Ancestors of Floyd Meredith Cochran Generation 1 1. Floyd Meredith Cochran (son of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Feb 24, 1908 in Kentucky. He died on Mar 31, 2005 in Liberty, Kentucky. He married Gertrude Mary Alice Yowell (daughter of John Thomas Yowell and Myrtle Earmine Wayman) on Sep 09, 1943. She was born on Mar 10, 1907 in Scuffle Branch, Marion County, Kentucky. She died on Sep 19, 2002 in Ephriam McDowell Hospital, Danville, Kentucky. Notes for Gertrude Mary Alice Yowell: Gertrude Mary Alice Yowell was first married to James Adams in xyz. THey had one daughter, Patricia Ann Adams who married Kenneth Parker Ewing. Generation 2 2. George Preston Cochran (son of Isham Monroe Cochran and Rebecca Caroline Short) was born on Sep 22, 1879 in Liberty, Casey, Ky. He died on Dec 28, 1954 in Casey County, Kentucky. He married Lenora Atwood (daughter of Nathan Meredith Atwood and Mary Caroline Coontz) on Oct 01, 1896 in N.M. Atwood's, Casey County, Kentucky. 3. Lenora Atwood (daughter of Nathan Meredith Atwood and Mary Caroline Coontz) was born on Apr 19, 1882 in Kentucky. She died on Oct 12, 1970 in Casey, Kentucky (Age: 88). Notes for Lenora Atwood: Lenora Atwood Cochran's mother died when she was young (from childbirth to terrible two's, somewhere). She was taken in by her maternal grandparents, the Robert A. and Mary Caroline Coontz family, and raised by them. When she married George Preston Cochran at 16 in 1898, they told her she could pick out anything from their house as a wedding gift; she chose a wardrobe which she kept for the rest of her life. The wardrobe eventually found its way to the kitchen as a pantry. George Preston Cochran was a magistrate and used one of the shelves for his business papers. Later, the wardrobe was given to Vivian C. Foster. Jerry L. Foster rebuilt and refinished the wardrobe and they consider it to be one of their prized possessions. The Casey County News Liberty, Kentucky, Thursday, October, 15, 1970 Lenora Cochran Succumbs Mrs. Lenora Cochran, 88, died at her home on Big South Fork on Monday of this week. She was born on April 19, 1882, the daughter of N. M. and Caroline Coontz Atwood. She was the wife of the late George Cochran who died on December 28, 1954. She was the mother of Mrs. Edna Edwards, Hustonville; George Monroe Cochran, Liberty; Floyd Cochran, Hustonville; Mrs. Chelsie Reed, Hustonville; Mrs. Estelle Cannon, Liberty; Mrs. Nancy Gorley, Liberty; Mrs. Helen Jeffries, Erlanger; and Mrs. Doris Brown, Liberty. There are 28 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren. She was a sister of Claud, Jack, Kelsey, and James Atwoo, Liberty; Mrs. Mary Tutlow and Mrs. Della Peyton, Indiana; Mrs. Fanny Russell, California; and Mrs. Eva Edwards. Services were held at Atwood Chapel on Thursday morning with Dr. Robert Anderson officiating. Burial was at Tapscott Cemetery. Bartle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Lenora Atwood and George Preston Cochran had the following children: i. Adna Caroline Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Jan 25, 1898 in Kentucky. She died on Jun 07, 1986. She married Warren Wallace Edwards on Nov 08, 1914 in Casey County, Kentucky. He was born on Oct 29, 1896. He died on Feb 27, 1963. ii. Bessie Lee Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Mar 25, 1900 in Kentucky. She died on Jun 07, 1944 in Casey, Kentucky, USA. She married Joe R. Williams (son of John Williams and Martha Williams) on Nov 10, 1918. He was born on Oct 03, 1897 in Casey County, Kentucky. He died on Nov 19, 1977 in Liberty, Casey, Kentucky, USA (Age at Death: 80). iii. George Monroe Cochran (son of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Nov 25, 1901 in Kentucky. He died on Dec 29, 1970 in Casey County, Kentucky. He married Bessie Marie Sharp on Apr 23, 1923. She was born in 1909. She died on Jul 10, 1996. Notes for Bessie Marie Sharp: Bessie S. Cochran LIBERTY - Services for Bessie Sharp Cochran, 89, Liberty Route 1, will be 2 p.m. Friday at Atwoods Chapel United Methodist Church, by the Rev. Dwight Coffman. Burial will be in Tapscott Cemetery. She died Tuesday at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, Danville. Born Aug. 13, 1906, in Casey County, she was a daughter of the late William J. and Ella Jeffries Sharp. She was a homemaker and a member of Atwoods Chapel United Methodist Church. She was the widow of George Roe Cochran and was preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Adams, and a son, Billy Carl Cochran. Survivors include four daughters, Cleo and Edith Coffman, both of Louisville, and Bernice Luttrell and Carole Anderson, both of Paxton, Ill.; seven sons, Hollis and Lowell Cochran, both of Mooresville, Ind., Paul Cochran of Stanford, Donald Lee and Marvin Cochran, both of Liberty, Garland Cochran of Bradfordsville, and Charlie Cochran of Lebanon; a sister, Bertha Redrick, Greenwood, S.C.; 27 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren. Visitation is after 5 p.m. today at Bartle Funeral Home. [Published July 11, 1996] 1. iv. Floyd Meredith Cochran (son of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Feb 24, 1908 in Kentucky. He died on Mar 31, 2005 in Liberty, Kentucky. He married Gertrude Mary Alice Yowell (daughter of John Thomas Yowell and Myrtle Earmine Wayman) on Sep 09, 1943. She was born on Mar 10, 1907 in Scuffle Branch, Marion County, Kentucky. She died on Sep 19, 2002 in Ephriam McDowell Hospital, Danville, Kentucky. v. Vannie Carl Cochran (son of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Oct 02, 1910. He died on Mar 22, 1912. vi. Chelcie Opal Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Feb 08, 1914 in Kentucky. She died in 2005. She married Lewis Allen Reed on Dec 31, 1930. He was born on Apr 04, 1908. He died on Mar 16, 1984 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. vii. Alma Estelle Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Jun 14, 1918 in Kentucky. She died on Oct 11, 2008 in Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky. She married Cecil Cannon on Jan 11, 1947. He was born on Jan 11, 1920. He died in 1986. viii. Nancy Jane Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Feb 29, 1920 in Kentucky. She died on Sep 03, 1999. She married Arthur Melvin Gorley on Jan 13, 1943. ix. Helen Faye Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Apr 15, 1925 in Casey, Kentucky. She died on Feb 19, 2012. She married William Fred Jeffries (son of Calvin Texton "Tec" Jeffries and Wavie True) on Dec 25, 1943. He was born in 1921 in Casey County, Kentucky. He died on Oct 04, 2007 in Erlanger, Kentucky. x. Doris Frances Cochran (daughter of George Preston Cochran and Lenora Atwood) was born on Mar 18, 1928 in Kentucky. She died on Aug 13, 1996 in Casey, Kentucky (Age: 68). She married E.c. Brown on Jun 27, 1946. Notes for Doris Frances Cochran: Doris F. Brown LIBERTY - Doris Frances Brown, 68, Fair Street, died Tuesday at Casey County Hospital. Born March 18, 1928, in Chilton, she was a daughter of the late George Preston and Lenora Atwood Cochran. She was a former school teacher, former assistant superintendent of the Casey County School system and a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, E.C. Brown; two sons, George M. Brown, Liberty, and Bruce B. Brown, Somerset; a brother, Floyd Cochran, Bradfordsville; four sisters, Chelcie Reed, Estelle Cannon and Nancy Gorley, all of Liberty, and Helen Jeffries, Erlanger; and four grandchildren. Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church with the Revs. Jerry Browning and Jimmy Brown. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Steven and Bradley Brown, Edward and Paul Reed, Fred Jeffries and Humphrey Elliott. Visitation is after 6 p.m. today at Bartle Funeral Home. [Published August 14, 1996] Generation 3 4. Isham Monroe Cochran (son of Lewis L. Cochran and Nancy Oliver) was born on Dec 20, 1846 in Liberty, Casey, Ky. He died on May 13, 1925 in Casey, Kentucky, United States (Age: 78). He married Rebecca Caroline Short (daughter of William Granville "Buck" Short and Rachel Henrietta Brooks) on Dec 19, 1869 in Casey County, Kentucky. 5. Rebecca Caroline Short (daughter of William Granville "Buck" Short and Rachel Henrietta Brooks) was born on Apr 08, 1847 in Morgan County, Kentucky. She died on Jun 06, 1928 in Casey County, Kentucky. Notes for Isham Monroe Cochran: Private in Company M, 8th Kentucky Cavalry, July 28, 1862. Mustered in on September 8, 1862, at Russelville. Blinded in right eye at Clarksville, Tennessee, March 25, 1863. Mustered out on September 17, 1863. Received pension and accumulated substantial land and wealth. Six children: 4 boys and 2 girls Rebecca Caroline Short and Isham Monroe Cochran had the following children: 2. i. George Preston Cochran (son of Isham Monroe Cochran and Rebecca Caroline Short) was born on Sep 22, 1879 in Liberty, Casey, Ky. He died on Dec 28, 1954 in Casey County, Kentucky. He married Lenora Atwood (daughter of Nathan Meredith Atwood and Mary Caroline Coontz) on Oct 01, 1896 in N.M. Atwood's, Casey County, Kentucky. She was born on Apr 19, 1882 in Kentucky. She died on Oct 12, 1970 in Casey, Kentucky (Age: 88).