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Rachael Isaacs Jones1,2,3,4,5,6,7

#17587, (1790 - Bef 1870)
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  • Father: Richard Jones
  • Mother: Mary Donaldson

Key Events:

  • Rachael Isaacs Jones was born on 30 Jan 1790 in Maryland.8,9,10
  • Rachael married first Zephaniah Cecil, son of Phillip Cecil Jr. and Elizabeth Thomas, on 27 Nov 1809 in Montgomery Co., Maryland.11,12
  • Rachael married second James Dyer Cobb, son of Elkanah Cobb and Mary Willard, and brother of the man her older sister Martha had married four years before, on 24 Apr 1817 in Prince George's Co., Maryland.13,14,15
  • Rachael apparently died Bef 1870. No record of her death has been found, but she was not listed with and her husband in 1870, nor has she been found elsewhere.
Rachael also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about her.

Children with Zephaniah Cecil:

  • Martha I. Cecil
  • Joseph Cecil

Children with James Dyer Cobb:

Citations

  1. Register of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1:237, christening record for Rachael Isaacs Jones, 28 Sep 1791.
  2. "Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850," Ancestry.com, record for Zephaniah Cissell and Rachel Jones.
  3. "Married," Daily National Intelligencer, 5 May 1817, shows name as Miss Rachel J. Cecil.
  4. Prince Georges Co. Marriage Licenses, pg 107, shows name as Rachel I or J Cicel.
  5. James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows name as Rachael I. Cobb.
  6. Henry Stubinger household, 1860 U.S. Census, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, shows name as Racheal Jones.
  7. Will Books, Prince George's Co., Maryland, WAJ no. 1, pp 188-9, will of Martha I. Chew, shows Rachel I. Cobb as her sister.
  8. Register of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1:237, christening record for Rachael Isaacs Jones, 28 Sep 1791, shows date.
  9. James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows age 49 and state.
  10. Henry Stubinger household, 1860 U.S. Census, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, shows age 61 and state, as Indiana.
  11. "Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850," Ancestry.com, record for Zephaniah Cissell and Rachel Jones, shows date, county and state.
  12. Ball, Walter Vancion, The Cecil Family of Maryland, pg 28, shows year, citing marriage records.
  13. "Married," Daily National Intelligencer, 5 May 1817, shows date.
  14. Prince Georges Co. Marriage Licenses, pg 107, dated 8 Apr 1817.
  15. James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows them apparently living as husband and wife.

Dr. Joshua W. Cobb1,2,3

#17589, (ca. 1829 - 1867)
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Key Events:

  • Dr. Joshua W. Cobb was born ca. 1829 in District of Columbia.4,5,6
  • Joshua married Mary Celeste Phelon, daughter of Isaac Phelon, in Dec 1858 in Shelby Co., Tennessee.7,8,9
  • Joshua died on 11 Sep 1867 in Memphis, Shelby Co., Tennessee, at age ~38.10
  • He was buried on 12 Sep 1867.11
Joshua also appears in our Family History Section where there is much more information about him.

Children with Mary Celeste Phelon:

Citations

  1. James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows name as Joshua W. Cobb.
  2. J. W. Cobb household, 1860 U.S. Census, Shelby Co., Tennessee.
  3. Dr. J. W. Cobb, Dr. J. W. obituary, Public Ledger.
  4. James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows age 21 and "state."
  5. J. W. Cobb household, 1860 U.S. Census, Shelby Co., Tennessee, shows age 30 and "state."
  6. George Willard Cobb, George Willard, Certificate of Death, shows D.C.
  7. J. W. Cobb and M. C. Phelen, marriage register, shows bond dated 13 Dec 1858, with no return recorded.
  8. Shelby County - Marriage Records 1820-1920, online, record for J W Cobb and Miss M C Phelon, citing bk 2, pg 11, shows year.
  9. J. W. Cobb household, 1860 U.S. Census, Shelby Co., Tennessee, shows them apparently living as husband and wife.
  10. Dr. J. W. Cobb, Dr. J. W. obituary, Public Ledger, shows died Wednesday.
  11. Dr. J. W. Cobb, Dr. J. W. obituary, Public Ledger, shows buried yesterday.

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