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.
BRYAN, Helen Bernadine
1903 - 1993 (90 years) Has 57 ancestors and 7 descendants in this family tree.
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Name BRYAN, Helen Bernadine [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Birth 2 Feb 1903 Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA 
[1, 3, 4, 5, 6] Gender Female Education Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, USA [1, 7, 8] the University of Kansas, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Romance Languages, 
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. Family Event 30 Sep 1917 Belleview (Eudora Township), Douglas, Kansas, USA [9] The family of John Wesley and Martha Jane RUSSELL, 3 generations of 26 people, had their picture taken at their home on their farm - Included were their 12 living children, 5 daughters-in-law, a son-in-law and 6 grandchildren. At the time, a son, a son-in-law and a grandchild were deceased. John was 62 and Martha was 53.
"The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Russell very pleasently surprised them by coming Sunday with well filled baskets and spent the day with them. Twenty-six were present for the day. In the afternoon A. Lawrence, the photographer of Lawrence came out and took a family group picture. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Bert Russell and family [sons Cecil and Bert, Jr.] of Paola; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Russell and baby [son Roy]; and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Russell of Wellsville; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Russell and baby [daughter Marie] of Osawatomie; Miss Katie Russell of Kansas City [MO]; Mrs. Lillie Bryan and daughters [Helen and Bessie] of Lawrence; and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Russell; Myrtle, Ernest, Ray and Grace Russell; and Mr. and Mrs. John Russell, all of this place [community of Belleview in Eudora Township, Douglas County, KS]."
- Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Journal-World, 5 October 1917, p. 6, col. 4.
Included in the picture, but not mentioned in the newspaper article, were Mr. and Mrs. William Brecheisen of Johnson County, KS. Mrs. Brecheisen was John and Martha Russell's daughter, Mabel Russell.
John & Martha Russell Family FindaGrave Memorial ID 96226027 Death 17 May 1993 Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA [6] Age 90 years Burial Green Hill Cemetery, Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA [6] Address:
Green Hill Cemetery
Rock Port, Missouri
USA- Find A Grave website (http://www.findagrave.com/): Memorial #96226027.
Person ID I4207 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 15 Aug 2025
Father BRYAN, Louis Clifford, b. 25 Feb 1877, Kansas, USA d. 13 Mar 1912, Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA (Age 35 years) Mother RUSSELL, Lilla, b. 3 Jun 1880, Missouri, USA d. 28 Dec 1962, Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA (Age 82 years) Family ID F1668 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MCELHINEY, Max Otis, b. 29 Sep 1901, Rantoul, Franklin, Kansas, USA d. 5 Jun 1982, Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA (Age 80 years) Marriage 5 Jun 1930 Osawatomie, Miami, Kansas, USA [1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12] Age at Marriage She : 27 years and 4 months - He : 28 years and 9 months. Marriage Status Ended with Husband's death Business Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA [1, 8, 13] a Russell's Variety store beginning in the early 1930s - 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.
Children 1. 
MCELHINEY, William Bryan, b. 12 Oct 1931 d. 25 Dec 1937 (Age 6 years)+ 2. L Family ID F1710 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
- Included were their 12 living children, 5 daughters-in-law, a son-in-law and 6 grandchildren. At the time, a son, a son-in-law and a grandchild were deceased. John was 62 and Martha was 53.
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Event Map 
Birth - 2 Feb 1903 - Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA 
Education - the University of Kansas, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Romance Languages, - - Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, USA 
Family Event - The family of John Wesley and Martha Jane RUSSELL, 3 generations of 26 people, had their picture taken at their home on their farm - 30 Sep 1917 - Belleview (Eudora Township), Douglas, Kansas, USA 
Marriage - 5 Jun 1930 - Osawatomie, Miami, Kansas, USA 
Death - 17 May 1993 - Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, USA 
Burial - Address:
Green Hill Cemetery
Rock Port, Missouri
USA - - Green Hill Cemetery, Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA
Business - a Russell's Variety store beginning in the early 1930s - - Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S1009] McElhiney, John, Email - McElhiney, John, 23 Nov 2016, 29 October 2016>, "Re: Genealogy,".
Email - John McElhiney to Winston Cochrane - [S784] Author unknown, Artifact - Russell Family Charts - James Russell & John Wesley Russell, 25 Nov 2015.
Russell Family Charts - James & John Wesley - [S814] Kansas, Miami County, Census - US, Kansas - 1905 - Miami County (Ancestry), (Digital images. Ancestry.com. "Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925"; http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1088 : 2009), 19 Dec 2015, Marysville, p. 33, dwelling 1, family 8, line 28, L. C. Bryan household; ("Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925"; http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1088 : accessed 19 December 2015); citing Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1905 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1905_97; Line: 29.
Census - Kansas - Marysville, KS - L. C. & Lillie Bryan - [S772] Kansas, Miami County, Census - US - 1910 - KS - Miami County (Ancestry), (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?htx=List&dbid=7602&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0: National Archives and Records Administration, 2006), 1 Dec 2015, T624, roll 447, Marysville Township, enumeration district (ED) 127, p. 6A, dwelling 109, family 110, Louis C. Bryan, accessed 1 December 2015.
Census - Marysville Township, Miami County, KS - Louis & Lilla Bryan - [S1556] Dorothy Prentiss (Dunedin, FL), Letter - Prentiss, Dorothy to McElhiney, Helen - 1974, 20 Apr 2025.
- [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 1 Dec 2015, accessed 1 December 2015<, Memorial #96226027, Helen Bryan McElhiney.
- [S1009] McElhiney, John, Email - McElhiney, John, 23 Nov 2016, 27 November 2016>, "Re: Genealogy,".
Email - John McElhiney to Winston Cochrane - [S1558] John McElhiney, Letter - McElhiney, John to Cochrane, Winston (9 May 2019), 21 Apr 2025.
- [S810] Photograph - Russell Family (John Wesley & Martha Jane Russell), 13 Dec 2015.
- [S1557] KS. Osawatomie., Newspaper Article - Osawatomie News (KS), 20 Apr 2025, "Bryan-McElhiney," 12 June 1930.
Osawatomie News - [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 - [S977] Iva Estelle Russell (Paola, Kansas), Letter - Russell, Iva Bell to Marie Russell Cochrane, 24 Jul 2016.
- [S979] Marie Cochrane (Kansas City, Missouri), Letter - Cochrane, Marie to Winston Cochrane, March 2000, 27 Jul 2016.
- [S1009] McElhiney, John, Email - McElhiney, John, 23 Nov 2016, 29 October 2016>, "Re: Genealogy,".