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John Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer)

b. 1799 d. 1878

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Cochran, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204295 (November 12, 2026).

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