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Full Name
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Aaron Cochrane
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Biography
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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.
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Documented or Attempted
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Documented
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Birth Date
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N/A
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County of Birth; County of Death
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N/A; Tuscaloosa County
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Death Date
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April 21, 1869
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Race
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Black
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Sex
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Male
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Researchers
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Kaleb Sparks, Savannah Berryman, Kaitlin Truslow
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Case Number
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AMP541-18690421-000
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Identified by:
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Alabama Memory project
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Spouse or Partner
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Nancy Duke
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Child
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Levi Cochrane
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Occupation
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Farmer
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Head of Household and Literacy Status
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Head of Household
