Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-21
PASSED Away.
A Lady Whose Ancestry Is Traced
Back Many Generations.

From the Oakland, CAL, Enquirer.
10 a Neodesha, Kansas, paper is the
following notice OF the death of Mrs.
Mary Bulkeley Co~chrane, sister Of Mrs.
B. q. Dick, of Oakland; [also of Mrs.
G. Hollingsworth, of East Las Vegas,
New Mexico
Mrs. Cochrane was the daughter OF
Judge Booth and Roxa Buckley Booth.
In her yodnger days, she partook
largely OF her fathers strong, vigorous
mentality. Her fathers force Of char
acter was recognized when at the age
OF twenty-five, he was given a place as
quartermaster In the war Of 1912, and
in later years made a representative in
the New York legislature.
1t was In New York that Mrs, Coch-
rane was born and spent her girlhood
Gays. She came from an unbroken
line of noble English ancestry, both on
the Booth and Buckley sides, dating
back to the early days in Cheshire,
Eng.
The p~rogenitor Of the Booth family
in America, of whom Mary Bulkeley
(Booth) Cochrane was the the sixth in
line, was Richard Booth, a younger son
Of Sir Richard Booth, of Cheshire, Eng
land.
Richard Booth came from England
and settled in Stratford, Conn, in
1910, one year after Stratford was set
tied. He had a large landed property,
which he divided in his life time among
his children.
The Bulkeleys were also an ancient
family of Cheshire, England. The ge-
theological book in the family shows
the direct line to Mary Buckley (Bootb)
Cochrane through Rev. Edward Bulke-
ley, D. d the American branch. He
was prebendary OF the cathedral in
Cheshire and Of Litchield and after
wards rector OF Christ church, Odell,
England.
HIS son, Rev. Peter Buckley, after
his fathers death, sold his large estate
and removed, with his family, In 1886,
to New England.
He brought a large number Of plant
ers with him and settled them on a
large tract of land. This settlement
was named Concord, and since has be.
come noted in many ways. The
twelfth church of New England was
planted there, and E.ev. Peter Bulke-
ley became It's pastor The mnsenm
contains a number of pieces of house,
hold things and silverware of his. His
wife was Grace, daughter Of Sir Rich.
ard ChetWOOd. of England.
The line descends through their son.
Rev. Gersham Buckley, who married
Sarah, the daughter of Rev. Charles
Chauncey, the second president Of
Harvard college. Their son, Edward
Bulkeleye married a daughter of Jona-
than Prescott, of Concord, Mass. The
son of this union was Brig. Major Ed
ward Buckley, who married Rachel
Pomeroy, niece of Seth Pomeroy, OF
revolutionary fame. Major Buckley
was one of the original members of
the society of Cincinnati. Their
daughter, Roxa Pomeroy Buckley,
married Colonel Francis. Their daugh-
ter, Roxa Bulkeley, married jesse
Booth. This brings their daughter,
Mary Bulkeley (BDotb) Cochrane, the
sixth IN line from Rev. Peter Buckley,
her ancestor. 1t is quite unusual that
both on the fathers and mothers side
the ancestry a be traced to the
early days OF England with no broken
links.
Mrs. Cochrane was the mother OF
seven children, three of whom died 10
childhood. She was a devoted mother,
a woman of great strength of charac-
ter, with a bearing which always
commanded respect. She was an
humble Christian, and had been a
communicate of the church since a
girl. For a number Of years she and
her husband resided on their beautiful
farm near the city. Mr.. Cochrane died
in 1898.
The epitaph that vas on Rev. Peter
Bulkelev's tomb can we'll be applied to
his descendant:
t'She , ath lefs US for a happier shore
Nay, rather fingers where she Was before.
She ne'er hath slept beneath this humble
For both in life and death she was with
G9d.'