The Cochrane & Allied Families

Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.

MCELHINEY, Max Otis and BRYAN, Helen Bernadine Family

• Male MCELHINEY, Max Otis

  
  

  Birth	29 Sep 1901	Rantoul, Franklin, Kansas, USA
  Death	5 Jun 1982	Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA
  Burial		Green Hill Cemetery, Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA
  Marriage	5 Jun 1930  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]	Osawatomie, Miami, Kansas, USA  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
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  Female BRYAN, Helen Bernadine

  
  

  Birth	2 Feb 1903	Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA
  Death	17 May 1993	Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA
  Burial		Green Hill Cemetery, Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA
  Father	BRYAN, Louis Clifford | F1668 Group Sheet
  Mother	RUSSELL, Lilla | F1668 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male MCELHINEY, William Bryan

  
  

  Birth	12 Oct 1931
  Death	25 Dec 1937
  Burial		Green Hill Cemetery, Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA

  
  

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  Spouse	F1749
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• Notes

  Business: This was one of 14 Russell Variety stores in small towns in western Missouri and eastern Kansas that were also owned by Helen's mother, and Helen's uncles and aunts in the Russell family.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1557] KS. Osawatomie., Newspaper Article - Osawatomie News (KS), 20 Apr 2025, "Bryan-McElhiney," 12 June 1930. Osawatomie News [S1009] McElhiney, John, Email - McElhiney, John, 23 Nov 2016, 29 October 2016>, "Re: Genealogy,". Email - John McElhiney to Winston Cochrane [S782] Marie Cochrane (Kansas City, Missouri), Letter - Cochrane, Marie to Winston Cochrane, Date Unknown, 24 Nov 2015. Letter - Marie Russell to W. Winston Cochrane IV [S784] Author unknown, Artifact - Russell Family Charts - James Russell & John Wesley Russell, 25 Nov 2015. Russell Family Charts - James & John Wesley [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 1 Dec 2015, accessed 1 December 2015<, Memorial #96226027, Helen Bryan McElhiney. [S977] Iva Estelle Russell (Paola, Kansas), Letter - Russell, Iva Bell to Marie Russell Cochrane, 24 Jul 2016. [S1556] Dorothy Prentiss (Dunedin, FL), Letter - Prentiss, Dorothy to McElhiney, Helen - 1974, 20 Apr 2025. [S1558] John McElhiney, Letter - McElhiney, John to Cochrane, Winston (9 May 2019), 21 Apr 2025.