Henry Calvin "Buddy" West

Henry married Lula Hawthorne on 13 Jan 1892 in Jasper County, Texas. Lula (daughter of Joshua Timothy "Tim" Hawthorne, Jr. and Mary Matilda Jones) was born on 3 Nov 1874 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 16 Jan 1962 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary West was born in Oct 1892 in Texas.
2. Alfred West was born in Apr 1895 in Texas; died on 30 Aug 1957; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas.
3. Kinnie West was born in May 1897 in Texas.
4. William W. West was born in Aug 1899 in Texas.

Notes:

FindAGrave notes that "Alfred West died as he fought in the Civil War. No marker was found for him at Zion Hill cemetery, but one [was erected] for Angeline[whom] is buried there."

(Research):

Census Listings:

1860 Census
Texas, Newton County, PO Newton
Enumerated 16 and 17 July 1870
Page 50
325-325
Alfred West 35 M Farmer 250 230 La
Angelina West 28 F Ind
Mary E West 5 F Tx
Nancy E West 3 F Tx
Lydia West 1 F Tx
Martha Reeves 6 F La
326-326
Wm Cochran 56 M Farmer 300 210 Mass
Mary Cochran 52 F Ky
Alfred Cochran 25 M Ind
Washington Cochran 23 M Ind
Mary A Cochran 17 F Tx

Alfred married Angelina Cochran on 3 Apr 1851 in Newton County, Texas. Angelina (daughter of William Alexander Cochran and Mary "Polly" Bennington) was born on 25 Dec 1831 in Indiana; died on 27 May 1887 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Zion Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her FindAGrave memorial page, created by Kerry Girolamo, shows that she was born in Greene County, Indiana.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1870 Census
Texas, Jasper County, PO Jasper
Enumerated 25 Aug 1870
Page 45 Stamped 520
544-564
Cochran, Alfred 35 M Farmer 16- 100 Ind
Cochran, Missouri 27 F Keeping House Miss
Cochran, Robert B 3 m Tx
Cochran, William W 2 M Tx
West, Angeline 38 F Ind
West, Mary E 15 F Tx
West, Nancy E 13 F Tx
West, Lida M 11 F Tx
West, Henry C 9 M Tx
West, Alfred W 7 M Tx
Cochran, Wm 68 M Mass
Cochran, Mary 63 F Ky

Notes:

From FindAGrave:

From the Jasper County Archives:

Articles ran in the Jasper News Boy, Jasper, Texas

Wednesday, February 2, 1994

Cochran Family Came to Bleakwood in 1842

By The Jasper County Historical Commission

Barbara Smith of the Bon Ami community contributed the following information.

In 1842, William Cochran boarded a houseboat in Indiana and traveled by way of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, across Louisiana to what later would become Newton County. On the banks of Thickety Creek in the community now know as Bleakwood, he and his brother-in-law Rueben Bennington, built a water mill. Later they would sell this mill to Jesse Lee, who would build a sawmill, gristmill and cotton gin there.

William, son of Glass and Mahatable Fuller Cochran, has been born in 1802 in Massachusetts and around 1829 had moved to Indiana and married Mary Polly Bennington, a sister of Reuben who had been born in Kentucky in 1808.

For the first 13 years of their marriage William and Mary made their home in Indiana. It was there they had the following children: Mahatable, born in 1830, who would marry Eli White on Feb 23, 1853 in Newton County; Angelina, born 1832, who would marry Alfred West in Newton County on Apr 3, 1851; Alfred J., born Jan 30,1834; Washington D. C., born 1837, who never married and died in the Civil War at Vermillionville, Louisiana, on Aug 10, 1863; and Lydia Ann, born 1840, who married John Matthew Bivens on Jan 13, 1860 in Newton.

After their arrival in Texas, another daughter, Mary Ann was born in 1843. She would later marry Henry Bivens on Feb 4, 1868 in Jasper County.

Alfred J. Cochran, third child of William and Mary, also served in the Confederate States Army, but unlike his brother who was killed, would return home to marry Missouri Ann Bruce on Oct 26, 1865. He and Missouri Ann had the following six children: Robert B., born Sep 26, 1866; William W., born 1868; Walter Hughey, born July 1873; Mary J., born June 3, 1878, who married Tom Choats in 1894; Alfred Boyce, born June 1884; and Pearl, born Oct 3, 1886, who married Jeff Havens.

Alfred died on Oct 16, 1888 and was buried at Zion Hill Cemetery in Jasper County. Missouri Ann lived to be 83, dying on Sep 23, 1926. She was buried beside Alfred at Zion Hill.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Newton County
Cochran William 48 yrs Farmer,300 acres born in Ma.
Cochran Mary 42 yrs born in Kentucky
Cochran Mahatable 20 yrs born in Indiana
Cochran Angelina 18 yrs born in Indiana
Cochran Alfred 16 yrs born in Indiana
Cochran Washington D.C. 13 yrs born in Indiana
Cochran Lydia Ann 10 yrs born in Taylor, Greene, IN
Cochran Mary Ann 7 yrs born in Texas

1860 Census
Texas, Newton County, PO Newton
Enumerated 16 and 17 July 1870
Page 50
325-325
Alfred West 35 M Farmer 250 230 La
Angelina West 28 F Ind
Mary E West 5 F Tx
Nancy E West 3 F Tx
Lydia West 1 F Tx
Martha Reeves 6 F La
326-326
Wm Cochran 56 M Farmer 300 210 Mass
Mary Cochran 52 F Ky
Alfred Cochran 25 M Ind
Washington Cochran 23 M Ind
Mary A Cochran 17 F Tx

1870 Census
Texas, Jasper County, PO Jasper
Enumerated 25 Aug 1870
Page 45 Stamped 520
544-564
Cochran, Alfred 35 M Farmer 16- 100 Ind
Cochran, Missouri 27 F Keeping House Miss
Cochran, Robert B 3 m Tx
Cochran, William W 2 M Tx
West, Angeline 38 F Ind
West, Mary E 15 F Tx
West, Nancy E 13 F Tx
West, Lida M 11 F Tx
West, Henry C 9 M Tx
West, Alfred W 7 M Tx
Cochran, Wm 68 M Mass
Cochran, Mary 63 F Ky

William married Mary "Polly" Bennington on 10 Feb 1827 in Indiana. Mary was born about 1808 in Kentucky; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Glass Cochran came to America about 1734 from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. He was eighteen and of Scottish descent. He married Sarah Hamilton of Marblehead, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Robert and Mary Hamilton. Glass and Sarah settled in Blandford, Massachusetts, in the northern part of the township, next to a large pond named in his honor, Cochran Pond. He died in 1795 and is buried there along with his wife and several family members in the old cemetery on Blandford Hill. He was the father of Robert, John, Susanna, Cornelius, Abner, Molly, Amos. and Glass. Amos, we assume, died before reaching adulthood, as we can find no further reference to him. The youngest son, Glass married Mehitable Fuller of Connecticut. Mehitable's family was the well established Fuller family of Massachusetts and Connecticut, descendents of Robert Fuller, who came to America in 1636. Glass and Mehitable "Hetty" were the parents of thirteen children, namely Nathaniel, Harper, Lydia, John, James, Juliet, Charles, William, Joseph Sidney, Henry, Harreson, Betsy, and Sarah. Only nine of these thirteen lived to marry and raise families of their own. Lydia, Juliet, Charles, and Harreson, all died as infants or young children. In 1803/ Glass joined a group of Massachusetts and Connecticut Pioneers in forming the Scioto Land company and the family settled in Franklin County in the newly formed State of Ohio, near what is now Worthington. Here Glass was elected Justice of the Peace, as was his father and brothers back in Blandford. He served, along with his sons, Nathaniel, Harper, and John, in the War of 1812. About 1817, the family moved westward again and settled in Palmyra Township in Knox County, lndiana. Glass died there in 1822. About this time, several of his children moved over into the newly formed County of Greene. Here they operated a grist mill on Doane's Creek in Taylor Township. William (COCHRAN) married Mary "Pol1y" BENNINGTON' Betsy married Rubin Bennington; James married Rosanna Manning; and Sarah married Obadiah Barker. Eventually, Nathaniel, William, Joseph Sidney, Henry, Betsy, and their respective families, along with their mother, Mehitable, traveled west by covered wagon to settle in Texas. Harper went to Arkansas, and John settled in Illinois. Only James and Sarah stayed behind in Greene County. There are now five and six generations of the Cochran and Barker families that have called Greene County home.
Submitted by. Judie Cochrane
Source: Greene County, Indiana
File No. 911 .242
Lewis Library, Vincennes, University