Martin Baty Cochran

Martin Baty Cochran and his wife Isabella Elizabethson West, are a Republic Of Texas, "First Texas Family", as certified by the Texas State Genealogical Society on 13 April, 2009. Martin and his father, Joseph Sidney Cochran were also certified, as a "Citizen Of The Republic of Texas" by the Son's Of The Republic of Texas" on 10 August, 2010. On Oct 11, 2010 the Veteran's Administration approved my application for a gray granite headstone for Martin's service in the military during the Civil War, Confederate States Of America. Also a 2 1/2 inch SRT bronze medallion has been ordered from The Son's Of The Republic Of Texas for his headstone. His biography and certified TXSGS application will kept at the University Of Texas, History Dept for viewing by researcher's of the founding families of Texas. i.e. Cochran's a founding Texas family.

Martin Baty Cochran was born 04 Sept 1831 in the Mexican Province of Texas that later became Newton Co., the family was there when the Mexican Province of Texas became The Republic Of Texas in 1836. He married Isabella Elizabethson West, daughter of Levi Oliver West, in Newton County Texas in 1850. He later moved along with his wife's family to the Luling area of Caldwell County Texas. He served during the Civil War in Col. E. Hardman's Rgt. from Caldwell Co. Texas. He later moved with his wife and family to the Wimberley area of Hays County Texas. His wife Isabella, a country doctor, died there in 1904 and is buried in the The Century Old Wimberley Cemetery. After her death he moved to Runnels County Texas to live with his son Levi Newton Cochran, Sr. and His wife Margaret Brown. According to family history as related from my grandmother to my father, sometime shortly after this he died in 1907 and was buried in the Truitt Cemetery near Winters Texas. Not long after this the entire family packed up and moved back to Wimberley Texas, abandoning the land in Runnels County Texas. His son, Levi Newton Cochran, Sr. died in 1934 and is buried in the Old Wimberley Cemetery.

by Richard Autry and Terry Cochran

{Biography by: Terry Lee Cochran}

Newton County was originally part of the Spanish"Atascosito District" and under Mexican rule it became "Liberty District." In 1835, the present county was part of what was known as "Municipality of Bevil" or Bevil's District. After Texas's independence, the district was divided into Liberty, Jefferson and Jasper counties. At that time Jasper county included the land between the Neches and the Sabine rivers, but in 1846 Jasper county was cut in half, and Newton county was created from the eastern half.

COCHRAN, Martin B. b.9/4/1831 Resided in Newton, Caldwell, Hays, and Runnels Co.Tx areas, served during the Civil War in Co E Hardman's RGT.

Confederate pensions-

Cochran, Martin B. 04634a Claimant: Cochran, Martin B.

Pension Number: 04634a

County: Hays

Confederate soldiers of Caldwell County Texas - Cochran, Martin B .

Between 1899 and 1975, 54,634 pension applications from impoverished/disabled Confederate veterans and/or their widows, were processed and funded by the state of Texas. To be eligible, the applicant had to prove military service in any branch of the Confederate armed forces, and state-residency since 1880 (they may well have lived in another state at the time of service).

-Cochran, Martin B. 04634a

by Donaly Brice, Texas State Library

The Old Wimberley Mill Ledger, Brother's Signatures 1880-1890

-M. B. Cochran (Martin Baty Cochran)

-Jim Cochran (James Samuel Cochran)