John Cochran

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Husband John Cochran ¹

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         Father: Samuel Cochran (1738-1818) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Shearer (1754-1805) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - John Cochran

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The last survivor of his siblings, he died in 1873, after dividing the farm, giving a part to Robert Patterson and a part to Joseph Keneday. Each one sold a part of the land on which is now erected Allegheny Bessemer Steel-works, a monster building constructed of iron, erected partly on historical ground, being that of the military road over which Braddock, Col. Washington and the ill-fated army passed on the 9th of July, 1755. They filled in a ravine through which the troops defiled on their way to the crossing, which was, before the dams were built, known as Braddock's Lower Ripple. His Upper Ripple was a short distance above the Cochran farm, the lower one just opposite the Edgar Thomson Steel-works, through which the army passed, marching into an Indian ambuscade. Frazier afterward came in possession of the battlefield, and before tilling the soil gathered up the bleached bones and buried them. When Mr. H. B. Cochran built there, in sinking a foundation for one of the stacks, a mason came upon a mass of human bones which no doubt were the bones of the slaughtered soldiers, which were dumped into the filling.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 297.

2 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 20.