Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....COCHRAN , ROBERT BERTON May 7, 1957
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Gladwin County Record dated 05-08/1957 Column - 3 Page - 1
DEATH TAKES BEAVERTON MAN AT 79

     Beaverton---Robert Cochran, 79, a resident of Gladwin County for more 
than 50 years, died Monday evening at the Midland Hospital after a long 
illness. Mr. Cochran was a retired farmer. He was born May 12, 1878 in Carter 
County, Tenn. He married the former Ellen Skinner in June, 1902. Mr. Cochran 
was a member of the Beaverton Masonic Lodge. He is survived by his wife, 
Ellen, two daughters, Mrs. Ellis McKimmy, Beaverton, Mrs. Theodore Colbeck, 
Saginaw; three grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; three brothers, 
Nat Cochran, Midland, George Cochran, Blissfield, and James Cochran Unicoi 
Tenn.
     Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday from the Dale 
Methodist Church. The Rev. Vernon Summers will officiate assisted by the Rev. 
Earl Atkinson. The services will be under the auspices of the Beaverton F& AM. 
Friends may call at the Hall Funeral Home in Gladwin on Wednesday. After 
Wednesday, friends may call at the Cochran family residence in Beaverton. 

Additional Comments:
Note: It is not known when Bob Cochran came to Michigan, and why he chose 
Billings, MI (the corner of M-30 and Brushaber Roads) to settle. He and Jap 
Mann built the log cabin that he and his future wife, Ella Skinner, would live 
in. Bob cleared much of the land himself. Both of his daughters were born in 
the house. Later, they built a modern home near the old log house.
   Bob's brother, Nat, came to stay with them in the log house in about 1907, 
which would have made Nat about 21 years old. Nat stayed with them until he 
married in 1909. {In Memory of George Bradford Sterling who authored (4) 
Family Tree Books. This notation from Book on Descendants of James Whitfield 
Cochran}.


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