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

Family Chart
ID# 17587, (1790 - bef 1870)
FatherRichard Jones1,7
MotherMary Donaldson1

Key Events:

Birth: 30 Jan 1790, Maryland8,9,10
Marriage: 27 Nov 1809, Montgomery Co., Maryland, Zephaniah Cecil (25 Jan 1763 - about 1815)11,12
Marriage: 24 Apr 1817, Prince George's Co., Maryland, James Dyer Cobb (24 Sep 1789 - before 1870)13,14,15
Death: before 1870
ChartsDescendants of Gideon Cobb

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     Rachael Isaacs Jones was born on 30 Jan 1790 in Maryland.8,9,10 She was christened on 28 Sep 1791 at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland.1
     Rachael married first Zephaniah Cecil, son of Phillip Cecil Jr. and Elizabeth Thomas, on 27 Nov 1809 in Montgomery Co., Maryland.11,12
     Her husband died about 1815.16
     Rachael was issued letters of administration for the estate of her husband, who had died intestate (without leaving a will), with his son Samuel by his first marriage.17 Rachael and her stepson filed the first settlement of the estate of her late husband on 13 Aug 1816, reporting that his personal estate had been inventoried at $4,662, but had been sold for $6,763. They reported disbursements of $1,034, leaving a balance of $5,729.18
     Rachael and her stepson filed the final settlement of the estate of on 16 Feb 1818, reporting additional receipts of $1,463 and disbursements of $311, leaving a balance of $6,880. Rachael received one third, $2,393, as her widow's dower, and the ten children each received $459.19
     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
     James and Rachael moved around the country extensively in pursuit of his career. He was in Maryland in 1817, and soon moved to Georgetown, but is known to have been also in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, and Indiana, and may well have lived in other places as well. (See map.)
     By 1820 James and Rachael had moved a dozen miles or so into the District of Columbia. She was probably one of the two females age 16 to 26 listed in the household of her husband, James Dyer Cobb, in the 1820 Federal Census of District of Columbia.20
     She was probably two of the females age 30 to 40 listed in the household of her husband, James Dyer Cobb, in the 1830 Federal Census of Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio.21
     Rachael and James were living in Greensbury [Greensburgh ?] Indiana in Apr 1836 when their son George returned there from college and died shortly afterwards.22 She was probably the female age 30 to 40 listed in the household of her husband, James Dyer Cobb, in the 1840 Federal Census of Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio.23
     Rachael and James appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Washington, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, enumerated 3 Oct 1850, reporting real estate valued at $2,000. Their children Mary, Joshua, Caroline, Alice and Georgiana were listed as living with them, as was on female slave, age 50.24,25
     Rachael was named an heir in the will of hers sister Martha, dated 10 Apr 1860 in Prince George's Co., Maryland, to receive two thirds of her estate for her lifetime, which was to be distributed to her daughters at her death.26
     Rachael and James apparently separated, or perhaps were divorced, before 1860. In the 1860 census he is listed as living with his eldest daughter and her husband in Arkansas, while she was living with her eldest daughter by her first marriage in Louisiana, listed under her maiden name.
     Rachael appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Attakapas, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, in the household of her daughter Martha and her husband, Henry Stubinger.27
     Rachael apparently died before 1870. No record of her death has been found, but she was not listed with Martha and her husband in 1870, nor has she been found elsewhere.

Children:
     Children with Zephaniah Cecil:

  • Martha I. Cecil28,29 (1810 - 1871)
  • Joseph Cecil29

Children:
     Children with James Dyer Cobb

The unknown male child in the household in the 1820, 1830 and 1840 censuses suggests there may have been another son. Daughter Mary appeared with her parents in the 1850 census, Caroline appeared in 1870 with her sister Sophia and her husband, and Georgiana appeared in 1860 with her half-sister Martha Cecil and her husband. No further record has been found of any of them.35

Citations

  1. [S11935] Register of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1:237, christening record for Rachael Isaacs Jones, 28 Sep 1791.
  2. [S6662] "Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850," Ancestry.com, record for Zephaniah Cissell and Rachel Jones.
  3. [S2988] "Married," Daily National Intelligencer, 5 May 1817, shows name as Miss Rachel J. Cecil.
  4. [S2246] Prince Georges Co. Marriage Licenses, pg 107, shows name as Rachel I or J Cicel.
  5. [S2213] James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows name as Rachael I. Cobb.
  6. [S11923] Henry Stubinger household, 1860 U.S. Census, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, shows name as Racheal Jones.
  7. [S11917] 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. [S11935] Register of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1:237, christening record for Rachael Isaacs Jones, 28 Sep 1791, shows date.
  9. [S2213] James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows age 49 and state.
  10. [S11923] Henry Stubinger household, 1860 U.S. Census, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, shows age 61 and state, as Indiana.
  11. [S6662] "Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850," Ancestry.com, record for Zephaniah Cissell and Rachel Jones, shows date, county and state.
  12. [S11918] Ball, The Cecil Family of Maryland, pg 28, shows year, citing marriage records.
  13. [S2988] "Married," Daily National Intelligencer, 5 May 1817, shows date.
  14. [S2246] Prince Georges Co. Marriage Licenses, pg 107, dated 8 Apr 1817.
  15. [S2213] James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows them apparently living as husband and wife.
  16. [S11918] Ball, The Cecil Family of Maryland, pg 28, shows ca1815.
  17. [S11920] Administrators Accounts, Prince George's Co., Maryland, T.T. no. 2, pg 309-10, 1st report estate of Zaphanian Cissel, shows them as administatrators.
  18. [S11920] Administrators Accounts, Prince George's Co., Maryland, T.T. no. 2, pg 309-10, 1st report estate of Zaphanian Cissel.
  19. [S11920] Administrators Accounts, Prince George's Co., Maryland, T.T. no. 2, pg 325-7, final report estate of Zaphanian Cissel.
  20. [S2217] Jas. D. Cobb household, 1820 U.S. Census, Oneida Co., District of Columbia.
  21. [S2216] James D. Cobb household, 1830 U.S. Census, Warren Co., Ohio.
  22. [S2645] Martin and Metcalf, Marriage and Death Notices from the National Intelligencer, pg 838, citing 6 Apr 1836 edition, death notice for George Mortimore Cobb.
  23. [S2215] James D. Cobb household, 1840 U.S. Census, Montgomery Co., Ohio.
  24. [S11950] James D. Cobb, owner, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, slave schedule.
  25. [S2213] James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas.
  26. [S11917] Will Books, Prince George's Co., Maryland, WAJ no. 1, pp 188-9, will of Martha I. Chew.
  27. [S11923] Henry Stubinger household, 1860 U.S. Census, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.
  28. [S11917] Will Books, Prince George's Co., Maryland, WAJ no. 1, pp 188-9, will of Martha I. Chew, shows Martha I. Steubinger as her neice and daugher of Rachel.
  29. [S11918] Ball, The Cecil Family of Maryland, pg 28.
  30. [S2987] "Deaths," Daily National Intelligencer, 6 Apr 1836.
  31. [S11924] Wm Crabtree household, 1860 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows Martha's husband living with Sophia and her husband as if an aged parent, with her sister also in the household.
  32. [S2213] James D. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Hempstead Co., Arkansas, shows them apparently living as parent and child.
  33. [S11949] Rev. James E. Cobb obituary, Southern Standard, shows he had a sister Carrie Cobb.
  34. [S11943] Emma Eugenia Hendricks obituary, Northwest Arkansas Times, shows him as her uncle.
  35. [S4230] Cobb, Elder Henry Cobb Family, shows, in addition to the children listed, James A., Jacob J., John G. D., Sarah C., and Rhoda (may be Alice R.), each with no details other than the name, but omits George Mortimer and Caroline S.