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Cochran Family
Hodges, Greenwood County, South Carolina
South Carolina
Genealogy Trails
contributed by Janet R.
Travis
I am researching my
Cochran family from Hodges, SC. The pages below are pages
from a family bible showing the marriage of my great grandparents in
Back Creek, N. C. in 1884 and the birth of their children
while residing in Hodges, S. C.
My
grandfather was John Wesley Cochran and he is buried in New Orleans,
LA.
His Mother, Mattie, was widowed and moved
back to North Carolina and then on to Clearwater, Florida with
her three boys. She died in Clearwater with burial place
unknown.
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This
Certifies that Jno. (John) D. Cochran and
Mattie C. White were United by me in Holy Matrimony
in Back Creek, NC on the 7th day of May,
1884, in the presense of Everybody. Signed
J. A.
Ramsey
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Miss Mattie Leslie
Cochran was born at 10 o'clock, Saturday morning, February
7th, 1885.
Master James Lawrence Cochran was born at
half past 7 o'clock, Thursday morning, April 15,
1886.
John Wesley Cochran was born at half past 3
o'clock, Tuesday morning, March 27, 1888.
Infant
daughter born and died at 9 o'clock Wednesday night, October
8th, 1890.
Donald Douglass Cochran was born at 3
o'clock, Thursday morning, June 8th,
1892. |
The obituary notice below, is
of Donald D., brother of John Wesley Cochran. The
obituary and bible photos were sent to me by Donald’s son, James,
who is in his 80’s.
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Don D. Cochran
Sr.
A Founding Member of Clearwater Yacht
Club
By ANDREW VOIGHT
Staff
Writer
CLEARWATER - Don D. Cochran Sr., one of the
founding members of the Clearwater Yacht Club, died Thursday
(Oct. 1, 1987) at Highland Pines Nursing Center. Clearwater.
He was 95.
Mr. Cochran moved to Clearwater in 1904 from his
native Hodges, S.C., and in 1920 moved to 509 Nicholson St.,
Clearwater, which became his permanent address.
He was
the owner and operator of Don Cochran Plumbing Co. in
Clearwater from 1918 until 1982.
His first plumbing job
in 1918 was the Coachman Building, which is now the NCNB
Building on the southeast corner of Fort Harrison Avenue and
Cleveland Street in downtown Clearwater. He also worked on the
Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater, the Belleview
Biltmore and the Safety Harbor Spa.
Mr. Cochran was one
of the founding members of the Clearwater Yacht Club. He
served as vice commodore and won many Snipe Class Regatta
Championships.
Piloting his boat, the Blue Nose II, he
was fleet champion at the yacht club for several years. He won
several Midwinter International regattas in Clearwater and
three consecutive Southeastern Snipe Regattas in Charleston,
S.C. from 1938 to 1940. He was also the state regatta champion
for several years in the early 1940s, winning his titles in
the annual
regattas held in Tampa.
One of his sons,
James W., won the National Junior Regatta Snipe Championship
in 1935, and one of his grandsons, Bruce C, won the same
junior championship in 1960.
Surviving him are three
sons, Don Jr., Clearwater, James W., Largo, and Charles R.,
Tampa; five grand-children, including Bruce C, and four
great-grandchildren.
Donations may be made to the
Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch.
Funeral services will be
held for family members only. Rhodes & Wice Funeral
Directors, Druid Chapel, Clearwater, is in charge of
arrangements. |
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