Estelle (Polk) Cochran (1960)

BRACKETT, COCHRAN, POLK

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 5/13/2007 at 13:22:13

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 7, 1960
Page 6

ESTELLE COCHRAN DIED WEDNESDAY

Patient at Memorial Hospital Two and Half Years; Was 88 Years of age

Mrs. Estelle Cochran, a resident of Madison county practically all her long life, died at Memorial hospital in Winterset this Wednesday, Dec. 7. She had been a patient at the hospital since April 5, 1908.

Mrs. Cochran was 88 years of age. She was born in Oak town, near Vincennes, Ind. on Dec. 27, 1871, a daughter of Charles and Minerva Polk. When she was 3 years old, she came to Madison county with her parents. They settled in Monroe township.

As a young woman she taught in the rural schools of her community, and was one of the first superintendents in the Sunday school held at the old Polk school in Monroe township. She was also one of the founders of the present Fellowship church.

She was married March 23, 1892, to John H. Cochran. They engaged in farming until shortly after 1900, when they moved into Winterset. This community remained her home until her death. Her husband died in 1929.

She was a member of the Woman’s Relief Corps, Rebekah lodge, and the Winterset Methodist church.

Her nearest surviving relative is a sister, Mrs. Mary E. Brackett of Portland, Ore.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. from the Richards funeral home, conducted by the Rev. John C. Porath, pastor of the Winterset Methodist church. Burial will be made in Moon cemetery at Macksburg.

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