Alabama Memory

Aaron Cochrane

Item

Full Name

Aaron Cochrane

Victim Profile

Aaron Cochrane

Biography

On April 21, 1869, Aaron Cochrane, age unknown, was lynched in Northport, Alabama, by a white mob numbering from fifty to eighty white men. This was due to Aaron resisting the white mob and their abduction of his son. Following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Aaron Cochrane was also a free- man registered to vote and was the father of multiple children, including Levi Cochrane who also played an interval part in this case. This lynching was the beginning for what resulted in the largest mass- lynching to be documented in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to this point.

Documented or Attempted

Documented

Birth Date

N/A

County of Birth; County of Death

N/A; Tuscaloosa County

Death Date

April 21, 1869

Race

Black

Sex

Male

Researchers

Kaleb Sparks, Savannah Berryman, Kaitlin Truslow

Case Number

AMP541-18690421-000

Identified by:

Alabama Memory project

Spouse or Partner

Nancy Duke

Child

Levi Cochrane

Occupation

Farmer

Head of Household and Literacy Status

Head of Household