Cochran County, TexasEdit This Page

From FamilySearch Wiki

United States Texas Counties C Cochran County

	Texas Online Records

Adopt-a-wiki page
	This page adopted by: Hidden Ancestors who welcome you to contribute.
User:Evancol
Adopt a page today

Cochran County, Texas
Map
Location in the state of Texas
Location of Texas in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	August 21, 1876
County Seat	Morton
Courthouse

County Courthouse

Cochran County Courthouse
Courthouse
Morton, TX 79346
Phone: 8096.266.5450 

County Clerk has birth, death, divorce, probate
and court records from 1926, marriage records
from 1924 and land records from 1884^[1]

History

Parent County

1876--Cochran County was created 21 August 1876 from Bexar Land District. County seat: Morton ^[2]

The county was named for Robert Cochran, (1810-1836). Robert E. Cochran, Alamo defender, was born in New Jersey in 1810. He probably lived in Boston and then in New Orleans before immigrating to Texas in 1835.

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Towns and Cities: | Bledsoe | Morton | Whiteface |

Neighboring Counties

• Bailey
• Hockley
• Lamb
• Lea County, New Mexico
• Roosevelt County, New Mexico
• Terry
• Yoakum

Resources

Cemeteries

Churches

Court

Land

Military

• Military Resources ~ Links to research Civil War to Operation Enduring Freedom ~ Hidden Ancestors
• Fallen Heroes  ~  Partial Index of casualties from Civil War to Operation Enduring Freedom ~ Hidden Ancestors
• Honoring Our Veterans ~ Partial index of veterans from Civil War to Operation Enduring Freedom ~ Hidden Ancestors

Newspapers

• Home Town News  -  Texas Newspaper Index with links
• Newslink  -  Texas Newspaper List (sorted by publication frequency)
• The Olden Times   -   Historic Texas News Online

Obituaries

• Obituary Resources ~ Links to research and locate obituaries ~  Hidden Ancestors
• USGenWeb Archives Obituary Project  ~  Texas
• Afrigeneas ~ African American death notices, obituaries and funeral programs compiled by users from current newspapers and historical sources
• Obituary Depot  ~  Texas Newspaper Citations
• Obituary Project ~ Hidden Ancestors
• Obituary Daily Times  ~  Citations to over 15,000,000 obituaries including interactive search function

Probate

• Search Tax, Criminal, Land and Wills Records  ~  Ancestry.com  (subscription)
• Texas Land Title Abstracts ~ Ancestry.com  (subscription)

Taxation

Vital Records

• Texas Death Index 1964 to 1998 [no images] Name index to Texas Statewide Death Certificates or four million people who have died since 1964.
• Texas Death Records 1890 – 1976 [with images]
  Name index and images of statewide death certificates, 1890-1976. The name index has been created by FamilySearch and is tied to images of the Texas death certificates. Few certificates are available prior to 1903.
• Texas Marriage Records  1966 - 2005  ~  Hidden Ancestors
• Texas Divorce Records  1968 - 2005   ~  Hidden Ancestors
• USGenWeb Census Project ~ Texas  1850 - 1930

Societies and Libraries

Cochran County Love Memorial Library
318 S Main St
Morton, TX 79346
Phone: (806) 266-5051

Society Hill  ~  Links and addresses to Texas genealogical and historical societies

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• TXGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the county.
• Hidden Ancestors  Information on Texas genealogy research as well as genealogy research in general.

• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Cochran County, Texas. Page 661 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).