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.

HOBBS, Mary
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Name HOBBS, Mary [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth Abt 1763 Province of Maryland, UK
[1, 4] Gender Female Death Aft Apr 1825 [1] Age 62 years Person ID I4450 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 21 Jan 2019
Father HOBBS, Vincent Sr., b. Abt 1720, England
d. 8 Jan 1808, Lee County, Virginia, USA
(Age 88 years) Mother —?—, Mary Hannah, b. Abt 1725 d. Aft 1808, Virginia, USA
(Age 84 years) Family ID F1707 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family BENHAM, John d. 1800, Washington County, Virginia, USA
Marriage Y [1, 3, 4, 5] - They had 11 children. [1]
Marriage Status Ended with Husband's death Residence Abt 1769 Mendota, Augusta, Colony of Virginia, UK
[5] on the North Fork of the Holston River - They moved from Maryland to settle just upstream from Mary's parents.
Residence 1792 Russell County, Virginia, USA
[6] on 350 acres in Turkey Cove on the Powell River in the valley between Powell Mountain and Stone Mountain - They moved here from their farm on the North Fork of the Holston River, following Mary's parents who moved here in 1780. This location is now the town of Dryden in Lee County, Virginia. They moved back to the Mendota area on the North Fork of the Holston River sometime before 1800. Both died there and are thought to be buried with their son, Joel Benham, in his cemetery (36°40'04" N, 082°20'38" W).
Family ID F1812 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Jan 2019
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Sources - [S985] Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. II, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 4 Aug 2016, p 567-573.
- [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 19-20.
- [S1079] Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., Book - Bicentennial History of Lee County, VA, (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1992.), 20 Nov 2017, HOBBS, : p 287.
- [S1170] Virginia. Pennington Gap., Newspaper Article - Powell Valley News (VA), 12 Jan 2019, Koger Marvin V., "Life Sketch of Captain Joshua Hobbs," 24 July 1947; transcript : accessed 12 January 2019).

Life Sketch of Cpt. Joshua Hobbs - [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 20.
- [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 65, 86.
- [S985] Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. II, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 4 Aug 2016, p 567-573.

