Robert Cochran and Mary Richardson

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Husband Robert Cochran ¹

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           Born: 1805 - Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Cochran (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Catharine [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1843 2

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Green (Abt 1818-Abt 1837) 2 - 1835 2

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Wife Mary Richardson ²

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           Born: 16 Oct 1816 - Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: 6 Sep 1871 2
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Children

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1 M Robert L. Cochran ²

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           Born: 16 Mar 1848 2
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           Died: Bef 1883
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2 M Edwin G. Cochran ²

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           Born: 10 Sep 1850 2
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3 M Willison A. Cochran ²

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            AKA: [Unk] Cochrain 3
           Born: 7 Apr 1853 2
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         Spouse: Sarah E. Gosser (1858-Bef 1906) 2 3 4
           Marr: 1879 2

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4 F Marietta Ann Cochran ²

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           Born: 16 Jun 1857 2
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           Died: Bef 1883
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5 F Alice K. Cochran ²

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           Born: 16 Dec 1860 2
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Cochran

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He learned the carpenter's trade when a boy and worked at it for fifteen years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when that city was quite a small place. At first he received only seventy-five cents per day, and the largest wages he received were $1.50 per day.

Eighteen months after his first marriage a daughter was born and the mother died.

He came to Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, early enough to experience many of the disadvantages of life in a comparatively new country. He planted corn on the ground where Leechburg would later stand, when it was partly timbered. In that early day the arti-cles which were put on the table were corn-bread, hominy, mush and milk, tea made from herbs grown in the garden, and coffee made from corn and rye. The clothing then worn was chiefly made from the flax which the settlers raised. In Mr. Cochran's family the clothing was mostly of linen spun by his young wife. They were com-pelled to live cheaply in order to raise their little family of children and to educate them, and some-times their clothing and food supply was not as abundant as they might wish. Later in life Mr. Cochran lived a retired life, making his home with his son, Willison A.

1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 616.

2 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 617.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 546.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 569.