Genealogy of

Jacob Benjamin Cochran and Clora Jane Miller

  Jacob and Clora had both been widowed and first found together

on the 1880 census of Iowa. Jacob had been in California in 1860 census with a brother

while they were searching for gold and his wife Mariah was back home in Ohio with the

children, living next to Alexander Cochran. By 1870 they are found exploring the Iowa

Territory and he was a miner. Years later Jacob became the first homesteader of Hill City Kansas.

Jacob served in the Civil War and his grandfather might have served in the American Revolution,

but there were so many Cochrans in Ohio that it can become confusing.  Jacob's line

came from a settlement in Pennsylvania, migrating from Scotland. In 1820 there are only

two found in Guernsey Ohio, our William and Alexander.  Clora Jane Miller's father's ancestors came from

Ireland to Rockingham Virginia, while her mother's families came through Rhode Island and New York

Indian Country .