Category: Cobb Family
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The Cobb Family Cemetery
Photo: My daughter Liv with her third great-grandparents Mary Etta Cobb (1871-1935) and Henry Preston Brantley (1872-1956) in the Cobb Family Cemetery in Haywood County / The Cobb Family Cemetery in Haywood County, Tennessee, has always been one of my favorite burial grounds, partly because it sits in such an unexpected place. A visit to…
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Bernie W. Cobb’s History of Zion Baptist Church and Other Research
When ancestry research has me tied in knots, I often return to a few documents that include some of the basics for my Haywood County ancestry. Three of those are Bernie W. Bobb’s “History of Zion Baptist Church,” “Tribute to the Veterans of Zion Baptist Church” and “The History of Holly Grove Baptist Church.” I…
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The Bibles of Leonard D. Cobb and Will Williams
Old family Bibles that include genealogy information feel a little like time machines to me. They give me a written connection to ancestors I never knew but still somehow feel close to. A September blog entry included pages from an Outlaw family Bible. Since then, I have received photos from a couple of other family…
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Sim Cobb’s Diary
I have been researching the family of my second-great-grandmother, Sarah Evelena “Lena” Booth Marbury (1868-1949). To me, one of the most rewarding parts of genealogy research is finding the information that turns a name and a date into a real person. I am grateful that Joe H. Cobb included the diary of Simion Amherst “Sim”…
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Centerville School Photo
Photo: Children at Centerville School in Haywood County, Tennessee, around 1918 In a recent post, I mentioned that I hoped to find a better copy of a photo showing students at Centerville School. A distant cousin I had never met saw the post and called with good news. Joan Cobb—pronounced Jo Ann—who lives in Bells,…
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America Firsthand
I just returned from a family camping trip on the Spring River in Hardy, Arkansas. I declared the outing a “no-electronics trip” with no phones, Kindles or iPads. Of course, books were encouraged. Being outdoors on the bank of a river turned out to be the perfect place to read “America Firsthand, Volume One: Readings…
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Photos from Cobb Family Cemetery
Whenever I find photographs of the ancestors I have been researching, it feels as if a small window opens and gives me a glimpse of what they looked like at a particular moment in the past. A distant cousin, Joyce Cobb Maness, who was kind enough to spend time talking with me on the phone…
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Joseph S. Cobb and Pocahontas
Since this is Thanksgiving, it seems fitting to mention the research I’ve been doing on my possible ninth great-grandfather, Joseph S. Cobb (1588-1654). He arrived in Virginia in 1613 on the Treasurer, seven years before the Pilgrims reached Plymouth in 1620. As I have worked my way through the Cobb family, I have been struck…