Terry & Nancy's Ancestors

Elkanah Cobb^1,2,3

ID# 1266, (1746/47 - 1795)

Elkanah also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about him.

Gideon Dyer Cobb+ (1773 - 1834)
Joshua Cobb+ (1776 - 1860)
Sarah Cobb (1778 - 1795)
Capt. Willard Cobb+ (1781 - 1855)
Elkanah Cobb+ (1783 - btn 1817 and 1818)
John Cobb+ (1786 - abt 1834)
James Dyer Cobb+ (1789 - bef 1870)
Mary W. Cobb (1791 - 1859)
Sophia Cobb+ (1793 - )

Vital Records of Norwich Connecticut, pg 215.
Land Records, Wells, Vermont, B:99-100, deaths 1782-1811.
Elkanah Cobb household, 1790 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
Findagrave.com, online, memorial #28545418, Elkanah Cobb, shows he died 10 Aug 1795 in his 49th year, and includes tombstone photo showing same.
Probate Records, Rutland District Probate Court, 4:243-4, will of Jonathan Willard Senior, 14 May 1804, shows her as late wife of Elkanah Cobb.
Findagrave.com, online, memorial #54132130, Mary Willard]:ITAL] Remington, includes tombstone photo showing name as her as formerly his widow.
Hollister, Hiel, Pawlet for One Hundred Years, pp 179. 261, shows married.
Land Records, Wells, Vermont, B:99-100, deaths 1782-1811, shows date.
Findagrave.com, online, memorial #28545418, Elkanah Cobb, shows date, and includes tombstone photo showing same.
"Register of Deaths," The Rutland Herald, 7 Sep 1795, shows town, as Pawlet.
Findagrave.com, online, memorial #28545418, Elkanah Cobb, shows cemetery, and includes tombstone photo.
Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154.

ID# 1269, (1817 - 1871)

Born: on 3 May 1817 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky.^4,5,6,7
Married: Frances Conn Webb on 11 Dec 1848 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky.^8,9
Died: on 10 Dec 1871.^10,11
Buried: in Riverview Cemetery, Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky.³

Gideon also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about him.

Kilbury-Cobb, Judith, "RE: Cobb Ancestry," e-mail to author, 15 Jun 2001, citing hand-written pages titled "From Joshua Cobb's Family Bible," provided by Lillian W. Sprout, granddaughter of Joshua Cobb, with notarized statement 5 Dec 1931, Montrose, Pennsylvania, that they were from a Bible in her possession, shows name as Gideon Dyer Cobb, Jr.
Gideon D. Cobb household, 1860 U.S. Census, Crittenden Co., Kentucky.
Gideon D. Cobb grave marker, Eddyville Cemetery.
Kilbury-Cobb, Judith, "RE: Cobb Ancestry," e-mail to author, 15 Jun 2001, citing hand-written pages titled "From Joshua Cobb's Family Bible," provided by Lillian W. Sprout, 5 Dec 1931, Montrose, Pennsylvania, shows date, with year as 1817.
Gideon D. Cobb grave marker, Eddyville Cemetery, shows date, with year as 1818.
Robert L. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Caldwell Co., Kentucky, shows age 30, county, and state.
Gideon D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Crittenden Co., Kentucky, shows age 32, and state.
Caldwell Co. Marriage Bonds, Book B, no. 82, G. D. Cobb to Miss F. C. Webb, 11 Dec 1848, shows date.
Kyle, E. Arawana Thomas, Our Ancestral Plots, pg 215, shows her as his wife.
Gideon D. Cobb grave marker, Eddyville Cemetery, shows date.
Inventory and Sale Books, Crittenden Co., Kentucky, C:328-31, G. D. Cobb Inventory and account of sale, 25 Apr 1872 shows appraisal was done 29 Dec 1871.

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