{"id":91,"date":"2016-10-12T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/mrsshermanandpapajack\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T01:25:20","slug":"mrsshermanandpapajack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/mrsshermanandpapajack\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Sherman and Papa Jack: The REAL parents of the Little Colonel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The characters of “Mrs. Sherman” and “Papa Jack” were the parents of The Little Colonel in the series of books.  In real life, they were
\nthe parents of Hattie Cochran, the little girl on who the series “The Little Colonel” were based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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We’re not sure, but this Kate Matthews photo could be “Mrs. Sherman”
\n\t\t\t(Amelia Cochran)
\n\t\t\tCirca 1900-1910  For now, we have to
\n\t\t\tclassify it as unidentified<\/p>\n

Photo from the University of Louisville Photographic Archives, Kate Matthews Collection<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Mrs. J. Hoadley Cochran
\n\t\t\t(Amelia Weissinger Cochran)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t“Mrs. Sherman” – mother of the “Little Colonel”<\/td>\n

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Mr. John Hoadley Cochran<\/p>\n

“Papa Jack” –
\n\t\t\tfather of the “Little Colonel”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The middle and right photos above, the earliest verified ones we’ve found so far, from about 1928 or just before, and long after the last of the Little Colonel books, and thus show Mrs. Sherman and Papa Jack quite a bit older than they would have been during the stories.  At the time they both lived at 2012 Lauderdale Road in Louisville,  and the pictures are from a newspaper article of the time.  Mrs. Cochran was “the Old Colonel’s only daughter.”<\/p>\n

Photos from The Sunday Herald Post, Louisville, Kentucky, December 23, 1928<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The characters of “Mrs. Sherman” and “Papa Jack” were the parents of The Little Colonel in the series of books.  In real life, they were the parents of Hattie Cochran, the little girl on who the series “The Little Colonel” were based. We’re not sure, but this Kate Matthews photo could be “Mrs. Sherman” (Amelia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}