When Clara Virginia Cochran was born on 14 July 1836, in Louisa, Virginia, United States, her father, John Overton Cochran, was 28 and her mother, Mary Ann Cochran Winston, was 22. She married Benjamin Warfield in 1857, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 8 February 1923, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Scottish (Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire): habitational name from the lands of Cochrane in the parish of Paisley, near Glasgow. The placename is of uncertain derivation, perhaps from Welsh coch ‘red’, although this etymology is not supported by the early spelling Coueran.
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