Brief Life History of Kittie
When Kittie Cochran was born about 1870, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, her father, Daniel B Cochran, was 42 and her mother, Sallie Register, was 39. She died on 17 July 1949, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 80.
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Sources (4)
- Kittie F Cochran in household of Daniel Cochran, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Kittie Cochran - Government record: birth-name: Kittie Cochran
- Kitty Johnstone, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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