Bernace Cochran Papers - Accession 1560

This collection contains records from the South Carolina Home Economics Association, County Council of Farm Women, National Extension Homemakers Council, and the Lexington County Home Demonstration Club. It also contains collections of miscellaneous papers, newspaper articles, letters, and informational booklets. Mrs. W. E. Cochran (Bernace “Bee” Cochran) married W. Edward Cochran; they were from Greenville County, South Carolina. She had a huge involvement in the South Carolina Extension Homemakers Council and branched off from that into the Council of Farm Women, and the Home Demonstration Club. While involved in the Extension Homemakers Council she wrote a book titled, A Brief History, South Carolina Extension Homemakers Council.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2472/thumbnail.jp

Mrs. W. E. Cochran Papers - Accession 103

The Mrs. W. E. Cochran Papers consist of histories, constitutions, bylaws, reports, memoranda, minutes, membership lists, newsletters, handbooks, brochures, manuals, newspaper clippings and photographs, relating to her involvement with the South Carolina Extension Homemakers’ Council (1936-1976), the National Home Demonstration Council (1960-1976), the Associated Country Women of the World (1947-1976), the Master Farm Homemakers’ Guild (1964-1976), and the South Carolina Council for the Common Good (1968-1972).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1065/thumbnail.jp