This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IMJ.2ACEB/2075.1.1 Message Board Post: Ruth, I really don't know much about that side of the family either. Francis Cochran was my gg grandmother and there are lots of secrets there too. The only info I can offer is from a message board that said: "David Cochran, brother of Frank Cochran, of Fallsburg, died at his home in Menifee Co.,KY on the 31 day of March 1904. He was born in N.C. in April 1825 and was one of the first to enlist in the Confederate army, in the 1st N.C. Reg., Company "A". He was in the battle of Gettysburg, and was so unfortunate as to lose his left hand in this battle. In the year 1876 he left his native state and moved to Menifee Co., KY and had before his death accumulated considerable wealth." I haven't had time to look up records yet for Fallsburg, so that's about all I know. Rumor has it that they were indeed Irish, but have also heard that there was also Cherokee somewhere. Sorry I don't know any more than that. Tara