Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cochran, Martha James 1957
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The Camilla Enterprise 18 Jan1957 page 7  Camilla, Ga.

Obituary of Martha "Mattie" James Cochran as written on page 7 of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 18 Jan 1957.  Camilla, Georgia.  Funeral services for one of 
Camilla's most prominent and distinguished women, Mrs. G. B. Cochran, were held 
Monday afternoon, January 14, at three-thirty o'clock at the First Baptist 
Church of Camilla.  The pastor, Rev. Charles Duncan, officiated.  Interment 
followed in Oakview Cemetery by the side of her husband who preceded her in 
death on November 11, 1937.  Mrs. Cochran celebrated her ninetieth birthday 
last June 10th when her son and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cochran, entertained 
at open house in her honor.  Last fall, suffering with ill health and 
infirmities of age, she was carried to Keysville Convalescent Home in 
Keysville, Ga., sixty miles south of Augusta, where she died of heart failure 
near noon time Saturday, January 12.  She had been ill during Christmas but 
apparently recovered and enjoyed a visit from her son and family on New Years.  
She was up and about on the day of her death and died almost immediately.  The 
pastor, in his eulogy at the funeral services, commented that he never thought 
of Mrs. Cochran but that he thought of "love and sharing."  The choir loft was 
filled with singers and one of the hymns the chose, "Trying To Walk In The 
Steps Of The Saviour," further testified to the gracious Christian character of 
the deceased.  Serving as pallbearers were Joe Barber Adams, Grover Cleveland, 
Roby Roy Cochran, J. Harry Collins, George M. Perry, Jr. and E. J. Vann III.  
Mrs. Cochran was born in Clinton, North Carolina, the daughter of Robinson 
James and Elizabeth McArthur James.  She was the former Miss Mattie James and 
as a young lady just finished with Teachers College she went to Thomasville to 
teach school.  She boarded there with her cousin, Mrs. Frank Cochran, whose 
husband was a cousin of the late G. B. Cochran, of Camilla.  It was through him 
that she met and married G. B. Cochran on October 26, 1893.  As the wife of 
prominent farmer, livestock stable owner, and also president of the Planters & 
Citizens Bank for a long number of years, Mrs. Cochran joined her husband in 
taking prominent part in religious, social and civic affairs of the community.  
Mrs. Cochran was especially active in the old Camilla Civic League.  Mrs. 
Cochran was the United States Air Force's very first Gold Star Mother in the 
State of Georgia.  Her son, James Cochran, was a distinguished pilot of World 
War One and was killed over France.  Cochran Field at Macon was built during 
World War II and named in honor of the Camilla Flyer.  Mrs. Cochran went often 
to Cochran Field for a visit.  Survivors include one son, A. B. Cochran of 
Camilla; two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Clements of Pelham and Mrs. A. W. Blanchard of 
Dunn, North Carolina; two brothers, O. P. James of Mexico, Missouri and H. C. 
James of Cushing, Oklahoma.

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