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.

OVERTON, Sally

OVERTON, Sally

Female 1756 - 1798  (42 years)   Has 26 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name OVERTON, Sally  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Birth 21 Jul 1756  Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Gender Female 
    FamilySearch ID M43G-S16 
    Death 22 Sep 1798  Albemarle County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Age 42 years 
    Person ID I206  Cochrane Genealogy
    Last Modified 8 Oct 2025 

    Father OVERTON, William III,   b. Abt 1706, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1764, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Mother HARRIS, Jemima,   b. 1705, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1765, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Family ID F95  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family SYME, Capt. John III,   b. 1755, Newcastle, Hanover, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1793, Soldier's Joy - Cabell Family Home, Hardwicksville (Wingina), Amherst, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Marriage May 1779  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Age at Marriage She : 22 years and 10 months - He : ~ 24 years and 5 months. 
    Children 
    +  1. Male SYME, John M. IV,   b. 1779, Hanover County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1824 (Age 45 years)
    +  2. Female SYME, Mildred Meriwether,   b. 16 Jan 1782, Hanover County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1843, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    Family ID F87  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Feb 2022 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 21 Jul 1756 - Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Sep 1798 - Albemarle County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
    1. [S944] Cochran, Dr. William, Artifact - Cochran Family History - William Cochran (1779-1853), 10 Dec 2010.

    2. [S1500] Cochrane, Mary Davis, Artifact - Cochrane Family History - Mary Davis Stewart Cochrane (1838-1919), 17 Feb 2022.

    3. [S158] Miriam Margaret (Cochrane) Hunter, Book - Cochrane Family History, (Coshocton, Ohio: self published, April 1943.), 30 Aug 2010, Pg. 120.

    4. [S158] Miriam Margaret (Cochrane) Hunter, Book - Cochrane Family History, (Coshocton, Ohio: self published, April 1943.), 30 Aug 2010, 17, 120.

    5. [S159] Miriam Margaret (Cochrane) Hunter, Book - Four John Symes of VA, (Coshocton, OH: School Annual Publishing Co., 1986.), 19 Dec 2010, p. 48.

    6. [S540] John Bennett Boddie, Book - Historical Southern Families, Vol. V (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Reprinted in 1967.), 29 Jan 2014, p 132.
      Overtons - Historical Southern Families, vol V
      Overtons - Historical Southern Families, vol V


    7. [S1493] Nannie Meaux (Cochrane) Campbell (Wellsburg, West Virginia), Letter - Campbell, Nannie Meaux (Cochrane) to Cochrane, "Mamie, 4 Feb 2022.

    8. [S1613] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Internet - Family Search, (FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ : 2025.), 8 Oct 2025, (https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 8 October 2025); Sarah Overton, M43G-S16.


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