Cochran family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harry T. Leeper, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0348
Scope and Contents
Collection includes family correspondence of the Bowman, Veach, and Leeper families. Manuscripts include a recounting of the Civil War event known as "Jones' Raid." In another document Nathaniel Cochrane, an ancestor of Thomas Leeper, recounts his capture and imprisonment by indigenous people, along with a biography of Cochrane. Daily life for that time is captured in "Home Life of the Leeper Family." Other typescript histories include "Monongah," Thomas Leeper's diary regarding heavy rains...
Dates:
1779-1915
Marion Tapp, Genealogist, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0501
Overview
The papers of a locally noted genealogist, Miss Marion E. Tapp, including family and local histories and articles about fraternal historical organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Dates:
1940-1970
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- Subject
- Civil War - raids and raiders. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Floods 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- West Virginia 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- McKeesport (Pa.) 1
- Monongah (W. Va.) 1
- Registers of births, etc. [includes marriage and death] 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Teachers 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Worthington (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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