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Eleazar Cochran (1798 - 1852)

Eleazar Cochran
Born in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Died at about age 54 in Calloway, Kentucky, United Statesmap
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Biography

Born According to Calloway, Kentucky death records held at Family Search [1], Eleazar was born in 1798 in North Carolina, United States to Thomas and Elizabeth Cochran. Some family web sites give his date of birth as 15 December 1798, with no source. Others give his date of birth as 10 April 1798, again with no source.

Census: 1850 Graves county, Graves, Kentucky, USA.

Buried Although it's believed he was probably buried at Wade Cemetary in Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, there is no marker for him there. It is just an assumption that he would be buried there.

Residence 1839 Calloway, Kentucky, purchased land from his brother Thomas

Residence 1850 <Address>District 1, Calloway, Kentucky</Address>. <Address>Calloway</Address>

Eleazor was born about 1798. He was the son of Thomas Cochran and Elizabeth Ritch. He passed away in 1852.

Death 15 Dec 1852. His death record in the Calloway County Record books[2] state he was a farmer, and that he died in Calloway County, Kentucky of consumption.

Sources

  1. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-69D9-5XW?i=270&cc=1804888&cat=222227
  2. Calloway, Kentucky death records held at Family Search at
  • “STATE ARCHIVES—KENTUCKY VITAL STATISTICS: CALLOWAY COUNTY—1852-1859: DEATHS OF PERSONS OVER FIFTEEN.” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 45, no. 152, 1947, pp. 235–248. JSTOR, JSTOR, [1]. Note that entry for Eleazor (Elejar) is located on page 236, and gives place of birth as South Carolina.
  • On 22 Apr 1836, Eleazar's brother Thomas, with Thomas' wife Virginia, gave a mortgage to Eleazar in the amount of $175 for the purchase of "a tract of land lying on the West fork of Clark's River, and being the North west quarter of section seventy-one Township three Range three East, containing one hundred and sixty acres."

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Cochran-2583 and Cochran-3998 appear to represent the same person because: I added Eleazor without noticing that he already existed as a child.
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