When Martha Emma Cochran was born in 1860, in Jackson Township, Crittenden, Arkansas, United States, her father, Abijah Harris Cochran, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Rebecca Allison, was 27. She married James Milton Newman on 12 January 1880, in DeWitt, Texas, United States. She died in October 1880, in DeWitt, Texas, United States, at the age of 20.
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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