John Whiteside Cochran
Firstnames:
John Whiteside
Surname:
Cochran
Date died:
Tue, 1941-09-30
Date buried:
Fri, 1941-10-03
Cemetery block:
28
Cemetery plot:
92
Plot location:
49° 12' 57.9132" N, 122° 54' 6.0984" W
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Cochrane J. W.Cochran Sept. 30/ 1941 Very Good
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John Whiteside Cochran
John Whiteside Cochran was born on October 4, 1872, in Fisher, Champaign, Illinois, his father, John Cornelius Cochran, was 26 and his mother, Louisa Gibson, was 27.
He married Martha J. Allen in 1897 at Alden, Hardin County, Iowa, and they had one child together in 1902.
He then married Emma Izola (Izora) Wilson in 1906 at Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa, and they had two children together - Grace Irene in 1913 and Leonard Mervin in 1921. By 1911, John and Emma have moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta, where he is listed as a farmer in the 1911 census. The family then moves to Prince Rupert BC. before 1921.
He died on September 30, 1941, in Essondale, New Westminster, BC, at the age of 68. cause of death was exhaustion and senile dementia.
John Whiteside Cochran
He is my grandfather but our family never knew him. He married Martha Jane Allen as stated and my father, John Walter Cochran was born on June 26, 1901 in this union at Alden, Iowa. John Whiteside Cochran divorced Martha Jane (Mattie) Cochran when my Dad was about 2 years old. My Dad never knew his father or ever got to meet his step siblings, Grace and Leonard Cochran who were born in Canada. My Dad died on March 23, 1999 at Friendship Village in Waterloo, Iowa and is buried at the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Waterloo, Iowa. He was nearly 98 years old.