Terry & Nancy's Ancestors
Robert Livingston Cobb1,2,3
ID# 1587, (1805 - 1873)
- Father: Gideon Dyer Cobb1,4 b. 11 Sep 1773, d. 1 Mar 1834
- Mother: Modena Chittenden Clark1,4 b. 4 Oct 1779, d. 7 Oct 1837
- Born: 6 Oct 1805 in Eddyville, Livingston Co., Kentucky.1,5,6
- Married: Cornelia Barbour Mims 13 May 1835 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky.2,7,3,5
- Died: in Jun 1873 in Paducah, McCracken Co., Kentucky.8,9,4
Children with Cornelia Barbour Mims:
- Maj. Robert H. Cobb10,5,6 b. May 1836, d. 20 Jul 1914
- Linah Mims Cobb11,5,6 b. abt 1838, d. 21 Apr 1904
- Joshua Clark Cobb12,5,6 b. 7 Jul 1839, d. 22 Dec 1895
- Henry Cobb13 b. Apr 1842, d. Jul 1846
- Sarah T. Cobb14 b. 29 Nov 1843, d. 11 Aug 1847
- Sam Glenn Cobb5 b. abt 1846, d. bef 1860
- Gideon D. Cobb15 b. 27 Mar 1847, d. 8 Dec 1847
- Bobella Cobb5,16 b. 3 Sep 1848, d. 20 Oct 1922
- Mark Tyler Cobb17,6,18 b. abt 1852, d. 18 Nov 1905
Citations
- Judith Kilbury-Cobb. "RE: Cobb Ancestry." E-mail message. 15 Jun 2001.
- 100 East Market St., Princeton, Kentucky Caldwell County Courthouse Marriage Records, loose papers.
- Deborah Anne Cobb Freeman. Family file "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, by e-mail 31 Jul 1998.
- William Elsey Connelley and E. M. Coulter, History of Kentucky. 5 vols.. Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1922.
- Kentucky. Caldwell Co.. 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule. Micropublication M432-194. Washington: National Archives.
- Kentucky. Lyon Co.. 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule. Micropublication M653-383. Washington: National Archives.
- 100 East Market St., Princeton, Kentucky Caldwell County Courthouse Marriage Bonds, Book A.
- "Mr. Robert L. Cobb." Clarksville Chronicle. Clarksville, Tennessee, 21 Jun 1873.
- Obituary for Mrs. Cornelia B. Cobb. Unknown newspaper. apparently from Paducah, Kentucky, 2 Jun 1875.
- "Commander of the Famous Cobb's Battery," Confederate Veteran, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1915).
- "Death Claimed Capt. Linah Cobb." The Paducah Sun. Paducah, Kentucky, 21 Apr 1904.
- 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. Reprint, Easly, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Eddyville, Kentucky. Eddyville Cemetery. Henry Cobb grave marker.
- Eddyville, Kentucky. Eddyville Cemetery. Sarah T. Cobb grave marker.
- Eddyville, Kentucky. Eddyville Cemetery. Gideon D. Cobb grave marker.
- Mrs. Bobbie Cobb James, Certificate of Death, State of Tennessee State Board of Health.
- "The Grim Reaper." The Paducah Sun. Paducah, Kentucky, 20 Nov 1905.
- Kentucky. McCracken Co.. 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule. Micropublication M593-487. Washington: National Archives.
