_Clisby COBB ____________________
| (1748 - 1815) m 1771
_Robert COBB __________|
| (1770 - ....) m 1791 |
| |_Margaret Halset (Halsey) YOUNG _
| (1746 - ....) m 1771
_John COBB __________|
| (1821 - ....) m 1842|
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| |_Elizabeth LNU (COBB) _|
| m 1791 |
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|--Elisha Lafayette COBB
| (1853 - 1930)
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|_Nancy Jane LNU _____|
(1824 - ....) m 1842|
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[318] On this enumeration he declared that he and both his parents were born in Tennessee.
[319] 1880 Census shows son, William and dau., Sarah residing with Elisha and Arnetta.
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_Clisby COBB ____________________|
| (1748 - 1815) m 1771 |
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_William Halsey COBB _|
| (1785 - 1839) m 1809 |
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| |_Margaret Halset (Halsey) YOUNG _|
| (1746 - ....) m 1771 |
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|--Leander Ervin COBB
| (1810 - 1879)
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| _John CONNELLY __________________|
| | m 1775 |
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|_Jane CONNELLY _______|
(1781 - 1841) m 1809 |
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|_Jane BALLEW ____________________|
m 1775 |
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[347]
From "Histories of Greene County, Illinois Its Past and Present". 1879. pg 569:
L. E. Cobb was born in Burke County, North Carolina, 24 February 1810. At the youthful age of 19, he set out for the State of Indiana, on foot. The distance, 500 miles, was made on foot, not over a broad level prairie, like many who settlled in the West in an early day, but on his way, which comprised considerable of the distance, he crossed the range of mountains known as the Blue Ridge, in North Carolina, and Clinch and Cumberland. The long distance was traversed in 12 days, giving the reader some idea of the strength of character and indomitable will of the hardy pioneer who will soon be known only in history. Arriving in Indiana, mr. Cobb secured employment in a tannery, also worked as a farm hand; first entered Illinois in 1832; worked for a blacksmith two weeks, receiving $5.00 therefore, his bed at night, a puncheon floor; his covering, deer skins; a life made up of a variety, surely.
Becoming proprietor of a small tannery, he earned his first $100.00, and purchased 80 acres in Macoupin County. In Morgan County, he married Miss Mary Crum, daughter of Mathias Crum, a native of Virginia. In 1852 he disposed of his property there and came to Greene County where he bought a valuable tract of land, part of which now lies in the corporation of Roodhouse. There are 7 children: Joseph, William, John, James, Mary, Margaret and Fanny.
[348] Owned 3500 acres in Macoupin County Illinois in 1850.
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_John C. SPARKS _____|
| (1815 - 1886) m 1846|
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|--Sarah Caroline SPARKS
| (1854 - ....)
| _Benjamin M. COBB ___+
| | (1771 - 1858) m 1790
| _James Morris COBB __|
| | (1792 - 1854) m 1813|
| | |_Violetta MORRIS ____
| | (1774 - 1828) m 1790
|_Sarah M. COBB ______|
(1831 - 1882) m 1846|
| _____________________
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|_Rebecca GODFREY ____|
(1793 - 1855) m 1813|
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_John Hamilton WILSON ___|
| (1823 - 1903) m 1849 |
| | _________________________________
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| |_______________________|
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|--Hannah Catherine WILSON
| (1857 - 1898)
| _Clisby COBB ____________________
| | (1748 - 1815) m 1771
| _Robert COBB __________|
| | (1770 - ....) m 1791 |
| | |_Margaret Halset (Halsey) YOUNG _
| | (1746 - ....) m 1771
|_Charlotte Evaline COBB _|
(1825 - 1894) m 1849 |
| _________________________________
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|_Elizabeth LNU (COBB) _|
m 1791 |
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