This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cochran Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMJ.2ACEB/2361 Message Board Post: ..[posting this on several boards] There is a Rebecca Cochran Waterman buried in the Maple Hill cemetery, Union Co., Iowa. Row 15: inscription includes: "mother", Feb 19, 1831 - Jan. 26, 1899. Next to her is buried: Frank B. Cochran, died Nov. 21, 1891, aged 38 yr. 2 m. 29 d. In the 1880 census - Creston, Union Co., IA there is listed: Cochran, Rebecca - widow - 47 - b. PA - Keeping hotel - fa.b. PA; mo. b. PA; and children: -----, A. N. 27 - b. PA - keeping meat martket -----, M. E.14 - b. IA -----, L. W. 12 - b. IA Also in Union Co.: F. R. (or B.) Cochran In the 1885 census for Douglas Twp. Union Co. IA: Cochran, Rebecca - 52, widow, b. PA and Cochran, Alfred N. 34, and wife Minnie QUESTIONS: 1. What was Rebecca's maiden name? 2. Who was her first husband (Cochran), and where & when did he die? 3. Is this family the same as the Franklin & Rebecca Cochran in the 1870 Clarke Co. IA census? 1870 - Osceola Twp. Clarke Co., IA: Cochran, Franklin - 41 - b. PA -----, Rebecca - 40 b. PA -----, Norton - 19 b. PA -----, Frank - 17 b. PA -----, Sarah - 14 b. PA -----, James - 12 b. PA -----, Dora - 11, b. KS -----, May (or Mary?) - 4 - b. IA -----, Wellington - 3 b. IA