Obituary - Mrs. Anna Cochrane
East Liverpool Tribune
WOMAN, 105 YEARS OLD, DIED AT HOME IN SMITH'S FERRY
FOLLOWING BRIEF ILLNESS
From Long Lived Family
Is Survived By Six Children, Thirty-one Grandchildren and Eighteen Great Grandchildren, and Sister, Who, Living at Klondike, Has Passed 92 Mark.
Mrs. Anna Cochran,e aged 105, the oldest resident of this section of the county and perhaps the oldest in Pennsylvania, died at her home near Smith's Ferry, Pa., Wednesday evening (March 13, 1912), at 8 o'clock, after an extended illness. Death was the result of old age. She was remarkably well preserved. She did not even wear glasses and was able to sew.
Mrs. Cochrane is on of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to be very old. All of her brothers and sisters are dead with the exception of Mrs. Mary Dillon, of Klondyke, this city, who is 92 years of age. Her last brother, Solomon Wolf, died some six months ago at the age of 88 years. The combined age of these three old people totaled 282 years.
Mrs. Cochrane has lived about Smiths Ferry for the past 40 years, most of that time on the same farm. She came to Smiths Ferry from near Darlington, Pa., where she was born and reared. She has always lived a very simple manner in her home life and as long as she was able she insisted on doing her own house work.
She is survived by six children, thirty-one grand children and eighteen great grand-children. The children surviving are: Thomas, Peter and John, all of whom are at home; Daniel of Devoesburg, Pa.; Lige of East Liverpool, and Mrs. Lizzie Swager of New Gallilee, Pa. She is also survived by one sister Mrs. Mary Dillon of this city.
She was a member of the Smiths Ferry M. E. Church and the funeral services will either be held from that church or from the late home, with interment at Long's Run Cemetery. Definite funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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