James Abraham Lincoln Cochran & Lucinda Daugherty

After a long delay (too long!), I’ve finally posted a profile of my great-grandfather’s family. James Abraham Lincoln Cochran was born in 1861 in Morgan County, in eastern Tennessee. To be named “Abraham Lincoln” in a state that seceded from the Union was a pretty bold gesture on his family’s part. He went mainly by Lincoln or Link for most of his life.

Lincoln married Lucinda Daugherty in early 1881; her family lived just across the county line in Scott County, and her father was a Civil War veteran who served in the Union cavalry. (We should get his pension file from the National Archives very soon!)

Another of Lincoln’s great-granddaughters has interviewed many Cochran and Brewster relatives to get more information about our family history. Several of these relatives, including Lincoln’s youngest son, told her that Ezekiel Cochran was not Lincoln’s father, but that it was instead someone named “Moisher or Nitzschke.” We’re hoping that several Y-DNA tests will help us figure out who the likely candidate is.

Now I’m off to write the last of the four profiles on great-grandparents: for Jesse Branham and Laura Thrasher (paternal side of the family). I’ve already posted profiles for John Woods Rowland and Anna Lou Whitus (also paternal side), and on the maternal side, William Davis and Farsina Brewster.