Re: Rufus Cobb, B:~1850/W. Rowena James-wife
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Rufus Cobb, B:~1850/W. Rowena James-wife
Dolores Phifer 10/28/00
Mike's web site lists this man as Rufus F. Cobb, but both Dolores and I have other info.My grandmother Hazel Cobb's Bible (she was his niece) gives his name as Charles Ruffus Cobb. Marilyn Cobb has this name, too. She lists his children as Molly, Sally, Charlie, Clara, Katie, Cleveland.
He's just listed as Rufus in 1860 Lincoln Co. NC census with his parents and sibs. He's in the 1880 census for Monroe Co. Arkansas with wife named Cassie (age 25 that census, born Ark. but both her parents born NC). Children listed in 1880 census are Molly, f age 8, botn Tennessee; Charley m age 6, born Arkansas; Sally f age 4, born Arkansas; and Clara f age 2 mos., born Arkansas. Also living in the household is Rufus's brother Henry, age 19. I don't know if "Cassie" is a nickname for Rowena or if Rufus was married more than once.
In Monroe County marriage records, Book E, there's an R.C. Cobb (I think it's for Rufus Charles, names reversed), age 26, who marries Mrs. J. Harris, also 26, on 27 Nov 1881. Book E lists a marriage for Henry Cobb, age 25, to Mrs. Sarah Smith, age 21 on 21 Jan 1886. The next year, Rufus's and Henry's younger brother, Robert Lee Cobb, married my great-grandmother, Rosa E. (Jacobs) Jackson on 10 July 1887 (also in Book E).
On 25 May 1890, Charles Rufus Cobb's daughter "Mollie," then age 18 married Burt Lauderdale, age 21. Families were still in Brinkley, Monroe County, Arkansas at that point. Dolores, when did Rufus go to Heber Springs?
Oaklawn Cemetery in Brinkley has these children of his: Katie B. Cobb, b. 26 Mar 1882, d. 5 Nov 1884 (too young for 1880 census) and Charley C. Cobb, b. 6 Dec 1874, d. 3 Oct 1891. Both children's tombstones list parents as "C.R. & N.C. Cobb."
In hopes that this info will help solve some mysteries and questions.
I do not know who Rufus F. Cobb is.
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Re: Rufus Cobb, B:~1850/W. Rowena James-wife
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Re: Rufus Cobb, B:~1850/W. Rowena James-wife
Dolores Phifer 10/30/00
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Clarification
Coleen Barger 10/29/00