Category: Cobb Family
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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…