The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.

COCHRAN, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
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Name COCHRAN, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis [1, 2] Birth 16 Nov 1799 Newcastle, Hanover, Virginia, USA
[1, 2] Gender Female Marriage / Children Never Married FindaGrave Memorial ID 141360271 Death 10 Aug 1808 Colleton - Cabell Family Home, Nelson County, Virginia, USA
[2, 3] Address:
"Colleton", Cabell Family Home
Nelson County, Virginia
USA- "On the night of Wednesday the 10th of August 1808 at nine o'clock departed this life our beloved and only daughter at Colleton on James River, Amherst County, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis." - Cochrane Family Bible
"Colleton" was a home of the Cabell family, which made important contributions to colonial and revolutionary Virginia. Its location is in Nelson County, VA, which was created in 1807 from Amherst County.
Age 8 years Burial Y [4] - Find A Grave website (http://www.findagrave.com/): Memorial #141360271.
Person ID I173 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 25 Aug 2025
Father COCHRAN, Dr. William, b. 8 Dec 1779, Newcastle, Hanover, Virginia, USA
d. 19 Aug 1853, Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, USA
(Age 73 years) Mother SYME, Mildred Meriwether, b. 16 Jan 1782, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
d. 16 May 1843, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA
(Age 61 years) Family ID F76 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- "On the night of Wednesday the 10th of August 1808 at nine o'clock departed this life our beloved and only daughter at Colleton on James River, Amherst County, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis." - Cochrane Family Bible
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Sources - [S103] Bible - Cochran(e) & Associated Families, (London, England: Thomas Baskett, 1759), 9 Aug 2010, Books of Apocrypha, last page. Hand written.
"Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Cochran was born Saturday the 16th day of Nov. 1799 at two o'clock in the morning."
Cochran(e) Family Bible
Books of Apocrypha, last page. - [S158] Miriam Margaret (Cochrane) Hunter, Book - Cochrane Family History, (Coshocton, Ohio: self published, April 1943.), 30 Aug 2010, Pg. 17.
- [S103] Bible - Cochran(e) & Associated Families, (London, England: Thomas Baskett, 1759), 8 Dec 2010, Between the Books of Apocrypha and the Books of the New Testament, thirteenth page. Hand written.
"On the night of Wednesday the 10th of August 1808 at nine o'clock departed this life our beloved and only daughter at Colleton on James River, Amherst County, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis."
Note: "Colleton" was a home in the Cabell family, currently in Nelson County, VA.
The Cochran(e) Family Bible
Between the Books of Apocrypha and the Books of the New Testament, thirteenth page. - [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 4 Mar 2013, accessed 4 Mar 2013<, Memorial #141360271, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Cochran.
- [S103] Bible - Cochran(e) & Associated Families, (London, England: Thomas Baskett, 1759), 9 Aug 2010, Books of Apocrypha, last page. Hand written.

