When Samuel J. Caughron was born on 12 June 1871, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, his father, Isaac Decatur Caughron, was 44 and his mother, Mary A. Hicks, was 37. He married Ellen Melissa Catlett on 17 November 1894, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Civil District 8, Sevier, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 14, Knox, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 February 1935, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Jones Cove, Sevier, Tennessee, United States.
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Altered form of Scottish Cochran .
Shortened and altered form of Irish McCaghren .
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