Daughter of James and Margaret COCHRAN. Was kinswoman and wife of William COCHRAN.
Sarah & her husband William were buried in the family Cemetery of their plantation known as Carrollsburg Manor in Adams County, PA. Their graves were later removed to the Cemetery of Emmettsburg Presbyterian Church of Emmettsburg, Maryland. They came to Philadelphia in 1730 and stayed there until 1732 when William Cochran, in conjunction with two other men, bought 5000 acres of land from Barrister Carroll. This land was, at the time, in Fredrick County, Maryland but when the permanent lines were drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland, it lay in what was then Lancaster County and is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah & her husband William were buried in the family Cemetery of their plantation known as Carrollsburg Manor in Adams County, PA. Their graves were later removed to the Cemetery of Emmettsburg Presbyterian Church of Emmettsburg, Maryland. They came to Philadelphia in 1730 and stayed there until 1732 when William Cochran, in conjunction with two other men, bought 5000 acres of land from Barrister Carroll. This land was, at the time, in Fredrick County, Maryland but when the permanent lines were drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland, it lay in what was then Lancaster County and is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Daughter of James and Margaret COCHRAN. Was kinswoman and wife of William COCHRAN.
Sarah & her husband William were buried in the family Cemetery of their plantation known as Carrollsburg Manor in Adams County, PA. Their graves were later removed to the Cemetery of Emmettsburg Presbyterian Church of Emmettsburg, Maryland. They came to Philadelphia in 1730 and stayed there until 1732 when William Cochran, in conjunction with two other men, bought 5000 acres of land from Barrister Carroll. This land was, at the time, in Fredrick County, Maryland but when the permanent lines were drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland, it lay in what was then Lancaster County and is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah & her husband William were buried in the family Cemetery of their plantation known as Carrollsburg Manor in Adams County, PA. Their graves were later removed to the Cemetery of Emmettsburg Presbyterian Church of Emmettsburg, Maryland. They came to Philadelphia in 1730 and stayed there until 1732 when William Cochran, in conjunction with two other men, bought 5000 acres of land from Barrister Carroll. This land was, at the time, in Fredrick County, Maryland but when the permanent lines were drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland, it lay in what was then Lancaster County and is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Inscription
“Here Lyeth interred the bodies of William Cochran Who Departed this life December The 18th 1775, in the 78th year of His Age Also The body of Sarah Cochran The Wife of the above named Who departed this Life February 6th in the Year of our Lord 1785 In the 83rd year of her Age.Time was like me, the life possessed.And time shall be, when I shall rest.”
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