Samuel Cochran and Mary Shearer

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Husband Samuel Cochran ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1738 - Ireland 2
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       Marriage: 1770 2

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Wife Mary Shearer ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Mary Sherer 3
           Born: 1754 - Chester Co, PA 2
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         Father: Capt. Joseph Sherer (1731-1776) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Mary McClure (      -      ) 3 4 5 6

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Children

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1 M Robert Cochran ^{1 2}

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            AKA: [Unk] Cockran 8
           Born: 15 Sep 1771 - Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Dorcas Neel (1775-1801) 8 9
           Marr: 1800 - Pennsylvania 2

         Spouse: Sarah Calhoun (1787-1867) 2
           Marr: 1807 - Allegheny Co, PA 2

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2 M Samuel Cochran, Jr. ^{1 11}

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            AKA: [Unk] Cockran 10
           Born: Abt 1785
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         Spouse: Grizella Neel (1788-1875) 9 10

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3 M Joseph Cochran ¹

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4 M John Cochran ¹

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5 M William Cochran ¹

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6 F Mary Cochran ¹

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7 F Sarah Cochran ¹

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8 F Jane Cochran ¹

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9 F Elizabeth Cochran ¹

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10 F Margaret Cochran ¹

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11 F Rachel Cochran ¹

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12 F Ann Cochran ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Cochran

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He was born in the area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, that later became Dauphin County. [OVG, 20]

He was a native of Ireland and of Scotch descent; first settled in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and then came to Mifflin township, Allegheny County, where he bought 320 acres of land, which property was in possession of the family for many years.
He was an elder in Lebanon Presbyterian Church.
He died aged eighty years.

He served in the Revolutionary War; located on the Monongahela River, ten miles above Pittsburgh, before 1800.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Shearer

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She died when aged fifty-one years.

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.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 71.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 536.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 133, 175.

6 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1891), Pg 90.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 70.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1107.

9 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 387.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1108.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1689.