It was obvious the late Jim Cochran cared for his home community of Marshall County. It showed in the care he took over a career of chronicling its comings and goings for The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register that spanned more than 70 years.

Cochran made telling the stories that needed told in Marshall County his life’s work, from his decades stationed at the Journal office in Moundsville to the years after his retirement from full-time work spent authoring the “Marshall Memo,” a weekly column dedicated to the news of Marshall County.

He always tried his hardest to reach every corner of the county in his job. Yes, he was a Moundsville High School graduate and was enshrined on the John Marshall High School Wall of Fame, but his daughter Melinda Barrett told the story of the many ti

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