Cochran Chapel Cemetery

The Cochrans reached Mustang Branch, now Farmers Branch, with four children on March 1, 1843, according to the church's own history. In January 1844 Nancy Jane's sister Mary and brother-in-law Isaac Webb settled beside them, and the two households became the neighborhood's nucleus. When Nancy Jane deeded three acres on July 11, 1856, she set aside one acre as a family burying ground and two for a church. The church history says she surveyed the land herself and wrote out the deed for one dollar, three years after the first burials.

What the plaque says

Cochran Chapel Cemetery This cemetery began in 1853 with the burials of Sarah Jane and William M. Cochran, the infant daughter and husband of Nancy Jane Hughes Cochran. Among the many Dallas County pioneers buried here are four of Nancy Jane's sisters and their husbands who came from Tennessee in the 1840s and 1850s: Thomas C. and Sarah Williams, Obadiah and Serena Knight, George and Amanda Record, and John B. and Margaret Bachman. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 5.6 mi
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• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 6.7 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 7.1 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Cochran Chapel Methodist Church — steps away
• Garvin Memorial Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Ursuline Academy — 1.4 mi
• Oath of Office of President Johnson — 1.5 mi