Terry & Nancy's Ancestors
Gideon Dyer Cobb1,2,3
ID# 1043, (1773 - 1834)
- Father: Elkanah Cobb1 b. 21 Jan 1746/47, d. 10 Aug 1795
- Mother: Mary Willard1 b. abt 1753, d. 2 Aug 1842
- Born: 11 Sep 1773 in Stillwater, Albany Co., New York.1,2
- Married: Modena Chittenden Clark abt 1796 in Castleton, Vermont.4,3
- Died: 1 Mar 1834 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky.2,5
- Buried: in Riverview Cemetery, Eddyville, Kentucky.2
Children with Modena Chittenden Clark:
Caleb Clark Cobb6,4 b. 25 Dec 1797, d. 19 Nov 1867- Robert Livingston Cobb6,7 b. 6 Oct 1805, d. Jun 1873
- Mary Willard Cobb6,8 b. 6 Jul 1807, d. Dec 1878
- Dr. Joshua Cobb9,6,10 b. 19 Apr 1809, d. 7 Apr 1879
- Hannah Chittenden Cobb6,11 b. 17 Dec 1811, d. 16 Feb 1841
- Persis Clark Cobb6,12 b. 23 Nov 1815, d. bef 1864
- Gideon Dyer Cobb Jr.6,12 b. 3 May 1817, d. 10 Dec 1871
- Aurelia Skinner Cobb13,6 b. 17 Oct 1819, d. 10 Mar 1910
- Giles Lyon Cobb6 b. 5 Dec 1820, d. 4 Oct 1867
Citations
- Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Town Clerk.
- Eddyville, Kentucky. Eddyville Cemetery. Gideon D. Cobb grave marker.
- Chittenden Lyon, letter. 5 Apr 1828, to James Witherell.
- Ruth Garrett Cobb, "The Cobb-Garrett Family History", typescript. 1964.
- Deborah Anne Cobb Freeman. Family file "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, by e-mail 31 Jul 1998.
- Judith Kilbury-Cobb. "RE: Cobb Ancestry." E-mail message. 15 Jun 2001.
- William Elsey Connelley and E. M. Coulter, History of Kentucky. 5 vols.. Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1922.
- Register of Deaths. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Frankfort, Kentucky.
- U.S. Military Academy, Cadet Application Papers. Micropublication micropublication M688, roll 55, cadet 1828 #149. Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration.
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic.... Vol III. New York: James T. White & Company, 1900.
- 100 East Market St., Princeton, Kentucky Caldwell County Courthouse Marriage Records, loose papers.
- Deeds. Crittenden Co.. Kentucky. County Courthouse. 107 S. Main St., Marion, Kentucky.
- J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky - A History of the State: Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony; its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies.... Louisville, Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Company, 1885.
