Betty BIVENS

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Father: Gordon Paul CHITTUM
Mother: Freda BLANKENSHIP

Family 1 : Henry ALDRIDGE
  1.  Shannon ALDRIDGE
  2.  Scott ALDRIDGE
  3.  Shoene ALDRIDGE 
                        _Ernest Flemming CHITTUM _+
                       | (1887 - 1959) m 1914     
 _Gordon Paul CHITTUM _|
|                      |
|                      |_Mattie Jane MALLORY _____
|                        (1893 - 1975) m 1914     
|
|--Carol Sue CHITTUM 
|  
|                       __________________________
|                      |                          
|_Freda BLANKENSHIP ___|
  (.... - 1957)        |
                       |__________________________

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Robert Knox COBB

13 APR 1901 - ____

Father: Robert Holland COBB
Mother: Mattie Ada FOX 

                        _Sidney Jacob COBB __+
                       | (1830 - 1907) m 1851
 _Robert Holland COBB _|
| (1857 - 1912) m 1880 |
|                      |_Rebecca Jane ALBA __
|                        (1834 - 1880) m 1851
|
|--Robert Knox COBB 
|  (1901 - ....)
|                       _____________________
|                      |                     
|_Mattie Ada FOX ______|
  (1862 - 1939) m 1880 |
                       |_____________________

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Robin COBB

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Father: Billy Johnson COBB
Mother: Jane ROBINSON 

                       _William Posey COBB _+
                      | (1888 - 1955) m 1911
 _Billy Johnson COBB _|
| (1925 - 2007)       |
|                     |_Carrie Lee DODD ____
|                       (1893 - 1986) m 1911
|
|--Robin COBB 
|  
|                      _____________________
|                     |                     
|_Jane ROBINSON ______|
                      |
                      |_____________________

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Susan G. COBB

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3 FEB 1843 - 13 JUL 1917

Father: William Dickson COBB
Mother: Jane Alice HILLHOUSE

Family 1 : James Ballenger Monroe MORRIS
  1.  M. L. MORRIS
  2.  Mary Viola MORRIS
  3.  Tom E. MORRIS
  4. +William Chesley MORRIS
  5.  James L. MORRIS
  6.  Louis MORRIS
  7.  Fannie MORRIS
  8.  Ivy Dell MORRIS 
                         _Henry Ballard COBB _+
                        | (1801 - 1890) m 1814
 _William Dickson COBB _|
| (1818 - 1870) m 1841  |
|                       |_Abigail DICKSON ____
|                         (1797 - 1860) m 1814
|
|--Susan G. COBB 
|  (1843 - 1917)
|                        _____________________
|                       |                     
|_Jane Alice HILLHOUSE _|
  (1818 - 1896) m 1841  |
                        |_____________________

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Wilkerson Edward COBB

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21 OCT 1895 - 28 MAR 1982

Father: James Uriah COBB
Mother: Prudence MCARTY

Family 1 : Ada B. WYATT
  1.  Troy T. COBB
  2.  Atlea COBB
  3.  Annie COBB
  4.  Johnnie COBB 
                       _James Bedford COBB ____+
                      | (1850 - 1929) m 1872   
 _James Uriah COBB ___|
| (1877 - 1949) m 1894|
|                     |_Nancy Elizabeth GUINN _
|                       (1851 - ....) m 1872   
|
|--Wilkerson Edward COBB 
|  (1895 - 1982)
|                      ________________________
|                     |                        
|_Prudence MCARTY ____|
  (1879 - 1904) m 1894|
                      |________________________

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Charles Lewis COBBS

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12 MAR 1800 - 1860

Father: Robert Lewis COBBS
Mother: Ann Gizage POINDEXTER

Family 1 : Anne Marie Lucy SCOTT
  1.  Maria Louisa COBB
  2. +Ann Stanard COBB
  3.  Mary Lewis COBB
  4.  William M. COBBS
  5.  Harriett COBBS
  6.  Emily W. COBBS
  7. +Samuel Scott COBBS
  8.  Eunice COBBS 
                          _Samuel COBB ________+
                         | (1730 - 1758) m 1750
 _Robert Lewis COBBS ____|
| (1754 - 1829) m 1783   |
|                        |_Mary LEWIS _________
|                          (1733 - 1812) m 1750
|
|--Charles Lewis COBBS 
|  (1800 - 1860)
|                         _____________________
|                        |                     
|_Ann Gizage POINDEXTER _|
  (1762 - 1842) m 1783   |
                         |_____________________

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Genealogy of the Lewis and Kindred Families Author: WM. Terrell Lewis
Call Number: CS71.L675 This book contains the history and genealogy of the Lewis family of
Virginia. Bibliographic Information: Lewis, WM. Terrell. Genealogy of the Lewis Family. The
Courier-Journal Job Printig Company. Kentucky. 1893. THE COBBS FAMILY.
This is one of the oldest names known to English history, and while they were among
the earliest emigrants to America, until the last few years their early history was wholly
unknown. Burke's Heraldry gives the name of Cobbs from Devonshire, Lancaster,
London, and northern England.

As early as 1613, only six years after the settlement of Jamestown, Joseph Cobbs is
registered as landing at Yorktown on the "Treasurer." His wife with her two children,
Benjamin and Joseph Jr., came over in the "Bonnie Bess" in 1624. The arrival of
Ambrose Cobbs in Virginia is not definitely known, but he appears on the land books in
1635. Ambrose and Joseph Cobbs were no doubt brothers. Joseph came over 1613,
and received land grants in 1635 and 1637. The time when Ambrose arrived is also
doubtful, but he received land grants in 1635, or about the same time that Joseph did.

Robert Cobbs appeared in 1651, as church warden, and his name also appears on the
records of York county in the same year. In 1667 Robert Cobbs appears as justice of
the peace for York county, and in 1681 he appears as one of the county commissioners. In 1682 he is high sheriff of the county. He died intestate in the same
year, and his son Edmund administered on his estate.

This Edmund Cobbs, who administered on his father's estate in 1682, died 1692 or
1693. He left a will, but no sons, and it would seem no living children. He mentions his
son-in-law, Matthew Pierce, and makes bequests to him, but provides that his entire
estate shall be divided among his three brothers, Ambrose, Robert and Otho.

It is not positively known whether Robert Cobbs, the father of Edmund and his three
brothers, who died in 1682, was the son
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of Joseph or Ambrose, but as the name Ambrose is perpetuated in the line, and
Joseph is not, we are led to conclude, almost necessarily, that he was the son of
Ambrose, and must so take him up.

Ambrose, Robert and Otho Cobbs were sons of the first Robert Cobbs, as described in
the will of their brother, Edmund, and we are again brought face to face with the
three-brother theory, and left to select from these three, upon the best testimony, the
head of the Cobbs families.

From the foregoing we reach the following conclusions as inevitable results: Ambrose
Cobbs, emigrant, born about 1590, came to Virginia about 1613. Robert Cobbs, son of
Ambrose Cobbs, born about 1620. Robert Cobbs, son of the above Robert and brother
of Edmund, born about 1660.

Thomas Cobbs, John Cobbs and Robert Cobbs, who appear upon the records of
Henrico and Goochland from 1736 to 1750, son of the second Robert Cobbs, were
born about 1706, 1708 and 1710, respectively, and are heads of three lines of that
name throughout the United States.

Goochland county was taken off from Henrico, which accounts for the three brothers
appearing at different times on the records of the two counties.

4 JOHN COBBS, OF GOOCHLAND.

As this ancestor is the head of the most numerous branch of the name, his line will be
first taken up. He appears upon the records of Goochland with his wife, Susanah, as
early as 1736, and at different times thereafter until 1750, after which he appears on the books of Goochland as John Cobbs of Albemarle.

In 1750, John Cobbs of Goochland purchased five hundred acres of land of James
Neville, said land being located in Albemarle county on the south side of Fluvanna, or
James river.

The name of John Cobbs appears upon the records of Albemarle county at different
times, until 1760, after which all
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trace of him is lost. In 1761, that portion of Albemarle lying on the south side of James
river was cut off and the county of Buckingham formed out of it. The records of
Buckingham were destroyed by fire in 1867, and, hence, all trace of John Cobbs of
Goochland was lost. There is no doubt that his will was recorded in Buckingham, but
was destroyed with the other records. It has been by the most patient and persistent
labor running through a number of years that these record proofs have been brought out and this long-neglected name unearthed, as it were, and rescued from oblivion. John
Cobbs had three sons, Samuel, Edmund and John.

The fact that Robert Cobbs, the second of the name in America, born 1620, was justice of the peace and high sheriff is proof that he was more than peer of his surroundings, as these positions could be held at that time by none but the
best class of citizens. Justice of the peace in 1650 was a position equally as honorable and important as judge of the Supreme Court at the present day.

As persistent as the authors of these sketches have been in their search for
information, it was not until within the last few years that they knew of the existence of
any of the Cobbs name mentioned in the preceding line, and in reporting the lineage of
the name to the American ancestry, he stated that Samuel Cobbs,
his great-grandfather, was from Wales; while as a matter of fact, the great-grandfather of Samuel Cobbs was born in Virginia; but in this he was in advance of the majority of
Americans, who at that time did not know who their great-grandfathers were. As much
as has been ascertained in regard to the Cobbs name in the last few years, a volume of
unwritten history doubtless lies yet undeveloped, hidden away, so to speak, in the
archives of the country, or lost in extinct church registries and neglected graveyards.

Two of the oldest and most distinguished families in Virginia, Lee and Randolph, had
each a branch that was known by the name of Cobbs. The estates which they owned
had either been inherited from some one of the name or the manors named
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in honor of some intermarriage, the record of which has long since been lost and all of
the events passed out of the memory of all the families.

Richard Lee came to Virginia in 1641, and Henry Randolph the head of that family in
America, came to Virginia in 1643, so that it is clear that the Cobbs family had become
settled in the colony before the Lee or the Randolph family came over. The Cobbs Hall
Lees and the Randolphs of Cobb were as distinctive designations as Smith of Purton
or Lewis of Warner Hall.

5 SAMUEL COBBS.
Samuel Cobbs and his two brothers, Edmund and John, are known from the best
record evidence to have been residents of Louisa county, Virginia. Samuel was
doubtless the eldest of the three brothers, and as he was the immediate ancestor of
one of the authors of these sketches, his line will be first treated of.

Samuel Cobbs' will, written September, 1758, and probated November 20 of the same
year, is recorded in the clerk's office of Louisa county, Virginia. From this will we learn
the following facts: First, his wife, Mary Cobbs, survived him; second, he left three
children, Robert, Jane and Judith; third, that he had two brothers, Edmund and John;
fourth, that after providing for his wife and children, he bequeathed to his brothers jointly one thousand acres of land in Bedford county, Virginia; fifth, that from a special
provision of the will disposing of such property as came to him from his wife, in the
event of the death of his children without issue, the fact is established that his wife was
Mary Lewis, daughter of Robert Lewis, for a long time a citizen of Louisa county, but
more recently of Belvoir, Albemarle county. Samuel Cobbs was married about 1750,
and left when he died as before stated, three children. His daughter Jane married a
gentleman named Waddy. They had one child, who survived them both. This child has a son named Samuel, and was raised by his grandmother Cobbs; but there is no trace to be had of him after his maturity. Judith, the younger daughter, never married. She died in early life.
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6 ROBERT COBBS.

Robert, so far as record evidence goes, was the only son of Samuel Cobbs and Mary
Lewis. He was positively a unique character, in his day and generation. Descended
from a distinguished line of ancestry, whose lives for centuries had been inseparably
connected with that of their country's history, both in England and America, he was at
the same time plain in his manners and unassuming in his bearing. The inheritor of
large estates, and raised in wealth and luxury, he was among the first to take the field,
though quite young, in defense of his country, and braving the hardships of war, he
remained at his post until the close of the struggle. Calm and dignified at all times, yet
positive in his convictions, and fearless in maintaining them, he steered clear of politics
and never allowed himself to be drawn into its arena. Nevertheless, he was a positive
Jeffersonian in political opinions. He belonged to the Church of England, as that
expression is understood, but was emphatically a non-conformist. Scrupulously
conscientious and always ready for every good word and work, he submitted to no
earthly dictation and in the language of the immortal Crittenden, "bowed to none but
God." As illustrative of his character, as well as what was supposed to be his
eccentricities, an incident in his life, which was to become part of his history, may be
mentioned. One of his most reliable managers, who had been in charge of his home
plantation for a number of years, was taken sick with fever. Mr. Cobbs had been called
away from home on business, and when he returned he ascertained that the doctor had given the patient up to die. He declared, however, that he could not give up Bosher--for that was his name--and hastening to the house of his faithful manager, he called them all to prayer. This was a new departure, for with all of his sterling virtues, he was not in the habit of praying publicly, and every one was struck with astonishment. He prayed most fervently, assuring the divine Master that Bosher was an indispensable factor in the general make-up of human society; as husband, parent and citizen, true to every trust and faithful
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to every pledge. His death would deprive the community of one whose place could not
be filled; and he enumerated a long list, calling them by name, all of whom could be
spared, and none of them missed, and presented them in a lump, as it were, as an
offering, or sacrifice, in place of Bosher.

We have always regretted that a stenographic report could not have been taken of that prayer. It afforded much amusement to his best friends and most ardent admirers, and
even to his children and grandchildren, who never had the slightest conception of its
import. Nor will we say that he himself fully understood it; but whatever opinion may be
entertained in regard to it, two things are certain: the author of the prayer was in
earnest, and Bosher got well; and even now, after the lapse of more than a century, the story of the prayer of "Robin Cobbs" for the recovery of Bosher is told in many Virginia
homes; and truly may it be said that the author of that prayer, without pretension or
ostentation, put his trust in God.

This volume might be filled with anecdotes of this Reyolutionary patriot, but the scope of the work is such as to render all historical or biographical references very brief.

Robert Cobbs was born in 1754, in Louisa county, Virginia. He entered the
Revolutionary army from Louisa county, enlisting in the regiment of his uncle, Charles
Lewis. The records show that he married in Louisa after the return of peace, and was a
citizen of that county until 1788, when he removed to Bedford county, Virginia, where he inherited large landed property from his father's estate. His Revolutionary services have
always been treasured as a sacred legacy by his children and grandchildren, and his
widow was awarded a pension within the memory of the author, but, being a very young man, and his rank being only that of captain, no account is to be found of him in the condensed historical events of the war. The records, however, furnish ample testimony
of his rank and services, and Brock's Historical Collections make frequent mention of
him, and others, that together with Charles and Nicholas Lewis, he took the oath of
allegiance to Virginia under the colonial government in 1776.
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His services were principally with Gates and Green in the Carolinas, and more conspicuously at the siege of 1781 and the battle of Guilford courthouse, at which place
family tradition informs us, as senior captain he commanded his regiment.

About 1795, Robert Cobbs removed to Campbell county, Virginia, where he also
owned valuable estates. He did not, however, part with his Bedford property, but owned it at the time of his death, after which, upon the division and settlement of his estate, it became the property of his son, Charles Lewis Cobbs. He gave to his Campbell county home the name of "Plain Dealing," indicative of his methods of
doing business, and at this place, about twenty-five miles nearly due south of
Lynchburg, about two miles from the Durham railroad, six miles from Brook Neal, and a few miles from "Red Hill," the home of Patrick Henry, on the Staunton, or upper waters of the
Roanoke, Robert Cobbs spent the remainder of his days.

Robert Cobbs died 1829, and the records of Campbell county show the settlement and
disposition of his estate. His widow survived him about twelve years, spending her
entire widowhood with her daughter, Sarah White, who married Captain William C.
McAllister, where she died in 1842, and was buried by the side of her husband at the
old homestead. This old burying ground has proved an exception to most of the private
cemeteries, which fall into disuse and neglect, and are lost sight of. Although it has
passed into the hands of strangers, it has been kept enclosed, and while the graves of
these old people are not marked, they are not forgotten, their grandchildren having
arranged to reclaim them.

Robert Cobbs, married Anne G. Poindexter, daughter of John Poindexter, of Louisa
county, Virginia, and to this couple were born nine children:

7 1John Poindexter Cobbs married Jane Garland, daughter of
David S. Garland, of Amherst county, Virginia, who was
for many years a member of Congress from his district.
7 2Mary Lewis Cobbs married first, William Armistead of
Charlotte
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county, Virginia, and second, William McLean, D. D.,
M. D., of the same county.
7 3Robert Lewis Cobbs, never married.
7 4Samuel Cobbs, never married.
7 5William Cobbs, married Miss Marianne Scott, of Bedford
county, Virginia.
7 6Charles Lewis Cobbs, married Anne Scott, of Bedford
county, Virginia.
7 7Sarah White Cobbs, married Captain William C. McAllister,
of Campbell county, Virginia.
7 8Anne Elizabeth Cobbs, married Joel Motley, of Nottoway
county, Virginia.
7 9Meriwether Lewis Cobbs, never married.

Dr. John Poindexter Cobbs, oldest son of Robert Cobbs and Anne Poindexter, was
born May 27, 1785. He graduated from Hampden-Sidney college in 1808, and from the
medical college at Philadelphia in 1810. Commenced the practice of medicine at New
Glasgow, Amherst county, Virginia, immediately after his graduation. This was a small
town about twenty miles northeast of Lynchburg, which at the time was the center of
wealth and learning, the home of the Garlands, the Crawfords and the Pendletons; and
it was here that he married Miss Jane Garland, the daughter of David S. Garland, who
then represented the district in Congress. She belonged to one of the most
distinguished families in Virginia, at a time when that State embodied the great bulk of
the distinguished names of the country. The Garlands had been more than a century
distinguished in the leading professions, and had held positions in colonial history and
subsequent to the Revolution. Her mother, a Miss Meredith, a name no less
distinguished, was the niece of Patrick Henry.

Dr. Cobbs subsequently removed to Nelson county, Virginia, which county he
represented in the Legislature for a number of years. He also continued the practice of
his profession while he remained in this county, but in 1886, foreseeing the great wealth to be developed in the Northwest, he made investments in
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the northern part of Indiana, Milwaukee, and other places, preparatory to removing from Virginia.
Dr. John Cobbs had five children, three sons and two daughters: Jane, married a
gentleman by the name of Thwing; Robert, never married, was born in Nelson county,
Virginia, about 1818, and died in Atlanta, Georgia, about 1895; John, married, but
whom is not known, and died in Colorado; Garland, never married, born about 1830;
Mary, married (1) Thomas Stewart, one of the proprietors of the Chicago Times-Herald,
and (2) Dr. Fravel.

8 Jane, oldest child of John Cobbs and Jane Garland, was born 1813, and about 1830
was married to a gentleman named Thwing, as above mentioned. She lived to a very
old age, having died about 1895, at the home of her son, Franklin Thwing, in Chicago.
She had four children: Franklin, Jane Henry, Virginia Garland and Sarah Florence.

9 Franklin Thwing, son of Jane Cobbs Thwing and grandson of Dr. John P. Cobbs,
married Miss Elizabeth Ogden Smith, and resides in Chicago. They have three
children: Franklin Thwing, Jr,, Harriet Ogden and Ellen.

9 Jane Henry Thwing, oldest daughter of Mrs Jane Cobbs Thwing married Horace G.
Smith and resides in Denver, Colorado.

9 Virginia Garland married S. J. Peterson Halstron of Sweden. They do not retain the
latter part of the name in ordinary use, as it is so strongly foreign, but in legal
transactions, and in all matters of record they perpetuate the full name. They are known socially as Peterson, legally they are known as Peterson Halstrom. They have five children: Jane Garland, Virginia Garland, Charles Henry, Mary Lewis Loring.

10 Virginia Garland Peterson great-granddaughter of Dr. John P. Cobbs, born 1863,
married Arthur St. M. Claflin, formerly of Boston, but now of Chicago. They have two
children, both boys: Henry and Aubrey. Mr. Claflin is a great-nephew of President
Pierce.

7 Mary Lewis Cobbs, born June 11, 1787, and married
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William Armistead, 1806. She married second, John McClean, M. D., D. D., about
1820. By her first marriage she had three sons, and by the second marriage she had
two, but no daughters.

8 Dr. John O. Armistead, born 1807, died 1873. He married Miss Elizabeth Jennings of
Charlotte county, Virginia, about 1830. They had five daughters, no sons: Mary Susan,
Sarah Ann, Emma, "Bettie" and Henrietta.

9 Mary Susan Armistead married Frances Thornton of Buckingham county, Virginia.
They had several children.

9 Sarah Ann Armistead married a relative, James Armistead, of Charlotte county,
Virginia. They removed to Bedford county. Mr. Armistead left her a widow, and her
oldest son having died, she removed to San Francisco, where an uncle, Samuel
McLean, resided.

9 Emma Armistead, born 1837, married a gentleman named Scott. They had several
children. They removed to Palestine, Texas.

9 "Bettie" and Henrietta never married. "Hettie" died young.

8 William B. Armistead, after varied business ventures settled in Nashville, Tennessee.
He married Miss Woods of that city and merchandised there successfully for a number
of years. They had three sons and several daughters: Robert married Miss Hunphous of Clarksville, Tennessee; William, who is engaged in the insurance business in Nashville,
and James who marriedMiss Washington of that city. One of Wm. B. Armistead's
daughters married Dr. Hughes of Birmingham, Alabama, who was postmaster of that
city for eight years. Another married a man named Johnson who is a large business
operator of that city.
8 Robert Armistead never married, he died young.

7 ROBERT LEWIS COBBS.

Robert Lewis Cobbs was born December 25, 1789. He graduated with distinction from
Hampden-Sidney in the class
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of 1809, and from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1811. He practiced
medicine with his brother, Dr. John P. Cobbs, in New Glasgow, Amherst county,
Virginia, and in January, 1818, he traveled on horseback across the mountains to join
Jackson at Nashville, Tennessee, who was then preparing for his campaign against the Indians and British. He was United States surgeon in all of the campaigns, up to the close of the war at New Orleans, after which he returned to Nashville, studied law with his relative, General Wm. White, which profession he followed for 25 years. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Tennessee of 1834, and was at one time attorney-general of the State. In 1827-8 he revised the laws of the State. He never
married. He retired from practice in 1843, and spent the remainder of his days in quiet, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sarah White McAllister in Virginia. He died 1856 on
presidential election day, Tuesday after the first Monday in November. His last words
were: "I must get up and vote for Filmore."

7 Samuel Cobbs was born in Campbell county, Virginia, July 14, 1796. When the war of
1812 broke out he was 16 years old. He obtained the appointment of first lieutenant
and was ordered to the northern frontier. He was in all of the principal engagements
along the lakes, and was severely wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane and reported
among the dead. He was mourned as such at home, and preparations for his funeral
were being made when he appeared in person and stopped the proceedings. He
afterward joined an expedition against the Indians in Florida, fell a victim to fever, and
died in South Georgia 1817, aged 21 years.

7 William Cobbs was born in Campbell county, Virginia, March 2, 1792, and died about
1852, aged about 60 years. He married Miss Marianne Scott and only one child, a girl,
blessed their union. Wm. Cobbs fell into bad health early in life and, hence, was very
little known to the public. He purchased the home of Thomas Jefferson in Bedford
county, "Poplar Forest," where he spent his entire life.

8 Emerly Cobbs, born at Poplar Forest about 1820, married
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Edward Sextus Hutter 1840. Mr. Hutter was from Easton, Pennsylvania, was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and a brother of Major Hutter, then paymaster of the United States army. They had seven children, three sons and
four daughters:
Imogene, William Cobbs, George E., Christian Sextus, Nannie, Charlotte. Imogene
Hutter died in girlhood.

9 Wm. Cobbs Hutter, born 1842, entered the naval academy, from which he resigned in 1861 to take part in the war between the States. He was killed in the naval engagement in Hampton Roads, March, 1862. He never married.

9 George E. Hutter, born 1852, is unmarried. He graduated from the naval academy
and was for some time lieutenant in the United States navy, but was incapacitated for
duty from injuries received on a man of war.

9 Christian Sextus Hutter, was born 1862, and in 1886 married Miss Ernistine,
daughter of Mr. James M. Booker of Lynchburg, Virginia. He resides at the old
homestead, "Poplar Forest," and is engaged in business in Lynchburg.

9 Nannie Hutter married a lawyer named Griffin of Bedford City.

9 Emma Cobbs Hutter married a gentleman named Logwood and resides in St. Louis,
Missouri.

9 Charlotte S. Hutter married her first cousin, Major J. Risger Hutter. They reside at the
old Hutter homestead near Lynchburg, Virginia.

7 SARAH WHITE COBBS.

Was born February 12, 1798 at "Plain Dealings," Campbell county, Virginia, and
married Captain Wm. C. McAllister of the same county. Their remains are buried at the
old McAllister burying ground at the old home, seven miles east of Lynchburg, where
they spent their entire married life. Her descendants will be noticed under the head of
McAllister family.
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7 CHARLES LEWIS COBBS.
Was born at Campbell county, Virginia, March 12, 1800. He married Miss Ann Scott of
Bedford county, and had seven children: William, Scott, Maria Louisa, Nannie, Harriet,
Mary Lewis, and Emma. He removed to Indiana in 1848.

8 Louisa Cobbs married James Slaughter of Bedford and had one son, Joseph, who
went to Kentucky; and several daughters, one of whom, Harriet, married a Marsh, of
Campbell county. The others never married.

8 Nannie Cobbs married a gentleman named Cox. They had several children, but only
two of them married. The others died young--fell victims to consumption.

9 Fannie Cox, the oldest of Nannie Cobb's children, married a Hawkins. She was left a
widow when still young, her husband

having met his death by accidental shooting. She did not survive him very long. They left three children, all daughters. They grew to be very pretty women, and were very bright. One of them married a gentleman named Hurt.

9 Powhattan Cox married a Miss Moorman and resided near Lynchburg.

8 Mary Cobbs married a gentleman in Indiana by the name of Kabler. They had known
each other in Virginia. She died without issue.

8 Harriet Mary Lewis and Emma never married, nor did William or Scott, so far as is
known.

7 ANN ELIZABETH COBBS

Was born in Campbell county, Virginia, 1802, and died in Amelia county, 1886, aged
84 years. She married Joel Mottley of Nottaway county, Virginia, and had five children,
all sons: Robert Cobbs, John Lewis, Meriwether Cobbs, Joel Wm. and Charles
Adolphus.

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Hampden-Sidney in 1845, and from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1847. He
located in the practice of medicine in his native county. He married Miss Indiana
Vaughan of Amelia and had six children.

9 Elizabeth, only daughter of Dr. Mottley, never married.

9 Robert Milton Mottley, oldest son of Dr. Robert Cobbs Mottley,
never married.

9 John Egbert Mottley, married Miss Lee of Buckingham county,
Virginia, where he
resides.

9 Jefferson Davis Mottley, married his first cousin, Miss Bayley
of Amelia county. Wirt
and William Henry, younger sons of Dr. Mottley, are neither
married, so far as is known.

8 John Lewis Mottley was born in Nottaway county, 1826. He
married Anna, daughter of
Miles Gill, of Amelia county, and had nine children: Mary
Elizabeth, John Meriwether,
Joel William (the last two twins), Emma Lewis, Sarah Roberta,
Alice Armistead, Anna
Atkinson, Charles Adolphus, and Robert Miller.

9 Mary Elizabeth Mottley, married Wm. Vaughan, December 9, 1891.
They reside in
Nottaway county.

9 Emma Lewis Mottley married C. Butler of Amelia, May 7, 1882.

9 Sarah Roberta Mottley married James M. Wooten, December, 1889.
They have one
child and reside in Prince Edward.

9 Alice Armistead Mottley married Henry W. Hubbard, December 1,
1880. They have
seven children.

9 Anna Adkisson Mottley married Samuel Hubbard of Prince Edward,
April 27, 1887.
She died 1889, leaving two children.

9 John Meriwether Mottley died in Danville, Virginia, April 29,
1890.

9 Charles Adolphus Mottley is unmarried. He is engaged in
merchandising in
Richmond, Virginia.

9 Joel William, and Robert Miller Mottley are unmarried. They
are engaged in business
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8 Meriwether Cobbs Mottley, born 1828, was never married. He
spent his early life in
merchandising. He entered the Confederate army in 1861, broke
down in the
disastrous retreat from Cheat Mountain and never recovered from
the effects. He died
a few years after the war.

8 Joel Wm. Mottley, born 1835, never married. He spent four
years in the Confederate
army, and after war went to Texas where he met his death by
cowardly assassination.

8 Charles Adolphus Mottley, born 1838, never married. He entered
the Confederate
army in 1861, and died a few months thereafter in Richmond,
Virginia.

7 Meriwether Lewis Cobb, youngest child of Captain Robert Cobb,
was born March 4,
1805. He never married. He graduated from Hampden-Sidney, 1825,
and from the
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1827. He located in the
practice of medicine in
Surry county, Virginia. He died 1828.

5 JOHN COBBS.

John Cobbs was the son of John Cobbs of Goochland, and the
younger of the three
brothers who appear on the records of Louisa county, Virginia.
His name first appears
on the records in the will of his brother Samuel who bequeaths
one thousand acres of
land to him and his brother Edmund, situated on Ivy Creek in
Bedford county, Virginia,
and, as illustrative of the obscurity with which the early life
of John Cobbs seems to
have been surrounded, and the difficulties attending the efforts
to trace him, it may be
mentioned in this connection that, while Edmund settled on this
land, and, as shown by
the settlement of his estate in 1799, more than forty years
after the execution of the will
of Samuel Cobbs, was still in possession of the entire 1000
acres, which was
distributed among his children, there is nothing on the records
of Bedford county to
show how Edmund got into possession of the whole, or that John
Cobbs ever
transferred his portion to any one.

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he is mentioned in the will of his brother Samuel, is in
Granville county, North Carolina,
in a deed to land purchased by him from Wm. Moore in 1769. This
purchase is made
just before his marriage to Mildred, daughter of Howell and Mary
Lewis, and is
witnessed by Thomas Cobbs, Howell Lewis and Mary Lewis, and his
marriage took
place September 6, 1769, after which he disappears from the
records again until 1784,
when he reappears on the records of Goochland county, Virginia,
from which county he
originally came, in the payment of taxes on property in that
county. In this entry he is
described as John Cobbs of Georgia, and finally by deed of gift
on record in
Washington county, Georgia, we find him described as John Cobbs
of Columbia
county, Georgia, deed bearing date August 1791. His descendants
are noticed under
the head of Howell Lewis, whose daughter, Mildred, he married
1769.

5 EDMUND COBBS

Is the son of John Cobbs of Goochland county, Virginia, and a
younger brother of
Samuel Cobbs, who married Mary Lewis, that is, he was one of the
three sons of John
Cobbs--Samuel, Edmund and John. Edmund Cobbs first appears on
the records in the
will of his brother Samuel on record in Louisa county, Virginia,
in which Samuel
bequeaths to his two brothers, Edmund and John, 1,000 acres of
land jointly, located on
Ivy creek in Bedford county, Virginia, and in the division of
Edmund Cobbs' estate in
1799, this identical land, which we find described in the will
of Samuel Cobbs in 1758,
is described as part of his estate. A curious fact connected
with this bequest of Samuel
Cobbs to his brothers is, that there is nothing on record to
show that John Cobbs ever
transferred his interest in this land to any one, and no record
evidence as to how
Edmund Cobbs ever came into possession of the whole of it.
Perhaps it was a case of
"squatter sovereignty."

Edmund Cobbs died intestate and his estate was divided between
his widow and ten
children, as follows: Mrs. Sarah



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Cobbs widow, and Elizabeth who married William Tompkins; John
Cobbs, Reuben
Cobbs, Edmund Cobbs, Samuel Cobbs, Waddy Cobbs, Jeffry Cobbs,
Wm. Cobbs,
and Judith, now married to John Staples. Edmund Cobbs married
Sarah Lewis,
daughter of "Planter John Lewis" of Albemarle county, Virginia,
who is distinctly
referred to in his will as "Sarah Cobbs." Of the ten children of
Edmund Cobbs we have
not been able to obtain data of any of them but John Lewis,
Waddy and Edmund. Five
sons and two daughters have been entirely lost sight of and
their descendants have no
doubt lost sight of their line of descent.

6 JOHN LEWIS COBBS.

John Lewis Cobbs was the oldest son of Edmund Cobbs and Sarah
Lewis. His name
appears with that of his mother as a witness to the inventory
and appraisement of his
father's estate in 1799. He married first Miss Susannah Hamner,
daughter of Nicholas
Hamner of Albemarle county, Virginia, and second, he married
Mrs. Judith (Price) Noel.
Issue by first marriage:

7 1Nicholas Hamner Cobbs married Lucy Henry Landonia
Cobbs.
7 2Elizabeth Cobbs married Junius A. Clay.
7 3Sarah Lewis Cobbs married Captain Henry Jones.
7 4John Lewis Cobbs married Mary Bolling and had one child,
Bolling Cobbs.
7 5James Madison Cobbs married first Eliza Alexander, second,
Celeste Slaughter.
7 6Damarius Cobbs married Jesse Alexander Barton.
7 7Cary Ann Cobbs.
7 8Agnes Cobbs married Dr. John Slaughter.
7 9Anne Hamner Cobbs married Baker Davidson.
Issue by second marriage with Mrs. Noel:
7 10Virginia Cobbs married Charles William Price.
7 11Thomas Nelson Cobbs married first Mary Bedford Averill,
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second, Louisa Taylor, third, Sarah Taylor, fourth, Margaret

Bedford.
7 12Amanda Cobbs married John Lackland.

7 Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, the oldest son of John Lewis Cobbs,
born in Bedford
county, Virginia, February 5, 1796, married Lucy Henry Landia,
daughter of Edmund
Cobbs of the same county. She was his first cousin and at one
time his pupil when he
was principal of New London Academy. They had issue as follows:

8 1George Washington.
8 2Robert Addison married Elizabeth Storrs; no issue.
8 3Susan Hamner married Rev. John Marsh Mitchel and left
one child, a daughter.
8 4Mary Lee Cobbs.
8 5John Lewis Cobbs married Dorothy Evans Peagues.
8 6Richard Hooker Cobbs married Frances Ann Avery.
8 7Martha Smith Cobbs married John Alexander Elerbe.
8 8Leighton Cobbs.
8 9Charlotte Walker Cobbs married Nicholas Cobbs Elerbe and
had issue.
8 John Lewis Cobbs and Dorothy Evans Peagues had seven children
as follows: Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, John Lewis
Cobbs, Christopher Claudius Cobbs, Lucy Hamner Cobbs,
Leighton, Bessie Evans, and Edward Elerbe Cobbs.
9 John Lewis Cobbs, son of John Lewis, and grandson of Bishop
Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, married Ida Woodfin. Issue:
John Lewis Cobbs, Isabel Cobbs, Woodfin Cobbs, Nicholas
Hamner Cobbs.
9 Christopher Claudius Cobbs, son of John Lewis Cobbs, and
grandson of Bishop Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, married Annie
Westcote and had issue as follows: Mary Ella Cobbs,
Christopher Claudius Cobbs, Dorothy Cobbs, fourth name
illegible.
9 Edward Elerbe Cobbs, son of John Lewis Cobbs and Dorothy
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married Edith Harter, and have one son, John Hunter
Cobbs.
8 Richard Hooker Cobbs, son of Bishop Nicholas Hamner
Cobbs, married Frances Ann Avery and had issue as follows:
9 1John Hunter Cobbs.
9 2Richard Hooker Cobbs married Lida Tunstal.
9 3Francis Avery Cobbs married first Eleanor Randolph,
second Fanny Jones.
9 4Ann Cobbs married Hollinswink.
9 5Mary Elerbe Cobbs married Edwin S. Jack.
9 6Lucy Landon Cobbs married Nathaniel Lane Castleman.
9 7Edith Hamner Cobbs married Armistead Inge Selden.
9 8William Addison Cobbs married Mary Stringfellow.
9 Richard Hooker Cobbs, son of Richard Hooker Cobbs and his
wife Frances Ann Avery, and grandson of John Lewis
Cobbs, married Lida Tunstal and had issue: Augusta
Cobbs, Richard Hoker Cobbs, John Cobbs, Wyley Tunstal
Cobbs (last two twins).
9 Francis Avery Cobbs, son of Richard Hooker Cobbs and
Frances Ann Avery, married first Eleanor Randolph, second,
Fannie Jones, and have one son, Richard Hooker
Cobbs.
9 Ann Cobbs, daughter of Richard Hooker and Frances Ann
Avery, married Charles Stolenwert. They have one child,
Edith Manson Stolenwert.
9 Edith Manson Cobbs, daughter of Richard Hooker Cobbs and
Frances Ann Avery, married Armistead Inge Selden. They
have one child, Frances Selden.
10 William Addison Cobbs, son of Richard Hooker Cobbs and
Frances Ann Avery, grandson of John Lewis Cobbs, and
great-grandson of Bishop Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, married
Mary Stringfellow. They have one child, William
Addison Cobbs.
8 Charlotte Walker Cobbs, youngest daughter of Bishop Nicholas
Hamner Cobbs, married Nicholas Cobbs Elerbe. Issue:



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Clarence Heber Elerbe, Irene Semple Elerbe.
9 Irene Semple Elerbe married Dr. William Bonnel Walker,
who occupies a chair in the medical department of the
University
of the South. No issue.

As has been seen, Bishop Cobbs was born in Bedford county,
Virginia, February 5,
1796. He was educated in the best schools of Virginia, and began
his active life as an
educator. One of his first positions was as principal of New
London Academy, but he
soon turned his attention to the ministry, and one of his
earliest ministerial charges was
in his native county at St. Stevens Church, twelve or fifteen
miles west of Lynchburg on
the old Forest Road, and he continued in the service of this
parish until he was called to
build up some, other weak point in the diocese. There are
hundreds now living in
Bedford and adjoining counties whose parents and grandparents
were led to the
Christian altar and baptized into the church by the Reverend
Nicholas Cobbs and
whose marriage ceremonies he performed and at whose funeral
rites he officiated. Mr.
Cobbs served a number of other parishes in the diocese of
Virginia during his ministry,
and his success in building up the church, not so much upon a
financial as a spiritual
basis, was marked in every field.

The Reverend Nicholas Hamner Cobbs was ordained bishop at
Philadelphia, and
installed at once Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama. The services
of Bishop Cobbs
after his promotion to the Episcopacy were even more marked than
they were during
his ministry. His manner and methods, however, were ever
unostentatious, and being
actively engaged in the labors of the diocese he devoted very
little time to literary work,
and left little for publication except sermons. He died in
Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861,
at the age of sixty-five. His widow and a large family of
children survived him.

John Lewis Cobbs was the only one of Bishop Cobbs' sons who ever
engaged in
public life, and he seems to have been literally dragged into
it. He was for a number of
years a dry goods merchant in Montgomery, but after the close of
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between the states and the restoration of Alabama, he was called
from his retirement
and made treasurer of the state.

7 Sarah Lewis Cobbs, daughter of John Lewis Cobbs and his
wife Susannah Hamner, married Captain Henry Jones and
had issue:
8 1Susan Adeline Jones married William Harris Lee.
8 2Edwin Nicholas Jones.
8 3Mary Ann Sarah Jones.
8 4Agnes J. Jones.
8 5Elizabeth Amanda Jones.
8 6John William Jones married Sallie Williams Andrews.
8 Susan Adeline Jones, daughter of Sarah Lewis Cobbs and
Captain Henry Jones, married Wm. Harris Lee and had
issue:
9 1Wm. Henry Lee married Bettie Murrell. Infant child,
died.
9 2Mary Ella Lee married Harold Peters Read.
9 3Jones Edwin Lee married Sarah Virginia Lee.
9 4John Addison Lee married Elizabeth Fitzgerald.
9 5Sarah Elizabeth Lee.
9 6Samuel Custis Lee married, first, Martha Gowings, second,

Sarah Lewis Jones.
9 Mary Ella Lee and Harold Peters Read had issue: Annie
Belle Read, and infant name unknown.
9 James Edwin Lee, son of Susan Adeline Jones and Wm. Harris
Lee, and grandson of Sarah Lewis Cobbs, married Virginia
Lee and had issue: Ada Arnold Lee, Sarah Elizabeth
Lee, Edwin Cecil Lee, Caroline May Lee, Wm. Howard
Lee, Samuel Hunt Lee, Gilmore Thomas Lee, Kirtley Lee,
Booker Lee, Susan Adeline Lee, Robert Fitzhugh Lee.
9 John Adison Lee and Elizabeth Fitzgerald had issue: William
Otway Lee, Harriet Fitzgerald Lee, Thomas Fitzgerald
Lee, Samuel Lee.
9 Samuel Custis Lee, son of Wm. Harris Lee, and grandson of
Sarah Lewis Cobbs, by his second marriage with Sarah
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8 John Wm. Jones, son of Captain Henry Jones and Sarah
Lewis Cobbs, married Sallie Williams Andrews and had issue:
Sarah Lewis Jones married Samuel Custis Lee; Charles
Wm. Jones married Mrs. Adeline Booker; Ettie Vernon
Jones, Mary Henry Jones, Helen St. Clair Jones, Agnes
Surrenia Jones, Fannie Elizabeth Jones, James Nicholas
Jones.

7 JAMES MADISON COBBS.

Madison Cobbs was the second son of John Lewis Cobbs and his
wife Susannah
Hamner. He was born 1798 in Bedford county, Virginia, where he
spent his boyhood
and early manhood. Early in life he made Lynchburg his home,
where he engaged in
merchandising, selecting the dry goods trade as his line,
operating at different times
individually, or under the firm name of Cobbs & Armistead, or
Cobbs, Armistead &
Henderson.

Mr. Cobbs was a model of the old-school gentleman, and was a
contradiction to the
generally accepted idea of the dry goods merchant. No one ever
thought of questioning
his integrity, and his reputation for the most scrupulous
veracity was everywhere
recognized. At the breaking out of the civil war he suspended
business, but resumed
again at its close, but soon found that any kind of success
depended upon the adoption
of methods wholly foreign to his convictions and at war with the
teachings of a lifetime,
and hence he retired from business.

Mr. Cobbs married his cousin, Eliza, daughter of Sarah Lewis
Cobbs and John
Alexander, and had issue:

8 1Sarah Hamner Cobbs married Thomas McNeil.
8 2Margaret Gwatken Cobbs married Thomas Knight Scott.
8 3Edward Alexander Cobbs; no record.
8 Sarah Hamner Cobbs, daughter of James Madison Cobbs,
married Thomas McNeil, had issue as follows: Ralph McNeil,
Eliza Cobbs McNeil, Edward Parkinson McNeil,
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8 Margaret Gwatken Cobbs, daughter of James Madison Cobbs,
married Thomas Knight Scott, had issue as follows:
9 1Jessie Scott married Dr. Charles Montgomery. They
have infant child.
9 2Eliza Huxley Scott married Grecian Nixon.
9 3John Goodwin Scott.
9 4Helen Nelson Scott.
9 Eliza Huxley Scott, daughter of Margaret Gwatkin Cobbs,
and granddaughter of James Madison Cobbs, married Grecian
Nixon, and had issue: Pope Nixon, Thomas Scott
Nixon, Margaret Cobbs Nixon.
7 Damarius Cobbs, daughter of John Lewis Cobbs, married
Jesse Alexander Burton and had issue as follows:
8 1Margaret Macon Burton married James Samuel
Mackey.
8 2Susan Hamner Burton married James Booker Nolin.
8 3Elizabeth Clay Burton married James Samuel Mackey.
8 4John Madison Burton married Ella Wilson Berry.
8 Margaret Macon Burton, daughter of Damarius Cobbs and
her husband, married James Samuel Mackey and had issue
as follows:
9 1Alfred Price Mackey married Mary Julia Lackey.
9 2Lelia Mitfone Mackey married Charles Price Nowlen.
9 3Alexander Burton Mackey married Agnes Locket Morton.
9 4James Merton Mackey married Elizabeth Macon Davis.
9 5Mary Damarius Mackey married Venable Watkins Davis.
9 6Carrie Cobbs Mackey.
9 Alfred Price Mackey and Mary Julia Lackey, had issue:
Price Armstrong Mackey, Margaret Macon Mackey, Alfred
Baxter Mackey.
8 Susan Hamner Burton, daughter of Damarius Cobbs, and her
husband James Booker Nowlin had issue:
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Issue: Virginia Margaret Nowlin, Ross Booker Nowlin,
James Samuel Nowlin.
9 2Virginia Susan Nowlin.
9 3John Burton Nowlin married Roberta Ellis Hall.
9 4Jesse Graham Nowlin.
8 John Madison Burton, son of Damarius (Cobbs) Burton, and
grandson of John Lewis Cobbs, married Ella Wilson Berry
and had issue: Mabel Burton, Edith Burton, George Lewis
Burton, Ruth Burton, John Marvin Burton.
7 Ann Hamner Cobbs, daughter of John Lewis Cobbs and his
wife Susannah Hamner, married Baker Davidson and had
issue: two daughters, marriage of one unknown, the other
married William Lackland and had issue: Nannie Lackland,
Thomas Cobbs Lackland.
7 Agnes Cobbs, daughter of John Lewis Cobbs, married Dr.
John Slaughter. Issue: Susan Slaughter, marriage unknown.
7 Virginia Cobbs, daughter of John Lewis Cobbs by his second
marriage, married Charles William Price and had issue as
follows:
8 1Virginia Price married William Black.
8 2Mary Price married Travis Alexander; issue: Lena
Alexander,
Daisy Alexander.
8 3Ida Price married Allen Barnes.
8 4Olivia Price.
8 5Charles William Price.
8 6Willie Price married Dr. Doubleday.
7 Thomas Nelson Cobbs, son of John Lewis Cobbs by his second
marriage, married first Mary Avery and had issue: infant,
daughter dying at birth; by second marriage with Miss
Louisa Taylor, one son, Wm. Byars Cobbs married a Henley;
issue: Marion Cobbs; by third marriage with Sarah
Taylor, one son, Charles Price Cobbs.
6 Waddy Cobbs is one of the three sons of Edmund Cobbs and
Sarah Lewis who has not been entirely lost to history. He
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whose names have all been preserved, and the marriages of
four are matters of record, but we have no account of the
descendants of any except Sarah Lewis and Eliza Frances.
The names of the children of Waddy Cobbs and Margaret
Gwatkin follow:
7 1Charles Gwatkin Cobbs married Ann Cobbs.
7 2Sarah Lewis Cobbs married John Alexander.
7 3Mary Caloway Cobbs married Hartwell Eppso.
7 4James L. Cobbs.
7 5Lemira Cobbs.
7 6Eliza Frances Cobbs.
7 7Martha Cobbs.
7 8Catherine Cobbs.
7 9Nancy Cobbs.
7 10Emily Cobbs married a Mr. Nelson.
7 Sarah Lewis Cobbs married John Alexander and had issue:
8 1Charlotte L. Alexander married John F. Sale.
8 2Sarah Ann Alexander married Dr. Thomas H. Nelson.
8 3Mary Glenn Alexander married Dr. William Davis.
8 4John D. Alexander married Mary Pannil.
8 5Olivia Alexander married first Robert Camm, and second,
Edwin R. Page.
8 6Eliza Alexander married James Madison Cobbs.
8 7Susan Alexander married James Van Hoose.
8 8Robert Alexander.
8 9Edward Alexander.
8 10Roberta Alexander married a Mr. Hilton.
8 Sarah Ann Alexander and Dr. Thomas H. Nelson had issue:
9 1Charles Sumerious Nelson, single.
9 2John Alexander Nelson, single.
9 3Hugh Nelson, single.
9 4Wm. Steptoe Nelson, single.
9 5Eliza K. Nelson married Dr. James A. Boyce.
9 6Thomas Walker Nelson married first Lelia McDaniel,
second a Miss Morison.
9 7Charles Kenlock Nelson married Etta Scott.



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9 8Helen Lewis married J. N. Early.
8 Mary Glenn Alexander and Dr. William Davis had issue:
9 1Mary Caloway Davis married Governor Wm. Dunington
Bloxham. He was a member of Congress from Florida
and twice governor of the state.
9 2Sarah Ann Davis.
9 3Eliza Davis married Isham Miller Blake.
9 4Katherine Davis.
9 5John Alexander Davis.
9 6Edward Micajah Davis.
9 7William Davis.
9 Mary Callaway Davis and Governor Bloxham had issue: Wm.
Davis Bloxom, Martha William Bloxom.
9 Eliza Davis and Isham Miller Blake had issue:
10 1Mary Alexander Blake married Walter James Glenn.
10 2Annie Blanche Blake.
10 3Joe Clifton Blake.
10 4Lewis Gwynn Blake.
10 5Miller William Blake married Nancy Graves.
10 6Katherine Byrd Blake.
10 7John Cromartis Blake.
10 Mary Alexander Blake and Walter James Glenn had issue:
William Dunnington Glenn, Bloxham Glenn, Anna Blanche
Glenn, George Baxton Glenn, William Bloxham Glenn.
6 Edmund Cobbs was the third son of Edmund Cobbs and Sarah
Lewis, in the order named in the settlement of the estate,
and grandson of John Cobbs of Goochland county, Virginia.
He married Miss Elizabeth Manson of Bedford
county, Virginia, which was also his native county. He
owned a large plantation seven or eight miles west of
Lynchburg on the Lexington turnpike, where he resided and
raised his family. They had issue as follows:
7 1Lucy Henry Landonia Cobbs married Bishop Nicholas
Hamner Cobbs.
7 2Eleanor Cobbs married Oliphant. Issue: Lucy Oliphant,



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and Mary Oliphant who married a Martinez.
Issue: Louise Martinez, George Martinez.
7 3Mary Adeline Cobbs married Henry Landon Davies.
7 4Frederick Augustus Cobbs.

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18 NOV 1897 - 19 JUN 1984

Father: James Valentine COBBS
Mother: Lelia Judson JETER

Family 1 : Patrick E. MATTHEWS
  1.  Robert Cobbs MATTHEWS 
                          _James Valentine COBBS _+
                         | (1821 - 1884) m 1844   
 _James Valentine COBBS _|
| (1859 - 1929) m 1886   |
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|                          (1819 - 1907) m 1844   
|
|--Sallie Lou COBBS 
|  (1897 - 1984)
|                         ________________________
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Father: William Walton COBB
Mother: Mary B. Garrott "Polly" WHITLOCK 

                                     _Charles L. COBBS ___+
                                    | (1732 - 1798) m 1758
 _William Walton COBB ______________|
| (1777 - 1839) m 1825              |
|                                   |_Anne WALTON ________
|                                     (1739 - 1800) m 1758
|
|--Sarah S. COBBS 
|  (1838 - ....)
|                                    _____________________
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  1. +Charles Emerson COBB
  2.  Robert Lee COBB
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17 APR 1907 - 14 JUL 1961

Father: John Andy O'SHIELDS
Mother: Ollie DANIELS

Family 1 : Jean VAN SICKLE
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  2.  Harold Thomas O'SHIELDS
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                        _________________________
                       |                         
 _John Andy O'SHIELDS _|
| (1877 - 1940) m 1905 |
|                      |_________________________
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|--Earl Norwood O'SHIELDS 
|  (1907 - 1961)
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  2.  Mary Elizabeth COBBS
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  4.  William M. COBBS
  5.  Charles David COBBS
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Mother: Mae Marie COBB 

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 _Wilson Edward SITZE _|
| (1912 - 1997) m 1935 |
|                      |______________________
|                                             
|
|--Marcia K. SITZE 
|  (1941 - 2017)
|                       _Bennett Arthur COBB _+
|                      | (1877 - 1968) m 1899 
|_Mae Marie COBB ______|
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                         (1882 - 1965) m 1899

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This person is presumed living.

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