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Washington, Indiana January 10, 196U Dear Red, I am enclosing photostatic copies of just one of the grand jury indictments against your grandmother, Ella Cochran. I have spent much time at the court house and have found so much material that I plan to spend most of next week there typing it up...it is impossible to photostat all of it. So far, I have been ?√ßunable to find any record of y^ur grandmother marrying anyone except William T. Cochran. She married him December 8, 1892. She filed for divorce in 1896 when he was sent away to prison for robbing trains but dropped this suit. She later filed again and was finally divorced from him in February, 1903. I have checked the marriage records back to 1890 in Daviess County and she was not married in this county except to Cochran. There is a possibility that she married someone in Knox county and divorced him in Knox County. If she was married and divorced in Knox County and there were no children she could resume her maiden name of Richardville. All the court records here use the name of Richardville before hee marriage to Cockran. There is no record of Eheart. I mean there is no record of marriage 1 Joseph Eheart filed a suit against Ella Cochran on Dscember 7, 1900, I will have that all typed up as soon as possible. You remember in the newspaper clip ings I sent you that Chriss Eheart was mentioned as her stepson and that Mu. Cochran shot him?╟÷gpggjl the puzzle is getting even more involved. I frankly believe that your mother may have just been living with Eheart (the father) until she married Cochran. What do you think? 1 am just hoping I will find a Skeleton in your closetH i Wowl Wait till you see some of the stuff I have found?╟÷are you SfTRE you want to know? She sure led a gay life I So far it looks like she left Washington around 1919. I have to go to Vincennes to the court house for more information on her as soon as I finish here. I wanted to tell you how much we enjoyed your Christmas Eve show?╟÷but I felt so sad because you looked so sad in your skit with the doll...I hope you are not as sad as you looked that night and also the night I talked with you in Los Angeles I Don't be sad?╟÷there is so much to behappy fori Who am I to say that? I am happy to be so busy with all this?╟÷it leaves so little time for thinking.,..and incidentally?╟÷stay out of my dreams1 Mrs. GLenn E. Ross 1210 Bedford Road Washington, Indiana ??