This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMJ.2ACEB/1762.1 Message Board Post: Joe. Look at my message posted same day as yours. There is a family possiblity worth mentioning here. I have a James. Families were good at naming their children after brothers/sisters, close relatives. Dates align in Ohio for one of John and Martha Cochran's children to have a child James Cochran born as you listed. They were in Warren Co, Ohio. But as you know the children drift, marry and move again, so I don't hammer down Warren County as only country of my Cochrans. My line went to Indiana, then Ilinois and returned Indiana. But another went to Kansas and stayed, another to Truro, Iowa but returned to Indiana. Iowa seemed a magnet for my distant families, but I have not traced their route or know their children. I believe there is a liklihood of a connection here. After the Civil War, there was a drift of veterans westward to homestead. Richard