Beyond Georgia: Where the Cochrans Came From Before Georgia

Research pass completed 2026-10-25. Question from Joel Cochran: his proven ancestor Samuel E. Cochran was born in Georgia in 1859 and moved to Indiana by 1889. Where did the family live before Georgia?

Rules used in this pass: free public sources only. No Ancestry, no paid collections, no paid library pulls. Deceased historical people only. Every claim is labeled VERIFIED (a record or a record abstract was read), COMPILED (a published genealogy or compiled study, not yet checked against the original record), or CANDIDATE (a possible match, never merged into Joel's line without a linking record).

Copy note: no em dashes are used anywhere in this file, per Joel's standing copy rule.

The short answer

No record found in this pass names Samuel E. Cochran's father, his Georgia county, or his parents' birthplaces. That link is still missing, and nothing below pretends otherwise.

What the records do show, clearly, is where Georgia's Cochran families came from. Every Georgia Cochran cluster that can be traced back one generation in free records came from the same three places:

1. Virginia (the Wilkes, Greene, and Oglethorpe cluster, and the Jasper County cluster, both traced to Virginia in records)
2. North Carolina (the Dawson and Lumpkin cluster, traced to Montgomery County, NC; the Morgan County Cockrum cluster, traced to North Carolina)
3. South Carolina (the Milton and Fulton cluster: William R. Cochran, born in South Carolina, both parents born in South Carolina)

So the honest answer to Joel's question today is: Georgia Cochrans, as a documented pattern, were upland South families who came down from Virginia and the Carolinas. Samuel's father was very likely a Georgia born son or grandson of one of those Virginia or Carolina families. Which one is not yet proven, and this file keeps the candidates separate until a record links one of them to Samuel.

Part 1. The anchor: what is already proven about Samuel E. Cochran

From the Samuel E. Cochran dossier (filed 2026-10-25, samuel-e-cochran-dossier.md and line-a-samuel-cochran-georgia.md):

• VERIFIED: Samuel E. Cochran, born 1859 in Georgia (gravestone year), died September 1933 in South Bend, Indiana. Buried Akron Cemetery, Fulton County, Indiana, beside his wife.
• VERIFIED: He married Florence B. Carpenter on December 17, 1889, in Fulton County, Indiana (Marriage Book E, p. 337). Fulton County's 1880 census transcription has zero Cochrans, so his arrival in Indiana falls between 1880 and 1889.
• VERIFIED: His only occupation record is the 1921 Polk South Bend directory: "Samuel E. Cochran, lumberman, h 1406 Marine."
• VERIFIED NEGATIVE: His middle initial E is never expanded in any record found. No Georgia county, no parent, and no childhood census household has been found for him in free sources.

Everything in this pass is an attempt to close that gap from the Georgia side.

Part 2. Angle 1: the hunt for Samuel as a boy in Georgia, 1850 to 1880

Target: a Georgia Cochran household (any spelling: Cochran, Cochren, Cockran, Cockrum, Cothran, Cohron) with a son Samuel born 1858 to 1860, in the freely readable census transcriptions, indexes, and compiled Georgia Cochran genealogies (USGenWeb county transcriptions, CensusLinks, ldsgenealogy county pages, Internet Archive index volumes, and the Wolfe genealogy at websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe, which profiles Georgia Cochran families person by person).

Result: no matching household was found

The Wolfe Cochran surname index contains no Samuel Cochran born about 1859 in Georgia as a profiled person. The households below were enumerated in full from compiled profiles and census abstracts, and none of them contains a son Samuel of the right age:

The one near miss, kept open

• CANDIDATE, UNIDENTIFIED FATHER: Martha Louise Cochran, born March 28, 1859, in Paulding County, Georgia. In the Wolfe research her Cochran father is unidentified (carried as a DNA match placeholder). She proves a Cochran family in Paulding County was raising children born in 1859, the same year as Joel's Samuel, but she names no father and no brother Samuel. She is a lead, not a link.

What this means

Samuel's childhood household is either in a Georgia county whose 1860 or 1870 census has no free every-name transcription, or his family was recorded under a spelling or a household head that the free indexes do not surface, or he was raised in a household where he does not appear as a son (a relative's home, for example). The records that would settle it are listed in Part 8.

Part 3. Angle 2: Georgia Cochran clusters, 1790 to 1860, and where each came from

Cluster 1: Wilkes, Greene, and Oglethorpe. Origin: VIRGINIA. This is the strongest documented chain in Georgia.

• COMPILED with record abstracts: Samuel Cochran Sr., born not later than about 1740, died 1791 or 1792 in Wilkes County, Georgia. His 1791 will named wife Marah (Mary) and children Elizabeth, Jennet, Thomas, John, Samuel, William, and Micajah. Source: Heard Family Research, "Families on Little River," a compiled secondary study.
• VERIFIED ABSTRACT: Wilkes County original papers, GAGenWeb: "COCHRAN, SAMUEL dec'd. Mary and John Cochran and John Muckleroy, admrs bond, Jul. 25, 1791. (See will Vol. 1)." A Wilkes County wills index also lists "Cockran, Samuel, will, 1791."
• COMPILED: Daughters Elizabeth and Jennet married in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1779. Son Thomas was born April 8, 1760, in Lunenburg County (later Charlotte County), Virginia, and died February 16, 1849, in Adair County, Kentucky. Son John was left five pounds in the will "to be raised out of the Sale of my Lands in Virginia," which places family land, and the family, in Virginia before Georgia.
• COMPILED: Son Samuel Jr. was born about 1772, probably in Bedford County, Virginia, and died in March 1850 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. This matches the Wolfe profile of Samuel Cochran (about 1772 to February 1850), born Virginia, died Oglethorpe County.
• CONFLICT, KEPT OPEN: Two marriages are recorded for a Samuel Cochran of this generation and place, and they cannot both be merged casually. An Oglethorpe County marriage list for 1794 to 1798 records "Samuel Cochran and Rhoda Scoggin." A Scogin family history says Rhoda Scogin (born about 1779) married Samuel Cochran and died around 1860. The Wolfe profile instead gives Samuel's wife as Sarah "Sally" Furlow, married March 23, 1802, in Greene County. If Rhoda lived to about 1860, the 1802 Furlow marriage belongs to a different Samuel, or one of the compiled accounts is wrong. This pass does not resolve it.
• COMPILED: Samuel M. Cochran, born about 1821 in Georgia, married Judy Julia Gentry on September 26, 1841, in Greene County. He is the only child the Wolfe profile lists for Samuel (b. about 1772). His children on record are Sarah A., John R., Mary A., and Susan J. No Samuel born about 1859.
• RECORD CONFLICT, KEPT EXACT: Wolfe's abstract of the 1860 census shows "Saml Cothran," age 39, born Ireland, with Judy, age 39, born South Carolina, in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. The 1880 abstract shows Samuel M., age 59, born Georgia, in Orange County, Florida, with father born Ireland and mother born Georgia. These birthplaces contradict each other and contradict the Virginia origin of his presumed father. They are recorded here as found, not smoothed over.

Cluster 2: Jasper County. Origin: VIRGINIA. A second, independent Virginia chain.

• COMPILED from records cited on WikiTree: John Cochran, born about 1760, likely in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He served as a private in the 5th Virginia Regiment in 1777. He married Susannah Lumsden on January 21, 1786, in Franklin County, Virginia.
• COMPILED: A 1791 Georgia tax list places John Cockran in Wilkes County (Gresham's district). By 1820 the family was in Columbia County, and by 1827 in Jasper County, where Susannah appears as a widow.
• VERIFIED from the 1827 Jasper County land lottery list (see Part 4): Susannah Cochran drew as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, alongside Jubil Cochran and John L. Cochran, with Alexander Cochran in a second Jasper district. In 1832 Susannah won Cherokee land lot 118 (see Part 4).
• Note: John and Susannah's children are often conflated online with a different John Cochran of Goochland, Virginia. The WikiTree profiles flag this themselves. Treat the Jasper family as its own chain: Virginia to Wilkes to Jasper.

Cluster 3: Dawson and Lumpkin. Origin: NORTH CAROLINA.

• COMPILED (Wolfe genealogy, from memorial and compiled sources): Abraham Cochran, born June 7, 1793, in Montgomery County, North Carolina, died January 9, 1877, in the Amicalola District, Dawson County, Georgia. He married Rebecca Luther (born about 1800, North Carolina) in Montgomery County, North Carolina, in December 1817.
• COMPILED: DAR descendant lists name Abraham as a son of Jacob Cochran (born about 1755, North Carolina, died about 1835, Hall County, Georgia) and Mary English, married November 8, 1775. This Jacob link is a compiled lineage claim, not yet checked against primary records in this pass.
• COMPILED: Abraham and Rebecca's son James Mateson Cochran was born December 3, 1832, in Dawson County, Georgia, married Phoebe Elizabeth Mathis on August 26, 1853, in Lumpkin County, and died in 1909 in Dawson County. His full child list is in Part 2: it contains Jacob Josiah (born about 1859) and no Samuel.
• RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS ONLY: Wolfe files Abraham's father under a placeholder labeled "weak dnamatch Cochran," and groups several Georgia patriarchs under a research structure he calls "Grandfather Nancy Cochran White-Perhaps." Wolfe's own notes say this grouping stands for an unknown or skipped generation suggested by DNA match patterns. It is not documented parentage and is not used as proof anywhere in this file.

Cluster 4: Morgan County (the Cockrum family). Origin: NORTH CAROLINA.

• COMPILED (Wolfe genealogy): Banister Cockrum, born 1782 to 1785 in North Carolina, died November 10, 1861, in Morgan County, Georgia. He married Sarah Matilda Collins on December 25, 1817, in Morgan County. Wolfe gives his father as Benjamin Cockerham.
• COMPILED: His son Thomas G. Cochran was born April 13, 1823, in Morgan County, Georgia, and died January 18, 1891, in Russell County, Alabama.

Cluster 5: Milton and Fulton. Origin: SOUTH CAROLINA.

• COMPILED (Wolfe genealogy, from census, marriage, deed, and voter records): William R. Cochran, born March 8, 1820, in South Carolina, died January 9, 1898, in Fulton County, Georgia. His 1867 voter registration says he came to Georgia in 1849. He married Emeline Watson on August 27, 1849, in DeKalb County, Georgia.
• VERIFIED from census abstracts: In 1850 he was in Cobb County (as William Cockram, born South Carolina). In 1880, in Milton County, he reported his own birthplace as South Carolina and both parents born in South Carolina. His full child list is in Part 2: no son Samuel.

Cluster 6: Paulding and Cobb. Origin: GEORGIA born, one generation deeper unknown, mother from SOUTH CAROLINA.

• COMPILED (Wolfe genealogy): John Arthur Cohran, born March 8, 1823, in Georgia, died September 18, 1885, in Paulding County. His father was John Cohran and his mother Nancy Hood. In the 1880 census John Arthur reported his father born in Georgia and his mother born in South Carolina. So this line was already in Georgia by about 1800, and the pre-Georgia step is one generation further back and not documented in free sources found in this pass. His child list is in Part 2: no Samuel.

Cluster 7: Effingham and Screven (the coast). Origin: NOT FOUND.

• COMPILED (Genealogy.com forum post by a Cochran researcher, citing published records): Hugh Cochran of Effingham County was a Revolutionary War soldier (per the 1820 land lottery record, which does not say where he served from). He appears in the 1820 Effingham County census with a large household, and his heirs (Mary, Hugh E., George L., John, and James Cochran, and William Usher) sold land in 1827.
• COMPILED: Joseph Coughron of Screven County left a will proved in 1822 naming wife Martha and sons Robert (deceased), Matthew, and James.
• No origin state or country was established for the coastal cluster in this pass. Coastal Georgia also had a direct immigration route through Savannah, so this cluster cannot be assumed to share the upland migration pattern.

Cluster 8: Smaller sightings, origin not established

• Columbia County: the 1821 lottery list repeatedly uses "Cochrans" as a militia district name in Columbia County, meaning a Captain Cochran commanded a district there by 1821. A cluster existed; its head is not yet identified.
• Jackson County: the 1807 lottery list (Part 4) shows a Jackson County group: James Cockran (a major), Thomas Cockran, Prudence Cockram, and the orphans of Rickens Cockran.
• Newton and Putnam: John Jeremiah Cochran (born about July 1817, Georgia, died 1859, Newton County), son of John Jeremiah Cochran Sr. Wolfe's DNA notes connect his descendants to the same research group as Clusters 3 and 5, but no documentary parentage above the elder John Jeremiah was established.

Part 4. Angle 3: Georgia land lotteries and headright grants

How to read these: Georgia gave land away by lottery in 1805, 1807, 1820, 1821, 1827, and 1832 (land and gold), after earlier headright and bounty grants in the east. A lottery entry names the drawer's county and militia district of residence at the time of the drawing. That residence is the migration signal: it shows where a Cochran household was sitting, and when, as the frontier moved west. Framework source: Georgia Archives research overview, Digital Library of Georgia (dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ggpd_s-ga-bs700-pa7-bm1-b1966-bg4).

Headrights, 1780s (COMPILED, single source, flagged)

• A compiled Griffin family research page carries a research note stating that Samuel and Cornelius Cohron received headrights in Wilkes County in 1784/85, and William Cohron in Franklin County in 1786. The same researcher's pages state that Cornelius Cohron was a Revolutionary soldier who received bounty land in Washington County, and that a Wilkes County deed of November 1784 (Deed Book AA, p. 114) shows Cornelius and wife Ann selling part of a grant dated November 1784.
• Status: plausible and consistent with the Wilkes County Cochran presence proven in Part 3, but the headright entries themselves were not read in the grant books in this pass. Labeled COMPILED, not verified. If confirmed, a Wilkes County Samuel Cohron taking a headright in 1784/85 fits the same ground as Samuel Cochran Sr., who died in Wilkes County in 1791 (Cluster 1).

1807 lottery, fortunate drawers (VERIFIED from the published list transcription)

Residence county, then name, then county where land was drawn:

• Jackson: James Cockran (Maj.), Thomas Cockran, Prudence Cockram, Rickens Cockran's orphans. Land in Baldwin or Wilkinson.
• Greene: John M. Cockran. Land in Wilkinson.
• Elbert: Mary Cockran. Land in Wilkinson.
• Oglethorpe: William Cockran. Land in Wilkinson.

1821 lottery, fortunate drawers (VERIFIED from the USGenWeb Archives file, 1821cd.txt)

Columns: name, county of residence, militia district, lot, section, county where the land lay.

• Cochran, Parmsuas (Orphans), Wilkes, Freemans district, lot 45, section 11, Monroe
• Cochran, Samuel, Oglethorpe, district 235, lot 238, section 10, Dooly
• Cochran, Wm., Oglethorpe, district 226, lot 223, section 18, Henry
• Cochron, Elizabeth (Widow), Wilkes, Moores district, lot 6, section 9, Monroe
• Cochren, James, Jasper, Thomas district, lot 43, section 7, Dooly
• Cockran, Elijah, Gwinnett, Dobbs district, lot 115, section 8, Henry; and lot 59, section 5, Henry (two draws)
• Cockran, Hugh, Effingham, district 13, lot 275, section 18, Henry
• Cockrane, Robert, Franklin, Turks district, lot 84, section 14, Monroe
• Cockrum, John, Jones, Phillips district, lot 111, section 2, Monroe

The 1821 Samuel of Oglethorpe County sits exactly in the Cluster 1 footprint (Samuel Jr. or his son's generation). He is not Joel's Samuel, who was born in 1859.

1827 lottery (VERIFIED from county lists)

• Jasper County: Susannah Cochran, widow of a Revolutionary soldier, allowed two draws; Jubil Cochran, one draw; John L. Cochran, one draw (all in Spark's district); Alexander Cochran, one draw (Darden's district).
• Monroe County: Cornelius Cohron, Revolutionary soldier, of Brown's district, was a fortunate drawer: lot 54, district 12, section 3, in Troup County. His apparent son John Cohron, as administrator, sold that lot on August 5, 1828.

1832 Cherokee lottery (VERIFIED from published lists)

• Susannah Cochran, widow, residence Jasper County (364th district): lot 118, Eighth District, Fourth Section, Cherokee.
• Benjamin Cochrane, residence Gwinnett County (Wynn's district): lot 231, Twenty-third District, Second Section, Cherokee (land later in Gordon County).

1820 lottery

• VERIFIED from the Effingham research cited in Cluster 7: Hugh Cochran of Effingham County appears as a fortunate drawer and as a Revolutionary War soldier. No other Cochran fortunate drawer was extracted from the free 1820 lists in this pass; the full published 1820 list was not machine searchable in the free copies located.

1805 lottery

• No Cochran grantee was located in the free 1805 lists searched in this pass. The 1805 winners list survives mainly in published books (Wood and Wood, 1964; Lucas, 1973) that are not freely readable in full. This is stated as a gap, not as proof that no Cochran drew in 1805.

Part 5. Angle 1 and 2 combined: candidates table for Samuel's father

A candidate for Samuel's father must be a Georgia Cochran man of the right age (roughly born 1815 to 1842) whose household could contain a son born in 1859. Verdicts use only the evidence in this file.

No candidate is presented as Samuel's father. The table exists so the next pass can close the open and untested rows instead of redoing the closed ones.

Part 6. The strongest evidence chain (the answer, stated carefully)

For Georgia Cochrans as a whole, the record backed chain is:

1. The surname is in Georgia by the 1780s in Wilkes County, the great entry county for post Revolution settlers from Virginia and the Carolinas. A Samuel Cochran dies there in 1791 leaving a will, a widow, and seven children (VERIFIED abstract, Cluster 1).
2. That Wilkes family points back to Virginia in its own records: daughters married in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1779; a son born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 1760; the will itself orders money raised from "my Lands in Virginia" (COMPILED from the will study, Cluster 1).
3. A second Virginia chain lands in the same ground independently: John Cochran, born about 1760 in Virginia, a 5th Virginia Regiment soldier, married in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1786, taxed in Wilkes County in 1791, and settled in Jasper County, where his widow drew lottery land as a Revolutionary widow in 1827 and won Cherokee land in 1832 (Cluster 2, Part 4).
4. The north Georgia chain points to North Carolina the same way: Abraham Cochran, born 1793 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, married there in 1817, and died in Dawson County, Georgia, in 1877, the father of a large Dawson and Lumpkin family (Cluster 3).
5. The Morgan County Cockrums point to North Carolina (Banister, born 1782 to 1785, NC), and the Milton County family points to South Carolina (William R., born 1820, SC, both parents SC, arrived Georgia 1849) (Clusters 4 and 5).
6. The lottery records (Part 4) show these same families riding the frontier west in step with the lotteries: Wilkes and Oglethorpe in 1821, Jasper in 1827 and 1832, exactly the documented pattern of older county families drawing new land further west.

For Joel's Samuel specifically, the chain stops one generation short. The plausible reading, labeled as inference and nothing more: Samuel E. Cochran, born in Georgia in 1859, was most likely the son or grandson of one of these Virginia or Carolina origin Georgia families, born into a Georgia household that the free census transcriptions do not reach. His father's own birthplace, if a census ever surfaces, will likely read Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina. That is a probability statement about a pattern, not a family link.

Part 7. BACKGROUND ONLY: surname origin and the great migration. This section is general history. It is not proof about Joel's family.

• The surname: Cochran, more often Cochrane in Scotland, is a Lowland Scottish territorial name, taken from the lands of Cochrane near Paisley in Renfrewshire. The name is on record as early as 1262 (Waldeve de Coueran, witnessing a charter) and 1296 (William de Coughran, in the Ragman Roll). Clan Cochrane tradition derives the name from Gaelic words said to mean "the roar of the battle" or "battle cry," and traces the family to a Scandinavian settler in Renfrewshire. Tradition is labeled tradition here.
• The Ulster step: in the early 1600s, Lowland Scots, many of them Presbyterians, were planted in Ulster in the north of Ireland. Their descendants are the Scots-Irish (Ulster Scots). From about 1717 to 1775, driven by rising rents, expired leases, and religious pressure, an estimated 150,000 to 250,000 of them emigrated to America, most landing at Philadelphia or New Castle, Delaware.
• The road south: Pennsylvania filled up, and Scots-Irish families moved south down the Great Wagon Road, through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, into the Carolina Piedmont, and on into the Georgia backcountry. Charleston also became a direct arrival port from Ireland. The Georgia clusters in Part 3 sit exactly where that road delivered people: Wilkes, Greene, and Oglethorpe in the east, and the Piedmont counties after them.
• A Cochran specific note, COMPILED and unlinked: Wolfe's research notes record a researcher consensus that a John Cochran Sr. immigrated from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Rowan County, North Carolina, and was related to a Samuel Cochran, born about 1722, probably in Ulster, Ireland, who settled in Rowan County, married Sarah Woods, and died there about 1772. If that Rowan County line connects to any Georgia cluster, the connecting record has not been found. It is included because it shows the exact Scotland to Ulster to Pennsylvania to Carolina path inside the Cochran surname itself, not because it touches Joel's line.

Why this section is kept separate: a surname's history can make an origin feel certain when no record ties a specific family to it. Joel's family gets the Virginia and Carolina answer from Part 3 and Part 6, which rest on records. Scotland and Ulster are where the name came from centuries earlier, and no record in this pass bridges the gap between the name's origin and Samuel's grandfather.

Part 8. Not found, and the records that would settle it

Explicit not-found list

1. Samuel E. Cochran's father. Not named in any free record found.
2. Samuel's Georgia county of birth or childhood. Not found.
3. Samuel's exact birth date. Only the year 1859 (gravestone) is known.
4. Any 1850, 1860, 1870, or 1880 Georgia census household containing Samuel as a child or young man. Not found in the free transcriptions and indexes searched.
5. Any document linking Samuel to the Virginia origin clusters (Wilkes/Greene/Oglethorpe, Jasper), the North Carolina origin clusters (Dawson/Lumpkin, Morgan), or the South Carolina origin cluster (Milton/Fulton). None found.
6. The meaning of Samuel's middle initial E. Never expanded in any record found, in Georgia or Indiana.
7. The 1805 lottery: no Cochran grantee located in free lists (the full list is not freely readable; this is a coverage gap, not a negative).
8. The coastal cluster's origin (Hugh Cochran of Effingham, Joseph Coughron of Screven). No origin state or country established.
9. The identity of Martha Louise Cochran's father (Paulding County, the open lead in Part 5). Not found.
10. The children of Thomas G. Cochran of Morgan County and of the Jasper County sons (the untested rows in Part 5). Not enumerated in this pass.

Records that would settle the question

1. Samuel's Indiana death certificate, September 1933. Indiana death certificates of that era name the deceased's parents and birthplaces. This single record could name his father and his father's birthplace, answering the Beyond Georgia question in one step. Status: it sits in a paid Ancestry collection. Under Joel's NO FEES rule (2026-10-25, 16:17 EDT) it is NOT authorized. It stays on this list so the value of the record is on record if Joel ever names this fee himself.
2. A signed-in FamilySearch every-name census search for Georgia, 1860, 1870, and 1880, across all Cochran spelling variants, filtered to a Samuel born 1858 to 1860. FamilySearch is free, but its record search requires a free account sign-in, which this research pass cannot perform (no live browser, no sign-in). This is the highest value free route left and is flagged for the parent agent to route through a browser session or for Joel to run with his own free account.
3. Samuel's full September 1933 South Bend Tribune obituary text. Obituaries of that era often name a birth county and surviving siblings, and siblings are a back door to the father's household. Status: the SJCPL index entry exists, but the text pull is a paid library route. NOT authorized under NO FEES.
4. Free follow-ups still open: enumerate the children of Thomas G. Cochran (Morgan County) and of John L. Cochran (Jasper County) from free census transcriptions; identify the Paulding County father of Martha Louise Cochran (b. 1859); read the Georgia headright grant books for the Cohron entries of 1784 to 1786 to upgrade Part 4 from compiled to verified; identify the Captain Cochran of the Columbia County militia district.

Sources (all free, all read in this pass)

• Wolfe Genealogy, Janet and Robert Wolfe, University of Michigan: person pages for Samuel Cochran (g46407) and chronicle notes (pn/p46407), Samuel M. Cochran, James Mateson Cochran (g46316), Jacob Josiah Cochran (g46619), Abraham Cochran (g46397), John Arthur Cohran notes (pn/p46399), William R. Cochran notes (pn/p36931), Thomas G. Cochran notes (pn/p36450), and the research structure page (pn/p38290). https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g46407.htm
• Heard Family Research, "Families on Little River" (compiled study of Samuel Cochran Sr. of Wilkes County and his children).
• Wilkes County, GAGenWeb, Original Papers A to E (Samuel Cochran estate bond abstract, July 25, 1791). https://thegagenweb.com/gawilkes/Records/Original_Papers_AE.htm
• Wilkes County Wills Index, Georgia Genealogy. https://georgiagenealogy.org/wilkes-county/wilkes-county-wills-index-1794-1819.htm
• Oglethorpe County Marriages 1794 to 1798, Genealogy Trails (Samuel Cochran and Rhoda Scoggin). https://genealogytrails.com/geo/oglethorpe/marriages1794-98.htm
• Kevin Skoglund, My Family History, Chapter 5: Scogin (Rhoda Scogin, married Samuel Cochran, died about 1860). http://www.kevinskoglund.com/familyhistory/scogin2.html
• WikiTree profiles: John Cochran (Cochran-5400), Susannah (Lumsden) Cochran (Lumsden-593), John L. Cochran (Cochran-5408), including the 1827 Jasper County lottery list and the 1832 Cherokee lottery entry. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cochran-5400
• 1821 Georgia Land Lottery, USGenWeb Archives file 1821cd.txt (all Cochran variant entries in Part 4). http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/deeds/1821/1821cd.txt
• 1807 Georgia Land Lottery fortunate drawers list, RootsWeb (Cockran entries for Jackson, Greene, Elbert, Oglethorpe). http://sites.rootsweb.com/~gatroup2/georgia_1807landlottery5.htm
• 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery, Gordon County list, Genealogy Trails (Benjamin Cochrane, lot 231). http://genealogytrails.com/geo/gordon/cherokeelandlottery.html
• Griffin, "Some Families of East Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, VA, PA and MD" (Cohron headright research note; Cornelius Cohron 1827 lottery win and 1828 sale). http://lwgriffin.com/g0/p192.htm
• Genealogy.com forum, "COCHRAN families of Georgia: Effingham and Screven counties," Bobby Wadsworth, 2007 (Hugh Cochran, 1820 lottery and census, 1827 heirs' sale). https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cochran/4321/
• Georgia Archives, "Genealogical research in Georgia" (headright and lottery framework), Digital Library of Georgia. https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ggpd_s-ga-bs700-pa7-bm1-b1966-bg4
• Clan Cochrane history (surname origin, Renfrewshire, 1262 and 1296 records), Wikipedia and clan sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Cochrane
• Scots-Irish migration background: Archives.com overview; e-WV (West Virginia Encyclopedia), "Scotch-Irish"; Great Wagon Road references. https://wvencyclopedia.org/entries/183

End of pass. Status: the pre-Georgia pattern is documented (Virginia and the Carolinas). Samuel's own father is not yet identified. The open leads and the three settling records are in Part 8.