COCHRAN, B. F. Sr., Beeville Bee, Friday, 5 Jul 1901:

B. F. COCHRAN Dead.
Mr. B. F. COCHRAN, Sr. mention of whom was made in last week's issue of this paper as being very ill in 
Corpus Christi, died Monday morning at 5:10 o'clock, and his remains were brought up on the 9:40 train
 from where they were escorted to the Methodist Church and services were held. The Woodsmen of the 
World, of which deceased was a member, conducted the funeral from the church to the old Glenwood 
cemetery and concluded the services at the grave.

B. F. Cochran was the youngest of a family of seven and was born in Eatenton, Putman County, Georgia, 
in December 1865. His father, W. B. Cochran, was killed in the battle of Atlanta and in 1867 Mrs. Cochran 
removed with her family to Mississippi. In Mississippi Mr. Cochran received his primary education, attending 
the A. & M. College for four years. In the fall of 1884 he came with his mother to Texas, settling in Richmond, 
where he engaged in merchandising. It was there Mr. Cochran met and married Miss Annie MILES, a 
granddaughter of Judge Sullivan, one of Texas' oldest settlers.

In the latter part of 1889, he located in Beeville, and the grocery firm of C. E. Cochran & Son was established, 
with B. F. Cochran as business manager. And a better one could not have been found, for starting with a small 
capital, by application, integrity and strict inherence to business principles he had built up and expanded the 
business until today it is one of the biggest grocery establishments in southwest Texas, supplying many stores 
in adjacent places with almost, if not all they handle.

Besides his wife and three children, Mr. Cochran leaves to mourn his loss his aged mother, four brothers and 
two sisters. V. E. Cochran of West Point, Miss., D. J. Cochran, Starkville, Miss., Mrs. Fremont BROWN, Urbana, 
Ohio, L. L. Cochran, Richmond, TX, Mrs. H. C. CAIN, Houston, TX, and Dr. W. B. Cochran, of Stafford, Texas. 
The latter was with him at the time of his death and Mrs. Mary Miles and J. S. Miles, mother and brother of Mrs. 
Cochran, came in on Monday's train from Richmond.