The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23

1890 died 1916: o. John L. Cobbs. Rich
ard Hooker Cobbs. Martha Smith Cobbs.
Leighton Hammer Cobbs. born 1870.
died 1871: Lucy Eleanor cobbs. born
1s45. died 1SA7; Charlotte Walker
Cobbs
surviving son of Rt Rev. Nicholas H.
Cobbs married. 1883. Elizabeth Storrs,
of Alabama: in 1875 accepted a call to
st Johns. Charleston. w. Va, where
he died.
Susan Elizabeth, eldest daughter OF
Bishop Cobbs, married John Marsh
Mitchell. Issue of this marriage, Su-
san cobbs Mitchell. died without Issue.
John Lewis Cobbs, born 1882. died
1897. son of Bishop Cobbs. married
Dorothy Evans Pegucs; issue. Nicholas
Hammer Cobbs, died without Issue:
John Lewis Cobbs. born 1851. married
Ida WoodHn; issue. John Lewis Cobbs.
Isabella Cobbs, Beverley Cobbs Nicho-
las II. Cobbs. Christopher Claudius
Cobbs. married Annie Melvin Westcott.
Ella Cobbs. Christopher Cobbs. Doro-
thy Evans. William Westcott Cobbs.
Lucy Hammer Cobbs. married John
Buchanan Dunforth. of Virginia;
Leighton Cobbs. died without Issue;
Elizabeth Evans Cobbs. died without
issue; Edward Ellebre Cobbs, born
1876. married Edith Hurter, Of Mont
gomery: issue, John Hunter Cobbs.
Rev Carroll Cobbs. rector OF St Johns
Church. Montgomery, Ala
Rev Richard Hooker Cobbs. sixth
child of Bishop Cobbs. born 1885. has
been rector of st. Pa1rs Ghureh'
Greensboro, Ala, since 1861. He mar
| ried. 1852, Frances Ann Avery. OF
Greensboro. Issue: John Hammer
| Cobbs. born 1863. died 1905 in Mexico
without issue. Richard Hooker Cobbs
married Ida Tunstall. OF Greensboro.
| Issue: Augusta Hobson Cobbs, Rich
| ard II. Cobbs, John Cobbs. Wiley Tun-
stall Cobbs. Nicholas Cobbs. Frances
Avery Cobbs. born 1857. married Flea
nor Randolph first, and second Fanny
Jones. and had Richard Hooker Cobbs.
Cd Annie Cobbs, born 1869 daugh-
ter of Richard Hooker Cobbs and
Francis Ann Cobbs: married Charles
Stellenwerck, Of Greensboro. (5)
Mary Ellerbe Cobbs. born 1871. mar
red Edwin Spencer Jack. of Green's
S SorD' i nS married. No, Si Nathaniel Iane
Castleman. Issue: (a) Francis Avery
Castleman. (b) Winfred Lane Castle
man. % Edith Mason Cobbs. born
1877. married Armistead Page Selden,
of Mobile, Ala. Issue: Frances Avery
Selden, of Mobile. Ala. (S) William
Addison Cobbs. 1879, married Mary
1nez Stringfellow. of Tuscaloosa. Ala.
Martha Smith Cobbs, the seventh
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ried June. 1858, John Alexander Ellerbe,
of Alabama; no issue. Charlotte
Walker Cobbs married November.
1871. Nicolas Cobbs Iller'be. OF
Alabama: issue, Clarence Heber ~lGl-
lerbe. horn 1874, married Mary q.
Leonard. OF Shreveport. La
| Elizabeth Cobbs, eldest daughter of
Cobbs. married Junius Clay. of Bed
| ford County no Issue.
Susannah Lewis Cobbs, second
daughter OF John l.. Cobbs and Susan
(Hamnerl Cobbs. married Captain
Henry Jones. of Bedford County. Su-
sannah Jones died in 1916. leaving
Susan Adeline Jones. Edwin Nicholas
Jones. Mary Ann Jones. Elizabeth
| Amanda Jones, Agnee James Jones.
John William Jones.
Susan Adeline Jones, born 1914 died
1898; married William Harris Lee and
had William Henry Lee. born 1S41,
ded 1892. married Betty Murrell:
married Peter Harold Read and had
Anna Belle Read; James Edwin Lee.
born 1886. married Sarah Virginia Leo
and had Ada, Sarah, Edwin, Caroline,
William, Samuel, Gilmore, Kirtley,
Booker. Susan. Robert, John, william
Otway, Harriet Fitzgerald, Thomas
Fitzgerald and GUSTS Lee,
The different branches Of the Cobbs
family claim descent from Joseph
Cobbs. who arrived in Yorktown. Va.
I'm 1913. Joseph Cobbs and his wife.
Elizabeth, lived in Isle OF Wight Coun-
/ ty at the mouth of the James River
and left two sons. Joseph and Benja-
min. who, as shown by the early rec
| ords. was residing on land inherited
from their father. Joseph. in 1912. The
records I have recently received give
| the ancestors of Joseph, the emigrant
| OF 1913: First, Richard Cobbs, of Alb
tArdeen and Oxford student OF Christ
| Church, fought against the Spaniards
in the low countNas. He married
Libyl Sheetz in Holland November S.
| 1876 She bore him sixteen children.
Second. Joseph Cobbs. born in ANS
terdam In 1888, came TO Virginia III
! the Treasurer in 1913 and settled in
Elizabeth City County. His wife.
Elizabeth, had two sons, % Joseph.
born 1910; CD Benjamin. born 1911.
who both joined their father in Vir-
| GINA III 1921.
| Third, Joseph Cobbs. Jr.. married and
had two sons. % Ambrose, born 1881;
| CD Nichalos. born in 1852.
Joseph and Ambrose Cobbs both set
! tied on AppomattoA River-Ambrose
on the present site OF Petersburg Va
| Fourth. Ambrose Cobbs, SON Of JOS
eph. married and had two sons, ID
| ROBERT COLDS, W InomaS GOODS, potn
of whom settled in York County. Va.
where Robert died in 1882, leaving
| three sons and one daughter. Thomas
! Cobbs later moved to Goochland Coun-
| ty. Va, and left six sons, G) John
Cobbs, Of Goochland: CD Ambrose.
| whose descendants live In Lincoln
County. n. c.; go Jesse Cobbs. who
settled in Caswell County. N. c. Ed
mond Cobb died without issue. Otha
| Cobb settled in Eastern Virginia. Sam
uel Cobb was a member of the Cen
eral Assembly of Virginia from 1742
to 17+9, and later moved to North
| Carolina.
Sixth. John Cobb, OF Goochland, mar
mied Susannah and left five sons
Tobias Cobb. born 1871; John Cobb.
born 1923; Thomas Cobbs. born 1924;
Stephen Cobb; Jesse, Cobb. born 1890;
John and Stephen settled in North
Carolina. and Johns son. John Addi-
son Cobb, is the ancestor of the Cobbs.
| Of Georgia.
e. Jesse Cobb G73o-1So3), son Of
John Cobb. OF Goochland. married
October II. 1T71, Elizabeth, daughter