The Kopp/Cobb Families of North Carolina
(Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, Orange, Rowan, Counties)
(With related families)
Corrections and additions are welcome
Joan Cervenka Cobb in her 1997 book
"COBB CONNECTIONS" says:
Years have been spent collecting the data in this report on the Cobb families of North Carolina
and those who traveled to Tennessee and Texas. Families related by marriage into the Cobb family
are also included. Many people have been responsible in helping me to collect this information.
I would like to particularly acknowledge the help of my mother-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy A Cobb and
her sister, Mrs. Geneva Malone. Their knowledge and research of the families that moved to
McNairy Co, TN, were invaluable to me.
The Kopp family left Germany in 1754 and traveled to Bucks Co, PA. From there, they went to
Guilford Co, NC, and nearby areas. They were in the Friedens Lutheran Church area near
Gibsonville, NC, well before the American Revolution. German was spoken in this church and German
names were used in the records until about 1830 when the American names were used; thus Kopp
became Cobb in the records. Many of the tombstones in the Friedens Cemetery are written in German
with the later ones in English.
The Kopp family is found in Bucks County Pennsylvania Church records and civil records. The Cobb
families of North Carolina are tied to the families in West Tennessee by Power of Attorney
records, cemetery records, census records and other documents.
Some of the surnames included in the database are: Albright, Boone, Clapp, Croskery, Cummings,
Doggett, Fumbanks, Gerringer, Huffines, Kernodle, Kirby, Lain, May, Michael, Schumacher, Summers,
Troxler, Wagoner, Wilson, and Wright. My book about the Cobb family entitled gives many details
about these families. I welcome new information and corrections since a work such as this is never
complete.
The descendants of Heinrich Kopp Sr. (1736-1812)
Surnames and
Persons