John Cochran

Birth Date

1799

Death Date

1878

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer. Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Married to Hannah Van Buskirk Cochran. Father of John Cochran, Robert Cochran, Ann M. Cochran, Sarah J. Cochran, and Hannah Cochran. Moved to Spencer County in 1808. Farmer in Spencer County in 1850. Owned fiftenn enslaved persons in Spencer County in 1850. Farmer in Spencer County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Spencer County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 2, p. 105A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 2, p. 25.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 2, p. 44.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, Division No. 2, p. 15.
Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement of the Year 1896 Vol 1 (Louisville: American Biographical Publishing Company, 1896), 444.

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