty pe ple, the others having to Fort Necessity or

the lower settlements in Pennsylvania , or back to Connecticut . There

was a family of Cochrans living at the settlement at the time, as related

Pa . by Miss Grace Braham, of Harrisville , Butler County,

Our branch of the family came originally from Paisley , Scotland . There is a Barony of Cochran in Renfrewshire and the family trace its d escent d irect to Walden De Cochran in the time o f Alexander the 2 2 1 6 . m Third , in The earliest that I know of the fa ily in America is that during the Revolutionary War William Cochran lived in th e

n m- Wyoming Valley and his wife , bei g warned in a drea that the i ﬂ Indians were com ng, aroused her husband and together they ed to

t - For Necessity , where my great grandfather , John , was born that th e W min o night, being the night of y g massacre . . “ A o a e Pa fterwards William C chran c m to Crawford County, . , and e now c s ttled at what is Co hranton , where he kept the ferry . In 1825

John Cochran moved to the vicinity of Harrisville , bringing his family,

which included Charles , Wilson , William, James and John . James P . ’ a a Cochran is a son of Wilson Cochr n . Charles Cochr n is my mother s INDIAN COMPLAINTS 53

t and father . There are other Cochrans in Kit anning near Butler who h f us . e t e are not related to , but might be to you I look d up history o th e o West Liberty , Butler County, but found no reference to C chrans , ” so it must be Allegheny County you want .

INDIAN COMPLAINTS

In 1765 the chiefs o f the Six Nations held a council , complaining of the white people who had settled on Indian lands , and they also predicted that war would come of it . There were about one hundred ﬁft e families , or seven hundred and y persons in thes settlements at n Redstone a d on the Monongahelma River . Governor Penn issued a procla ation warning the settlers of these ﬁnall a complaints , which y terminated in what is known as the Indi n

O . war under Pontiac, a celebrated ttawa chief

sufficient in Here , then , were good and reasons for settlers to tarry 1 7 an . 7 0 d the vicinity of the forts of Western Pennsylvania In later, h i o owever, settlers began to flock from Virg nia by way of F rt Pitt to “ th O * e an was e fertile lands lying beyond the hio River . Her l d to be had j ust for the taking, that was building a cabin and raising a crop e of grain , no matter how small , this ntitled the occupant to four hundred acres and a pre - emptio-n right to one thousand mo re ad fii c A o e . t j oining, i f secured by land warrant an early period the Governor of Virginia appointed three commissioners to give cer ce ificat tificates of settlement rights . These rt es together with the ’ surveyor s plan were sent to the land office of the state where they ff laid six months to await any caveat which might be o ered . * “ There was an inferior kind of title called a tomahawk right, e th e made by deadening a few tre s near the head of a spring, marking initials of the name of the person who made improvement on the do h bark of one of the trees . I not know or have no knowledge of t e “ efficacy of this tomahawk improvement, or whether it conferred any right whatever , unless an actual settlement followed . Thes e rights were often bought and sold . Some settlers would come in the ” a i spring to raise crop of corn, leav ng thei r families behind until fall . A no fter some such manner , doubt, came William Cochran wife and b 0 1110 three sons , to settle on the anks o f Short Creek , now County , i West Virg nia .

Doddridge . 54 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

TH E ! UESTION OF BOUNDARY LINES

O 1770 In ctober, , Washington again visited Fort Pitt , but he was u1 7 o . O on a peaceful errand this time the th, he relates in his J urnal , “ o d L dge in what is called the town , distant about three hundred yards ’ e from the fort , at one Semple s , who keeps a very good hous of enter nmn an tai e t . H e d describes the town the fort, which had a garrison of two companies of Royal Irish . Washington went on a hunting trip down the Ohio and returned in n to . ow November, after which he returned Virginia But , after a period of peace and quiet in this troubled section, there arose another controversy between Virginia and Pennsylvania, this time over the d on boundary line between their possessions . Virginia relie her charter from King James the First ; Pennsylvania on hers from King

n 1581. Charles the Seco d , in

a 1752 finall This boundary question rose in , and was y settled in ’ ’ 1784 by the establishment of the Mason s and Dixon s line . Michael “ Cresap sought to create d isturbance by saying the province of Penn sylvania did not extend west of the Allegheny Mountains , but that all ’ ” westward of them was King s Land . The trouble between the B ritish Government and the American i o and n colonies was also grow ng m re tense bitter, and the governme t F finally decid ed to abandon t . Pitt and withdraw the troops . The fift building and materials were sold for y pounds New York currency ,

10 1772 . on Oct . , , to Alexander Ross and William Thompson The fort was evacuated by the British after the terrible struggles that had 1774 been made to secure it and in troops from Virginia, sent by the

Governor , Lord Dunmore , took possession and changed the name to

r Fort Dunmore , but after the establishment of the bounda y line in 1 84 r 1785 a i 7 o . , Pennsylv nia was again g ven possession of this territory

SETTLEMENT OF THE ZANE s

1770 About this time, in June , , Ebenezer Zane and his brothers

came from the south branch of the Potomac . They came, no doubt ,

ﬁve by the same route as had Washington and Braddock , years earlier ,

from Virginia , stopping at Fort Pitt , then pushing on through the

wilderness until they arrived in the vicinity of Wheeling Hill , over

looking the Ohio River . Here Ebenezer Zan e built his cabin and e i H m . e re ained one s ason , then returned for his fam ly came again SETTLEMENT OF WILLIAM COCH RANE IN 1772 55

n 1772 a e to Wheeli g in the spring of , having left his f mily at Redston until fall .

D e 1772 e H ass says : In came Bonnet, Wetzel, Messer, Silas Zan

a nd man other . e o y s from the same region Thes men crossed fr m R P Catﬁsh a . ed stone (now B rownsville, ) by way of (Washington) e and Scotch Ridge to the head of Little Wheeling Creek Valley, thenc h e o m t . d own over the sa e route afterwards taken for National R ad “ When within a f ew hundred yards of the forks of Wheeling Creek e an incident , trivial in itself , but important in results , occurred . W tzel ,

a off riding in dvance, broke his saddle girth and was compelled to get h it . a t e to repair Me ntime, Silas Zane passed on and came to forks , it one and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to , securing

. thousand acres . “ t e u Here they separated , Bonnet, We z l and others going p Big d own i . m Wheeling Creek, while Zane and his party went Other e ﬁne l ff grants soon followed , and lands along Whee ing, Bu alo and

Short Creeks were soon claimed by actual settlers . Near the j unction ’ s of Big and Little Wheeling Creeks was Shepherd Fort , Shepherd ” he ﬁrst o being one of t pi neers .

SETTLEMENT OF WILLIAM COCHRAN IN 1772

Among these early s ettlers on Short Creek was one William Coch

certiﬁcate th e r ran , who , according to a granted by Commissione s of Yo ho ania Monon alia o o e 1772 g , g and Ohi C unties , had settled ther in . d H e may have previously tomahawke his claim . William Cochran we believe to have been the grandson of William

and. e A ch La Ma , h i , Co ran dy ry Bruce is w fe of Ochiltre , in yrshire, H e 1730 Scotland . was born about , we should j udge ; may or may not have emigrated to Ireland , but reached America probably in the late ﬁftie s . We have been told that he came to this country a young a man, with a sm ll patrimony , but whether from Ireland or Scotland i o - s not known , th ugh it has been asserted that we are of Scotch Irish e d scent . e am We feel sur that if Willi Cochran had come from Ireland at that time h e would not have had even a small patrimony ; we think ’ he one com came directly from Scotland , probably as of B raddock s a 1755 i n p ny of soldiers , in , for B raddock himself was born Perthshire,

Scotland, and doubtless some of his company were recruited from his own county . 56 CHRONICLES OF TH E COCHRANS

e o d e a What mor likely , then , that a y ung man, esc ndant of family

numbering both military and naval heroes from its earliest history, ’ should enlist for s ervice in d efense of his country s colonies b eyond th e seas ? mi O r e , asid from a desire for such service , ght there not have been als o th e adventurous spirit to visit the new colonies with men of like mi ? A d e nd nd if we have correctly trace our lin of descent , might there not have been still anothe r reason why it was expedient for him to strike out for a new country ?

If his father had been one o f the nine sons of Sir William Cochran ’ a nd1 not Lady Mary B ruce, should you think the son s patrimony would be so small that he would naturally avail himself of th e fre e trans ’ p ortationof the King s soldiers ?

o be f H wever it may , we have of ered you three reasons why we think William Cochran came to America with General Braddock ’ s a m to or a dventur r y because of loyalty his sovereign , because of an

or . ous spirit ; , for the sake of a livelihood The reader is at liberty n to make his ow d ecision .

1758 e A and In England sent mor troops to merica, possibly he might have come then . Very probably he married some pionee r lassie of Virgi nia or Pennsylvania ; or po ssibly h e might have followed f e t the family o some Scotch lassie ov r o America . Who can tell ?

Family history has nothing to say ; neither has loc al nor State his F tory . Women of pioneer times merely existed . ew records have been kep t of their doings , unless of some untoward event . Only the fact that they left sons behind them has left any impression on the minds and records of early historians . in Whether William Cochran had previously settled Pennsylvania , h am e or whether c e to the vicinity of Fort Pitt from Virginia, we l w e n d o not know . As an honest historian can o ly relate from family to 17 records that three sons were born him ; Thomas , on December , 1762 1 1759 764 . ; Robert , in , and James in They were born in Pe nn

. s e Pa ﬁnd n . o sylvania Record say at West Lib rty, , but we trace of a a settlement by that n me at that time . S o we can only presume that he live d in Pennsylvania until that mn th e an ti e whe Z es began their permanent settlements on Short n Va . a d r or e Creek , , the vicinity known late as F t H nry, on the Ohio

River . TH E DEATH OF WILLIAM COCHRAN 57

Here they wrested a home from the wilderness . It has been stated by other historians of the family that William was a scout and sur

r r veyo at this time . The settlers in the vicinity of Sho t Creek had a t d built a blockhouse West Liberty, the highest point of lan , about ﬂed fo r two miles northwest of the creek , and thither they safety when the alarm of an Indian attack on Fort Henry was sounded .

o s th e Ohio territory acr s river was Indian land , and gave the In d ians opportunity to d isplay their hostility frequently . The last and “ o the mos t seri us attack, known in history as the last battle of Revo 2 782 utionar c 11 1 1 . l y War , o curred on September and ,

” LAST BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY W AR

There were three hundred Indians and ﬁfty B ritish led by the

man o . e renegade whit , Simon Girty, in their attack on F rt Henry

The settlers having heard in time of the approach of the Indians , had e all assembl d within the walls of the fort , except Ebenezer Zane , who remained in his own cabin , about sixty yards distant .

There were forty - two men and boys under Colonel Shepherd to d d two s efen the fort , but parties of fourteen men under Captain Ma on men and twelve under Sergeant Ogle, were sent out against some cornﬁeld or Indians in a , and either killed or wounded , prevented from

returning to the assistance of the Fo rt . ’ However, at about four o clock in the morning Colonel Swearengen n m s o f with fourtee men fro Cros Creek arrived by way the river, and Mc ull ch C o later, about daybreak , Major arrived with forty mounted

. Th o . e s men from Sh rt Creek Indian did not renew the attack , but the and d off th e burned cabins rove stock , and dividing into smaller o to O parties , some went ver hio, and others set out to wreak their s vengeance on the settlement east o f Fort Henry . One band of forty B had taken as captive Billy oggs , who later related the fate of Will

iam Cochran to his sons .

TH OF C RA B Y H rs S ON R B E R’ E DEATH WILLIAM CO H N, AS RELATED O I nn mn B s mo e . m r e o e s n F o B i B l t y p r i io .

c My father, William Co hran , was killed by the Indians at the time

th e and t o e on 11 h of siege bat le of F rt H nry, at Wheeling, the t to 2 1 178 . ma h 3 t e th of September , I was a young npast twenty at the

t . and ime My father was the most athletic man I ever knew, , was H noted for being the swiftest runner on that part of the frontier . e 58 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

was a good surveyor and had done some civil engineering . There

riﬂe e was no better shot with the , and in his pioneer life he had becom H thoroughly conversant with the characteristics o f Indian warfare . e

o ﬂ eetnes s was a go d scout , and his of foot had saved him more mthan once from capture while on perilous expeditions for the govern ent forces . “ o Lewis Wetzel , with wh m I was well acquainted , regarded father o as one of the swiftest men on fo t he had ever met , and Wetzel him d' self had never met his match at this . Father owned a tract of lan At near Forts Van Meter and Shepherd . the time of the battle all An the settlers with thei r families had ﬂocked to the forts . attempt

r had been made to reinforce Fort Hen y , but it had failed . Those at b w Forts Van Meter, West Li erty and Shepherd feared that the hole h r garrison at W eeling had been massacred , but were desirous of lea n d n o . ing their fate , a d o f extending aid i f p ssible It was ecided to

two to ff send scouts ascertain the condition of a airs , and father and ‘ ’ Billy Boggs were selected . “ They made their way past father’ s farm and had gone but a short distance when they encountered some forty Indians , a part of the

r force wuhich , after the failure to capture the fo t at Wheeling, had broken p into small bands and were pillaging the whole country for i a number of miles east o f t . Father and Boggs each killed their In

u . dian , and with empty g ns started to run The Indians attempted to

mfo r r surround them in order to capture the alive the pu po se of burn

. e ing them at the stake They had a particular desir to capture father,

to for they knew him be an intrepid hunter and a dangerous enemy .

H e was too swift for them and soon distanced their best runners . ff Boggs had gone in a di erent direction in order to divide utheir f o rce . Father had gained so rapidly on them that he was soon o t of range of their guns , but he made the fatal mistake o f attempting to cross

e over a very steep proj ecting point , instead of k eping along th e cree k a nd going around it . For while he was climbing a very steep bank

o the Indians were running d wn hill on the other side of the creek , th us gaining on him so as to bring him within range again j ust as he was passing over the point . Had he kept down the stream and around h a t e point they could not have overt ken him . “ ﬁred But one shot of all those , hit, and killed him instantly . They scalped him and left the body where it fell . It was found the next day and buried by a party from the fort . Boggs was captured , and

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B CORRE SPONDENCE WITH S . S . JACO S

Mr 5 . e . From letters rec ived from Sp riggs Jacobs , whose land now “ " s s th e : adjoin thi farm , we have following That part of my farm and a a e lying next to the Cochran farm , on which Willi m Cochr n li s

to . buried today, formerly belonged my Grandmother Mills She had

r . c inhe ited it from her father , Levi Mills , who owned it when Co hran was killed by the Indians and his body buried on the spo t where found .

This land is opposite or across the hollow from the Cochran Cabin . Mr which stood on the site now occupied by the farm house of . James

Dixon, the owner at present .

I talked with an old gentleman named John Curtis ( at the time past ninety years of age) , who told me he was a babe at the time of ’ H e Cochran s death . lived in the Morgan cabin , j ust across the hol

th e . low on west side of the Mills land The farm , on which he lived

n . A a d died , j oined the Cochran farm on the east short time before he died I was talking to him about this matter of Cochran having been buried on my land and he showed me about where h e thought the n grave was . But the head a d foot stones had been removed , probably n i i in plowing the la d . Or g nally the grave was in the woods , and

the though there is a strip of woods still there , next to Cochran land ,

Mr where some still think the grave was , the . Waddells told me there ﬁeld was no doubt of the fact that the grave was in the , for they could remember that there were very large stones at the head and foot of the grave wh en they had see n it and crossed it many a time in going to and from school . It was their impression that the markers had o been rem ved when the land had been cleared . The Waddells once owned the land and lived on it for years , at some time between Coch ’ ran s death a nd 1860. I believe they were the second parties who ” d it A ﬁrst owne , tkinson being the , after Cochran .

TH E FAMILY op WILLIAM COCH RAN

The family o f Willi am Cochran evidently lived on the farm for a several years fter his death . From other records we l earn tha t

a 1790 a nd Thom s , the oldest son , married Elizabeth Morris , about , e 1797 e lived at Short Cre k until , when they moved to Tyl r County, ” i ﬂi ce West V rginia, on a farm just below Long Reach Post O , which am ‘ they had bought of Abrah Clements . Ohio County records disclose the d fact that Thomas must have inherite the estate on Short Creek, TH OF T A O S ON 61 E GENEALOGY HOM S , THE LDEST

e 798 since he sold acr s to Benj amin Harvey in , ; to John Law and in 1806 Hugh Creighton in 1801 ; and to Abraham Cl emens .

th e d e a 1800 Robert, secon son, married Reb k h Pierce in , and sold h ff 18 1 e a is land on Bu alo Creek in 0 to Hugh Pierce and his wif M ry, e t evidently relatives o f his wife . We also learn that he cam o Ohio 1801 and the H e e in bought land on site of Burlington . owned quit th e n an extensive tract , extending back along ridge, possibly includi g as R ain the land now known eys .

Of a ﬁnd 1806 J mes, the youngest son , we no records , until , when

- ﬁve o ne - 26 he bought forty and half acres of land in Section , Town 4 R 2 the 28 B azaleel d A ship , ange , for sum of $ from Wells , Lan gent n h o . o d o t e for that section , at that time in Ohi This farm is l cate r e e hill no thw st of Martins Ferry , a mile or mor from the town proper, e f and is still own d and occupied by one o his lineal descendants . It is one of the most pathetic facts in early histo ry that the wives e — ﬁll of the pioneers were littl more than nonentities ciphers , to up e vacant places . Here we hav e scarcely any record of the wif of o s h e o William C chran ; where was b rn ; what was her name ; how, when and where she met William Cochran ; where or when they were married ; when she died , or where she was buried . There is every

e . probability, however, that she was buried in West Lib rty Cemetery d 1800 It is also probable that she must have ied in , or previously, from the fact that her three sons were all married by that time , for with her death the old home relations were broken up and the sons married and set up new homes , each for himself . The early records were r emoved from West Liberty to Wheeling and nearly all d estroyed h n when t e Court House bur ed .

TH E OF T O A S ON OF GENEALOGY H M S, THE OLDEST WILLIAM

C RA B Y H rs CO H N , AS WRITTEN DESCENDANTS

a 1759 Thomas Cochr n was born December , in Pennsylvania ;

b o 1790. was married to Eliza eth M rris in They lived on Short Creek, b O i 1797 e near West Li erty , hio County, West Virg nia, until , wh n i they moved to a farm near Long Reach , Tyler County , West Virg nia, a a t o f which they bought of Abr ham Clements , who later bought a p r the Cochran farm on Short Creek .

s E a Twelve children were born to Thoma and lizabeth Cochr n , as follows 62 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

2 n 8 u o . 1 d i . 3 ( ) First chil died infancy ( ) Dr silla, b rn Oct , 1 1806 2 . 30 793 . ( ) Mary born Dec , .

2 1 n 22 1 7. 7 5. 9 . 80 3 a . 9 9 O ( ) Willi m , born Oct , ( ) Na cy, born ct , 1 1 1 0 o . 5 809 . 30 1797 . v 4 o . ( ) Phoebe , b rn Oct , ( ) Friend , born N , 11 4 1811 2 C . . 5 . 9 ( ) Thomas , born Oct , ( ) John , born April , 1 1 1 81 . 799 . 12 2 6 11 . ( ) Zachariah , born Dec . , ( ) Elizabeth , born Dec , 1815 18 1 . 0 .

7 21 1803. ( ) James , born Sept . ,

ﬁ h r ﬁrst wa s te . Thomas Cochran , of the name , an Indian g and hunter H d H e not d . e was a churchman , but his wife was a Metho ist die in ’

184 R K . d 3 . . 184 5 . She ied o f heart disease in at Ewart s in Ohio

Both are buried on the Monteith , or old home place . 2 W Va . ( ) Mary Cochran , born at Short Creek, . , married Robert mi e Co . Kells Ewart, and lived one l below Grandview , Washington , 2 0 . a They had two children ( ) Thomas West Ewart , born at Grand 2 7 1816 . 1 1 H e 0 . O 88 . view , , Feb , , and died at Granville , , in had i 2b r . E a fam ly of twelve children ( ) Elizabeth Jacqueline wart , bo n 1828 1881 er Au. . E h g , , died in , unmarried Mary Cochran wart and husband were both acmtive members of the Methodist Church . She o . was a gentle , go d wo an , loved by all Buried with her husband at

O . Marietta,

3 r e W . Va . e ( ) William Cochran , bo n at Short Cr ek , , marri d

ms . m : 3a Fannie Willia Their fa ily as follows ( ) Eliza , died in

864 . 3b R n 1 . a d , unmarried ( ) Lucretia , married John Brown , had

two . 3c . 3d m children ( ) Mary , unmarried ( ) Jere iah , married o a nd B Delia B oth , had four children ; Charles , Eliza, . Louisa and f 3e . 3 Frank . ( ) Lewis died , unmarried ( ) John married Liva F e . 3 Sh arer, had two children , Albert and John J . ( g) Thomas J . ﬁv h e . 3 married Lizzie Barr and had children ( ) William , Junior, d married Sarah Booth , had three chil ren , and lived in Clarington . 3 n William, oldest son of Thomas , First , we t to Marietta, O . and ( ) m , W . S h . e learned the tanner trade with Skinner, r , and and his W Va father had a tannery at Long Reach , . . , and subsequently at

f W oods ﬁeld Co . 0 . n Clar in ton , Monroe , The he moved to g , 0 , h e e C . . wher had a farm ; thence to a farm he owned in Wetzel o , W a 1 1 V . 88 , four miles above New Martinsville , where he died in , aged 6 H e b 8 . o years was a Christian , a mem er of the Meth dist Church ; a Republican in politics ; at one time was County Trea surer of Mon OF T O A E S ON 63 TH E GENEALOGY H M S, THE OLD ST

n roe Co . ; respected by all . His wife , Fra ces Will , was an amiable n woma .

4 and s ( ) Phoebe Cochran , married Joseph Taylor, ettled on a farm n : 4 a W . Va . e on Grape Island , She had elev children , as follows ( )

m. 4b o 4 c 4 d 4 e W Betty, ( ) J hn, ( ) Harriet , ( ) Friend , ( ) George , un 4 i 4 4h 4 i ( ) Simon , ( g) Thomas , ( ) Joseph , ( ) Rebecca, and an

e . named infant . Phoebe d ied of h art disease

McE ldown H e 5 o e . ( ) Thomas C chran , Junior , married Mary y H e Coch ransville was a tanner by trade . founded the town of , about

1863. e New O . three miles abov Matamoras , , and died there in 5 5a 5b 5c ( ) His children were , ( ) Robert , ( ) Mary Ellen , ( ) Har r n 5d ri end 5c Sf 5 5h iso , ( ) F , ( ) George, ( ) Lizzie , ( g) Melvina , ( ) i in a Si V ol d . Sarah , ( )

( Si ) Lizzie married Joseph Whitton . 5c o ( ) Harrison married Ruth Bonnell , b rn at B arnesville , Bel

o Co . O Co . . m nt , hio, and moved to Monroe when quite young Har ’

me . rison is the only living me b r of his father s family

6 o ( ) Zachariah , born at L ng Reach , married Lucy Dye , bought a

a s Co . farm adjoining Village of Gr ndview , Ohio , Wa hington , and : 6a Terissa 6b lived there all his life . Their children were ( ) , ( ) f 6c m6c m. 6d W 6 David , ( ) Silas , ( ) Tho as , ( ) , ( ) Remus Uberto ,

(6g) Shelby . Z e 1882 d H e i achariah di d , age eighty . was a prom nent business man ; Republican ; County Commissioner for one term ; member of Teri s a . m d s the Baptist Church His aughter, , married Ja es Cochran , a son of John Cochran, the oldest son of James , a brother to o f Thomas ; both being sons William , the founder of the family in

- . . m- America (Note This is the only record of inter arriage I have f ound . ) Teris s a and James Cochran lived at Grandview , and had four children .

r 7 S . ( ) James , the fourth son of Thomas , mar ied Caroline Gorrell , ’

Co . W . Va . and lived on Bond s Creek, Ritchie , They had no 7 H e d in 1880 e 7 . children . ied , ag d years

i (8) Drusilla married Samuel McE ldowney and lived at New 8a 8b W . Va . : Martinsville, Their children were ( ) John, ( ) Robert ,

1877 16 . 8c 8d . . ( ) Mary, ( ) Francis Drusilla died in , Oct

9 a nd o ( ) Nancy married James Flack, lived bel w Gallipolis , n Co . a d : 9a riend d Gallia , Ohio , had three children ( ) F , unmarrie CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

9b 9c e . ( ) Mary, married Smith , ( ) Lizzie, marri d Walter Thornley o In early life, James Flack was a scho l teacher ; in later years a farmer . 1 1 Va W . . rien N 5 809 Co . 10 d o . ( ) F , was b rn ov , , in Tyler , , j ust P 17 7 H e . 9 . O below Long Reach , where his father settled in mar e t and ri d Ca harine Johnson , daughter of William Elizabeth Taylor n 2 1 8 a 5 83 . johnson , J . , They had twelve children , of whom three d ied in infancy . 1 18 15 184 5 39 . . 9 . 0a . O ( ) William Thomas , born Jan , Died ct , 10h 16 184 1 ( ) Marion , born July , . l E 184 0c . 9 3. ( ) Mary , born April ,

T 1 t 1 . 5 84 5 . . 15 84 10d . . Oc 9 ( ) Phoebe , born Jan , Died , 2 7 10c eb 0 184 . ( ) John , born F . , 1 f l ws ar 1 4 0 C a 9 8 9 . ( ) Parker, born March , 1 8 1851. A 5 18 . 0 e S . u 90 ( g) Reb cca , born March , Died g . , 1 h E 2 1 0 85 . e 0 . . 3 d ( ) Joseph , born Feb , Marrie Molli Morris , 1 5 888. April , They have one daughter, Grace . Live at Granville ,

Co . O . Licking , hio

1855 . l Oi A . . 3 ( ) Julia , born Sept , l 18 8 0 3 5 . ( j) Virginia, born July , 10k 1 1862 . 3 . ( ) Kate, born Jan ,

F OF TH E O O VALL P G ROM HISTORY UPPER HI EY, A E 59

r M . and Mrs . Friend Cochran are both members of the Baptist 1 7 H e i Church in which he has been a Deacon since 8 0. orig nally H e his lived on the home place near Long Reach . moved to present 1 . 1 7 W . Va 85 . H e 13 4 residence at Salama, , in owns acres of land, H e mostly on the Ohio River . was at one tim e a member of the H e County Court . ranks as one of the best known and most respected H e citizens of the county . was a delegate to the Convention that assembled at Wheeling in time o f the war to form the new state of ’ West Virginia . T 1822 11 C . e ( ) John son of hos , died in , ag d ten years . 12 d o T ( ) Elizabeth , aughter of Th mas , married Samuel . Thistle,

to Co . 1 844 and moved West Johnston , Missouri , and died there in , 8 April , leaving one child , Susan , who married Copeland . AS GIVEN B Y LORA COCHRAN SAUNDERS

A o m ccording to our rec rds , our great , great grandfather, Willia o Cochran came fr m Ireland , place and date of birth unknown . Emi A and Pa . grated to merica, West Liberty , , my great grandfather, TH E OF T AS E S ON 65 GENEALOGY HOM , THE OLD ST

ﬁr H e 17 1759 . s t . e Thomas , the , was born there Dec , marri d Eliza 1 1 84 845 . . 3 beth Morris She died in , and he died in Both are

buried on the old home place , now owned by Capt . Jack Monteith . We have always understood that our ancestors emigrated to Ireland

- and fomr that reason , were called Scotch Irish . I a glad you are writing the history of the Cochran family as I am quite interested in that line myself , and have quite a bit of their i o history but h s so disconnected . I have a copy of quite a l ng letter H 1 R . . . 885 from Judge Cochran , written to Thos Ewart in , giving

quite a sketch of the family and references where more can be found .

My grandfather , Thomas , the second , settled near the village of H e h r n i l ut . c a sv l e o Co , which he laid on part of his farm said it

was the worst piece of work he ever did . My father is the next n youngest of nine children and the only one living . His ge eral health d d is goo , considering the hardships he endured uring the war . Our n n rie d W . o e family consists of father , mother , one brother , F , sister , ’ n e a . . Elizabeth , d me Moth r s name was Bonnell T t homas Ewart star ed a history of our family, but ran into the ‘ ’ - m wall at the same place you did the birth place o f W . C and H e e exact date o f his arrival in America . has the sam account of e the killing of William Cochran by the Indians that I hav , for we H both got it from Judge Robert . Cochran . My father says that he remembers hearing grandfather tell about C William being killed by Indians when out looking for his cattle ,

was and his father (Thomas ) , who a lad of thirteen at the time , was with him and when he saw the Indians pursuing his father the boy crawled into a hollow log and the Indians went right over the log

where he was hidden .

I do not be lieve any of the family connections at this end o f the

line could be called very quarrelsome , although some of them have

had their family spats . They say grandfather (Thomas Second ) ‘ ’ o - H was a ﬁghter and ready for a kn ck down at any time . e had ’ e s four brothers , William , who settled at Clarington , Jam s , at Bond

i wh o Creek near Ellenboro ; Zachar ah , at Grandview , and Friend ,

inherited all of the property and for a number of years , lived on the

W . Va . home place at Long Reach , but later moved to Eureka, My father says non e of his brothers or uncles ever settled at Cov

- in t on K . g , y I have just had a letter from one of my cousins , Thomas

Va . . m b W e Co chran , who lives at New Cum erland , , telling that he 66 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

‘ o had been nominated for Clerk of the Circuit C urt , in Hanc ’ n t nl a d . U c e County . His father my father were brothers Friend wh d cat . e u seven children and Thos is the only one o cared for an

H e i is a very br ght man and has worked his way alone , n H e kind s o f obstacles a d bad luck . can say some of

i man com o 1c things , and m st or ginal of any I ever knew, and he is as as a box of monkeys .

‘ ’ It would seem that many of the Cochrans had a h ankering for politics and Court Hous e work . Many of my friends say it is too

am ch that I a woman ; if I were a man , I would stand such a good

e n e of being R corder , but I do not think I should e t r politics if I could , for it is too uncertain .

B Y IDA DRENNEN COCHRAN

E d . e . 0 . Lora Cochran is the wi f of Dr Saunders , of Steubenville , ne fine fi . She is a woman of a , kind family I know her father and particularly like him . His sense of humor and his characteristic f n o it e to . ma ner divulging , quit appeals my understanding His quiet wife is fully his equal in hospitality . May I humbly whisper to you— after living in this neighbor for about thirty - fiv e years ; among a large family of Cochrans of generations ; children of the second generation , that I have known

f ch ransv ill am o Co e personally , Thomas , ; Willi , of Clarington and

Va . W . ah New Martinsville ; Friend , of Salama, Zachari , of Grand

m - in- view , ( y respected father law) ; may I whisper modestly, I ask, my pleasure and appreciation of my husband ’ s family ? A i fam ly quick in thought and deed ; quick to do a kindness , (as b their neigh orhood will testify , no doubt) ; quick in wit ; quick in ” et to n e m. temper, both to g in and get out ; a lovable , companio abl fa ily

W AR RECORD OF HARRISON COCH RAN

H e was enlisted in the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; was badly wounded ; taken prisoner on the Hunter Raid and sent to Anderson ville Prison ; after his wound got better, he escaped from Anderson and h e e to th e ville , and another soldier mad their way Union gun H o th e . e a A b at, on Gulf of Mexico was prisoner at ndersonville for ten months ; it took him three months to make his escape ; travel ing at night and hiding in swamps by day ; depending on the negroe s

f d . A r oo M . for comrade of his , a member of the same Company , a

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n a a d were not observed by the Indians , although the l tter passed over “ ” one p art of this tree . Billy Boggs lived for long years after the

r r siege of Fo t Hen y at Wheeling, and died there , and some of his ur o descendants are in this vicinity yet , and the incident of great ’ ’ grandfath er s death and Billy Boggs capture has been a tradition ’ ’ com talked over by the Cochrans and the Boggs descendants in this

munity ever since , and within about eight miles of where it transpired .

ANOTHER DERIVATION OF THE NAME

No w , as to the name Cochrane , my investigation shows that it a ﬁrst r comes from two words , Coch and R ne . The is not p onounced “ ” i w a Cotch , but Cah , g ving the the sound of in father, with the

short sound of the h following . Tak e for illustration the name of

- o Loch L mond , the Loch , or lake near Glasgow , where our ancestors

. 0 c came from There, the letters and combined in the word Loch , w law h take the sound of in the word , with the short following as “ ”

- it does in the word Coch in Coch rane , and it would be pronounced

- L ah Lo mond . I have it from a scholarly Scotch minister that the “ ” ” brav e th e mr an e word Coch means , and word Rane meamns or p s on e , in Scotch , and that the two words became our fa ily nam from the following incident in the history of the Clan Campbell to which

we belonged .

In some great battle , in which the Clan Campbell was engaged one of the clan performed a striking feat of valor , which turned the tide A of battle and brought victory ; in full view of the Duke of rgyle , th e . then head of the Clan Then , in full view of the army, the Duke ’ “ laid' h is hand on the man s shoulder and exclaimed Coch

- ! d (Brave man ) and from that ate the tribe of Cochran began , as he n and his descenda ts were ever after called Cochrane . I have never seen the derivation of the Cochrane name as found in “Ancient ” Woodbury by Judge William Cothern , of Connecticut , of which you write , and of course do not know what his views on that subj ect

were . Mc rt Co . I cannot enlighten you on the James matter I asked J . T . Hanes of this city , today , who was a member of our regiment , and he could tell me nothing . You have my consent to use anything in my book which will aid you in any way in completing your work , and n I d o hope a d believe it will be a success . m n o f The childre my grandfather, Robert , son of Willia , were as i follows : Robert Cochran marr ed Rebecca Pierce , a full cousin of ANOTH E R DERIVATION OF THE NAME 69

r anklin President F Pierce , who was a Colonel in the Mexican War

1833 cow with the United States ; she died in from the hook of a , and 1 grandfather d ied in 860. The children of this marriage who lived

: to reach maturity were Rebecca, Sallie , Robert, Pattie , Alexander,

B ' . W . a . William , John , and Eliza J ne Grandfather also had a n e seco d wif , Elizabeth Wise , by whom he had one daughter , Margaret nn A .

Rebecca married James Hammond , a storekeeper in Martins n Ferry , and a member of the Society of Frie ds . They had six children who are all deceased excepting Mrs . Laura Hathaway , who resides in Chicago . d ’ Sallie married Samuel Smith , and ied without issue .

o Martha or Pattie , married J hn Crowner, and I believe they died childless .

- Alexander married Sallie French . They moved to Illinois and had a family of six children . I know little of them , except that the r pa ents are dead . m B mA A William . married Ruth anda os , and both died without issue .

“ - ﬁ ld 1848 W . e s John went to the gold of California in , subsequently to O now moved regon, married there and had one son , who is a n d e . a . a b nker in Salem, Oregon The father mother are dec ased

Eliza Jane married John Conaway , by whom she had two sons ,

a . Sherid n and Addison She and her husband are both dead , and I do not know if the boys are living . t h Rober , my father , married Susannah Davis , by w ich union they Tw . o had thirteen children of these died in infancy, and the remain i H : b . ing eleven arr ved at the age of majority . They were Ro ert , n P H . . el S . o Luc ia , John , Wils n , Watso , Crowner Fen Alf a r t a F nimr P . e t . o e , Annie , , and Sumner I have given these in 1814 their order of birth . Our father, Robert , was born in , and died

' h rin f 1 ur t e s o 863 o of typhoid fever in early p g , leaving family of the younger children on the farm with our mother, in bad shape ; for you know the six boys ﬁrst named had enlisted in the army o f the

1893 . United States . Mother died in , being nearly eighty years old th e 1812 Her father, Ellis Davis , was a soldier in War of , and died 7 w a s 5 . at the age of His wife , Hannah , a Salisbury , an English

S . . lad y, and the of my middle name stands for this She died at the

H . age of 84 . My brother, Robert , married Miss Mattie Dakin , of 70 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

I 1 e . 1 . Princeton , , and by that union ther were eight children Their

so n th e oldest , Negley, is, and for many years has been , editor of the

D ail News bee O . y , at Toledo , hio

W . V . R e H . a ob rt was j udge of the County Court at Wheeling, , he e m initiat d and built the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad , fro H was . e Wheeling to Toledo , and at one time president of that road likewise initiated and built the Wheeling B ridge and Terminal Rail road and the ﬁne bridge which spans the Ohio River at Martins

e O . F rry , hio R H 26 1836 obert . was born at Burlington , Ohio , June , , and died

e O 22nd 1896 . O e at Tol do , hio February , His wife died in ctob r,

1914 .

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S . r . Lucelia married John B rown , a neighboring fa mer s son They bought a farm in the Shenandoah Valley on which they both died a few who are years since , leaving a family of three boys and two girls , e still living, their names b ing Cassius , William , Annie , Charles , and

Myrtle . h 184 1 S . 9t John Cochran was born September , , at Colerain , Bel H e e O . mont County, hio marri d Miss Martha Weldin , who was 26th 1 3 Va . W . 4 born in Wheeling, , June , 8 , and by this union there n n o e so . was who died in infancy Her mother, Alice Montgomery, e was of purely Scotch lineag , and of the Clan Montgomery . John S . a ﬁft Co chran has been a membe r of the S t . Clairsville bar for ne rly y two years , during which time he has served as j udge for ten years , six H o f these as Judge of Probate and four as Common Pleas Judge . e ‘ He O . and his wife reside at Martins Ferry, hio is the author of a

- i en book of the days of the anti slavery ag tation and the Civil War, “ ” He a e titled Bonnie Belmont . ssist d his brother and law partner E in the construction of the Wheeling and Lake rie , and the Wheeling

Bridge and Terminal Railroad .

H . o Wilson C chran married , after the war, moved to Missouri , and

r v . died there , being su ived by a wi fe and three children P Watson . Cochran resides in Kansas with his wife , by whom he has had six children .

C. oc Crowner C hran died at B ridgeport , Ohio , without issue , leaving r e a widow , formerly Lydia . Tru man .

Sister Cordelia married Dr . John Major of Scotch Ridge , by whom there were ﬁve children . The doctor and four of the children are ANOTHER DERIVATION OF THE NAME 71

Mr and his wife is now the widow of . Fullbright , of Severance ,

' n re i e a d s d s . as , there A nnie married Robert Woods , and she and her husband , and

are a . Laura, all de d Alfaretta Sister married Will Strain , an educator in Brooke County, Va W . ﬁ . ; she is now dead and surviving her are her husband and ve children .

P e The youngest of the six soldier boys , Fennimore . , is a lawy r,

e o . r siding at C ttonwood Falls , Kansas , with his wife , Belle They n e e . hav thre childre , Dora , Sidney , and Robert h mi t e Ad Sumner F Cochran , the youngest of fa ly, married da Lang e mack , by whom there were ten children , who are mainly at hom with H their parents in Martins Ferry . Their daughter, Pearl , married . F Va t e W . . Car er, who is a merchant in Wh eling, There is evidently a mistake in the date of the birth of Thomas i ar Cochran , as g ven you by his descendants , and I think you e fully ﬁe ﬁ r us i d ues 1769 1759 . j t in assuming that the g should have been

m o e . Thomas was about three years older than y grandfather, R b rt o th e e s Their mother, Jane Cochran , was app inted administratrix of h r e tate. S e used the personal estate in raising the two younge childr n , ﬁnal n was l wo . and cited before the court for this , but y out She ﬁ ures o O also g in the rec rds of the County Court of hio County , to sh e Virginia , in having the line ascertained as the farm in which e had a do wer interest . She also won out again in that action , betw en

' - t o i her and a neighbo ring land owner . She s eemed o kn w her r ghts

and was able and willing to ﬁght for them .

Very truly , your kinsman ,

JOHN S . COCHRAN .

1209 Ave . M. From William Cochran , North Tacoma , Indianapolis , I nd . :

’

C. am . I one of the Cochran Clan My father s name was John

H 1800. Cochran . e was born in Ohio in I was born in West Virginia 1850 but came to this state with my parents in , when in my thirteenth ’

i . year . There were three boys and two girls in my father s fam ly

The three boys are veterans of the War for the Union , and are all was o living . I went in as a private soldier ; prom ted to Sergeant ’ mi 61 Maj or December , , and received four com ssions before the close

of the war . 72 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

on I will have something to say about the Cochran Clan later ,

m . provided I a in possession of anything new or worth while I will

now mention , incidentally, however, that William is the oldest name n in the Cochran family i Scotland . “ ema When the name W ald de Covern was changed by the edict of ’ r c nﬁrmati n v erns e o o Co King Robert , on the occasion of the of de ‘ and i o : estate t tle, the record showed the foll wing Hitherto thy name h l ema as W a d been de Covern , but henceforth it shall be William Coch

’ ‘ been nabl ﬁnd s ecial eanin . u m ran I have e as yet to any p g that may

h Ar ms tr on t e have attached to name , like unto that of g, and many D . o others you know , all Cochran families , knowing that the Chris ﬁrst m tian name of the Cochran was Willia , having sons , always ? christened one o f them , usually the elder, William The other Chris tian names you mention are nearly all quite common in our branch m” of the fa ily .

OF A S ON OF GENEALOGY J MES, YOUNGEST WILLIAM COCHRAN 1800 James Cochran married Elizabeth Wood , some time in , or pre i usl v o . y She and a brother had been rescued from a band of Indians , ea and she had been r red in the family of Ebenezer Zane , who led the

party that rescued them . The following account is taken from Vol . 6 X i , Chapter , of the History of the Ohio Historical and Archaeolog cal i Soc ety , and from the circumstances and the vicinity and the time , we feel sure that the two children mentioned were Betsy Wood and her brother .

TH E IDENTITY OF Two CHILDREN RESCUED FROM A BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS B n e ms s o . y P r i i

a i In the History of the Ohio Arch eolog cal and Historical Society , 6 X Vol . , Chapter , is given the account of the First Public Survey of a L nds , Northwest of the Ohio River , namely, the Seven Ranges of

Congress Lands , from the j oining of the Pennsylvania line and Ohio now ff River , comprising parts of what are Je erson , Columbiana , Car

- roll , Tuscarawas , Harrison , Guernsey , Belmont , Noble, Monroe and

Washington Counties in Ohio .

From the j ournal of John Matthews , nephew o f General Putnam e and one of the chief surveyors or engineers in charge , is tak n the fol “ 18 17 : . 86 o lowing account Sept , , while in Tuscarawas C unty, was e H warn d that Shawanese Indians were on the warpath . e was work T H E IDENTITY OF Two CHILDREN 73

- ing in the Mingo Bottom , but lived with Creathouse on the opposite

n McMah an side of Ohio River ; he also visited a Maha or , six miles H . e t south further reports that he took charge of Commissary Dep , 1787 Fort . “ 1 h n Survey was renewed on April 7t . O May 8th to 12th reports

o n e o that while his way to Mahans he met som people fr m Wheeling, who reported that Indians had killed one man and two children , seri oul s a nd ta ken two children a y wounded a woman , c p tiv e . On the 3 morning of May l st , he left for Wheeling in canoe, stopping over McFarlanes night with Wheatlands and , at the mouth of Short Creek . He e l st o E landed provisions at Wheeling, Jun , near the st re of squire

. On 2nd Zane June , the surveyors had arrived on the west side of river and were camped near mouth of Indian Wheeling Creek (now

s ' B ridgeport , Ohio) , waiting for horse to convey them to Fo rt Harmer o ( Cincinnati , Ohi ) . “ On 23 o McIntosh June tr ops from Fort (Beaver Falls , Ohio ) had passed down the river and reported that Ind ians had lately done mis n chief ten miles above Wheeling . O the 30th of July Indians were

. d again troublesome About ten days past , signs of In ians at Short a our Creek and were followed by our party , who c me up with them f b e h miles a ov . t e Wheeling There were eleven Indians in party , Chip ewas O c p . ur party atta ked the Indians unexpectedly in their camp ﬂ d b e m. and they , leaving blankets and moccasins ehind the Squire Mahan and abo ut twenty others pursued the Indians over to the Ohio ”

i m. d d side , but not catch the 1773 Betsy Woods was born in , as recorded on her tombstone , and t at this time was in her four eenth year , and the Indians usually pre

u . a served the lives of yo ng girls and women She w s probably a cap 12th 20th tive from May to July , according to the Matthews j ournal . It is a family tradition that through the Woods children Ebenezer

e the to {ricinit o f Zan secured title their land in the y , and including the o i c th e l wer Sister Island in the Ohio R ver , m whi h locality massacre of the family and capture of th e two children is said to have taken place .

Of - her rescue and subsequent adoption into the family of Zane we

Of t no e . are assured . the brother here is r cord James Cochran and Elizabeth Woods were married in 1800 and had : a family of thirteen children , as follows 74 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

1801 1802 ence n John , born in ; James , born in Jane , or J , bor in m1808 o t n 1806 1804 ; R b er , bor in ; Tho as , born in ; Nancy , born in 1811 1813 1809 ; William , born in ; Zane , born in ; Polly , or Mary, “ ” “ ” 1814 o i n1816 o r born in ; Eleanor, or Nelly , b rn ; Elizabeth , Betsy, “ ” i 1 22 Al eck born 1820 Violirida born in 8 Alexander , Little , in ; , born 1 in 18 8. There is no record of where James and Betsy Cochran lived pre

vious 1806 to the purchase of their land in , but very probably in the

e . O e vicinity of Whe ling But here on this hio farm , ten of th ir chil

e and e . dr n were born , here the par nts lived and died Mary Cochran : Stewart , their oldest living grandchild , relates Concerning the I o : . Cochrans cannot say much about them as a race of pe ple, beyond

the time of my grandparents . I remember them very well . They e lived on the farm which Uncl Alexander owned be fore he went west . e m th e They both died whil living on that far and were buried in family ’ graveyard on my father s place . There is a monument there , marking

their graves .

“ ’ I cannot tell you anything about my grandmother s people . I do

e . e . not even know her nam , but think it was Zane My grandfath r w as mn a d a tall , rather ark complexion ; my brother Thomas resembled ” o him somewhat . Acc rding to the cemetery record , James Cochran o 1764 5 184 5 81 E was b rn in and died May , , aged years ; lizabeth , his 17 73 d 184 3 70 . wife, was born in , and ied in , aged years

a s r O Here on the hill farm, northwest of M rtin Fer y , hio , about a e d ﬁrst mil istant from town proper, they raised their family . The to e ence leav the home nest was Jane , or J , who married a farmer named 22 1821 Isaac Stotts , on February , . They first located in the Western

R . eserve , but later moved further west She came home once on a e visit and is rem mbered by two of her nieces . She had no family .

The next of the family who left the home were James , who married

McCord Mc or Nancy , and his sister Nancy, who married Thomas C d d a 1825 on the same y in Wheeling , . The Mccord brother and sister lived over in West Virginia at the

head of one of the Sisters Islands . Their home was plainly visible T from the home of John Cochran on the Ohio side . hey rode hors e

O o back , one brother and sister from hi on the same horse , and the

“

brother and sister from West Virginia also on the same horse . This

was the common mode o f travel at that time . They met at the County ’

ofﬁce n - - Clerk s in Wheeling . O the return trip Nancy McCo rd Coch

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S t . . Mrs . Elizabeth Harvey , of Clairsville , Ohio

McKelv e . Mrs . Belle y, of Glencoe , Ohio

n . Mrs . Ag es White, of Stewartsville , Ohio

Mrs . Ella Alexander, of Bellaire , Ohio . m i Miss Em a Stewart , at the fam ly home , Edgington Lane , Wheel

W . Va . ing ,

Mrs . Mary Stewart was an intelligent , aristocratic old lady of ’ - the eighty three , whom it was the writer s privilege to interview , in 1914 summer of . and to whom she hereby acknowledges her indebted

10 1915 . ness for correct data . Mrs . Stewart died April ,

h . H e C arles , son of John, marri ed Nettie Rice , of Martins Ferry

’ - ma Duﬁ s was a school teacher and taught pen nship in Business College of Pittsburg for many years . Later he removed to Chicago , where H e h e established a business college of his own . was an artist with O pen and ink . ne of his productions , an equestrian sketch of General ﬁnest Grant , was shown the writer , and it was fully the equal o f the etching on steel .

His widow is still living ; also his three d aughters . They are

c Do tor Gertrude Cochran , Christian Science Practitioner, of Sioux

City , Iowa , and Chicago .

Mrs . Adda Wolfolk, widow with three sons ; near Chicago .

M h ane Mrs . Eugenia cS .

e a — Sarah Ellen , daughter o f John Cochran , was twic m rried to

Henry Lightle , and to John Howells . Mrs . Howells died early in the 1915 year , at her home in Martins Ferry , leaving two sons . Thomas

M r . r cCo d 6 1 2 86 . J Cochran and Ma y Louise were married November , H e spent his life on the farm upon which his grandfather had settled 1 806 . in The writer visited the old home in 1878. It then consisted o of four large ro ms in a row ; that is , of one story in height . Part

of the house was log and part was frame . It has since been torn down . C Thomas was an honest , upright man ; known and respected by H d 1907 w . e t o all ied in , leaving a widow , daughters , Mrs . Josie s ns Allen o . Sedgwick and Miss Retta ; two , . and Edward 184 5 1878 John Zane Cochran was born in and died in , unmarried . ’ h er Nancy , for many years father s housekeeper, married William 18 Tarbert and lived in Martins Ferry , where she died in 98. ’ Run Robert married Hannah Cline , of Glenn s , Ohio . They had six children . TH E DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND BETSY COCHRAN 77

Alex . married Josephine Marlow, of Martins Ferry . They had one son and three daughters . L ’ . Run W . Va . Rebecca married Garden , of Glenn s , During the ﬁr m st ad inistration of Grover Cleveland Mr . Garden was United

States Marshal and received injuries in a railroad accident , from the f o f ef ects of which he died , leaving a family four boys and four girls . ’ Run George married Louise Somers , of Glenn s , Ohio , and lives on the 1818 m farm which his father purchased in fro his Uncle Robert , ’ th e R e on the hill near head of Patton s un . Th y have a family of six

' girls and four boys .

Frank , youngest son of John and Elizabeth Cochran , died unmarried .

GENEALOGY OF JAMES COCHRAN AND NANCY MCCORD COCHRAN

As previously noted , James and Nancy Cochran , after their mar

ria e 1825 . g in , settled on the farm of his brother John Just how long they lived here we d o not know probably until the marriage of John and Elizabeth in 1830. The next record we have of James is his pur

M . t St . chase o f a farm on the Pleasant Pike , as recorded at Clairs “ : 1 1837 o to ville , Ohio April , , Robert C chran James Cochran , sixty 30 3 2 ﬁ ve . acres plus , Section , Township , Range ; hundred dollars Here they lived for fourteen years and here the six younger children were born . Their family consisted of thirteen children , as follows 12 184 19 1826 . 3. Eleanor, born July , married James Callahan Sept ,

827 . r 1 . John and James , twins , bo n James died in infancy John

M Kim Mt . 1882 c married , in , Martha , of Little Short Creek , near

O . Pleasant , hio 1829 Elizabeth , born in , married John Clark , of Indianapolis , in

1869 .

1831 W . Jane , born in , married William Fowler , of Brooke County, 5 185 . Va . , in Aliazan 22 1834 N . William C. , born , married Melissa Davis , ov ,

1855 . , of Bellaire 1836 Samuel G. , born , married Caroline Krebs , near Powhatan ,

0 1859 . O . 3 Ohio , ct , 1 57 . 1838 C. 8 Susannah , born , married John Hofer, of Wegee , in 7 184 1 , 189 . Nancy , born in , died unmarried , in September 1843 Margaret , born , married Albert Rodefer , of Pultney Bottom , in 1863. 78 CHRON ICLES OF THE COCHRA NS

a 184 5 r C roline , born in , ma ried Henry Rankin , of Bellaire , in Janu 1 187 . ary , P la 1848 S t . Thomas , born in , married Alla rint , of C irsville , Ohio ,

O e 30 1873. ctob r , L o 1850 B raid en Robert . , b rn , married Mary , of Bellaire , Ohio ,

e 1879. in Septemb r, 1851 m In James Cochran moved his fa ily to Pultney Bottom, four

1854 . miles south of Bellai re , Ohio , where he died in

Robert married Mrs . Elizabeth Basore and located in Pike County , e man H e Illinois . liv d to be quite an old (last heard from in who e and had at that time one son , Jimmy , was a farmer with a larg

o ne Violind a family ; daughter, , at home , and a married daughter,

Mary , the wife of Roger Hart, and lived near Barry , Ill .

I . r Thomas also went west and located at Pike County , ll , but late b went to Sny Bottom , near Hanni al , Missouri , and all trace of him or his descendants is lost , and while there are Cochran families still in that vicinity, they deny any family connection . Zane , another son d ame of James and Elizabeth , is supposed to have locate in the s vicinity . Nancy married Thomas McCo rd and lived on the Mccord home ’ o R e place in West Virginia , ab ut three miles above Glenn s un . Sh E h ad . a family of two sons and two daughters lizabeth , the oldest daughter, married Lute Conant , and left one daughter, Anna . Elea

i d . m an nor, James and Thomas all d ed unmarrie Both Ja es d Thomas ’ were school teachers and well known . Eleanor was her father s house keeper for many years .

ed William marri Eliza Nelan , whose father kept the tavern on the old plank road about three miles from Bridgeport , at the top of the “ ” hill . This tavern has been immortalized in Bonnie Belmont as the a loc l center, around which the life and interest of the community cir

ulated . e c 187 The writer rememb rs it as still standing in 4 .

Violinda , youngest daughter of James and Elizabeth , was marri ed 3 1840 . A at Sept , , to ndrew Rea , and located Winchester, 0 .

E G. 15 1 leanor married James Wiley of Colerain, Dec . , 846 . E lizabeth married Francis Cooper, of Scotch Ridge . A e 8 185 H 3. e ms lexander marri d Becky Starkey, March , see to the to have been in possession of home farm, which he sold his brothe r, and 1857 ﬁnall o John , went west in and y l cated in Kansas . H e also to e and seems have be n a carpenter, to have built an addition o f three TH E DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND BETSY COCH RAN 79

oo the e o o r r ms to hous of James and Nancy at Pultney B ttom, Wegee, “ ” - as is l o . H e m it a s known must have been a hail fellow sort , as any a e d e a r n c ot s e related of him .

GENEALOGY OF W ILLIAM COCHRAN AND ELIZA NELAN - COCHRAN

d s and Eliza Nelan was the aughter of Jame Isabella Nelan . Her 1785 a 1852. H e f ther was born in , and died in was a Scotchman and n r h ad o relatives in this count y . Her mother was the daughter of 17 1787 ov . 15 m . 1868 Ja es and Elizabeth Davis , born N , , and died Dec , . She owned the tavern and a small cottage across the road where she s resided . Thi property later was owned and occupied by the family of Ed ward Re id . E 25 1840 liza Nelan and William Cochran were married June , . Their issue was as follows 2 ’ 184 . o o 0 . James West , b rn Lives at Soldiers H me , Sandusky , 1 ne 1844 d 846 . Thomas Za , born , ied

Isa o n 184 5 e 1868. bella, b r , di d

Vio linda 184 8 1873. , born , died

M 1851 1857 . A e G. lb rt . , born , died 1854 1855 mA n e . W illia llen , bor , di d

e H n 1856 1868. Cha rl s . , bor , died

Two boys died in infancy .

M E e o 1857 o ary l an r, born in , married The dore Thomas , of Roches d ter Pa . an . E , , had three children , Edward , Charles and Blanche d nd h n A t O . a ward married rethusa Lyle , of B ridgepor , , has two c ildre ,

. e os Park and Thelma Charl s , unmarried , has a p ition in the Bellaire

fﬁc d 1914 d . st o e . po Blanche ied April , , unmarrie

is e a M an The writer deeply indebt d to James Cochr n , ary Cochr

an h er son E ﬁrst e d a h er Thomas , d dward , for the reliabl at of own th was e m. e me i m diat fa ily James , who was a soldier in Civil War ,

he e o f 1908 e e r ﬁrst spending t wint r (wh n thes records we e begun) ,

0 . e e e with his sister and her family in Bellaire , Both hav r markabl and m e e s m mefnories and , by discus ing co paring what th y could r me

ts E to e te of it t e e es ber o f past even , with dward mak no , h y hav tab ns f mes n s lished th e reco rd of the d e scenda t o Ja a d Bet y W oods

a as f l o s Cochr n , o l w 80 CHRON ICLES OF THE COCHRANS

1 8 B A R O 8 90 . ELL I E, HIO, February ,

usinz— en Dear Co Your letter of recent date to hand and I will ’ “ d eavor to reply to the best of my ability . Judge John s Bonnie Bel ” mont has apparently aroused the microbe of ancestral research . The few items I can relate are lacking in thoroughness , and I fear may not be of much help to you in compiling your family biography . There onth e were seven uncles and six aunts of ours Cochran side , namely

John , James , Robert , Thomas , Zane, Alexander and William , my " McCo rd father ; the aunts were Jane Stotts , Nancy , Polly Shaddock , n wa s Violi d a . O Nellie Wiley , Betsy Cooper and Ray ur grandmother S h e Betsy Woods . and a brother, I do not know his name, were n In reared by Ebe ezer Zane , who had rescued them from a band of

a Mr . dians , and it has been s id that Zane was fully repaid by appro riatin own p g the tract of land , now known as Coney Island , for his , by the possession of certain papers which by rights belonged to those children . E d has been visiting the library in search of information that might d eﬁnite include the Cochran family , but has not secured anything very : 1804 m except the following In , Dr . John Rea beca e pastor and H e served Beech Springs for more than a half century . was born in 1 772 P . H e Tully , Ireland , in , the son of Joseph and Isabel . Rea came 7 1 90 . H e to America in , resided at Philadelphia for a short time Pa t . came west to Washing on County , , traveling the entire distance H in17 H ff . e e e on foot married Elizabeth Christy 93. entered Je rson ’ College and graduated in 1802. Without a doubt father s sister mar ’ ried Dr . Rea s son , Andrew , and they lived at either Sardis or New

Matamoras and were considered well - to- do ; they had a family of six “ ” ence or eight children . Aunt J Stotts lived in the Western Reserve

. . H e at one time You ask about Uncle Thomas , Zane and Robert W ﬁrs t I . ent to Pike County , ll , and afterward to Sandy Bottom , n . Y . ou located near Ha nibal , Missouri Alexander went to Kansas ? i “ solicit an anecdote Well , here is one , it m ght be called Falling in

v t a s Lo e , not only signifying a li erary phrase , but a physical feat well : Father had left home on horse - back once on a time before he

a . H e o was m rried was some distance from h me on an errand , and a jogging quietly long, when his horse suddenly b ecame frightened at something, and being unable to control him, William was thrown vio lentl y, falling under the shade of a wild cucumber tree . When he be became conscious he thought he must in heaven , for behold an TH E DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND BETSY COCH RAN 81

H e angel (Eliza) , stood before him . had previously been smitten with her charms , but after being carried into her home and ministered to by ’ ” a nd her, he fell deeply in love with her , father s fall resulted in e e am th ir marriag ; and I happ y to say the irs was a happy and con genial union .

Here is the war record of James West Cochran , as you requested H F b 16 1862 ’ e e . enlisted , , at Cadiz , Ohio , for three years service .

19 . o Was years old His company was rounded int shape at Columbus , h K 6 I. . 9t . V. O . Co 0 , as , , First Division , Second Brigade of the

e H . Fourteenth Army Corps , under General Georg Thomas , of the A rmy of the Cumberland . They spent one month at Camp Chase ,

c . then e by train to Cincinnati , by boat to Nashville , Tenn Was patrol uf r i n o al a M r f ree G t . u s g ard one month ; to , Tenn was in the battle of

1 1 62 2 1 . o . 3 8 863 bor , or Stone River , Dec , to Jan . , Next battle at

N 25 1863 Ga . Chattanooga, or Missionary Ride , ov . , ; next at Resaca , ,

- 1 16 1864 . a 3 G . 25 May , To Dallas , , Pumpkin Vine Creek , May to 4 1864 h h r t . Mt . Ga . 9 30t Ga June , ; Kenesaw , , June to ; Ma ietta , , July

- 1 4 th 6 0 Ga . Ga . ; Chattahoochee River, , July ; Peach Tree Creek , ,

20- 21 h e o July , where lost the hearing of an ear while supp rting a 28th 2 h Ga . . battery there ; foug t at Atlanta , , in siege of July to Sept , hi Au. 1864 . While doing skirmish duty there was shot in the left p , g e 18 . 15, 64 Sent to the hospital at Nashville and transferred from ther

16 1865 . to Cleveland , 0 . Discharged June , , on account of wound

one son James West Cochran was married three times . Has ,

d . Charles , in Seattle, and a aughter , Annie , married , in Indianapolis

1884 . William Cochran died in Bellaire , in His wife , Eliza Nelan , 14 1887 February , “ Polly , or Mary Cochran , daughter of James and Betsy Woods Va H e W . . Cochran , married George Shaddock , of Moundsville , was a brother of the wife of her brother John . She had two children , Jack d ! and Indiana . Both ied young After the death o f her husband she d am. md o a e her home with her brothers , J hn and Willi She ied in

1879. Bellaire , April , 82 CH RON ICLES OF THE COCHRANS

C A - W OF GENEALOGY OF ELEANOR CO HR N ILEY , DAUGHTER JAMES AND

BETSY WOODS - COCHRAN

io ind e - c e h e r aue As o V l a V s t ld by Wil y i k r , d ght r 23 1816 d My mother , Eleanor Cochran, was born Sept . , ; was marrie

2 1874 . e d O . 15 1846 G. Dec . , , to James Wiley , and die ct , My fath r

22 1 11 14 1893. . 8 was born Oct , , and died March , Mother and father e lived on the same farm till death . This farm was located four mil s

ﬁnest d west of Martins Ferry , one o f the in that section , and containe sixty - hy e acres Father was b o rn and raised on this farm and was a very successful farmer . Six children , four girls and two boys , were born to them :

‘ 7 1 5 n r 5 184 18 5 o . William Zane , Sept . , , died April , , the fa m

1 1 . 1 eb . 906 . 3 848 Elizabeth , Oct , , died F , , in New York City A 1 u1850 3 1887 . 3 . Mary Ellen , g. , , died Dec , , on the farm 22 187 13 1854 5 . R N . John Francis ay, ov , , died March , , on the farm

Violinda 1 1 1 0 85 . Josephine , Oct . , 2 1856 0 . are Martha Jane , April , Martha Jane and I are all that i left of the fam ly .

1889 t McKim Martha Jane was married in Wheeling in o Frank , o who is a grandson to Uncle Frank Co per, of Scotch Ridge , near ’ Uncle John Cochran s .

fo r I was raised a Presbyterian , and was organist in our church sev

. a o and eral years I attended school at the Bl ckford scho l house , the

o e Concord scho l , but do not rememb r attending the Laverty school at e Bellaire , but think Elizabeth and Mary went th re . 2 1875 n o . H I was married to Albert Vickers , June , , the farm e was a school teacher at the time , but later he opened a grocery in

O . . Bellaire , then we moved to Wheeling Island Five children were born to us : 18 1 76 Ina 8 . , born June , , on the Island 28 1880 Chester Ray , July , . 7 1882 Frank Wiley , June , . 1 1 : 884 . Russell , Nov , 17 1888 R . . Cora , Dec , in Kansas City , Kansas . My sister Elizabeth lived the greater part of her life in New York

o . City and B ston She never married . She was a talented artist and made her living by the sale of her paintings . I have some of her work

84 CHRON ICLES OF THE COCHRANS

OF VIOLINDA C RA - R A OF GENEALOGY CO H N E , YOUNGEST DAUGHTER

JAMES AND BETSY WOODS - COCHRAN

A s t o h er s on ame R a s e . ld by , J

1 14 19 5 . W C T R O . IN HES E , HIO, Sept ,

Your letter received some time ago , but as our town is one hundred

old — h years , we have had a big home coming and centennial here , w ich has kept me from answering your truly welcome letter , as we know s o little about our relatives on either side of our family , that we were o glad to hear that we still have some living . The letter enclosed is fr m ﬁrst my sisters , Lizzie and Sarah . It tells you when father came here ; when this section was almost a wilderness he came , bought land , went back to get married , then stayed at home for some time till after ff n r brother John was born in Je erso township ( o county) . I was

ﬁv e 0 . born on the home place, miles from Cadiz , Harrison County , 184 5 Elizabeth was born in , according to the Bible , but it does not state where ; we think , however , it was near the Ohio river , above ’ Wheeling , on the Ohio side . I was named after my mother s father ; f r D D o o . . w as John , Grandfather Rea . Rev . J hn Rea , , the minister at Beech Springs Presbyterian church for forty years . When father

e cam back to this place , Sarah Ellen , Nancy Jane and Mary Isabelle were born . Like our ancestors , we are all Presbyterians . I joined 1862 the church in ; have been an elder in the past , as well as at the

b w ere ' be fo re present ; as my father and rother me , for a good many years .

m - l m a o d a I now seventy two years ; I Commander of Moses J . A ‘ 190 G. . R . Patterson Post , No . , ; have been a member o f the Odd ’ ﬁft K P - h Fmellow s Lodge for nearly y years ; . of . for twenty y e years ; a o a Master Mason , and belong to the L dge of the Rebeccas , the

S ta rs . th e K P . Eastern , Pythian Sisters , and Uniform Rank , . of I mention these. things to show you that there is nothing dishonorable among the Rea family , or we could not belong to these societies .

I enlisted in the army when I was only seventeen years old ; did fo r what I could my country , came back home and went away again to school ; taught school for more than eighteen years , and have been

- ﬁve in the grocery business for thirty years here in Winchester , 0 .

- hy e My brother taught school about twenty years , and was cashier in o one of the banks in Manchester , Ohi , where he died about twelve years ago . TH E DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND BETSY COCHRA N 85

We never went back to the old home place until my mother died , was us when Belle born , then father took all of back ; John and I to

McCo rds ﬁve Grandfather Rea ; Lizzie and Nannie to , miles above ’ Wheeling ; Sarah to Cooper s on the opposite side of the river ; Belle ,

d . the baby staye here I was eight or nine years old then . We stayed mri over a year, till father ar ed again . We had a very good step

famil ' to eth er mother, who kept the y g .

Father, my two mothers , two sisters , brother and his wife are all in “ w e . n heaven where hope to meet them I have four childre , all married ; o Melissa Francis , named for Uncle Francis Rea , a doct r, who visited us some years ago

a Mary C mpbell , who married Edgar Alexander , the managing edi tor of the advertising department of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, lmives A u in New York City . George ndrew and his wife are both great H e icians . . s , and doing well James Graham is also married is in business with me . f or . Melissa, Mrs . Kirk Short, keeps house me She is Worthy n E and o Co Matron i the astern Stars , a delegate to the conventi n in

m. . lu bus I spent a week in Columbus last November

Now I have told you nearly all I know about the Reas . We would co the love to know something about the Cochrans , the Mc rds and R ? Coopers . Were any of them in the evolutionary War I have heard ’ ’ m that either in mother s or father s fa ily that some of our relatives were killed and scalped by Indians in Pennsylvania . n 1840. A Vi li da e . 3 ndrew Rea and o Cochran wer married Sept , : a They had six children John , James , Elizabeth , Sarah Ellen , N ncy

Jane , Mary Isabelle . Three are still living, James , Lizzie and Sarah . Mc utchin C O . John , the oldest , married Miss Laura of Manchester, ,

2 190 . 8 9 3. Dec. 1 88. John died July , They had no children O Jame s married Miss Mary Fulton , of B rown County , hio , June,

1874 . They have four children .

Lizzie Rea is single and lives with her sister , Mrs . Sarah Greg

in Winchester . Mrs . Gregg has one son, Rea, a shoe merchant in

K o . enton , Ohi 1 Andrew Rea settled in Winchester in 846 . When he came to A ﬁr t dams County the s time , one of the Cochran brothers came with 1 and . 833 1834 . h him , they bought land This was in and T en father and Uncle Cochran went back to eastern Ohio and my uncle d ecided e to remain there , but father bought his land and cam here with his 86 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

184 7 14 1852 wife in 184 6 or My mother died March , , and lies buried

here be side my father in Winchester cemetery . She was only thirty

four years old . I know very little about the Cochrans . Three cousins a c . E us . visited once They were Dr John Cooper, le nor Mc ord and

Nannie Cooper .

H e t Uncle Frank Cooper was a doctor . lived in Washing on ,

Guernsey County, Ohio . We think one of our uncles Rea lived in

Sardis .

Now , as to any funny anecdotes , they tell a good many on me , especially about my school days . Once when the teacher was enrolling th e a n mes at school , and many of the boys had double names , I called the teacher back and told her I had a double name , too . She said , “ What is it and I answered “James Jim K We had a picture of James . Polk, President , hanging on the wall an I S d . o at home , I used to tell people that it was , when another d “ teacher was enrolling the names and came to mine, I answere James ” n K . a d Polk Rea, sir, the boys called me that for a long time .

Once at a big mass meeting here , when General Scott was running

o x . for President , they had a big roast and banquet in the woods “ Along in th e evening a man who had been selling spiked cider was

to us closing it out cheap so as not take any back home , some of boys bought more of it than we ought to have done , not knowing that it “ ”

ot . was spiked , and we alul g drunk They say I went down the street with my sleeves rolled p , calling myself General Scott , and wanting “ ” to ﬁght everybody I met . I was called General Scott for a long time , and people seeing me coming down street would say , Look out, ” here comes General Scott .

My soldier experience was a brief and a sad one . One beautiful N 11 1861 day , ov . , , with seven other boys and men , I started to join I E h V . . 70t 0 . e the , Company , who wer then encamped at West w as Union . I the youngest and most delicate of them all , rearmed , you might say , in the lap of luxury my prospects for life the slim est of am them all ; today I the only one living . I went to school with those mur b o ﬁ hts oys , we were play ates , had little quarrels and g , went ﬁshin s wimming and g together , and went to the war together . Th e driver has long since gone to that beautiful land whenc e there

’ at is no return ; one died with typhoid fever by my side Memphis , T . wo Tenn . , and was buried beside the great river others contracted

. O diseases , came home , died and are buried here ne came back from TH E DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND BETSY COCHRAN 87

West Union saying that he preferred the cavalry ; he j oined the 1l th

Ohio Vol . Cavalry and was killed by the Indians ; his body lies close to the great Rocky Mountains , and his brother resides in your city . A nother was killed close to Jackson , Miss and his body rests there .

O Ga . ne other was killed close to Atlanta, , his body was brought home n a . A d buried here nother was captured , and poor Jacob was never s heard from again . I suppo e his body lies far in the South , unknown and unhonored . o r I was in the great battle of Shiloh , Pittsburg Landing, Tenn . ,

. O and was struck by three bullets ur regiment wore tall hats , one and bullet went through my hat , one struck me in the side , if it had oc o su not been for my p ket Bible and a pistol I had in my p cket , I p pose I would have been killed . The bullet went through the Bible , ff r struck the barrel of the pistol and glanced o . It made me sick fo

it . min awhile , but that was all ; no marks to show for Now , as our

. o ister had given me the Bible , I owe my thanks to him The ther ball foreﬁn er ﬂesh struck my g , cut the to the bone , and is the only scar I

. e have . I was also sunstruck at Memphis , Tenn , when the boys wer s marching down to attack Vicksburg, Mis , and was discharged from h ad there as being of no further use to the army , for I also chills and fever . fo r I came home and was sick and delicate many years , but now ’

am . e for my age hale and hearty Such is my soldier s experienc , brief as it was . The boys here honored me more than ﬁfteen years ago by electing o me Commander of the Moses J . Patterson P st , named after Captain n a d . Patterson , who went from here died in the service Then we had n 24 125 t . members , today o ly , and tomorrow we bury one of hem n m' is r s te s Since writing the above I we t to see y , Lizzie and Sarah , ’ a McCo rd s - and they showed me a l rge picture of house , a two story frame , with high hills in the background , and Uncle Thomas standing H e in the yard . was the only one at home when the picture was taken , and looked like a hearty , hale man . A paling fence around the yard — and a coal bank close by shows in the picture . 88 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

GENEALOGY OF ELIZAB ETH COCHRAN COOP ER

Elizabeth Cochran married Francis Cooper of Scotch Ridge . Their

Va . W . o children were Dr . John Cooper of Wellsburg, ; James Co per,

W . Va W . Va . o a of Wellsburg, Frank Co per, dece sed , Wellsburg , Kim Violinda Mc Margaret , married , deceased ; , married Tilton , of

Va . o W . Warw od , , deceased ; Nancy , married Wells , of Wellsburg,

W . Va .

O . Dr . Cooper had a son who practiced medicine in Bellaire , , de

im . McK W . Va ceased . Margaret has a son , Frank , in Parkersburg,

A con u hn C n s uo S . ch a ( trib ted by J dge J o r . )

ha i W m. r d C0 0 e I a talk w th James Cooper, son of p , whose farm H e adj oine d that of the Cochrans of Scotch Ridge . lives in Martins

and . e e Ferry is nearing his eightieth year Francis Coop r, who marri d c o R d Betsy Co hran, was an uncle of his and once lived on Sc tch i ge ,

t Va . a e o W . but m ny years ago mov d Wellsburg, his was n e Dr . John , son , a sple did fellow . I us d to meet him when I was practicing law in Wheeling with my brother and attended court H s in Wellsburg . e eemed to take great delight in talking about our n and e e a cestors wrote me very feelingly j ust b for his death , as to n s . a i cident related in Bonnie Belmont His brother, J mes Cooper, m ’ n still resid es near Wellsburg on a far . His brother Frank a d sisters Violinda and McKimr h Nancy are dead , as are also Margaret and e husband . PART THREE

MISCE LLANE OU S H ISTORY

92 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRA NS

Ohio County , West Virginia , with the earlier settlements in Penn

Va . W . sylvania , since there was no settlement in West Liberty , , until

W Va . ﬁrst . 1787 There was a session of court held on Short Creek , , 1777 w as as early as , but you must realize that I seeking a date at

- least ten years before the settlement of the Zanes in 1769 70. u I found , however, that there were many places listed in the g ide bearing the name of Cochran as follows : In counties of Allegheny , a o Cameron , F yette , Venango , als Cochran Farm in Venango County ,

Cochran Flats in Venango County, Cochran Mills in Armstrong Coun t t y, Cochran Mills in Washing on County , Cochranton in Crawford

County , Cochranville in Chester County , Cochran Ferry in Butler

o Pa . . County , C chranton , near Meadville , , etc Not knowing the a ddress of any of the names I wrote the post masters and they either replied in person or deli vered my letter to some of the name , hence there is a warm spot in my heart for those aforesaid gentlemen .

I received replies to nearly all of my letters , and some kindly fur nished no the biographies of their families , but I found distinct trace n of the William Cochra whom I sought . a Since these biogr phies are interesting, and since there is no doubt i that away back in the beg nning there was only one Cochran , we must ﬁn eventually have descended from this man . I d the vast maj ority d a claim their line of escent from one John Cochr n of Ireland , who came to America in 1690. A few claim to have descended from the

Earls of Dundonald . As our line had been already established as con n ed ect t . with the families of the Peerage , I naturally followed tha line

When I took up the quest later, on the other side of the world , “ h Scotland , the only records found were all concerned with t e families as connected with the Peerage . I have written this introduction to the biography of certain Penn f sylvania amilies to show why they appear in this work , partly be cause of the similarity of Christian names , and partly because we be “ ’ ’ ” lieve that like the Captain s Lady and Judy O Grady we ar e all more w t . or less of one kin , ho ever remo e

SOME PENNSYLVANIA COCHRANS

The following letter was received from George Cochran , of Coch ’

A Pa . d 14 1908 rans Mills , llegheny County , , ated June , “ In to we no o reply your letter , , like you , have rec rds , only old a a deeds and what I h ve heard t lked over by older people . I own and SOME PENNSYLVANIA COCHRANS 93

- live on part of the property my great grandfather , William Cochran , 17 bought of Abner Bentley , deed dated 96, patent for property taken h 1789 . h a w o d at P . out There was James , die New Castle , ; George , d I my grandfather, who ied where live , and two girls , Eliza and

Martha ; one married Benjamin Butler . As old receipts show , the property at that time was part in Washington County , and partly in f Pa . Mi flin Township , Allegheny County , It appears as a large tract r by the patent . Six cousins and I a e all that are living at present of ’ ﬁ my grandfather s heirs . It looks to me as though this does not t in with your record .

m - I a not able to tell you where my great grandfather came from

amﬁf - ﬁ t ve before he came to Pennsylvania . I y years of age , and an o only heir . All the old timers are gone that w uld know anything that would be of help to you . There are two old ladies living down on the

Monongahela river , one , a Mrs . Payne , whose maiden name was

Cochran , might be able to give me some information . I will go and

. Mt . see her and show her your letter Lebanon and West Liberty , i o . you speak , are six miles from my place I never heard of a West

Pa . Liberty County , — Mrs . P S . . Payne is no relation of mine ; belongs to another lot ” of Cochrans .

A later letter states as follows : “ I showed your letter to an attorney in Pittsburg, whose mother H e an was a Cochran , but no relation of mine . does not know of y

neﬁ record s that would be t you . There were no marriage records kept 188 in Allegheny County until about 0 .

Yours respectfully ,

R GEORGE COCH AN .

in Two of the cousins mentioned above were A . Cochran of F Pa le v ille Pa . . y , , and Miss Melissa Irwin , Option , Allegheny County ,

There is another Cochran family living on Mingo Creek , an historic spot , being closely connected with the Whiskey Insurrection . There F r bie . . o are two brothers and a sister living, Albert J , and Anna Their

Pa . address is Finleyville , — m. H . at The following letter was received fro J Cochran , attorney 5 1914 : Pa . law , of Harrisville , , dated December , “ e Replying to your letter of r cent date , would say that my father

- ﬁv e . is living and is now eighty years of age His name is William , 94 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

’ and my mother s maiden name was Josephine Ludwig . As to my d eﬁnite a ancestors , can now give you a little more inform tion regard ’

- ing them . My great grandfather s name was William , and his older ’ e b rother s nam was John , who did not emigrate to America , but stayed

in Ireland . ma 1795 ﬁrst Willia Cochr n came to America in and settled at Pitts Pa burg, . , afterward removing to Mercer County , near the Venango

H is . and Butler line . sons were Thomas , James uand William My grandfather was James , who married Nancy Va ghn , daughter of v James Vaughn , who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and ser ed

under Lafayette .

- r n r h r H e a dfat e o . My great g came from C unty Antrim , Ireland is

Pa . buried at Harmony Church graveyard , one mile from Harrisville , ’ There is a Mason s emblem on his tombstone , showing that he was

a Mason .

- a William Cochran , the son of great gr ndfather , had several sons

viz. . who are still living , , Kennedy , Glasgow and John John was a lieutenant in one of the companies of 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer n Infa try during the Civil War . It seems so strange to me that of all o a o f the C chr ns that I know , whether relatives or not , there are so

many James and Johns , and also Williams among them . Did I give u s ? yo the name of my brothers and sisters My full name is Joseph ’ Madartus Henry ; my b rother s name , William ; my sister , living, is

- d Grace Cochran Martin ; one sister , dea , whose name was Mary Coch — ran Frew ; she left two daughters , Margaret and Josephine Frew

Wishing you success , I remain yours very respectfully , H R . J . . COCH AN

COC A OF r DOCTOR J OHN HR N , DIRECTOR GENERAL THE HOSPITALS o THE UNITED STATES IN 1781

1570 About the year , there crossed over from Paisley in Scotland , t o o n. H the n rth of Ireland , one John Cochra e was a clansman of the mpowerful house o f Dundonald , and of kin with its noble head . For any generations his descendants were born , tilled the land , married

and died in the land of their adoption . Many were of the gentry ; most were yeomen , but all ledmsober , upright and righteous lives ; feared God . , and kept His com andments The family names were care f ully handed down from son to son . s Jame , the son of John , was succeeded by John , who in turn was

96 CH RONICLES OF THE COCH RANS

r Dr . Cochran and Majo (afterwards General ) Philip Schuyler, o j oined Bradstreet when he marched against Fort Fr ntenac, in the m1758 ai sum er of , and the events of the northern camp gn were the

- oo text b ks of the school wherein he gained his technical education . It is hardly possible to present the character of a man whose public to life connected him with our national history , without reverting the military episodes of the time during which he lived , but happily a pleasant and a natural break occurs in the sequence of the narrative ’ an c d enables us to turn to other and calmer scenes of Dr . Co hran s r ca ree . n 4 1 O 760 . December , , he was married to M rs Gertrude Schuyler, mW es er s D t t u . by Do inic , of the Reformed tch Church at Albany She o chu was the only sister o f Maj r Philip Schuyler, a widow of Peter S y ler, whose grandfather , Peter, had been president of the Council of B ﬁr the Province of New York in 17 19 . y her st husband she had two

‘ who children ; Peter, married but died childless ; Cornelia married

b ﬁrst Walter Livingston , grandson of Ro ert Livingston , Lord o f the

Manor of Livingston .

’

. m After Dr Cochran s arriage , he moved to New B runswick , New

Jersey , and continued to practice medicine ; became one of the Found

e 1766 ers of the New Jers y Medical Society in , and in November ,

17 . 69 . , he succeeded Dr Burnet , as its President During the close of 1776 ff the winter of , he o ered his services as a volunteer in the hospi tal department , and Washington recommended his name to the favor i e i 1777 . abl not ce of Congress , in a letter written in the beg nning o f ’

H e o . o ex eri sp ke of Dr C chran s services as a volunteer, and of his p ences d uring the French War . 1777 m On 7 t April , , Congress resu ed the considera ion of a report th e on hospitals ; and plans modeled after those of the B ritish Army, o having been proposed by Dr . C chran , and Dr . William Shippen , and a b o A pproved y General Washington , were ad pted upon that day, pril n ’ n 1l h a d . t , in pursua ce of his excellency s recommendation , Dr

Cochran was selected for the position of physician and surgeon - gen e eral of the army in the middl department . During the period of holding this position , he was often called upo n to bewail the inefﬁcienc wretched y, which characterized the management of the

- s d . ho pital epartment In a letter to Jonathan Potts , Purveyor Gen eral , Dr . Cochran thus expressed himself SOME PENNSYLVANIA COCHRANS 97

M TOW 18 178 ORRIS N, March , 0.

D R S IR— I B . am d EA received your favor by Dr on , and extremely s for o ﬁnanc O orry the present situation of the h spital es . ur stores ee have all b n expended for two weeks past , and not less than six am hundred regimental sick and l e, most of whom require some assist a ff ﬂ . atter nce , which being withheld , are lanmguishing and must su er I me ys lf, you have no blame in this atter, but curses on him or them, by whom this evil is produced . The vengeance of an offended Deity must overtake the miscreants sooner or later . It grieves my soul to see th e o p or, worthy, brave fellows pine away for want of a few com

f d . orts, which they have early earned I shall wait on his Excellency , the - in- am Commander Chief , and represent our situation , but I per sud e l ff a d ? H e it can have litt e e ect , for what can hemdo may refer at to the m ter Congress ; they to the Medical Com ittee , who will prob a - bly pow wow over it awhile and nothing more be heard of it . The

f ew . e a stores sent by Dr Bond in your absenc , have not rrived , I sup

' ne f o e bad s s o . p s owing to the the roads If they come , they will give

m . us e t o so relief for a few weeks Compliments all friends , and r believe me , dear sir, yours ve y sincerely ,

JOHN COCHRAN .

D o La r . John Cochran was on intimate terms with Washingt n ,

. th e fayette, Wayne, Paul Jones and many more To him great com “ mander presented his camp furniture ; he received from Mad A ’ nthony Wayne, the latter s sword ; the silver hilt of which was melted into goblets ; the French hero sent him from France a gold 6 18 . . 07 watch o f delicate movement Dr Cochran died April , , aged 181 H i 3 86 . 76 ea rs . s y widow survived him until March , , aged years When the centenary a nniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill was 17 187 Y. 5 at . held Utica, N , June , , the remains of Dr Cochran and his wife were transferred from Albany to the Forest Hill Cemetery . th e a There under the auspices of cemetery association , with ddresses mt n o com emora i g the great struggle and military pomp to hon r the names of the founders of our nation were the bodies of John and ” Gertrude Cochran again laid to rest .

M. Contributed by Mrs . Martha Archambault , granddaughter of A a nd A e ndrew Cochran , of Derry , Ireland , niece of ndr w Boyd

Pa 9 1908. Co chran , of Pottsville , . , December , o fo r After pursuing a vain quest thr ugh Pennsylvania, searching d s tidings of Willi am Cochran , I next turne my attention to Illinoi , 98 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

n s th e - a d Mi souri , for some record of sons of my great grandfather

G. . W . I James . One reply was from Cochran , of Sullivan , ll , a Cir u d n cuit Judge, born in Ross Co nty , Ohio ; escendant of John Cochra ,

1690. of Ireland, who came to America in Among the interesting “ : Ar items furnished was this According to Grand my Records , there

- were twenty six Cochrans wh o took part in the Battle at Vicksburg .

wa s . I there , but never met one of them

A r I . very interesting letter f om John Cochran , of Lmewistonm, mll , states that he was a Virginian by birth ; also letters fro other e

bers of his family who lived in Missouri , failed to establish any clue

to tho se four brothers of my grandfather, but last spring I received

some record of Robert and his family . It may be thought strange that there is no mention of the numerous

h - families of Cochran living in Columbus . There are t irty seven r e names listed in the City Directo y , but I feel sur there are none of and them , who are even remotely connected with my own branch , time and space prevent me from tracing them back to a common an d cestr . e y I might , in some future edition, includ a fourth part devote

to them .

When I began this work, I knew of comparatively few Cochrans it am a r e in closing , I impressed with the fact that they as number h r a t e o . less as leaves of the forest , the s nds of the sea , apparently

t G - Re urning to the enealogy of my Grand parents , we resume

TH E FA MILY OF JAMES AND NANCY MCCORD - COCHRAN

M s n a t . a d Their farm lay long the Plea ant Turnpike , was included “ ” in the section called Scotch Ridge : th e country lying between Deep ’ R as M un on the north , and Glenn s Run on the south , and as far t .

Pleasant . The large number of Scotch people in that vicinity gave it

. m n the name Here they ingled with the families of Coopers , Dre nens ,

e Barn s , Blackfords , and others . r 1837 1851 They lived on this fa m from until , according to the n . 1826 records ; perhaps , even longer Elea or, the oldest , born in ,

. o ﬁfteen grew into womanhood here When she was ab ut , the young a nd o o men b ys of the neighborh od began to call upon her . She told

me . r about one named William Gordon I used to see him yea s after o a nd ward , when he s ld vegetables produce, from his wagon , upon was th e . back of which there always a keg of sweet cider Well , Billy “ ” “ d o e a nd r e e had a g named Bos ; eve y plac that Billy w nt , Bose

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a Percy Call han, of Wheeling, married Minnie Steger, of Bellaire . H e was engaged in newspaper work for some time, but at present is in the insurance business .

O a i S chields sc r marr ed Laura , of Wheeling, at present is with

- a Wells F rgo Express Company, and they have one son, William Oscar . m James and E ma Callahan died within a few months o f each 1 04 — 9 . e a 1 other in Th ir son Willi m in 908. Eleanor Cochran Calla h an e 17 1897 died Jun ,

Among th e early friendships formed while the family lived on Scotch Ridge was that of Samuel Cochran and James Mitchell Black

u . ford they grew p together, and probably spent ten years in a boyish a o comp nionship , until Samuel moved to Pultney B ttom . The fami lies kept up their acquaintance , however, by frequent visits , and the “ ” friendship begun in youth , ripened with the years and later, Mitch but Blackford became not only the trusted physician, the friend and th e and s adviser, of family of Samuel Cochran ; to the man , him elf , ne the o person whose counsels were ever accepted .

o to 1851 Sh rtly after the family moved Pultney Bottom in , nearly a all of the children were stricken with measles . It was the custom t ff that time to dose the su erers with noxious teas , and not allow them e any water at all to drink . The spring was at som distance up the road , opposite the entrance to the Heath farm . It is related of John , n man so the oldest , then a young , while delirious with fever, that he uh m t rose fro his bed one moonlight night , and rushed madly p e road ﬂ an till he reached the spring , where he stretched himself out at d ﬁl l . d rank his of water, after which he returned to his bed The a family anxiously waited results , and as John steadily improved the

not r om others were permitted to drink water also , but f the spring.

1854 o e In , James C chran also aros from his bed one night, to put some young cattle out of the corn , and contracted an ailment from A . t w a mi which he never recovered this time, there s a grist ll on the banks of Wegee Creek , not far from the Cochran homestead . a John Hofer , son of the miller, and Susann h Cochran were married

1857 ﬁrs t in , at the ages of nineteen , and went west, to Missouri , and

I . later they came back as far as Rushville , ll , where they staid for several years , after which they settled in Bellaire . They had two who children , Charles , died in infancy , and Dora , in her twelfth year .

n em 1 8. 1 1 o ber 1 d 88 9 3 v 6. John Hofer ied in Susa in , N FAMILY OF JAMES AND NANCY MCCORD COCH RAN 101

a o Co . W . Va . J ne Cochran married William Fowler, of Bro ke , ,

s o . a 1856 a a cho l teacher After their m rriage in , Nancy Cochr n built a t and a cottage the foot of the hill for them, William kept a general

e ﬁr 1 6. . s a 5 t o . 3 8 store Her their child , N ncy Jane , was b rn Dec , h h t e d I . Later, Fowlers move to Rus ville , ll , where they engaged in — “ business . Two children were born to them William Collins , and

M artha Ellen .

h e t C. After graduating from high school at Rushville , William e e Fowler studied medicine for three y ars , then went to Columbia Stat ' U fo r two e niversity of Missouri , years , th n to the Medical College d 1887 St . at for two years more graduate in March , ; and accepted a position with Northwestern Milling Lumber Company , ’ in Chippewa Falls , as surgeon ; stayed there until his father s sick to e o ness took him back his home ; r signed ; next located in Verm nt, I h a an 188 1 7 n . d 8 90 ulto Co . F , lls , where he active practice from to ; 1 R 897 to . was married in April , , Miss Eleanor Irwin , of Mount

I . Sterling, Brown County, ll ; a daughter of Charles Norse Irwin H e n w . a d Isabella Clay Ir in (Kentucky Clay, he says) took sick 1 7 h ad o be in 90 and to leave Verm nt in order to live, as his practice

so came too strenuous ; he sold out and moved to Mount Sterling, to ’ b i his wi fe s old home, as her parents had oth died ar d she being the only living child , had inherited the estate . They are now living in th e the old Irwin homestead ; a lovely home with seven acres in city,

- and a of which one and one half acres are lovely forestry in front, e h ad o Kentucky style house . They hav three children , nly one of H e 17 1904 . whom is living ; Eleanor Isabel , born March , took ﬁrst up his practice again in Mount Sterling . Doctor Will paid his

- in A 1915 a nd visit to his Belmont County relatives pril , , made quite a f avorable impression upon all who met him .

”

Nancy Jane , Jennie , or Dot Fowler, as she was familiarly called , and a d iminutive both of the word daughter, in regard to her tiny R 1897 W . . stature and proportions , married Thomas , and dying in , left a son Eri .

E a s Martha llen , Eleanor, or Nell , she was variously named , has

spent her entire life in Rushville . She taught school , and is now the

R e . wife of George . Glossop , who is engag d in the electrical business Glos so h as e . . They have one son , Leon , about twelv years old Mrs p

been an invalid for several years , yet she has written entertainingly of

e . the family history , and has furnish d much of this data She visited 102 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

O 1896 hio in , and her relatives still remember her as an accomplished pianist .

amo th e hy e Willi F wler was an invalid for years , last years of his nﬁn 189 e co 9. lif being ed to his bed entirely . Jane Fowler died in 1853 In , William and Samuel Cochran were two gay young men,

n r h ~ a d a nd fo t to . singing dancing, and riding back Bellaire Here A r William met Melissa . Davis , daughte o f Jacob Davis , pioneer e settler o f that town , and here also Samuel met her friend , Carolin f w n ﬁne o O . Krebs , Po hata , The two girls did sewing and Caroline ’

o b . made her h me at Mrs . Re ecca Shane s , the mother of Melissa The ’ acquaintance h ad been brought about from the fact that Melissa s ’ in brother Wesley had married Caroline s sister Anne . A ﬂood the

an mf - o Ohio River during this time , followed by epide ic small pox , a nd when the girls were quarantined , the young men were restricted

from visiting them ; paying thei r calls on horseback , while the girls

u- h e t e sat at an p stairs window , all seem d to favor course of the

d r and 1855 . ouble cou tship , and William Melissa were married in am Th e Their f ily consisted of three daughters and o ne son . ( story that has been told of William ’ s youth is that he was subj ect to ex

- cessive . nose bleed , and to walking and talking in his sleep It is

related of him , that one evening, when still a lad, he had lain down a on the ﬂ oo r after supper and gone to slmeep . It h ppened at a time when the family were entertaining the inister and their good old

neighbor Blackford and others . The older people were in the adjoin am ing room , when Willi rose and staggered over to the table , and “ a b : A seizing knife , rapped loudly on the ta le , saying lways ask a n blessing before you eat , to the conster ation of his hearers , and the

everlasting pleasure of his brothers . )

William Cochran was a cooper by trade , for fourteen years , part of H e m . which ti e was spent in making kegs for the Benwood Nail Mill ’ a H eatherin tons l operated sawmill at the g Coa Works , south of Bel 1872 ff laire ( for two years) . In was elected Sheri of Belmont

County fo r two terms . Later, he had a position in Columbus , under

- Gove rnor Nash ; afterward engaged as contractor, in road building.

1903. Died at Bellaire,

e a 1859 Samuel Gid on Cochr n was a farmer, until his marriage in , and h e after which they began housekeeping in Martins Ferry , and

his brother William both worked in a cooper shop , on the site of the

. o Barrel Factory at present When the , work closed the foll wing

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Miss Kate Rodefer is a teacher in the Bellaire schoo ls .

’ a Caroline Cochr n , always familiarly known as Line in her youth , o was always of a cheerful dispositi n , singing while she worked ; it is

related of her that as she went to the hill pasture for the cows , singing

th e on her way , that sound of her voice in the clear air carried for un r o miles to the ear of a yo g fa mer, on another hill , who fell in l ve

ﬁrs !th e i t with voice , then seeking an acqua ntance , with the owner of

bu . t the voice , his love was not reciprocated

1871. Caroline was married to Henry Rankin , o f Bellaire , January ,

n L to . d . O e aughter, Bertie , was born them Henry Rankin died July, 1878 , from an inj ury received inmthe railroad yards , while operating a . a switch . Bertie R nkin and Sa uel J Wood were married in No

mr 1 2 . ve be 89 . to , Two daughters , Helen and Thelma, were born them In 1903 they went to California, and were in San Francisco at the

time of the earthquake , but reached a place of safety in time . Mrs . 2 1 13 R . 3 9 ankin was also with them Carrie Rankin died May , , at

O . Bellaire, hio n a e . a d Nancy Cochr n nev r married As she was witty, clever com anionable p , always popular with the other sex , it must not be thought

that she lacked opportunities for changing her name . She cleverly “ If i ‘ said, I married , I might be obliged to s ng, A Charge To Keep , I ’ n n a s d it . Have , many a other woma has one , so I think I will not risk

r n Su ely no unmarried woma ever had a better time than sh e d id . She was the life of any company in which she was found ; young or

old , married o r single , all enj oyed her charming personality . She

usually found some kindred spirit of her own sex , and they worked wh . o in pairs Many stories are told of her and May Biggs , lived on a the opposite side of the river . Once Nan ttempted to cross the river O when the ice was breaking up and narrowly escaped drowning . ne o f their ﬁelds of operation was the Yearly Camp—meeting at Mounds

ville . It was the great meeting place for both saint and sinner . It ’ a was but few miles below May s home , so that they frequently

walked home after services . Nan was engaged in the millinery busi e s n s for several years at Bellaire , and her store was the rendezvous

fo r . a gay crowd of both sexes During her last few years of life, Nan

was afﬂ icted conﬁn with an incurable malady , which kept her ed to the

- s . hou e , but not bed fast As she had always been so fond of walking ; w (she thought nothing of walking to the old home, which as four ’ r miles f om Bellaire) . A friend asked her, Don t you get lonesome, FAMILY OF JAMES AND NANCY MCCORD COCHRAN staying in the house so much ? What do you do to amuse yourself “ s d“ She answered , Oh, I j ust think of ome o f the things we use to do , ” and a to . m I have many a l ugh , all myself What a cheerful , opti istic ! O h er nature ne never found blue ; she kept her own counsel , and we al h though knew some of her tri s and disappointments , s e never

. 18 7 spoke of them She died September, 9 .

John, whom all the family had considered a hopeless old bachelor, r u s McKim su prised by getting married to Miss Martha , of Little

a 1 - O . 882 Short Creek, ne r Mount Pleasant , , in . They had a f amily

o f . three children Lucy married Harry Glass and has two children, inn . e Martha and Harold John married a Miss F y and has two sons , H e Robert and Alfred . lives on the home place on Short Creek . n Ross is u married , and lives on the prop erty once owned by his Uncle M Samuel . Lucy lives on a farm ne ar t . Pleasant .

Thomas Cochran was farmer, school teacher, lawyer, deputy ff an b H e d . sheri , Pro ate Judge of Belmont County , Ohio was born 184 8 bo d in , and when but a y in his teens , he rove to Wheeling Market

o . with a wag n full of vegetables , fruit and other produce His mother ’ o ﬁve accompanied him, and they w uld leave the farm about o clock in the afternoon , driving the eight miles to Bridgeport, and crossing the a it Island to Wheeling . They usu lly spent the night, or a part of , with ’ his mother s sister, Mrs . Susan Cotts, o f North Market Street , but m e early the next morning found the both busy in the mark t place , for ﬁni h m n s ed . in this way , Na cy Cochran paying for her far

wa s After Thomas of age , he taught school, and , I think , he read B law with J . . Smith , of Bellaire , until the time when later he attended

at a . the Law School Ann Arbor, Michig n , from which he graduated 2 187 n . Sometime in , he hu g out his shingle in Bellaire ( I can remem e e ofﬁce t ber the littl fram building, which stood on Union Stree , in the same block with the B altimore and Ohio Railroad Passenge r Sta 1872 tion , at present, and directly across from a hotel . ) In his brother

c ff and S t . William was ele ted Sheri , Thomas went to Clairsville , to fﬁc r become his d eputy o e . Here he mingled with all the leading lights

fﬁces of the county o , for while William was elected on the Rep ublican

- H e ticket, Thomas was a life long Democrat . was a handsome, tal

a mmn e ul r . i e s l o a He m n e ted young man, and bec me y p p arried Miss n t ri t S . Alla F , of Clairsville , and their wedding festivities were the e occasion o f a great family reunion, at the old home at Wege . Cousins from far and near were there ; among the number was Mollie Cotts , 106 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

o f ar n c n ne Wheeling ; M y Cochra , of Bellaire ; Sis Mc ord, Joh Za in the Iwas Cochran, and , and out, through it all children , of whom n and o e . They danced in the large , old sitting room, a party of men h a nd bo ys came up from the Wegee Coal Works to serenade t em . one h ad This , of itself , could never be forgotten by who never known e and of such things before . Thomas , the bridegroom, the gay st hap h a e rs M . piest, and andsomest of them all , opened the d nc with

Strausser for a partner . She was a neighbor, who had come to help

e . o with the pr parations She was German and spoke rather br kenly, ’ a nd d ‘ he it was Tom s elight to talk with her, as had studied the lan s h ﬁr e s t . . guage . B esides that , was his client Mrs Strausser had h ad e married a widower with several children . She b en a widow with and several children , there was some trouble about the division of

r e h . e t e p operty Th y liv d on river bank , j ust at the mouth of Wegee

e . m e e o Cr ek It seems to that the pr perty was hers , and the old g ntle

mn. h a is d it v o wantemd ower , or thirds , as they called . Howe er, as so n as Tom ca e home from the Law School , before he had opened his fﬁ h e o ce s e ﬁrst d . , brought him his case , and so they anced togeth r

1874 - 5 e ofﬁce In , Thomas open d a law in Martins Ferry, with

George Duncan as a partner ; here they built up a wonderful practice , with clients all over the county ; they also developed a strong Demo

h e ﬁrst o cratic organization, which later lped elect Thomas to his c unty fﬁ L “ o ce . D . H n a k . obe s c M Spence , Chup Lupton , Dr J . . , Dr . J . . t and Blackford , Isaac Cot s , a councilman , Davids Park , father son , McKiman r d McCo d e George his sons , brothers and many oth rs .

a e Their opponents in leg l work at that time were the Drenn n brothers , e a t Lycurgus and Eugen , and m ny interes ing stories might be told of

their encounters . 7 S t. 18 8 Thomas moved to Clairsville in , when elected as Probate ﬁrst Judge , the time . a Seven children were born to Thom s and Alla Cochran , as follows 1 898. Clarence , who died in

A d . aughter, who died in infancy

v 0 . a e Fred , married Mary Grabill , of Orr ille , They h v one son ,

Alfred Grabill . L o e . Lucy . , at h m

Thomas , died in infancy . ichol S t . . v William, married Lulu N , of Clairville They ha e one son, L ouis Nichol .

‘ Harry , at home .

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A S K ETCH OF NANCY COCHRAN

Nancy Cochran was a wonde rful woman; a woman of strength of

. ha d body , mind , and character If she one weakness , it was her par

iali t ty toward her youngest child , in indulging his wants and inclina

tions . It has been said that she paid and helped to pay for her farm three

ﬁrst . times . The was after her husband died I have always under

a stood from the Drennens and the Bl ckfords , who knew him well , that

she w as the mo re forceful character of the two . When the youngest a e o son was of legal g , others of the children compelled a divisi n of 83 . 3 the estate She paid each of the twelve heirs $ plus apiece , or a

A - t two . sum of the time, she was sixty years old But she ﬁne re in had a farm of mo than two hundred acres , much of it rich o bottomland , with acre after acre o f c rn tassels waving in the breeze seldom do I remember them to have had wheat planted there ; two wh e ﬁe . at ld u immense orchards The large lay p the road beyond the An h orchard . immense hill pasture and a eld or two up there were

hers .

h y e There were always or six horses . Lion, her old buggy horse ,

was a gray . She told me that he had helped her pay for the farm .

e b When a child , I always thought that this hors had een named for ’

n . Aunt Line, not being able to distinguish betwee the names Then , was there Dolly, a sorrel mare , used both as a riding horse and driven h in t e buggy .

. am There were always ten or twelve cows to milk I writing now

of the time when my aunts were at home . Aunt Lizzie had two cows i i of her own , and she perm tted me to m lk one of them . I took my ﬁrs t n lesson in milki g from her when I was about eight years old . ’ Aunt Line had one cow also , as it was generally the custom for the girls of the family to raise a calf and care for it the n it becomes their

‘ t and proper y, they can make butter from its milk and thus earn some

- . pin money ; but Aunt Nan would have nothing to do with a cow . That o e would keep her at home when she wanted to g lsewhere . She did nd i I sewing a later m llinery . ( t is told of Nan that instead of darning o or knitting new heels or t es in her stockings , that she would crotchet “ . e r them I can remember wh n grandmothe knitted , and made every ” th e . day trousers for boys In her earlier days , she had a loom and

- wove counterpanes and her own rag carpets . I have in my posses n ” sio a quilt of red and white calico and muslin , called the Union , S K ETCH OF NANCY COCHRAN 109

she or Eight of Hearts , which pieced and quilted all by herself , during

ﬁrst . the year of her marriage It is set thick with dainty stitches , and who can guess what dreams of love and life she wove into them , h n s e e . , a bride of sixt e

— - There was an old spinning wheel in the attic , or cubby hole over the t dining room, and I think I have heard hem say, that she spun her ﬂ h r ax e . own and carded own wool They never had any sheep , to ’ -b my knowledge , except a pet lam of Robert s , which was the torment mf o of my life . It was permitted the freedo house and yard , but it to r did not take kindly to me, and managed send me sprawling eve y

s d r lea f chance it got . My safe t refuge was under the op table in the — n dining room, and many unhappy moments have I hidde there , some times screaming for help .

As Robert was nearer my own age , I really knew more of him than Mc lain . m C . a W V . of the others One su mer , Ada , of Wheeling, , ’ granddaughter of Susan Cotts , who was grandmother s only sister , spent a summer there . That is the only time I remember having a ’ d e . oll , a small one with a china h ad It was Robert s delight to get our d olls and hang them up o n the frame o f the canopy o f grand ’

- o be d t . m ther s in the sit ing room , while we stood weeping below ( I

se e . can almost them now, suspended by their necks ) It was a real t u o o s tragedy , and a great pleasure of his , nly cut short by one of the aunts coming to the rescue . I was about six years old at the time .

e . There was a large swing in the side yard , mad of an iron chain There were two locust trees in the yard between the well and side n o e e . e porch , and the swing was hung in of th se Robert d lighted to

o f us a i swing b th o so high th t our feet went into the bedroom W ndow upstairs .

’ ’ 1 n 69 71 e After Lizz e and Caroli e were married in and , grandmoth r b th e d id her own work . I can remem er immense washings she put out in the summer time, for both boys were at home then, and a hired o r McClain man or two , and a cousin two , and one summer, Larry

a . w s there, a boy slightly older than myself There were white vests , for and linen trousers , and white shirts the young men , and I learned ’ f ‘ ’ o . to iron a man s shirt at the age ten , at grandmother s Nan did

her own washings by herself . Sister and I helped grandmother . She

e had a washing machine and a wringer , and I can almost sm ll the soft

a . so p , which she made herselfmin a huge iron kettle It was dark and l i y . u liqu d , and kept in a ery s a l keg I think they put p paint in 110 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

fo r b r those kegs, this was e fo e the days of the tin industry , and then th ue wooden or stone vessels were used instead of e tin ones we s nowad ays .

I can nev er remember of my grandmother being sick . She had did three s trokes of apoplexy, but I not happen to be there at either time . Grandmother never took kindly to the numerous swains who came he r Nan courting daughters , especially the friends of , and it is said n’ that she was responsible for the fact of Na s unmarried state . As c s many of these allers came from a distance , they u ually rode horse ’ w as t e th e r back , and it one o f grandmother s pleasures to un i ho ses a and let the young men get home the best w y they could .

h s o e o . S was a go d cook, and , by the way, were all her daughters

r ﬁfteen on. The e is an old blue Venetian platter, twelve by inches , my to an plate rail , as I write , and it calls memory the m y times I have e a se n her place it on the table heaped high with boiled pple dumplings ,

. uarb s owl or corn on the cob I have , too , a very dark blue g , a pi ece ﬁrst of her set of china , a dark brown stone j ar with a lid , which I If use to hold sugar . ( you would keep in perpetual memo ry some h loved one who is gone , use daily some omely article which belonged to them . There is something in the touch of it which revives the old associations , and keeps the memory of that one alive and vivid , far a uand more than some tre sured keepsake, wrapped p laid away . )

Th e hours I spent with thee , dear heart , ” Are as a string of pearls to me .

I loved my grandmother dearly , though I believe I was somewhat

he r . f c o at e afraid of She was not an af e tionate w man any tim , yet uan s d she was never cross to , seldom scolded but if ever there were h two beings in this world beloved by her, they were e r grandsons — . uff Samuel , and my brother Harry All the pent p a ection in that old o heart was p ured out on these two , who spent such few ye ars in her company .

e - She was past s venty two when my brother died , yet she d rove up e e from Wegee to Martins F rry , a distanc of ten miles , in time for the ’

. s aw nine o clock funeral When I the grief of that aged woman , my ” own seemed insignificant , for the tears of the aged are bitter, indeed .

Harry had spent the summer with her, and had only been at home a month to attend school . Grandmother nev er seemed j ust the same to me after that .

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ma e e e y , and if you have seen geese , you y think the term quit ex

. pressive . There was also a small yellow ﬂower which we called ’ “ ” bachelor s button and what we termed ragged - robins is the real

- ﬂ er corn ow . — o r The tiger lily always suggests something oriental foreign to me, f h e and mus t have a fected a writer similarly , for says

“ e e e Watching th m whil half asl ep ,

All in the twinkling of an eye

The scene has changed for me,

is The sky pricked with minarets ,

I hear the click of castanets . th e Over white roads , a caravan

Is creeping far away,

And by the shady garden wall

Grave turbaned heads , till day grows pale , Sit nod ding to some eerie tale

’ Perhaps one charm of grandmother s garden was the fre edom with

e to which ﬂower and vegetable grew side by side, without r gard har monies of color or scent .

The u i tender green of lett ce , the feathery fronds of parsley, m ngled

o a t o o f with the yell w of c rrot, the red of toma the purple cabbage and

— a ﬂ ow ers egg plant ; all r nged in beds and rows beyond the , and parallel to the walk . A summer house at the end of th e walk was covered with a luxur iant - e c i tangle of honey suckl and wistaria, which scar ely perm tted o r o it either the rays of sun m on to penetrate .

~ On n- ea r th e tw the right side of the walk , fence , grew o rows of “ ” am n red or t e raspberries , dow through the length of the garden .

it s o As I recall , after the lap e of years , the imm rtal part of that

n t he o garde is memory of those vines and their lusci us fruit , whose fragrance outrivals that of the roses . The remembrance of the many scents from that garden ' of old h as grown dim ; but the sight and the smell of red raspberries bring back such a fragrant memory that, in fancy, I can still see the dear old ’ d o n sh e ame, a summer s day, as passed between the rows , gathering i the fruit ; and myself , a slip of g rl , following in her wake . ON THE BAN K S OF OLD WEGEE 113

ON THE BANKS OF OLD WEGEE

Oh peaceful stream ! No poet ’ s lay Hath ever honored thee ! ’ ’ hist r s a Nor y p ge had aught to say, In praise or blame of thee and But now a sonnet, sad lorn ,

Will be softly sung for thee , B who o h y one l ves t ee , one who was n O the banks of old Wegee .

Close by the place where the Ohio broad

Hath absorbed thy waters so free, Onthy verdant banks how oft I ’ve trod ’ o In the happy h urs of childhood s glee ,

And with bent - pin hoo k and a willow rod ’ H ow oft I ve endeavored to be A ﬁsh erman o o b ld , but my luck never t ld , n O the banks of old Wegee .

r s As I wande along thy banks o fair ,

th e - I come to fording place ,

Now a bridge of stone and iron is there ,

Oi - the old foot log, there is not a trace ;

Yet my head grows dizzy as I try once more , to o In fancy , cr ss from shore to shore, Onthe narrow bridge that I used to see

Onthe b anks of old Wegee .

Comes the school house next , with its narrow ground, ﬁrst Where I strayed , on learning intent ;

My earliest friendship there I found , e With one in whom I was ver content ,

For our love was true , and knew no bound, ’ As many a time o er thy waters we bent , a e When we played together, h ppy and fr e,

Onthe banks of old Wegee . 114 CH RON ICLES OF THE COCHRANS

As I wander on I come to the place

e ﬂowed - Where thy waters onc to the mill race , be d oo But its is dry, and the old w den wheel

Has long since refused to turn , Nor time nor tide have power to heal e Th se relics o f d ecay . Sadly I yearn ; For things are not as they use d to be n ld O the banks of o Wegee .

And here is the church , with its grassy yard , e Peaceful , calm and seren ; No towe ring spire have I ever seen That could change my deep regard

For this temple old , and the memories sweet , Of the many friends that here would meet ; ’ But there s no one left me now to greet , n h O t e banks of old Wegee .

Just across thy stream is the h ailow ed ground

Where lie the silent d ead .

With tearful eyes and a sorrowful heart, I enter with unsteady t read ;

For here I know shall surely be found ’ o My early l ve , neath a grassy mound . A be token of love my tears shall , Since Fate would h av e it s o ; that we must part On l the banks o f the o d Wegee .

IDA R HA TO COCH AN U GH N .

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De c 17 1854 t . . ried, excep Harlan and John I was born , ; married in

W . . . m 1881 had two children , Bertha and Geo , by that arriage I was d 1908 one marrie again in , and have child, by the second marriage , R E h e s y . o s obert . , aged I was educated in the common ch ol of

W Va . o Co . . Bro ke ; at Scio College in Ohio, and at Bethany College, ; practiced surveying ; read law served two terms in the We st Virginia Legislature ; engaged in mercantile business for a sho rt time ; served sixtee n years as County Clerk and Recorder in this county and have b been for six years , ookkeeper and assistant Cashier of the Wellsburg

i na . at o l . N Bank I reside in the country near Wellsburg, on a farm My

O . daughter, B ertha , resides in Canton , , where she has been teaching Mr piano for four years . She was recently married to a . Knisely, n e Editor o f the Ca tonD aily N ws . My son George resides in Roches

Pa . . ter, , and is also married My daughter is a Graduate of the

- a o North Western University School of Music , and ls studied two years in Berlin and Munich , Germany .

H e 875 o A . My brother, Floyd , lives in your city , Oakwo d venue e a b is ngaged as passenger railroad rakeman , between Columbus and 1898 Mr Pittsburg . I visited Columbus in , and called to see a

Mc Cord and , who was , I think , engaged in merchandising, a shipper of grain . I had had some business correspondence with him , and had

' r ha e a n t uc s d . o also p car load of corn from him I did get to see him , as he was out at the time , but through our correspondence , I ’ mM r cCo d e learned that his grandfather s father, na ed , had com from 1776 77 Ireland , in , or , with his brother , to New York , where they

m' e . a separated , and never afterwards h ard of each other I sorry n that I ca not at present , give you more satisfactory information for your book, but I hope you will make out all right .

c — From Miss Annie Conant , daughter Elizabeth Mc ord Conant

McCord 1801 My grandfather , Thomas , was born in , and died in

ﬁr 1887 . e st I think he was born ther , but the house stood on top of ’ w as . the hill . His mother s name Neely She was of Welsh descent .

th e Hughie Nichols , who used to own and operate Ferry, was a full h ’ cousin to grandfather on his mout er s side of the family . Mrs . s Nelly Lyle , who used to live near was also a cousin ; her maiden amMcH enr n e was y, but her mother was a Neely . There w as a e family cemet ry on the place , but I had all the bodies removed to

r . e Greenwood cemete y I did not remov the old tombstones , but had ’ ’

. e them buried in the former graves Mother s Aunt Cassie , Min r s GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MCCORD FAMILY 117

mother, died at our house and was buried with the others . I cannot ’ a tell you much about grandfather s sister Susan . She married Isa c f o e . . Cotts , Wh eling I think he was in the grocery business There ’ e was quite a larg family o f the Cotts , I mean uncle Isaac s brothers ; “ ” D th e s avid, Coon , Henry , and George ; latter al o married a McH nr e y.

TH E FAMILY OF SUSAN AND ISAAC COTTS 1812 E c w a r 7 . Susan . Mc ord s bo n June , 19 1806 . e d Isaac Cotts was born June , They were probably marri ’ ’ 30 s 5 ! some time in the , and had ten children , as follow

Isaac Cotts , Junior , died in California . a J mes W . Cotts is the only member of his family surviving .

George W . is dead .

Andrew W . killed in war .

Hugh is dead . lain McC . Emily Cotts married , and is dead Leaves a daughter, f H o . M rs . John . Deihl Elm Grove

. E . . e d . Mary Cotts marri d Wagner, and is dead She left two sons i i Virg n a is dead .

Flo ra is dead .

Susan is dead . K Andrew was killed in war . Was First Lieutenant , Company , 22n 2 186 . 15th . e d West Virginia Infantry Killed Jun , 1854 ’ 57 ’ 58 Isaac, Junior, went to California in , and died in or ; when he was buried , he wore on his breast a picture of his mother . th e ide ntiﬁed Many years after she went west for body, which was by means of the picture . A f a H e ll o the family are dead except J mes . was married to Miss 1867 o f Mary Jane Brinton in , and had a family eight children :

d . Laura B rinton , eceased

i . Jessie Belle, married Henle n , and is dead

Mary Ellen , A ndrew White , d Susan is ead ,

Edith ,

James Brinton ,

Whitney J . 7 r o 5 1879 3 d . Isaac Cotts , Seni r, died March , , in his year 1896 85th Susan Co tts , his wife , died in November, , in her year . 118 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

ﬁrs 184 5 H e Hugh Mccord t came to Ohio in . rented the Samuel

' Giﬁ en farm, back o f Martins Ferry ; then the Nelan farm back o f Bridgeport ; the n h e rented and operated the ferry between Martins

Ferry and North Wheeling for a short while, after which he began

H e the manufacture of brick, at the close of the Civil War . con inu 1882 t ed . in this business until the time of his death , in

r W elsh ans e 1 Hugh McCo d and Magdalena were married in 840 . ’ W elsh anse i McCo rd s The fam ly lived on the farm adj oining the , in mf e o West Virginia, about six iles north Wh eling, near the banks of the Ohio River . 184 1 Their family consisted of Mary Louise, born in . Married 1862 6 . Thomas J . Cochran , November , 1 4 8 3 . Leander , born in and located in Kentucky

e n 184 6 . Gid on , bor in , married Anna Maul 84 2 1 . . 6 Francis , born Dec , , married Louise Force

Mc o rd s on and - Mc r Hugh C was the of James Eleanor Neely Co d . 4 1 7 4 184 8 7 3 . James was born May , , and died April , His wife , born 22 22 1777 1 18 . March , , and died April , Their children were Hugh ,

William, James , Thomas , Samuel , Gideon , Nancy and Susan . They located on the farm , which later became the property of their son ,

Thomas , and his family . They are buried near where the old Short an Mr Creek United Presbyterian church used to st d . . Spriggs “ Jacobs writes concerning them ; This old church h as been gone for

- h nearly twenty y e years . I can remember very well when there was it preaching in ; I knew all the leading families who attended , very r n well . This church was located near the No th Bra ch of Short

Creek . They seemed to have intended starting a cemetery around this church but these two graves are the only ones that show today .

McCo rd Tom , a surveyor who lived on the river above Wheeling m , e did some work for in the Short Creek Cemetery, and told me those a were the graves o f his gr ndparents . The graves are now in an open ’ lot where stock is pasturing . The wife s headstone has fallen down

o - and and is out of the gr und , lying on top of the two foot stones , it

It ' looked to me as though they had been dug up and thrown there .

be will not long, in my opinion , until they will be gone entirely and nothing left to mark the place of their burial . The graves are on the

Mr . property of Frank Tolbert, who owns j ust a few acres with a dwelling house and buildings , near the site of the old church . Thomas

McCo rd on , his wife, Nancy , and his children , were formerly buried

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8 A . 1 1 93 e : . 3 Their children are Erma Spence , born Dec , ; Gertrud E n 21 1897 . Spence , bor June ,

George Spence is President of The Stanton Heater Comp any .

- McCo rd n . Earle is a mecha ic , a tin plate worker r o Charles McCo d is a glassw rker . Frank and Gid McCo rd were associated in the brick busine ss with

their father for many y ears . and o e Emmet Lee Mccord Kate Lyle, of B ridgeport, Ohi , wer mar

18 18 1900 . 99 . ried in One child was born March th , , William J 22nd 1 1 m 90 . Mccord Em et Lee died May ,

McC rd b Leander o was killed y a tree , that he had cut , falling on K H e . him , at o r near Shelby City, y. married Mary Burnett They

h e : . had y children Hugh , Agnes , David , Allen and Lucy Hugh and

David are both railroad engineers . David was killed about a year n a . a d o ago on the r ilroad Agnes is a school teacher, so n to be mar

ried . Lucy married Roy Brand , of Kentucky . They live in Akron ,

H e f acto r f Ohio . works in an automobile y They have one child

a bout a year old . I have dropped everything today to hunt up this

record for you and I hope it will be of service .

Sincerely yours , M C O D LOUISE C R , O Martins Ferry, hio .

OF M C DS B Y SOME RECOLLECTIONS THE COR , THE AUTHOR

. I was j ust thirteen years old when I ﬁrst met Uncle Hugh and Aunt

e ﬁrs t Lena . Their hom was one of the places I visited , after we At moved to Martins Ferry . that time they owned all the land b o etween Walnut Street and the County R ad , and from Seventh to The Eighth Streets . old homestead and the new brick house of their

son Gid . were the only houses then . There was a small stream of water running through their grounds ; a run which had its source near Hellings Coal Works ; it formed quite ’ McCo rd 0 e a p ool back of the home and cat nin tails grew there , e while all around the grass was so green , and ther were many fruit

an e- trees , while immense grap vine screened the side porch . In front ’ o of the h use was Aunt Lena s garden , enclosed by a paling fence . It

was a dear old place , with many a German herb , gay with a border; of ﬂow er s , as well as its fresh vegetables . And with their kindly hospi l ta ity , it was a visit long to be remembered .

HRA O N TH E E GE E C AME S AND NAN C C . ( 5 ) R E SIDE N E O FJ CY O N W H R . IKE IR H PLACE O FTHE AUT O TURNP , B T

uh t o n) H a D r a w nb y E d wnl S . g

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e fair . I never failed to visit them , and for many y ars I thought they were family relatives ; but they have long been sleeping in the quiet e old cemetery on the banks of W gee Creek . i ’ Across the road , but farther down than Sm th s , lived Israel Heath

. to o and Sallie , his wife, and a brood of children I always had g to n h . O t e o M rs . Sallie for yeast, even after I was married hill ab ve ’ e Heath s lived the family of Alfred Davis , whos sister married my as uncle, William Cochran , so it was my Aunt Maggie Davis , j ust

well as my cousins . Farther down the road , on a high bank over H i hl man e looking the creek , lived the g y family, and on the opposite

one e side of the creek , stood the old mill ; and close by on the sid , ’ ’ McGr ew s i d lived , the miller s fam ly , and on the other side live the ’

mi B rus e . fa ly of y B rice who had a family o f ten daught rs I must

have been a friendly little soul , for I always visited and loved these

people .

a u i There were m ny yo ng people in that vicin ty, with whom my

R odefers aunts and uncles were familiar ; I can remember the , John ,

McGrew i a nd Thornton , Belle and Kate ; the g rls , Duke and Snip ,

their cousin , Tude Fowler, (I never did know their proper names) : t the Shavers Eliza, Margare , Manda , Tom , Cecilia, June, Kate and H i hl man r e . B arney Israel Day g y and his sister Belle , who mar ied Dr i o Sm th , of whom I was very fond als the Milligan boys , who taught

school , Will , Anderson , Dave and John . a nd We raised quantities of watermelons muskmelons , and I can remember their bringing in great basketful and putting them in the

- ff o n o . to i well tub , to cool them Standing the p ra l of the side e porch , and facing the ast , I could look across the vast river bottom o lands and see the trains of the Baltimore and Ohi railroad , on the

h - . t e n opposite side of the river Toward north east , the la d was much a t ﬁft higher, and grandmother had one time sold y acres to Samuel H e Heath . had built his house near the edge of the bank, thus mak

ing their house on a level with ours , and it always seemed nearer than ’ Smith s . Here I was frequently sent on errands , and the old folks

made quite a pet of me, and in later years their son John and his wife ,

o . i Lina , were g od friends of mine The Rodefer fam ly lived a mile

further up the road , nearer to Bellaire . The Shaver family, at the

o . W e Wegee Coal Works , on the Ohi River, a mile south had to go ’ th e —ofﬁce to Shaver s for the mail , as they kept post , for the mail came

by the boats , as there was no railroad at that time . The house at REMINISCENCES OF THE AUTHOR 123

’ grandmother s was certainly an. odd aﬁ air and might be regarded as ff three di erent buildings joined together . The original building at the back of the house, consisted of three rooms ; the larges t one served a s - m the dining rom and was perhaps twelve by twelve , not larger I a

u - b t sure , as it contained nothing a drop leaf table , a cupboard made o f e walnut, but nev r stained mor varnished, and a few chairs . Adjoin o in ing this ro m , was a bedroo , with one window the center of the o on r wall, facing the do r ; eithe side of which there was j ust room

f o r o a bedstead , and ab ut a foot of space between it and the wall ; the dimensions I should j udge , were about eight by twelve ; there

- were no clothes cupboards , the clothing being hung around the wall ;

neither was there a dresser or bureau , as it was then called . There

- was a chimney built across the corner of the dining room, but no ﬁre— e . mant l Over the place hung two small pictures, which I think n must have been painted o glass . They were about eight by ten

inches in size , and were probably portraits of two queens , as they

- wore a peculiar head dress , and were named Charlotte and Louise .

- m o Adj oining the dining ro on its emastern side was the smallest , dark e a . est kitchen that was ev r built , I sure There was only one small — f— - window, a hal sash , about twenty four by twenty four , with six

. end of this kitchen was taken up by the small panes of glass , One “ m” w as stove which called a dru and in which they burned wood . A long the outer wall stood a table and a cupboard , the window being

. am nearer the stove than in the exact center of the wall I sure the o e 10 x 12 e dimensions of this ro m were not mor than , and her in ed a nd d the winter , they cooked , and bak , churne and did the wash ﬁrst ing for a family , that numbered at least thirteen , for the few

years of residence .

ﬁrst The additional building was an immense living room , twenty

feet wide and p erhaps longer , with a bedroom over it of the same

d . size . This was built irectly in front of the older building It is probable that when James and Nancy Cochran located on this fa rm ’ b m c m a co m 1851 52 o in , or , they must have uilt this immense roo to date their family o f eleven children ; for only Ellen was married and

J ames was dead at that time , of their family of thirteen . An m o im ense chimney was built on the utside, and a stairway also,

‘ on the western side ; on the eastern , a large covered porch, opening t from the kitche n . Later ano her building was added on the western a it side . It consisted of a parlor in front , spare bedroom back of , 124 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

- m. A o and a bedroo above stairway , leading out of the dining ro m, a o was ls built , and a most peculiar looking front porch , with a heavy

- r and it box like co nice a real fence around , with two gates that had Th real spring latch es . e architect and builder of this last addition ’ A a e . was grandfather s youngest brother, lex nd r

a o When I was about a year and half old, my parents m ved into a o o small h use , at the fo t of the hill , across the road from the Smith ’ and b cottage, my father and my mother s rother, Samuel Krebs , ’ m l undertook to work grandmother s farm . Here y brother Char es o 1862 th e was b rn in April, and here he died at age of sixteen months , ’ and was buri ed at the old family graveyard , at the head of Patton s

v o Run . Many stories ha e been related of our prec city, for we were petted and spoiled by our doting young aunts . ’ h 63 to O . e In the fall of , my parents moved Bridgeport , , w er my

“ father and his brother John engaged in the livery business . We lived in the third story of a house directly facing the bridge which crosses f . o Wheeling Island All that I can remember the Civil War, is 0 11 a e the seeing the soldiers march th t bridge , keep ing tim to music ,

and the bands playing . I also remember the day , when my sister was b r e and i o n in that house , and I was only thre years e ght months old

d . at the time , yet every etail stands out very distinctly

1865 to In April , , we removed Bellaire , to a house adj oining the

- n. e o . old Criswell prop rty , the river bank , on Twenty sixth Street

Later we moved to a house on Belmont Street, not many squares

from the present High School building . I started to school when

ﬁr o ﬁve st e . nly years old , but the day was all I att nded that year During the afternoonusession , a girl whom I knew, passing through the schoolyard , held p a toy , which I supposed she meant for me , w i Th t . e and I went to the window , hich was open , to get teacher, o so foll wing, struck me across the arm with a stick , cruelly , that it left a scar for a long time . Her name was Greenlee , and many years

after her sister Josephine , was my teacher in High School .

The Bellaire school at that tim e was noted for the severity of its

Goodrel teachers ; I think the Superintendent was named , and it was o e d commonly rep rted that th y had a ungeon, or a dark hole of some nﬁn e co ed . o kind , wher they the worst boys I had attended a scho l

in summer at Wegee , in which Aunt Nan was the teacher, and e do i Martha Bric was my little play fellow , but I not th nk we ever did

anything but play .

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. o o e m I felt Pr fess r Laverty was very fond of me and m eting e on the street, would pick me up in his arms and kiss me , which was ter ribl and to a s y embarrassing, avoid which , I was ever on the watch , e it the other girls t ased me about . There was another man , I think r L wh e o . he was a groce , named Will ong, did the sam thing I was d did as a timid child, so these emonstrations not make me precocious as it might otherwise have done . ’ In the fal l of 69 we attended school in the old Disciples Church h e . in old Bellaire , on the site of which t ere is a school hous today B h a W . . d Our teacher was Workman , and he such a large school , th at he permitted the more advanced girls to te ach classes of the f s . O o maller children c urse I had a class , and after all these years , there is only one name I can remember, which was that of a boy

a . o n med Elsa Hogan We were next moved to a sh p of some sort , d e irectly across the street , from my home , on the corn r of Twenty sixth Street and Peach Alley . I think they were building a new school house in central Bellaire at that time . Here in this old shop I engaged in a h erce struggle with Manie Briel and Rachel S atte rﬁeld for spelling honors ; the conte st was so e us clos that each of were awarded a prize of the same series ; mine “ ” was a book entitled , A Wrong Confessed Is Half Redressed . 1 1 In the fall of 87 school was opened in the new Central Building . d B I entere Number Seven , Grammar grade , taught by Miss Mary . O A R Gorby . ur Superintendent was . . Page . As schoolmates I e b recall Ella Strahl , Allie Poorman , Alic Fitton , Ella Gor y, Ella

B lankenso p , Adda Jones , Kate Muth , Sarah B rock , Node Shipman ,

a Ell Abel , Anna B radford , Mary Copeland , Kate Welsh , Kate Archi th e bald . I sat in the row next to boys , and can remember some of “ ” : R odewi and them Fred g, his brother ; Will Smith and Dode

Smith , (with both of whom I renewed the acquaintance later) , George Richardson , Asbury Archibald , Cmharles Westlake , and Harry Whip le . p , of Benwood We were pro oted to High School at Christmas ’ 72 , where we had Miss Josephine Greenlee for our teacher, and later Professor Tuttle , for Superintendent . 1873 In August , , my parents moved to Martins Ferry , and when I entered the Freshman class some of my earliest acquaintances were

i r H obensack e Magg e Ralston , Ma y , Alic Anderson , Kate Carmichael ,

Emily Warwood , Jennie Gray , Mattie Clark , jennie Armstrong, Ella o Grifﬁth Kerr , Sarah Gray, C ra , Cora Shipman , Manda Clarke, Dora and Banche Milligan , and the boys were , Eugene Rider, Eugene and REMINISCENCES OF THE AUTHOR 127

a Lew Smith , J mes and Robert Kerr, Wistar Shreve , and many

o . first Griffith occu thers The very boy I met was Wilber , who was “ ” ’ in d office py g a special seat in Superinten ent Shreve s , also called the library . e I had be n sent the re until Prof . Shreve had time to look into my ” ualifica i n t r o s . an q , so Wib kindly ente tained me . I was certainly “ odd child , and wore odd clothes , so they at once called me the old ” “ fashioned girl , the smart little girl , and Emily Warwood called me “ ” - o f cock r ach , as a pun on my name, which o fended me very much . o f Coffin I was terribly afraid Miss Sarah , the High School teacher , “ for one of the firs t things she made me learn was the Order for

o . t parsing a verb , which I had hithert shirked La er that year she “ ” o On and was ill with pneum nia , and we had Martin Charlie Mor o rison as teachers . After Christmas the big boys of town came t ’ ’ R h e rmnd an u A ot s d . school ; there were Frazier s , , others class of fi firs t ve young men also graduated and entered college . That year was not a success for me, as I was lonely, and unhappy, and because fo r of sickness did not return the spring term . ’ In the fall of 74 I e ntered in better spirits as I felt better acquainted with the class who came from the Grammar Grade ; Kate Griffith r , Kate Anderson , Mary Park , Lucy Wood , Ma y Campbell , n Angie Gray , Minnie Hay e , Mattie Wallace , Lizzie Timberlake ; also “ ” the o a Chalfant boys , Samuel Gr ves , James , ali s Sissy Grier, Pete

a . Millig n , and many others One delightful memory is of the eve ” ning sessions the Arithmetic class sometimes held in the library,

E E . a e . with Prof . Shreve , wher such prominent men as Capeh rt , of the Navy , and James Kerr , of the Army , struggled as hopelessly as

ur us o the rest of , till instructor had solved some intricate problem ’ of Ray s Higher Arithmetic ; for he was never s atisﬁed till it was

md . ade plain to the ullest of the class

10 1878 as a On April , , the whole school , well as the entire com ee a munity , were grief stricken , by the loss of thr of our classm tes

McKim. by drowning ; Pete Milligan , Herbert Crowl and Frank The ff graduating class were especially a licted by their loss , as they were e Grif the only boys in the class ; the girls were Kate Anderson , Kat

. ﬁth , Lucy Wood , Cora Sloan, Minnie Hayne , and myself A o s I was destined for a sch ol teacher, I took the County Examina but l th e tion in the fall , did not secure a schoo until next spring: The i d irectors o f District Number F ve, Mead Township, now Shadyside, o f c had d ecided to hold a Spring term, because dissatisfa tion with 128 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

teacher and results , of the winter term . The directors were Joseph L Crow, John Heath , and Robert . Cochran, my uncle , clerk . I

it . e an applied for this school , and was elected to teach The term b g and 3 e . March l st , and was for thre months I was very successful

‘ the pupils were quite docile . Several of the older boys got a licking .

“ in e ﬁrst f I made it a rule to keep them aft r school for their of ense,

f r e . m and give them a licking o the s cond Some of the now pro inent ﬁr u n st citizens of Shadyside were doubtless amo g my p pils , some of e whom I can r call , Dellar , Kate and Samuel Heath , George , Elmer and Josie Crow ; Mattie, Blanche , Kate and Alpha Davis ; Alice,

F- h E Th m ut e d . o Maggie , Anna, and Kate Brice ; Harry and Jim y ; p son , Chris , Dan , and Maggie Schramm ; Anna Ambler and brother, e a nd r r Samuel ; Amy Keyser and sister Bertie ; Maggi Har y Leasu e ,

Bertie Rankin, (Binah and Stanton Heath ) , and others . The course ’ a and e of study r nged from the alphabet, to Algebra Ray s High r

Arithmetic .

’ r After school hours I enjoyed life on the fa m at grandmother s , as

I had never been there in the spring be fore . Aunt Line was a widow d he r at home with her mother at this time , and I use to assist in d riving hens who prolonged their setting period, from their nests . S he t t e was a li tle timid about catching hem , when we tried to fast n a ﬂannel piece o f red to their tails , which was supposed to be a pre n ve tive .

Another pleasant diversion was feeding the calves . Did you ever

. it ? try There is nothing like it in the world ; the frantic , hungry r to th e creature , choking, slobbering, t ying get its head into bucket ,

i a ain u st o and banging the bucket g y , and the fence, and any thing else in the way , and spilling about half the contents . It was not only it fun ; it was exercise , but I enj oyed .

Another task was helping to pick the geese . They were ﬁrst

- . u driven into the cow barn , and my task was to slip p behind one, seize it quickly , carry it over to grandmother , and she would pull a

0 11 stocking over its head , place it between her knees , and strip its feathers with a quick deft touch . I fancy I can still see the indignant

flirt 1t finall of its tail when was y released , as though its feelings , as tfl rued . well as its feathers , had been 1881 In September , , I began teaching at West Wheeling ; a most n . two o trying positio There were ro ms ; I had the primary grade , e which includ d Fourth Reader . There was an enrollment of one

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— o scholars to waste their time over their spelling b oks , for they needed m f Gram ar more , I thought ; but that did not hinder Minnie Du f and n o Joh Woods from spending their recess periods , and no n hours , in

alternately coaching each other, as they were regarded as our best e at spellers , whil Fred Woods and Mattie Mitchell were the best

' h h ad a t e t . Ferry View . We g y times on Ridge tha winter Miss

Inez Maj ors , of Scotch Ridge , conducted a class in Penmanship on W we d ednesday evenings , after which adjourne to Uncle John ’ i e Sm th s for a dance . There were other dances , oyst r suppers ,

- - apple parings , a maple sugar party , revival meetings , etc . The

' e were Mor ris e o dir ctors , Cope , Albert Brown , wher I made my h me , and John Smith ; and thei r good wives tried to make me have a good e A time . The young ladi s of the district , Lily Chandler, nnie and McHuh the e Belle Woods , Lizzie g and Maggi B rown , and Williams sisters were all most kind and hospitable ; I think I was invited to

dinner by every family in the neighborhood . I taught thre e terms n e e . i e here , and o ly l ft it to get married The fam lies repr sent d were McHuh s Copes , Gows , Woods , B rowns , Bowens , g , Paxtons , Jordans , D ﬁ ﬁ‘mn us o a s m C c Smiths , Leatherwoods , , , Mc o as , Adams and some

TH E GENEALOGY OF THE DAVIS FAMILY

( Since the writer of these chronicles is twice related to the Davis

e - o family, by int r marriage on b th sides , she has thought it practical to introduce a brie f sketch of their biomgraphy ; the two families h av ﬁr ing many interests in common , and fro the fact that the st settle O o 1802 ment in Bellaire , hi , in , was made by Jacob Davis , an ﬁrst Englishman , who had located in Maryland , where he married a

Miss Henderson . ) 1915 A m . M In the su mer of , the writer interviewed Mrs . . Coch d ran , of Moundsville , West Virginia , who is a aughter of Jacob Davis , Junior , and the widow of William Cochran , of Bmellaire . She and two brothers are all that are left of the older Davis fa ily ; she is in

- her eighty third year , and has a remarkable memory for names and

o i. dates , and likes to talk the past and the friends that are gone , and e gave the writer some interesting and r liable data . 2 r ﬁr 18 9 . st n In , her father , Jacob Davis , J , built the log cabin o ’ th e McMah ons the river bank , near mouth of Creek , with the assist to ance of the militia , who were collected there muster . This cabin T H E DAVIS GENEALOGY 131

1870 was removed in , and a machine and implement works erected on its site . The land of the city proper was a government grant 1792 to John Duer in . Duer sold this grant to Buchanan, and in

1832 o - , he sold it to J hn Rodefer ; one hundred and thirty three a cres Run K to Mc elve south of Indian , (according y in the History of Bel mont County) . The same year, Captain John Fink purchased all ’ McMahons the tract of land lying south of Creek, from Jacob Davis , f r 14 it o 00. 1834 including the coal underlying , $ In , April , Jacob on Davis laid out six acres the beautiful plateau , just no rth of ’ ’ McMah ons Creek , and named it Bellaire , in honor of his mother s home town in Maryland .

’ Jacob Davis and Rebekah O Neal were married in Moundsville on 82 h 26 1 4 . dauh May , , by John Parrott They had six sons and t ree g

: e A . ters , as follows Wesl y , Nelson , Margaret , Melissa , Ervin ,

Dorsey , Alfred , Caroline , Theodore . 1 Mr . 844 After the death of Davis , in , his widow married John an Shane, by whom she had two sons , William and Alex der . A e K a 185 0. Wesley Davis married nn rebs , of Powhat n , in They L had . four sons , two of whom survive ; Orlando , of Columbus ,

O e . O hio , and Harry , of Fort Worth , T xas rlando married Julia a Campbell , of Belpre, Ohio, and has one daughter, Mrs . Henry Sc r

. s and lett , and one grandson , Campbell Harry married in Texa has two daughters . b Ne lson Davis married Virginia Hayes , y whom he had three

A . children ; Leo , lice and Virginia Virginia Davis and her children h e n lived at t family home of the Krebs , o the Ohio River , and she f amil uni t l died there , and her children were reared in that y his sec l in ond marriage to Miss Addie McC a . Four children were born of

this union .

ﬁrst 19 Margaret Davis was married at the age of , to Isaac

McMillin . , to whom two sons were born , Ivan , and Dr Nelson

McMillin . o , of Iola, Kansas ; she married again , Dr J seph Beam , of

0 . Youngstown , A Melissa . Davis married William Cochran , of Pultney Bottom , d 1855 . Three daughters were born to them , ofmwhom two die in m1895 . A infancy , E ma in son, Theodore , arried Miss Kate A . M. e . . Martin , of Moundsville, wher he now resides Mrs Coch

ran was born inBellaire , where she has spent the greater part of her

i . e n St . , li fe, xcept the six years Clairsville when her husband was 132 CHRON ICLES OF THE COCHRANS

ff Sheri of Belmont County . Since his death she has resided in an Moundsville . Her father d all her brothers were rivermen ; owners , captains , and pilots , of both steam and coal boats , on the

Ohio and Mississippi Rivers .

Ervin Davis married a lady from Cincinnati .

Dorsey Davis married Mabel Dillon , and had two children .

“ a Alfred Davis m rried Margaret Shaver , of the Wegee coal works .

ﬁve They lived on a farm at that place , and had a family of or six children . Alfred Davis was accidentally shot and killed on Bellaire e 1 7 8 0. streets , while returning from a lodge m eting,in Members of his family still reside at Shadyside , near Bellaire .

Caroline Davis died in childhood .

od r K . The ore Davis married Frankie Holliste , of Covington , y , and H e o has a son and a daughte r . has been in the g vernment service

a as pilot and captain of their craft for more th n thirty years . i McMillen William Shane marr ed Dorcas , of Bellaire , and their n . a d . family are all dead Alex . Shane married lives in Bellaire H e O . ne son , Nelson , is in business in Bellaire married Miss Miller , of Indianapolis .

TRA NSLATION OF PASS - PORT OF CH RISTIAN K REBS

685 . . No . Canton Bern

Higher Court Nidau .

A notiﬁed s All organized Civil and Military uthorities are to pa s , free and unhindered , Christian Krebs , of Buehl , a farmer , with his b hy e : lawful wife , Anna ( orn ) , Niklos , and children named Christian ,

John , Benedict , Elizabeth , and Marie Krebs . h y e Age 35 years , height feet, two , according to the French meas

r mens ue t ;

Has blonde or light hair ; blonde or light eye - brows ; gray eyes ; hoo ked or Roman nose ; medium sized mouth ; round chin ; round forehead ; long face . or o r It is his will ( purpose) to travel to North America , over ( ,

Du . o i by way ) Havre Grace , until he arrives there m A e nd herewith he shall receive support or h lp , in advance , if eces sary .

25 1825 . Given in Castle Nidau , January ,

Good for one year .

Undersigned by the traveler . Judge of the Upper Court , binn n W ue . Christian Krebs . Von

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11 n 70. In accorda ce with the laws of the State and Republic of

r . u e u . Be n Given nd r my hand and seal . Gr ber Ber 26 182 r 5 . Janua y , Reverse side reads 4 3 ’ i . ﬁ r No 3 . Viewed by Charge d A a es for France and Switzer 26 1 . 82 land Bern , the , February , 5.

L Pa re Paul or Pierre a y.

Good for voyage on ship , The Comet , Captain Moore , going to 11 h 1 2 t 8 5 . New York from Havre , till June, the ,

The Commissioner of Police , inn n u W so . Stamp Police d Havre .

GENEALOGY OF CHRISTIAN KREB S

25 17 S . 89 Christian Krebs , r , was born January , , in Canton

Nicl 1 1 . o s 8 4 . o Berne , Switzerland Married Anna in To k out pass 2 1 2 ﬁ e 5 8 5 . v port papers for America, January , They had children

e living when they came to this country ; namely , Christian , John , Ben o 1815 dict, Elizabeth , Marie . Anna, the oldest child , was b rn in , n a d . d died in Switzerland One child , evidently Benedict , die just e as they w re in sight of New York, and was buried there , after landing . o As nearly as we can learn , after leaving New Y rk , they came by ff M t . way of the Erie Canal to Bu alo , thence to Cleveland , thence to

O to O . Vernon , hio , Zanesville , , where they mtarried for several weeks , and where another child was born to the ; a son , named for

o ne . the that had died , Benedict , the second They had travelled thus

x - - man o tea d far by wagon and , now continued their j ourney from

- - . Va . b O W . Zanesville , , to Wheeling, , thence y ﬂat boat to their future home , three miles south of Captina, or what is now called i h Powhatan , because it has been sa d the famous Indian C ief of that name lies buried on the hill back of the little town . u e There was q ite a settlement of Swiss at Stein rsville , on the o Captina Creek , a mile or more west of the Ohio River , int which an the creek empties . Opposite the mouth of the creek there is n island and o the West Virginia side there was once a fort , called “ ” e 1794 c Bak r s Fort ; here in o curred the Battle of Captina, in which several white men were killed , and a number of Indians as

oc well . Some authors say that Captina Island was also the l ality 134 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

1774 m where in some Indians , who were returning fro a conference e ﬁred o with th ir white brethren at Pittsburg, were up n and killed by to order of Michael Cresap , whose descendants , this day, still live in this vicinity . 1825 However , there were no Indians at Steinersville in , where Christian Krebs left his family while he j ourneyed farthe r to the Land

Ofﬁce - one at Marietta , where he purchased one hundred and twenty

o acres of land on the Ohio River , the extreme l wer part of his land ish lying opposite the head of F Creek Island , the upper part adj oining

- the land of Jacob Glor , whose eighty two acres were later bought .

Much of the land lay on the side of the hills , which were so pre i i us c p to they reminded him of his native land ; and extended along the more level summit . Many of his countrymen bought land on the hills beyond him , and afterwards this section of country became known as Switzerland Township , because of this fact . n There was a small cabin on the place , and some cleared la d for a garden , but the slopes of the hillside were covered with a forest H . e of trees soon found a way to clear his land , by operating a o o station , for selling w od to the b ats , which were now beginning to open quite a market between Pittsburg and New Orleans .

Late in the fall he secured ten or twelve experienced wood - choppers ﬁrst e s b t who clear d a road along the side of a ravine clo e y, o the ﬁrst e level bench , where th y erected a cabin for themselves , and also d e built a chute , own which the wood was sent to the river bank , wher to it was cut in proper lengths , and piled , season and to be ready for

e ﬂ at - the boats . It was th n loaded into boats , which contained eight

. A cords , and sold for one dollar and a quarter per cord s these ﬂat b boats belonged to him , the other oats usually would take a ﬂat in a tow , until it was unloaded , then c st it loose .

f th e o O course , grandfather or one of workmen would g along ﬂat to with the , bring it home safely ; but one time in early spring, it happened that a boat whistled for wood , when the men were all too

o at far away . Grandm ther and the smaller children only were the bur t house . She could speak nothing Ge man , and unfortunately , but none of the men on the boat could speak anything English ; and us thus she related the sto ry to “ o me t The captain , however, moti ned for to come aboard the boa , it for he had to have the wood . There was no help for , and I must on b bring the ﬂat back, or lose it the children were standing the ank,

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nea th them, all preached so powerful a sermon to me , that I never ” nﬂ en forgot their i uce . Sometimes one or more of the choppers would come to the house

on Sunday, and beg grandfather to tell them stories of the Father “ d : lan , and this was a favorite one A friend and I had gone to attend th e e monthly cattle mark t at Berne , which was six miles from our

village . It was a bright moonlight night , and in returning, we n stopped at an inn about three miles from home . O entering the ﬁlled room, which was with small tables , benches and chairs , we ur notice d a young man of o acquaintance and a young lady with him ,

seated at one of the tables .

and We sat down near them , as we were all acquainted , and the ‘ young lady was of a lively disposition , I called across to them , come ’

an t u us . d o s on over , talk , and let drink to your health She arose

o us . laughing and came and sat d wn with , but not so her companion

H e us . H e sat still and glowered at was a surly , j ealous man , not

given to friendliness . After we had talked together for perhaps half

an hour we arose to go and she rejoined her lover . When I bade him ‘ ’ ’ - : . good night , he answered angrily I ll be even with you for that

When I stepped out through the door , I felt an intolerable , burning

e sensation at the back of my neck . We walk d on silently for a short i distance, until the pain becom ng unbearable , I unfastened my collar , H asking my friend to look at it . e could neither see nor feel any ‘ i it : thing that m ght cause , but said Perhaps Hans has bewitched ’ to you , which I made no answer .

When we were almost home , at the forks of the road , there sat the

largest dog that I had ever seen .

to Instantly the burning on my neck ceased , as I turned my friend ‘ ? and said , Look there , what do you think of that Did you ever see d o such a large g as that , before ‘N . it o , I never did see anything like it before Do not speak to , d ’ o . for it may be a witch , and you some harm His mind seemed to

run on th e subj ect of witches .

We passed the animal silently . It gave no sound , except to follow

u. s As we passed through the village , other dogs ran out to bark at us ff o , but on seeing the strange animal , each of them slunk , without

any further noise , while the strange animal paid not the slightest at

. o tention to any of them When my friend left me at his own do r, the

animal followed me . When I reached home I asked my wife to draw GENEALOGY OF CHRISTIAN KREBS 137

e the water fuor the cattl . She looked surp rised , as I had never asked e i her to do s ch a thing b fore , but started out the door to attend to t . ‘ n O am ! She retur ed instantly , saying, h I so frightened there is such

do e a large g, or some oth r animal out there by the well .

Then I told her of all my experiences during th e evening and we agreed that Hans had taken that form to annoy me and perhaps do me

. o some harm She suggested that she g out with me, as it would Th probably not molest her, and her idea was correct . e next morning it was gone but when night fell it returned . This it continued to do for nine nights ; I was getting weak and nervous , over the matter ; I consulted the advice of others , and one and all said to leave the ani

e mal entir ly alone , thus giving my enemy no opportunity for further persecution . Some one suggested that I shoot it with a silver bullet , as that was supposed to be done to break the spell . To add to the mystery , Hans had disappeared also he and his sweetheart had quarreled and separated ; some said he had gone to America . Many of the neigh

who bors saw my nightly visitor , came and went , without any noise whatever , until the ninth and last night , when he began to howl

ﬁnall shortly before midnight , at which time he y disappeared , leaving us the echo of those mournful sounds to ring in our ears , to convince ” that we had not dreamed it all . (Note . Tmhis tale was believed , in all sincerity , by the older members of the fa ily , to have been a case “ ” rnacu to v e where the narrator was bewitched , or verhext , use the S t. lar . The writer thinks it was one of the Bernard dogs from the famous Hospice in the Alps lost perhaps , or wandered astray through some mountain pass . ) Another story runs in this wise : Three miles from our village in l an opposite direction from Berne , lived a most pecu iar family . In

o . Switzerland pe ple do not live on isolated farms , as we do in America in Each farmer builds his house and barn close , and this makes the

but n . o village , his la d may lay miles away The man in questi n had and reared a large family, but all his children had left never returned ,

e e . until but one remain d at home , a girl of fourte n Their house was

c two e large , onsisting of stori s and a basement , but there was one to room in the house , which the family were never permitted enter,

. m and where the father spent much of his time One sum er night he

‘ drove his horses out to the pasture , beyond the village . A neighbor ‘ r is asked him why he was tu ning them out ; he replied , Because that ’ o the best place for them tonight . After he returned home , the glo my 138 CHRONICLES OF THE Coc H RAN s

u nn i . father sent his da ghter to the , to get him some brandy While b she was gone, he killed his wife withua hatchet and carried her ody to the basement , where he boarded p the windows and nailed the fin i ers t . door, leaving the prints of his bloo dy g upon When the in daughter returned, he locked her in her own room the second ; story , not permitting her to inquire about her mother then taking his o . b ttle of brandy , he repaired to his secret roo After dark , he left the house with a basket on his arm . This basket contained the bottle filled of brandy , a small bottle of poison , and was with matches , from six to ten inches long, which he had manufactured himself . Matches first had not come into general use at that time , and his were the I ever saw .

ﬁre Beginning with his own , he set to every barn in the village ; o f ﬁres some these were discovered in time to be saved , but many of

ﬁ r . u the villagers lost their barns and contents His skulking g e was was seen frequently , but he not suspected , until his daughter was rescued from the house which was burning, and the body of the mur dered woma n was found and the secret room thrown open to public o f o and view . It contained models various inventi ns , chemicals tools of all sorts , and a number of the matches , which had to be dipped ﬁrst into a bottle of sulphuric acid and then they burst into a bright

ﬂame . The villagers at once started in pursuit of him but he had escaped to the mountains . More than a year afterwards , a hunter discovered a cav e in which was found a skeleton and a basket with bottles and

m. a few atches None knew why he engaged in such extreme wicked o r ness , unless insane , perhaps failing in some of his inventions , had planned to destroy the village in revenge It was the greatest tragedy ” ever occurring in our midst .

o ff a In addition to the business of clearing the timber the farm l nd , w and furnishing the boats with fuel , was later the ork of getting out stone , when the United States Government decided to build a dam in the river, from the Fish Creek Island to the West Virginia shore .

We had also a house to build for ourselves , and a barn .

' a aﬁa ir en The cabin on the place was a sm ll , built by a former oc H e pant , named Wibble , who never owned the land . later moved to a the isl nd . When preparing the foundation for the new house , they

- o f certainly decided to lay it broad and deep , for it consisted four ﬁfteen large rooms , at least feet square ; two being built against the

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1818 l st 1882 Christian , born in in Switzerland , and died April , , in

O . Belmont County , hio 1819 Benedict , born in in Switzerland, died at sea , and buried in

New York . ' 1821 1849 of John , born in in Switzerland , died in Monroe County , , cholera . 1 1823 885 . Marie , born in in Switzerland , died in Monroe County in

1825 . Benedict , Second , born in at Zanesville , Ohio Fell from ’ 18 56 . Stille s barn and killed , a in 1827 Willi m , born in Monroe County . Died in Monroe County ,

1854 . , of consumption

1829 . Kate , born in in Monroe County Died in Monroe County in infancy . 18 1 i n 3 . Anne, born in Monroe County Died in Belpre , Ohio ,

1880.

1833 . Caroline , born in in Monroe County Only living member of mi the fa ly . 1 oe 835 . Samuel , born in in Monroe County Died in Monr County 1912 November , .

n. 1 o i 838 . Charlotte , b rn in Monroe County Died in Martins 18 96 . Ferry , Ohio, April ,

Christian Krebs , the father , was stricken with apoplexy in Novem ber 1844 K , , while on his way to vote for James . Polk , for President 1 4 e 8 8. of the United Stat s , and after lingering for four years died in

- Niclos 1874 . Anna Krebs died in February , , aged eighty years

MARRIAGES

th e Christian Krebs , son , married Catharine Anschutz , (widow of 1 o 186 . e w as J hn Marbach) , in Catharin Krebs born at Nein

D r ir 11 1 3 f 83 . e . o Kirche, , Germany , Oct , One the pathetic features of her life is the fact that she was twice married in the same house , e and lat r buried both husbands from that house , which was formerly the residence of her aunt , Mrs . Strausser , with whom she made her

th e . home , at mouth of Wegee Creek Mrs . Marbach had two chil he r ﬁrst dren by husband , who was killed in the Wegee Coal Mine , a daughter Mary , deceased , and a son John . John Marbach married Binah Heath of Wegee : to them were born 3 — children Charles , Earl and Vera, who married Cunningham and c 1897 . e resides in Wheeling Mrs . Marba h di d in GENEALOGY OF CHRISTIAN KREBS 14 1

d The chil ren of Christian Krebs were Carrie , who married Charles

Wise , of Bellaire , and has three children , Albert , Fannie and Elmer . b Albert married Miss Cor ett , and has two children .

W . Va . Anna , of Wheeling,

Va . W . Elizabeth , of Wheeling, 18 S 76. amuel, who was drowned in

e Albert married J ssie Murrin , of Wheeling, and is engaged in b usiness there .

l s t 1882 Christian Krebs died April , , in Belmont County , Ohio .

e 7 1915 . e Catherine Kr bs died November , Both are buri d in Wheeling . b Eliza eth Krebs married William Stille , a Prussian much older

on than herself , and located the hills several miles from the river .

o o They wned c nsiderable land , very hilly , and quite a large vineyard ,

- - from which they made wine in an old fashioned wine press . Their

house must have been built after the style of a Swiss Chalet, a sort of n balco y built around the outside ; it could hardly be called a porch ,

for it was not more than three feet wide , built around three sides , the

o ther side of the house being built against the hill . As the writer. it e recalls , the resemblance to houses built in the Alps r gion is very

similar ; and Uncle William was a very typical old German , with his a H e long, white hair, and rubicund counten nce . could speak English very clearly and prided himself on that fact he was a man of cons id H e o . c rable education , and quite f nd of me always called his wife “ ” us Elise , which seemed strange to , who knew her as Aunt Lizzie .

She was a devout Christian , climbing those steep hills to attend

church services at the home of her sister Mary, whose husband , as

well as herself , was capable of conducting services . nmr ua l The , chi dren of Elizabeth and William Stille were , John ,

ried .

Mary , married Louis Rabel , and had three daughters , as follows

Lucy , married Frederick , and lives in North Wheeling .

o . Minnie , married Clark Wells , and is a wid w hm e S c ead Leila, marri d , of New Martinsville , and has two

children .

Julius , son of Elizabeth and William Stille , married Mary Anne ‘

Kocher ; bo th are dead , but two sons survive, Walter and Harry .

Theodore Stille married Caroline Boltz , and has one daughter ,

. . Della , who married Chris Bigler 142 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

a o n ﬁne Mary Krebs m rried Ulrich Yost , and they located a farm , m n ’ out on the hills , much farther fro the river tha Stille s , yet their

bu ff - 0 t land adjoined , on di erent ranges of the hill t ps , which really ought to be called peaks . Their land was more level than the other a e and they raised large crops of grain , and kept m ny cows ; s nding the milk night and morning to the cheese dairy in their vicinity, where is made the Sweitzer Cheese , which is fully the equal of the imported be r variety . Here , too, might seen night and morning, another featu e

o to the a or cust m , similar that related of German provinces , n mely , h o f t e sight of women walking to the dairy, with great cans milk t in strapped on their backs . These cans are made of very heavy and 5 6 ﬂ at h contain or gallons ; they are made , wit rounded ends , and d probably thirty inches deep, eighteen or twenty broa , and eight h o ts . inches across the top , with a wo den lid , which in the top They were supported by straps over the shoulders . Only a strong woman n a d . could carry such a burden , then not far I do not know i f this m in th e a e custo still prevails hills of Monroe , but m ny a tim have I seen it in my childhoo d . My uncle did not require this of his women

- folks as they had a sort of buck board , with the cans strapped on the it w e back of , drawn by a horse, and children enj oyed the ride to the d airy.

There was another established custom at the Yost home, which we children did not so much enj oy ; that was what we should call family e a worship ; Uncl was not much given to t lk at any time, but at table

- o during meal time , no c nversation was permitted at all ; he was a very r first quick , ne vous man ; eating very rapidly and being served , his finish ed us meal was before some of the rest of had hardly got started , o especially the children from t wn , timid and afraid to make their finish ed d wants known ; having uhis meal , Uncle would take own the s it old family Bible, and read a chapter , and expound , and close with a prayer ; this was usually at breakfast ; at other times he would j ust ask a blessing ; every one kept his seat , during this service , except on occasions , I have seen the men leave the table , during the H reading, but never the women or children . e was a sincere Chris n tian known far and wide , as a j ust man , and as a authority , his fin word was al .

: There were six children Christian , Mary , who died in infancy ; o J hn , who enlisted and was killed in the war ; William , Caroline , d 1880 Samuel , who ied in , unmarried .

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e In 1870 he mov d to Dillies Bottom , where he lived for eight years ; t a nd where the writer used o visit them and play around the river , s a nd learned to row a boat and to swim . Corneliu and Charlotte

Kirkbride had a family of four children , Ida Anne , John , who died

e . in infancy Alva Ad lia, and Archibald

and 1880 In 1879 the family moved to the Wegee Coal Works , in

E Mah aﬁ ee . Ida married Thomas . , who lived in that vicinity In 1881 both families moved to the new mines opened west of Bridge port , and lived at the Enlow Place on the National Road . Here Cor

nelius 21 1883. to died July , Nine children were born Thomas and

Mah aﬁ ee Ida , as follows

T . Chester . , at home

E n . Guy . , died in infa cy

M. D . Harry , married Luella avis L Goldie Mae , married George . Archibald , and has one daughter .

Bertie Kathleen, married Earl Drummond , and has two children .

Roy , at home .

R . . Charles , died in infancy

S . . Theodore , at home

Archie K. , at home .

ffe and o n and rooﬁn Thos . Maha e s s are engaged in the tin slate g

business in Bellaire , Ohio .

A . Alva Kirkbride married Henry Hawkins , of Benwood , and died 1 2 90 . in Archibald Kirkbride went to Anderson , Indiana , where he Ke Mc e . e married Mae They have one daught r , Inez . r 2 1896 Charlotte Kirkbride died at Ma tins Ferry , April , , and is i buried at Weeks Cemetery , B r dgeport , Ohio .

Samuel Krebs , youngest son , began life as a farmer, but later

. 1 became a carpenter Was married to Salome Grall in 868. Moved

to Clarington , where he was a partner in planing mill . Lived there A 1880 ’ till pril , , when he moved to the home farm at Krebs Landing,

ﬁv e miles above Clarington . Fourteen children were born to Samuel as and Salome Krebs , follows

Harry , died in infancy ; Henry Franklin , Evaline Delora , Charles Edward , Anna Cathuerine , George Albert , William Samuel , John , died in infancy Aug st , Louis , Bertie , Ernest , Jesse , Paul . n Frank Krebs married Lydia Murri , of Wheeling, where he was H . e 1909 engaged in the livery business died in , and his wi fe died in 12 19 . July , GENEALOGY OF CHRISTIAN KRE B S 145

K Griffi h e . t s 0 . Eva rebs marri d Edward J , of Cleveland , They e d Mr riffi h hav one son , E ward, and live in Columbus , where . G t s ’ e firm r presents a Cleveland in Grocers Specialties .

ankhouser Charles Krebs married Lora F , of Powhatan . They live in Chicago, Ill . mf anuac Anna Krebs married Henry Haller, of Wheeling, a cigar turer . They have four children living .

In rnan O George Krebs married Ina g , of Newark , hio, where he is

b . engaged in carpentry and ca inet work They have three children .

William Krebs is married and lives in Bellaire, where he is engaged

- mi . in blacks thing and wagon building They have one daughter,

Wilma .

e O . August Krebs and Catherin Vance , of Steubenville , , were mar

1 15 in. 3 9 0 . ried July , , and reside Cincinnati ,

s e a nd a . Louis Krebs married Mis V lma Ford lives at Wilton , Iow

H ne i t . as o ch ld, Kenne h a nd h Bertie Kreb s marri ed Witten Hissom , of Wheeling Fis Creek O Island . They have four children , and at present reside at Sardis , .

d o . e Ernest Krebs marrie Lena Phelps , of Logan, Ohi They hav n two children and resid e at Cinci nati . d d Jesse Krebs marrie Ada Roth , of Monroe County, and they resi e onthe home farm . They have three children .

e . Paul Krebs is unmarried , and at pr sent in the west 2 d 191 a d t . Samuel Krebs ied in , n is buried in Claring on

’ ‘ Caroline Krebs and Samuel Cochranwere married October 30 1859.

Five children were born to them, as follows

Id 22 1860 . a Clara , July ,

e 25 1862 A 1863. Charl s Christian , April , . Died ugust, 22 1 A A 864 . lva nne, March , h 3ot 1869. 12 h 1872 ih t . B e Virginia, May , Died December , “ 1 h 1872 O 0t . 7th James Henry , Harry , ctober , Died October , 1 188 .

Ida C. received her education in the public schools of Martins a 31st 1878 Ferry , O . Gr duated May , , with the highest honors of her

class . Taught District School for four years , at Shadyside, at West

o . Wheeling, and three terms at M untain View, or Blackford School

- A l 1th 1883 s . Was married pril , , to Edwin Haughton , a mill worker,

e Pa . o f Martins Ferry a son of Sarah Jan Barnes , of Blairsville, , and

Pa . John Hen ry Clay Haughton , of Freeport , 146 CH RONICLES OF THE COCHRANS

D Sarah J . Barnes traces her ancestry in direct line to r . Robert to Barnes , who was chaplain King Henry the Eighth , but being e d to accused of heresy, scape Germany , where he became a disciple of the Martin Luther, and returning to England , was burned at stake , h 1 mi hﬁ 30t 540 S t eld . July , , at , London

’ Onh emr mother s side the a ncestry runs back to the royal house of the Dru monds .

John Haughton was of Irish ancestry ; the ﬁrst American: being R who 1812 in o ichard , served in the war of , as private Captain J hn ’ ’ o 5 McDonald s n Go dwin s Company, th ( ) Regiment, North Caroli a 1813 Militia, raised in Chowan County, , and who fell at the Battle of

New Orleans . i E S . 1 . 906 The fam ly of Haughton resided at Martins Ferry until ,

to . E when they came Columbus They have one daughter, dna e n Mitchell , a graduat o f the Ohio State University ; at prese t has a h the e responsible position wit Aetna Life Insuranc Company .

o Edwin S . Haught n has been engaged in the music business since .

893 0 . 1 , and at present is in Toledo,

A . W V a . Alva Cochran and Jonathan Wilson , of Wellsburg, . , were 28th 1882 m A married ugust , , and six children were born to the

e A a Lester Cochran , Ida May, Georg Carl , James Elmer, Jesse lb n , rederic Thomas Morton and two grandchildren , F Wilson Eberle , and

Carl Stewart Wilson . E d Two children , Lester and lmer, ied in infancy .

Carl Wilson and Gladys Stewart, of Bridgeport , were married June , 1 909 .

Niclos - d 1874 Anna Krebs ied February , , at the family home and is th e er o buried in Steig Cemetery , out on the hills of Monroe C unty,

Ohio .

- th e i Caroline Krebs Cochran is only surviving member of her fam ly , — in her eighty third year .

’ ma l m o o d . In y youth I spent any a h ppy day at my m ther s home

I seem to see my dear old grandmother with her silvery hair, that fell below her waist . t I can still imagine tha warm , comfy feeling , when the feather bed folded around me , as I lay beside her, on some unforgotten winter nights when I was a child .

o I hear her gentle v ice, pleading with my sister and me to sing for

148 CHRONICLES OF TH E COCHRANS

MOONLIGHT ON THE RIVE R

’ As in ri fancy I sit by the river s still b nk,

Of the days that are gone I regretfully think . All about me the beautiful countryside lies ; O th e th e — ed es verhead sails moon through star studd ski , A o nd along the blest regions of mo nlight and splendour, ’ The o er er wind rippling it with breath sweet and tend , e e Lik a sh et of pure silver lies softly the river, a Whose light dancing w velets all sparkl e and quiver .

A s w th e cros the b right stream gro meadows o f corn , While around me the fragrance of flowe rs is bo rn ; Behind me a woodland all sombre and grim me Beyond an island lies silent and dim . h mr t e uffled Not a sound can be heard , save thick roa ’ f firm O the dam as it frets its barriers o er ; e e Yet lik sh et of pure silver lies softly the river, h W ose light dancing wavelets all sparkle and quiver .

’ b i Neath the soft eam ng light o f the low summer moon , ’ ﬂowers Midmthe scent of the roses , the of June, a I sitting once more by the side of my lover,

— - While the night moths around the fair rose petals hover .

‘

In my fancy I list to the story of old,

To that sweetest of stories the heart ever told .

And like sheet of pure silver lies softly the river,

Whose light dancing wavelets all sparkle and quiver .

— IDA HR G N COC AN HAU HTO . FIN I S

is and the It with sadness reluctance I lay down my pen, for are the w Chronicles ended, yet the history of Cochran families ill con in m t ue d while ti e shall last ; and whether it shall be good or ill epends upon those who are left to perpetuate the race .

The writing of these Chronicles has been a source of great pleasure to me, and for the past two years , almost an obsession since at times “ it seemed as if the dear, dead ghosts of the past came and sat beside ” “ my chamber door, while I struggled to recall some ancient and for ” A gotten lore . nd so I give it to the hands of its readers , hoping that

l e . and e e . Va it may interest , amuse pl as