Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-07-21
DIR. W. II. II. COBB DEAD.
This Noted and Beloved Physician Is
No Mere. and the City Mourns.

pated what it is now our sorrowful
duty to chronicle-the death of Dr. W.
H. Fl. Cobb, which occurred this
dence on William street north, sur
rounded by his wife and children and
solaced in his passing as he had ever
been through life by their loving min
;strations, that were to him in his
busy solici:ude professionally for 9TH
ers. the chief joy of his life, that was
a living sacrifice to the amelioration
of suffering humanity.
DR.. Cobb was born on his father,
the late William D. Cobb's, country
estate, mt. Auburn near Spring
Bank, in this county, on April 3, 1S41
At the age of twenty he graduated
from the Medical University of Penn
sylvania, in 1861, and Immediately
thereafter volunteered in the Confed-
crate service and was made assistant
surgeon of the famous Second North
Carolina Regiment, in which arduous
position he served till the close of the
war, and many a manned old soldier
today of that regiment and hundreds
who have passed away in the inter-
vening years, were saved from death
on the field or in the hospitals by his
skill as a surgeon and his attention
as 2. physician, without money and
without price. No grander specimen
of humanity has the world ever pro-
duced-or so grand, as the Confeder-
ate surgeon, giving his time, his skill,
his life, his all upon the field of battle,
where brave men faced death and he
roes fell, taking his chances alike
with them in the fortunes of the fight
| and then devoting himself to the re-
| lief of the stricken and the care Of the
| dying, day after day and during the
| weary watches of the night through
all those stormy years that culmina-
ted in the crowning tragedy at Apo
mattox.
Soon after the war DR.. Cobb located
in Goldsboro for the practice of his
| profession, and here for forty years
| he has devoted himself, with his char
acteristic heroism and philanthropy,
| to it's calls. among all classes in the
community, the humblest as we'll as
the highest receiving the same con-
| scientious care and treatment that
the nature Of their ailments required
never pausing in their emergencies to
enquire as to their financial ability to
requite his services. And so through
the rolling years he has builded him.
ant nf q c
love in the hearts of these Go1dsboro
people, who today mourn his death as
a personal sorrow in every home
And truly can we say of him, in the
words of Will Carleton's poem on the
Country Doctor:
Maybe half the population, now O.
great or little worth,
| Found this watcher waiting for them
when they came upon the earth;
. This undecorated soldier, of hare
unequal strife,
Fought in many stubborn battles will
the foes that sought their life.
In the nighttime or the daytime, h
would rally brave and well,
Though the summer lark was fling
or the frozen lances fell;
Knowing if he won the battle, the.
would praise their Makers name,
Knowing if he lost the battle, then tn
doctor was to blame.
Twas the brave old virtuous DOCTOR
Twas the good old faulty doctor,
Twas the faithful country doctor
fighting stoutly all the same.
When so many pined in sickness, h
had stood SO strongly by.
Half the people felt a notion that tn
doctor couldn't die;
They must slowly learn the lessor
how to live from day to day,
And have somehow lost their bearing
now this landmark is away.
But perhaps it still is better that hi
busy life is done;
He has seen old views and patient
, disappearing, one by one;
He has learned that Death is maste
both of Science and of Art;
He has done his duty fairly, and ha
acted out his part
, And the strong old country doctor,
| And the weak old country doctor,
Is entitled to a furlough for his brail
and for his heart.
1 In his profession DR.. Cobb stood a
the head, not only in the communit
and the State, but wherever he ha
occasion to come in contact with tn
leaders. He had been president O
the State Medical Society; and wa
one of the founders and ex-presiden
OF the Tri-State Medical Society; wa
for years State medical examiner TO
: the Royal Arcanum, was Grand Dicta
e tor of the knights of Honor and ye
$ with all his professional duties an
. the high honors awarded him by tn
e profession in recognition of his emf
a nent qualifications, he still found tim
to take interest as citizen in al
> things trending for the up1ift and gen