Margaret Cochrane, (1835-1907) Margaret settled in Michigan, where she became a physician and married twice, first to Mr. Gray, then to Henry A. Cooper (1800-1888). It is unknow whether she had any children. Because Margaret was such a common name, as were the surnames, Cooper and Gray, this researcher has been unable to definitively locate her to discover records at this time.
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Susan Cochrane (1836-1928) Susan settled in Michigan, where she married Sandford Messenger (1836-1891) Sanford was a medical Dr. Together they had four children before divorcing sometime between 1870 and 1880. Susan later married John L. Nostrant. Susan and John did not have any children together. Susan worked as a dress maker after her divorce. Susan died in Lansing Michigan on 12/28/1928, at the ripe old age of 92. Susan and Sanford had the following children;
Lillian E. Messenger (10/1859-3/23/1927)
Lillian was born in Illinois but settled in the Lansing Michigan area. She married William A. Norton (1854-) on 1881. William was a lawyer. Lillian and William had two sons;
Guy William Norton (7/27/1884-1/30/1960) was a newspaper reporter who worked around the country with a career spanning 21 years. During his career he met and reported on the likes of Al Capone and Billy Jean king. He married Cora Church on 4/11/1910. They had two children, Guy Norton Jr. (1/10/1917-10/16/1984) On 8/15/1940 Guy married Lorine Pitney . Guy and Lorin had three children, still living, names unknown. Wilburta Norton AKA Billie (1/13/1912-) The family settled in Philadelphia PA.
Russell Fane Norton (4/9/1886-5/27/1946) He married Dorothy. Nothing else is known at this time.
Minnie L. Messenger (2/1866-5/3/1942)
Minnie was born in Michigan On 10/17/1883, she married Ely Allen (1865- ) Ely was a real estate salesman. He moved his family to California around 1920. In 1920, Susan Cochrane Nostrant, then widowed, lived with them. Minnie and Ely had two children;
Elma Fay Allen (7/2/1887- ). Elma also went by the name of Esme. On 9/12/1914, she married James Blaine Chaney (12/5/1891-9/1965) James was a tailor. They had two children; Ralph Allen Chaney (12/12/1917-1/16/1995). Ralph worked as a tin smith and remained in Michigan. On 9/21/1949 He married Margaret Helen Kennedy (1920-) it is unknown whether they had children. Richard Ely Chaney (4/21/1921-12/17/1983). On 2/11/1950 Richard married Shirley Mae Rasmussen ( 11/2/1927-10/10/1995) Richard and Shirley had at least one child; Ronda / Rhonda Kay Chaney (9/16/1956-)
Mattie Messenger (12/1/1869-7/20/1922)
Mattie Messenger was born in Michigan and settled there to raise her family. She married Rudolph O. Loomis ( ) in Grand Ledge Michigan on 12/7/1891. They divorced at some time after 1920. Rudolph was married 4 times, all ending in divorce for extreme cruelty. Mattie never remarried and lived out the rest of her life with her daughter’s family. Mattie and Rudolph had one son; Arthur Loomis ( 1894- 5/27/1894) Arthur died shortly after birth.
Clifford Cochrane Messenger (11/27/1874-2/12/1958)
Clifford was a dentist in Michigan. On 1/17/1900, he married Maude McLaughlin (1874-) They were divorced 5/26/1909 following Maude’s claim of extreme cruelty. Clifford then married Henriette Clare Bode (1886) on 7/20/1909, They divorced on 3/16/1911. They had no children.
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William L. Cochrane, (1841-1918) settled in Michigan and established a farm. He married Nellie Ostrander, whom he later divorced. William and Nellie had no children.
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Isaac Newton Cochrane (1842-1916) Isaac Newton Cochrane settled in Indiana, where he married x2. His first wife, Lydia Burtch (5/1848-9/1875) passed away three weeks after delivering their only child, Frank Burtch Cochrane (1873-1917). Dr. Isaac Newton Cochrane then married Isabelle Thompson. Isaac was a physician. He also served as a colonel in the Civil War for Michigan. Isabella and Isaac had four children together.
Frank Cochran (1873)
Frank’s obituary says it all: from the Delphi Journal March 7, 1918:
Cochran, Dr. Frank, age 44; interment Masonic cemetery, Delphi. The citizens of Delphi were inexpressibly shocked on Thursday evening to hear that Dr. Frank B. Cochrane had been shot with a .45 caliber revolver, by his own hand. Dr. Cochrane had been for some months a victim of attacks of melancholia, and the last one was very violent. He had been at home throughout the day, and at 5:30 his wife, who was sitting on the front veranda, was alarmed by the shot, which was found to have entered the right temple, passed through the brain and into the wall opposite. He lived for nearly two hours, but was never conscious after the shooting. Frank Burtch Cochrane was born in Grand Ledge, Eaton county, Michigan, August 14, 1872. He was the son of the late Dr. I. N. and Lydia Burtch Cochrane. His mother died when he was three weeks old. About three years later his father located in this county and married Miss Isabelle Thompson, who loved and reared Frank as she did her own son. He received his early education in the schools in this vicinity. Later he attended school in Jackson and Ypsilanti, Mich., and Danville, Ind. He graduated from the Indianapolis Dental College in 1896. He established himself in a successful practice here. July 9, 1896, he married Mary Edith Cochrane of Jackson, Mich., who, with their son, Robert B., survives him. He was of a kind, genial nature, a warm, loyal friend, an affectionate husband and father, gratifying, as far as he could, every wish of his family. He had a love for and an artistic appreciation of the beautiful in music and the human in literature. He was a man who excelled in his profession. Besides his wife and son he leaves his mother, Mrs. Isabelle Cochrane; one brother, William S., of Tulsa, Okla.; Miss Mary Cochrane and Mrs. Mabel Cochrane Devitt. The sad accident which brought his life to a close on the evening of September 20, has taken from the community a man who will be missed by all. Those who knew him most intimately will ever feel a sense of personal loss in his untimely death. Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 3:30 by the Rev. Ray Heritage of the Baptist church. Interment was made in the Masonic cemetery.
Frank’s wife, Mary Edith Cochrane is his first cousin, daughter of William L. Cochrane (see above) . They had one child; Robert Eugene Cochrane (10/12/1900-5/14/1931). Robert never married and died of heart trouble at the age of 30.
Oliver M Cochrane (1878-10/18/1901)
Oliver never married, no children.
Mary Cochrane , (6/28/1881-2/22/1981)
Mary was a librarian and well known in her local area. She never married and had no children. She died 4 months before her 100th birthday.
William S. Cochrane (8/1/1884-2/10/1961)
William Sherman Cochrane was an attorney. He settled in Tulsa Oklahoma, where he married Bess Stillman (11/19/1891-5/12/1954). From the Delphi Journal 2/23/1961: Word was received by friends here Tuesday morning of the death of Attorney Will S. Cochrane, 76, who passed away at Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he practiced law for many years. Attorney Cochrane died Sunday morning following a long illness Funeral rites were held at the Episcopal church in Tulsa Tuesday morning. Born in Madison township, 1884, he was the son of Dr, I. N. and Isabel Thomson Cochrane. He. was graduated from the Delphi high school and University of Michigan Law School in 1905 and had practiced many years at Tulsa. He served as a law clerk for the Dawes Commission, named to represent the five civilized Indian tribes. Later, he was named District Indian Agent at Nowata, Oklahoma. He served as legal counsel for Sinclair until his retirement in 1945, and was a member of the Tulsa County Excise Board for about a year until Door health forced him to retire. He was an authority on oil law and won a case before the United States Supreme Court at the age of 28. A Mason, he held 50-year membership with the Delphi, Indiana, lodge. He also was a former Lieutenant in the Indiana National Guard. He leaves two sisters: Miss Mary Cochrane, former librarian Delphi, and Mabel DeVitt, of Delavan, Wisconsin. A brother, Oliver, a veteran of the Spanish-American War,, and a half-brother, Dr. Frank Cochrane, a former dentist here preceded him in death. His wife died in 1955 and his son, Preston, in 1957, but a grandson, William Cochrane, 15, resides in Coalings, California. Mrs. G. A. Shaffer and Attorney Cochrane were classmates in the graduating class of 1902. He moved to Delphi with his parents when in grade school.
Preston West Cochrane (6/8/1915-5/3/1957) married Julie Ann Beard (1913-1965 ). They had one son, William Cochrane who was born 1942 and was living in California at the time o his father’s death. Nothing else is known of him at this time .
Mable Lorraine Cochran (5/26/1894-3/5/1978)
Mable was born in Indiana and married Herbert W. Devitt (1895-) in Carroll Indiana on 8/25/1917. The couple quickly settled in with Mable’s parents, Isaac and Isabella Cochrane. Herbert worked in a furniture factory and eventually became a sales manager there. They had four children;
Herbert William DeVitt Jr. (9/3/1918-4/18/2004)Obituary Published in Desert News 4/31/2004: Herbert William DeVitt, Jr. 1918 ~ 2004 Herbert William DeVitt, Jr. passed away on April 18, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born on Sept. 3, 1918 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Herbert and Mabel DeVitt. He married Leona Geise on June 3, 1944, during World War II. They later divorced. Herbert then married Maxine Murray Hayward on Oct. 21, 1972. Herbert served his country as a naval pilot in World War II. Also, he was held in high regard as a Economics professor at both B.Y.U. and the U. of U. He is survived by his wife Maxine; his three children: Bill DeVitt, Steve DeVitt, and Patty Blakesley; his sister: Mary Steib; Maxine's two children: Murray Hayward and Janet H. I. Crook; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at Friendship Manor, 1320 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, April 23rd at 4:00 p.m. Herbert’s children were mentioned in the obituary. They are still living and there is no information available regarding them at this time.
Mary Bell DeVitt (5/30/1922-) Married ? Steib. Mary was still living in 2004, when her brother died. No additional records were located concerning her or possible children.
Suzanne DeVitt (3/15/1924- 2/1939 ) Died at age 15 of scarlet fever.
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Martha (Mattie) Cochrane, (1844-1926) Martha was a Physician. She settled in Michigan and married Reuben E. Strong. Martha and Reuben had no children.
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Sarah A. Cochrane (1848-1937). Sarah Ann settled in Michigan and married William Plummer(6/1839-5/30/1933), a wagon maker. Sarah and William had two living children
Mable H. Plummer (9/14/1870-5/22/1893) Mable married Frank Lockwood. Seage (18768-1951) on 12/25/1891.
Reginald Copeland Plummer (11/22/1881-12/26/1936) AKA Rex or Copeland.. On 5/10/1919, Rex married Ada Merrifield (1890-1948) and settled in the Seattle Washington area. Reginald was an ENT Doctor. They had a daughter, Nancy Lee Plummer (4/4/1921-1985) On 4/15/1944, Nancy married Theodore Edmund Camlin (10/1/1902-3/30/1981) In Seattle Washington. The Camlin’s settled in Illinois. Theodore worked as an accountant. It appears that they had children but the names and additional information is unavailable, as they are still living.
This concludes the family of Mary Copeland and Samuel Cochrane. Our history will continue as we delve into the past and present of the rest of the Copeland clan. I hope you have been enjoying this brief history. If this is your family, and you have additions or corrections, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] or as a message on the web site. Look for us on facebook.
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Susan Cochrane (1836-1928) Susan settled in Michigan, where she married Sandford Messenger (1836-1891) Sanford was a medical Dr. Together they had four children before divorcing sometime between 1870 and 1880. Susan later married John L. Nostrant. Susan and John did not have any children together. Susan worked as a dress maker after her divorce. Susan died in Lansing Michigan on 12/28/1928, at the ripe old age of 92. Susan and Sanford had the following children;
Lillian E. Messenger (10/1859-3/23/1927)
Lillian was born in Illinois but settled in the Lansing Michigan area. She married William A. Norton (1854-) on 1881. William was a lawyer. Lillian and William had two sons;
Guy William Norton (7/27/1884-1/30/1960) was a newspaper reporter who worked around the country with a career spanning 21 years. During his career he met and reported on the likes of Al Capone and Billy Jean king. He married Cora Church on 4/11/1910. They had two children, Guy Norton Jr. (1/10/1917-10/16/1984) On 8/15/1940 Guy married Lorine Pitney . Guy and Lorin had three children, still living, names unknown. Wilburta Norton AKA Billie (1/13/1912-) The family settled in Philadelphia PA.
Russell Fane Norton (4/9/1886-5/27/1946) He married Dorothy. Nothing else is known at this time.
Minnie L. Messenger (2/1866-5/3/1942)
Minnie was born in Michigan On 10/17/1883, she married Ely Allen (1865- ) Ely was a real estate salesman. He moved his family to California around 1920. In 1920, Susan Cochrane Nostrant, then widowed, lived with them. Minnie and Ely had two children;
Elma Fay Allen (7/2/1887- ). Elma also went by the name of Esme. On 9/12/1914, she married James Blaine Chaney (12/5/1891-9/1965) James was a tailor. They had two children; Ralph Allen Chaney (12/12/1917-1/16/1995). Ralph worked as a tin smith and remained in Michigan. On 9/21/1949 He married Margaret Helen Kennedy (1920-) it is unknown whether they had children. Richard Ely Chaney (4/21/1921-12/17/1983). On 2/11/1950 Richard married Shirley Mae Rasmussen ( 11/2/1927-10/10/1995) Richard and Shirley had at least one child; Ronda / Rhonda Kay Chaney (9/16/1956-)
Mattie Messenger (12/1/1869-7/20/1922)
Mattie Messenger was born in Michigan and settled there to raise her family. She married Rudolph O. Loomis ( ) in Grand Ledge Michigan on 12/7/1891. They divorced at some time after 1920. Rudolph was married 4 times, all ending in divorce for extreme cruelty. Mattie never remarried and lived out the rest of her life with her daughter’s family. Mattie and Rudolph had one son; Arthur Loomis ( 1894- 5/27/1894) Arthur died shortly after birth.
Clifford Cochrane Messenger (11/27/1874-2/12/1958)
Clifford was a dentist in Michigan. On 1/17/1900, he married Maude McLaughlin (1874-) They were divorced 5/26/1909 following Maude’s claim of extreme cruelty. Clifford then married Henriette Clare Bode (1886) on 7/20/1909, They divorced on 3/16/1911. They had no children.
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William L. Cochrane, (1841-1918) settled in Michigan and established a farm. He married Nellie Ostrander, whom he later divorced. William and Nellie had no children.
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Isaac Newton Cochrane (1842-1916) Isaac Newton Cochrane settled in Indiana, where he married x2. His first wife, Lydia Burtch (5/1848-9/1875) passed away three weeks after delivering their only child, Frank Burtch Cochrane (1873-1917). Dr. Isaac Newton Cochrane then married Isabelle Thompson. Isaac was a physician. He also served as a colonel in the Civil War for Michigan. Isabella and Isaac had four children together.
Frank Cochran (1873)
Frank’s obituary says it all: from the Delphi Journal March 7, 1918:
Cochran, Dr. Frank, age 44; interment Masonic cemetery, Delphi. The citizens of Delphi were inexpressibly shocked on Thursday evening to hear that Dr. Frank B. Cochrane had been shot with a .45 caliber revolver, by his own hand. Dr. Cochrane had been for some months a victim of attacks of melancholia, and the last one was very violent. He had been at home throughout the day, and at 5:30 his wife, who was sitting on the front veranda, was alarmed by the shot, which was found to have entered the right temple, passed through the brain and into the wall opposite. He lived for nearly two hours, but was never conscious after the shooting. Frank Burtch Cochrane was born in Grand Ledge, Eaton county, Michigan, August 14, 1872. He was the son of the late Dr. I. N. and Lydia Burtch Cochrane. His mother died when he was three weeks old. About three years later his father located in this county and married Miss Isabelle Thompson, who loved and reared Frank as she did her own son. He received his early education in the schools in this vicinity. Later he attended school in Jackson and Ypsilanti, Mich., and Danville, Ind. He graduated from the Indianapolis Dental College in 1896. He established himself in a successful practice here. July 9, 1896, he married Mary Edith Cochrane of Jackson, Mich., who, with their son, Robert B., survives him. He was of a kind, genial nature, a warm, loyal friend, an affectionate husband and father, gratifying, as far as he could, every wish of his family. He had a love for and an artistic appreciation of the beautiful in music and the human in literature. He was a man who excelled in his profession. Besides his wife and son he leaves his mother, Mrs. Isabelle Cochrane; one brother, William S., of Tulsa, Okla.; Miss Mary Cochrane and Mrs. Mabel Cochrane Devitt. The sad accident which brought his life to a close on the evening of September 20, has taken from the community a man who will be missed by all. Those who knew him most intimately will ever feel a sense of personal loss in his untimely death. Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 3:30 by the Rev. Ray Heritage of the Baptist church. Interment was made in the Masonic cemetery.
Frank’s wife, Mary Edith Cochrane is his first cousin, daughter of William L. Cochrane (see above) . They had one child; Robert Eugene Cochrane (10/12/1900-5/14/1931). Robert never married and died of heart trouble at the age of 30.
Oliver M Cochrane (1878-10/18/1901)
Oliver never married, no children.
Mary Cochrane , (6/28/1881-2/22/1981)
Mary was a librarian and well known in her local area. She never married and had no children. She died 4 months before her 100th birthday.
William S. Cochrane (8/1/1884-2/10/1961)
William Sherman Cochrane was an attorney. He settled in Tulsa Oklahoma, where he married Bess Stillman (11/19/1891-5/12/1954). From the Delphi Journal 2/23/1961: Word was received by friends here Tuesday morning of the death of Attorney Will S. Cochrane, 76, who passed away at Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he practiced law for many years. Attorney Cochrane died Sunday morning following a long illness Funeral rites were held at the Episcopal church in Tulsa Tuesday morning. Born in Madison township, 1884, he was the son of Dr, I. N. and Isabel Thomson Cochrane. He. was graduated from the Delphi high school and University of Michigan Law School in 1905 and had practiced many years at Tulsa. He served as a law clerk for the Dawes Commission, named to represent the five civilized Indian tribes. Later, he was named District Indian Agent at Nowata, Oklahoma. He served as legal counsel for Sinclair until his retirement in 1945, and was a member of the Tulsa County Excise Board for about a year until Door health forced him to retire. He was an authority on oil law and won a case before the United States Supreme Court at the age of 28. A Mason, he held 50-year membership with the Delphi, Indiana, lodge. He also was a former Lieutenant in the Indiana National Guard. He leaves two sisters: Miss Mary Cochrane, former librarian Delphi, and Mabel DeVitt, of Delavan, Wisconsin. A brother, Oliver, a veteran of the Spanish-American War,, and a half-brother, Dr. Frank Cochrane, a former dentist here preceded him in death. His wife died in 1955 and his son, Preston, in 1957, but a grandson, William Cochrane, 15, resides in Coalings, California. Mrs. G. A. Shaffer and Attorney Cochrane were classmates in the graduating class of 1902. He moved to Delphi with his parents when in grade school.
Preston West Cochrane (6/8/1915-5/3/1957) married Julie Ann Beard (1913-1965 ). They had one son, William Cochrane who was born 1942 and was living in California at the time o his father’s death. Nothing else is known of him at this time .
Mable Lorraine Cochran (5/26/1894-3/5/1978)
Mable was born in Indiana and married Herbert W. Devitt (1895-) in Carroll Indiana on 8/25/1917. The couple quickly settled in with Mable’s parents, Isaac and Isabella Cochrane. Herbert worked in a furniture factory and eventually became a sales manager there. They had four children;
Herbert William DeVitt Jr. (9/3/1918-4/18/2004)Obituary Published in Desert News 4/31/2004: Herbert William DeVitt, Jr. 1918 ~ 2004 Herbert William DeVitt, Jr. passed away on April 18, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born on Sept. 3, 1918 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Herbert and Mabel DeVitt. He married Leona Geise on June 3, 1944, during World War II. They later divorced. Herbert then married Maxine Murray Hayward on Oct. 21, 1972. Herbert served his country as a naval pilot in World War II. Also, he was held in high regard as a Economics professor at both B.Y.U. and the U. of U. He is survived by his wife Maxine; his three children: Bill DeVitt, Steve DeVitt, and Patty Blakesley; his sister: Mary Steib; Maxine's two children: Murray Hayward and Janet H. I. Crook; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at Friendship Manor, 1320 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, April 23rd at 4:00 p.m. Herbert’s children were mentioned in the obituary. They are still living and there is no information available regarding them at this time.
Mary Bell DeVitt (5/30/1922-) Married ? Steib. Mary was still living in 2004, when her brother died. No additional records were located concerning her or possible children.
Suzanne DeVitt (3/15/1924- 2/1939 ) Died at age 15 of scarlet fever.
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Martha (Mattie) Cochrane, (1844-1926) Martha was a Physician. She settled in Michigan and married Reuben E. Strong. Martha and Reuben had no children.
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Sarah A. Cochrane (1848-1937). Sarah Ann settled in Michigan and married William Plummer(6/1839-5/30/1933), a wagon maker. Sarah and William had two living children
Mable H. Plummer (9/14/1870-5/22/1893) Mable married Frank Lockwood. Seage (18768-1951) on 12/25/1891.
Reginald Copeland Plummer (11/22/1881-12/26/1936) AKA Rex or Copeland.. On 5/10/1919, Rex married Ada Merrifield (1890-1948) and settled in the Seattle Washington area. Reginald was an ENT Doctor. They had a daughter, Nancy Lee Plummer (4/4/1921-1985) On 4/15/1944, Nancy married Theodore Edmund Camlin (10/1/1902-3/30/1981) In Seattle Washington. The Camlin’s settled in Illinois. Theodore worked as an accountant. It appears that they had children but the names and additional information is unavailable, as they are still living.
This concludes the family of Mary Copeland and Samuel Cochrane. Our history will continue as we delve into the past and present of the rest of the Copeland clan. I hope you have been enjoying this brief history. If this is your family, and you have additions or corrections, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected] or as a message on the web site. Look for us on facebook.
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