Aaron Cochrane

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