Cabarrus County NcArchives Obituaries.....Cochran, Houston 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Furr bfurr1@charter.net July 27, 2007, 10:17 pm The Due West Telescope Houston Cochran Died in Cabarrus County, N. C. on Thursday, the 28th of May, Mr. Houston Cochran in the 22nd year of his age. The deceased met with his death from the accidental discharge of a gun held by his own hand. In the evening of the day on which he was killed, his family being from home on a visit to the house of some friends, taking his gun in hand, he walked to a blacksmith's shop, about one mile from his residence.… Upon arriving there, he met the proprietor in front of the shop, and a conversation, somewhat protracted, being introduced, Mr. Cochran, to secure some support in his standing posture, leaned upon his gun. The conversation being ended, Mr. Cochran started in the direction of the door; but in taking up his gun, which had been placed inadvertently between the spokes of a buggy wheel standing by his side, one of the hammers caught in a spoke, and was raised enough to burst the cap as it sprang to its place, and caused the whole load to be poured into his right eye. …He leaves a wife, a little child and an only brother. The Due West Telescope, June 26, 1857 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/cabarrus/obits/c/cochran227ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb