Terry & Nancy's Ancestors
Cornelia Barbour Mims1,2,3
ID# 1780, (1816 - 1875)
- Father: Linah Mims2,4,5 b. 14 Nov 1772, d. bt 1847 - 1850
- Mother: Rebeccah Davis4 b. abt 1786, d. bt 1828 - Jun 1830
- Born: in 1816 in Richmond, Virginia.2,6,7
- Married: Robert Livingston Cobb 13 May 1835 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky.3,8,9,6
- Died: 31 May 1875 in Paducah, McCracken Co., Kentucky.2,10,5
- Buried: 3 Jun 1875 in Riverview Cemetery, Eddyville, Kentucky.2
Children with Robert Livingston Cobb:
- Maj. Robert H. Cobb1,2,6 b. May 1836, d. 20 Jul 1914
- Linah Mims Cobb2,6,11 b. abt 1838, d. 21 Apr 1904
- Joshua Clark Cobb2,7,6 b. 7 Jul 1839, d. 22 Dec 1895
- Henry Cobb12 b. Apr 1842, d. Jul 1846
- Sarah T. Cobb13 b. 29 Nov 1843, d. 11 Aug 1847
- Sam Glenn Cobb6 b. abt 1846, d. bef 1860
- Gideon D. Cobb14 b. 27 Mar 1847, d. 8 Dec 1847
- Bobella Cobb6,15 b. 3 Sep 1848, d. 20 Oct 1922
- Mark Tyler Cobb2,11,16 b. abt 1852, d. 18 Nov 1905
Citations
- "Commander of the Famous Cobb's Battery," Confederate Veteran, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1915).
- Obituary for Mrs. Cornelia B. Cobb. Unknown newspaper. apparently from Paducah, Kentucky, 2 Jun 1875.
- 100 East Market St., Princeton, Kentucky Caldwell County Courthouse Marriage Records, loose papers.
- Christian Co., Kentucky. Recorder, Christian Co. Wills, 1824.
- 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.
- 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.
- 100 East Market St., Princeton, Kentucky Caldwell County Courthouse Marriage Bonds, Book A.
- Deborah Anne Cobb Freeman. Family file "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, by e-mail 31 Jul 1998.
- Register of Deaths. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Frankfort, Kentucky.
- Kentucky. Lyon Co.. 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule. Micropublication M653-383. Washington: National Archives.
- 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.
- Kentucky. McCracken Co.. 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule. Micropublication M593-487. Washington: National Archives.
