Surname Saturday – Cochran

Montran, Barber, Blackhurst, Cochran Line
By Don Taylor

Sometimes it is necessary to just put the brakes on.  So, is the case with Surname Saturday for Cochran. My fourth great-grandmother, Lydia Ellen Cochran, supposedly, is the wife of Stephen Blackhurst (1775-1845), and the mother of Stephen Blackhurst (1801-1849). She supposedly was born in 1754 and died in 1827. Oh my…. That would have made her 21 years older than her husband Stephen and 47 years-old when she gave birth to Stephen the son. Humm…. Possible, but not very likely. Also, I looked for a source document that would have shown these facts and have been unable to find one definitively tying Stephen Blackhurst (b. 1801) to Lyndia Ellen (Cochran) Blackhurst.

So, I probably have something incorrect; as such, I need to do more research to either confirm or correct my current information. Luckily, the next person I have on my Brown/Montran Research list to do an ancestry biography for is Stephen Blackhurst (1801-1869). In researching him, I should be able to identify his parents conclusively.

In the meantime, I’m going to skip Cochran in my Surname Saturday reports for now and hold it for a later investigation. Cochran might be one of my ancestral surnames, maybe it is not.  We’ll see.