CHARLES LACY COCHRAN, deceased, was born in Erie county, Pa., January 22, 1800. His parents settled upon a farm that is now a part of Cochranton, Crawford county, early in the century, and there he lived until he removed to Franklin in 1828. In 1824 he married Elizabeth Duffield, a member of the large family of that name residing near Utica. Five of their children arrived at maturity: one daughter, Mary A., who married James McKee and afterward Hugh Craig; Robert L.; James D.; Samuel H., and Charles C. The three last named were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion. James D., a sergeant in the One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863; Samuel H., first lieutenant of Company G, Sixty-Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, was killed at Mechanicsville, near Richmond, June 26, 1862; and Charles C. was lieutenant and captain of Company C, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves. The mother died December 1, 1867, and the father December 8, 1868.
(Source: History of Venango County: Its Past and Present, Hrbert C. Bell, Chicago; Brown, Runk and Co., 1890. Biographies of Franklin, Chap. 46.)
(Source: History of Venango County: Its Past and Present, Hrbert C. Bell, Chicago; Brown, Runk and Co., 1890. Biographies of Franklin, Chap. 46.)
