Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph Cochran, died 1758, Bedford, NH, killed by a falling tree

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground in Bedford, New Hampshire

HERE LYES THE

BODY OF MR. JOSEPH

COCHRAN HE

DIED JUNE 24TH

1758 AGED 31

YEARS           

According to The History of Bedford, New Hampshire, by Peter Woodbury, 1851, page 189 "Joseph Cochran lived where Joseph and Calvin Butterfield now live.  Cochran was killed by the fall of a tree, directly opposite John Mullet's house.  Cochran had two daughters; Samuel Moor married one, and Mr. Dunlap, of Goffstown, married the other."

The primitive face and unsophisticated lettering on this little tombstone are charming.  This simple little tombstone is typical of the early Scots Irish in this area of New England.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph Cochran, died 1758, Bedford, NH, killed by a falling tree", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 18, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/tombstone-tuesday-joseph-cochran-died.html: accessed [access date]).