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Stuart - Cochran Mill

Stuart's Mill - 1859
Located on White Breast Creek in White Breast Township, Township 74N, Range 22W, in the middle of theNE quarter of section 27.
[Zoom in on this 1859 map of White Breast Township (provided by the Library of Congress) to see surrounding areas.]

Cochran's Mill - 1872

Stuart’s Mill was most likely owned by Joseph H. Stuart (also listed as Stewart), born in Tennessee around 1806.  He married Mary Christopher on Nov 6, 1831 in Wilson County, TN and moved his family to Warren County, Iowa in 1847.  Joseph H. was living in Warren County in the 1850 census with his family of four children. He bought 200 acres of land in White Breast Township between 1853-1854, was in the tax list in 1855, but had moved to Marion County, Iowa by 1856. Sometime between 1865-1870 Joseph moved his family to Kansas, where he lived the rest of his life.  Joseph H. Stewart died May 5, 1877, age 71, and was buried in Whiteford Cemetery, Miami County, Kansas.

History of Warren County, Iowa, containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, & etc., by Union Historical Company, Des Moines, 1879, p.627
John M. Cochran, carpenter and builder, P. O. Lacona; he lives in Lacona; he was born September 6, 1827, in Highland county, Ohio; parents moved to Benton county, Indiana, in 1845; came to Iowa and settled in this township in 1855; he enlisted August 7, 1861, in Co. G, Tenth Iowa Infantry, as a private; he was promoted to Sergeant Major, September 8, 1861, and to Second Lieutenant Co. G, July 14, 1862, to First Lieutenant, February 9, 1863, and to Captain, November 8, 1864, and to Major, August 7, 1865, and was honorably discharged September 5, 1865; he was in the battles of Champion's Hill, Vicksburg, Corinth, Mission Ridge, Iuka, and all the others in which the Tenth Iowa participated; he was married September 12, 1848, to Mary, daughter of Charles Johnson, of Benton county, Ohio; they have had eight children: Elizabeth E., Martha, Sarah J., Nancy E., Lealine L., Wm. J., Mary, John F.; Martha and John F. are dead.