Biography of William Cochran, Clay Co, AR

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From: 
The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

William C. Cochran, merchant of Greenway, Ark., was born in Massac County, Ill.,
September 4, 1854, his father, Jesse Cochran, being a native of North Carolina.
The latter went to Illinois when a young man, where he was married to Jane
Sexton, and resided in Massac County up to 1856, when he moved to Arkansas and
settled in what is now Clay County. Here he entered land, made a farm, and
reared a family. His death occurred in September, 1869. William C. Cochran and
two sisters are the only surviving members of a family of six children. He was
reared in Clay County, his youth being spent on a farm. He was married in this
county on the 5th of December, 1881, to Miss Sarah E. Leeth, a daughter of John
A. Leeth, formerly from Tennessee, now deceased. Mrs. Cochran was born in
Tennessee, but was reared in Clay County, and by Mr. Cochran is the mother of
one child, who is living: Lura, now six years old. Jesse died in January, 1886,
at the age of five months. Mr. Cochran had been engaged in farming and the
ginning business previous to his marriage, and afterwards continued the former
occupation for three years. In August, 1885, he commenced merchandising at
Greenway and has been interested in that business since that time. He was
appointed deputy postmaster in 1885 and served two years. He carries an
excellent stock of general merchandise, and has built up a good trade. He is a
Mason and belongs to the I. O. O. F.