Cochran Family - Lee Mission Cemetery - Salem, Oregon - Zinc Headstones on Waymarking.com

This zinc headstone marks the graves of the Reverend Thomas Cochran and his wife Susan Gurley Cochran. They served God and the Methodist Episcopal Church in Salem, beginning in 1884. Thomas's grandfather was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. Susan's father William Gurley was the first Methodist minister to be licensed as a local preacher by the famous John Wesley, in Ireland.

Susan's obituary:
"Buried Yesterday
Funeral services over the remains of the late Mrs. Susan Cochran were held in the First Methodist church at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning, but owing to the indefiniteness of the time for holding the funeral, the services were not very largely attended. Rev. John Parsons officiated and, after brief services, the remains were taken to Lee Mission cemetery, where they were given interment beside those of her husband, Thos. Cochran. Classes at Willamette University were excused for the forenoon as a mark of respect to Prof. L.G. Cochran, a son of the deceased, and a former member of the university faculty." -Oregon Statesman, May 22, 1900

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Headstone text (optional): Together they spent 54 years in the Ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. "They rest from their labors and their works do follow them." Additional Coordinates (optional): Not Listed Date of birth (optional): Not listed Date of death (optional): Not listed Website: Not listed

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