Cogan Osborn
Former Johnson County Youth Dies in Action
Word has been received by his relatives that Cogan Osborn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Osborn, formerly of this county, was wounded in battle, Nov. 24 and died a few days later.Young Osborn was approximately 24 years of age and was serving with the Armed Forces in Africa. He lived in Johnson County at brief intervals during his life, but for the most part of his life had lived in Nebraska.
His father is the son of the late Thomas and Kattie Brown Osborn and a brother of Mrs. Dallas Sublett and Mack Osborn of Sitka, Ky., and Billie Osborn of Ashland.
His mother is the daughter of the late Samuel Estep and his grandmother, Rosa Estep resides at Thealka, Ky. This young man was a cousin of Mrs. Nellie Mayo, Paintsville, Ky., and of Dorothy Wyatt, former Referral Agent of Johnson County.
©Paintsville Herald
Thursday
1-7-1943