Mary Ann Cobb1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 10110, (abt 1835 - 1857)
FatherHorace Cobb4 (13 Mar 1797 - 16 May 1848)
MotherAbigail W. Nichols5 (12 Oct 1797 - Jun 1852)

Key Events:

Birth: about 1835, Monroe Co., New York6,7,8
Death: Jan 18579
Burial: 26 Jan 1857, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York10,11
ChartsDescendants of Gideon Cobb
AncestryThe Cobbs of Pawlet, Vermont

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Narrative:

     Mary Ann Cobb was born about 1835 in Monroe Co., New York.6,7,8
     She was probably one of the two females age 5 to 10 listed in the household of his father, Horace Cobb, in the 1840 Federal Census of Brighton, Monroe Co., New York.12
     Her father died on 16 May 1848, when Mary was about 13 years old.13,14,15 Mary appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Brighton, Monroe Co., New York, in the household of her mother, Abigail W. Nichols.1
     Her mother died in Jun 1852, when Mary was about 17 years old.16,17
     Mary appeared on the 1855 State Census of Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York, in the household of Alpheus Bacon, widower of her father's late sister Sarah, listed as a servant.18
     Mary was living in Brighton, New York, at the time of her death.19
     Mary died in Jan 1857.9 She was buried on 26 Jan 1857 in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, in her family's lot.10,11

Citations

  1. [S2478] Abigail W. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York.
  2. [S7884] Alpheus Bacon household, 1855 New York State Census, Orleans Co., New York, Ridgeway, shows name as Mary Cobb.
  3. [S2444] Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to July 1860 - Coa, shows name as Mary A. Cobb.
  4. [S2478] Abigail W. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York, shows the girl living with Horace's widow.
  5. [S2478] Abigail W. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York, shows them apparently living as parent and child.
  6. [S2478] Abigail W. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York, shows age 15 and state.
  7. [S7884] Alpheus Bacon household, 1855 New York State Census, Orleans Co., New York, Ridgeway, shows age 20 and county.
  8. [S2444] Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to July 1860 - Coa, shows she was interred 26 Jan 1857 at age 21.
  9. [S2444] Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to July 1860 - Coa, shows she was interred 26 Jan 1857.
  10. [S2444] Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to July 1860 - Coa, shows date and lot.
  11. [S2489] Mount Hope Cemetery, plot records, range I, lot 49, shows her in lot purchased by H. Cobb's heirs 26 Feb 1850.
  12. [S2461] Horace Cobb household, 1840 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York.
  13. [S2445] "Tombstone Inscriptions from Section I - Mt. Hope Cemetery," GenWeb Monroe County NY, shows date.
  14. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 186, shows date, city, as Brighton, and state.
  15. [S2607] Cleveland and Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45, shows city, as Rochester.
  16. [S2489] Mount Hope Cemetery, plot records, range I, lot 49, purchased by his heirs 26 Feb 1850, shows year.
  17. [S2444] Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to Jul 1860 - Cola, record for Abagail W. Cole, shows interment date as 19 Jul 1852. The record shows lot as 49-I, but there is no Abagail Cole in the plot of that lot, and the age (56) and residence (Brighton) are correct for Abigail Cobb, so it appears the recorder confused the surnames.
  18. [S7884] Alpheus Bacon household, 1855 New York State Census, Orleans Co., New York, Ridgeway.
  19. [S2444] Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to July 1860 - Coa.