Elizabeth (Hamblin) Cochran (1929)

COCHRAN, HAMBLIN, HURST, KIRK, STEELE, TUCKER

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Date: 5/7/2006 at 15:02:44

Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 22, 1928
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Pioneer Woman is Eight-Five

Mrs. Wesley Cochran, Who Has Lived in Madison County since 1854, Commemorates Birth— Member of Hamblin Family Which Came to County in 1854

Mrs. Wesley Cochran, pioneer resident of the county celebrated her eight-fifth birthday Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ira Tucker, who lives north of Macksburg.

Mrs. Cochran, who was Elizabeth Hamblin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Hamblin, was born in 1842 in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and in 1854 with her parents came west to settle in Iowa, the family living in Monroe Township

November 14, 1861, Miss Hamblin was married to Wesley Cochran, who had come to the country in 1851 with an uncle M. D. Martin. Mr. Cochran entered eighty acres of land in Grand River township and soon after returned to Illinois and worked there to make money to improve his new holdings in the far western state.

Returning to Madison county he built a log cabin in which he lived nine years purchasing an adjoining eighty acres on which was a frame house. He moved the building to the site of his original home in Iowa and nine years later built the Cochran family home which is so well-known to all the residents of the southwestern part of the county. Mr. Cochran’s land holdings at one time totaled 1925 acres, all good land and all in one body.

Mrs. Cochran lived many years on the homestead after the death of her husband March 15, 1912. Recently, due to impaired health, she has been making her home with her daughter. Other sons and daughters who survived of the nine children who were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cochran are Mrs. Martha Kirk, John and Will Cochran, all of Winterset; Walter, Lee, Fred, and Fields Cochran.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 14, 1929
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Death of Mrs. E. Cochran

Mrs. Elizabeth Cochran died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ira Tucker, north of Macksburg, Saturday evening, February 9th, at the age of 37 years. She had been in ill health for two years, but the past two months continued growing weaker.

In 1854 she came with her parents, Simeon and Eleanor Hamblin, to Monroe township, Madison county, from Ohio. In 1861 she was married to Wesley Cochran, who gained an unusual merit of success as an agriculturist, accumulating nineteen hundred and twenty-five acres of land, near Macksburg.

To this union were born nine children, seven of whom remain to mourn her loss. They are: Fields, Fred, Lee and Walter, of Grand River township; Will and John, of Winterset, and Mrs. Ira Tucker. Her husband preceded her in death.

Short funeral services were held Tuesday at 1 o’clock, at the Tucker home, and at 2 o’clock, services were conducted from the church in Macksburg, by the Rev. A. R. Weed. Burial was made in the Macksburg cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 21, 1929

Mrs. Elizabeth Cochran, daughter of Simeon and Eleanor Hamblin, was born March 20, 1842, in Suscarawas county, Ohio. She moved with her family, when but a child, to Wisconsin, and in 1854 she, with the family, came to Madison county.

November 14, 1861, she was united in marriage to Wesley Cochran. To this union were born nine children: Kate, John H., William, Frank S., Walter L., Forest L., Fred, Fields W., and Mattie, wife of J. I. Tucker. Those preceding her in death are Kate, wife of J. T. Steele, who died August 26, 1896, leaving two small children, Jay W. and Ed S., whom she raised as her own children, and Frank, who died October 29, 1892. Mr. Cochran passed away March 15, 1912.

For many years she had been a believer in Christ and had loved her Bible. She was ever a true mother and a helpful friend and leaves to mourn her loss seven children, twenty-seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, besides two sisters, Mrs. Martha Kirk, of Winterset, and Mrs. Hannah Hurst, of Aspen, Colorado, and one brother, Seth Hamblin, of Lincoln, Kansas, also a number of nephews and nieces and a host of friends.

She has been one of the sturdy pioneer characters of Madison county, having spent seventy-five years in the county, sixty-five years of which were on the home farm, where her children grew to manhood and womanhood. Owing to failing strength the last two years were spent with her daughter, Mrs. J. I. Tucker.

Rev. A. R. Weed, of West Star, assisted by Rev. Alexander, of Macksburg, conducted the services at the Macksburg Methodist church, Tuesday afternoon, February 12th. Burial was in the Macksburg cemetery.

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