The Cobb Family Roots
Welcome to our family history site.
Explore the stories of the Cobb family ancestors.
Trace their roots back to England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany and Wales. Our intrepid ancestors were nearly all early immigrants in the New World. Walk in their shoes. Have a little fun.
They loved and laughed, thought and fought, feared and persevered, cried and died in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland Mississippi and Texas. Our deep southern roots. These are their stories.
If you see your name below, this website just might be the place for you:
Cobb, Tillitt, Ricks, Rodgers, Spivey, Langley, Sanderlin, Hearne, Williams, Cherry, Leggett, Daniel, Marchant, Carter, Wingo, Carlton, Lang, May, Duers, Latham, Wynn, Edmundson, Little, Hall, Dauge, Sandersons, Ferebee, Phillips, Beadle, Alexander, Kelley, Gray, Grimes, Churchwell, Eason, Dixon, Perkins, Blount, Hatton, Baum, Jasper, Lamb, Sawyer, Lindsay, Ewing, Rutter, Bland, Holt, Vaughn and Burrow.
ALERT: This website is in its infancy. At this writing only a portion of the stories are available. Stay tuned for coming attractions!
The Cobb Family Tree Chart
The First Six Generations
Our Family Stories
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My Father, married Bettie Anna Tillitt
Proud Veteran of Three Wars, “When the Going gets Tough, the Tough get Going,” World Traveler, Author, Humorist
My Mother, married John Edward Cobb, Jr
Reference Librarian, Smithsonian Docent, World Traveler with a Zest for Life
My Maternal Grandfather, married Rosa Judson Rodgers
Lawyer, Mayor, Legislator, Devoted Father and Husband
My Maternal Grandmother, married Durant Howard Tillitt
School Principal, Captivating Storyteller, Adventuress, and Role Model
My Paternal Grandfather, married Francis L Ricks
Orphan, Company Store Manager for Lumber Enterprise
My Paternal Grandmother, married John Edward Cobb Sr
Hardworking Gentle Spirit, Gardener Extraordinaire.
My Maternal Great Grandfather, married Anna Letitia Hearne
The Country Doctor they all called Friend
My Maternal Great Grandmother, married Dr Charles Weldon Rodgers
The little Firecracker with the Size Two Shoe
My Maternal Great Grandfather, married Bettie Ferebee Sanderlin
Joyfully Lived Off his Inheritance
My Maternal Great Grandmother, married Gideon Marchant Tillitt
Fractured Childhood with a Happy Ending
My Paternal Great Grandfather, married Margaret Little Langley
Farmer, Lumberman and in his 2nd marriage the father of a heroic soldier who was convicted of murder
My Paternal Great Grandmother, married Thomas Blount Ricks, Jr.
Tragedy unfolded in the lives of four of her seven children
My Paternal Great Grandfather, married Celia Martha Spivey
Journalist and Prosperous Merchant of Tarboro
My 2nd Great Maternal Great Grandfather, married Christiana Francis Carlton
Eloquent Civil War Chaplain, Lawyer, and Legislator
My 2nd Great Maternal Great Grandmother, married Simpson Columbus Hearne
Lost her fiancé in the civil war and married the chaplain that delivered the bad news
My Maternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Archann Dauge Marchant
The Good Life Disrupted by War
My 2nd Great Maternal Great Grandmother, married Durant Hall Tillitt
Born Rich and Married Rich
My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Frances Elizabeth Daniel
The Son of a very Wealthy Planter, Fought in Civil War, Captured and imprisoned in POW Camps Twice
My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married Thomas Hatton Langley
The Civil War Traumatized her Family, She became a Newlywed in a Challenging Post War World.
My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Fannie May Williams
Farmer, Merchant, Postmaster
My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married James Lang Cobb
Widowed just Prior to the Civil War with 5 Children to Raise, died of Liver Cancer.
Tales from the Outer Banks
The Lost Colony, Coast Coast Heroes and the First Flight at Kitty Hawk
Rosefield Plantation, the Founding of Windsor, and Cousin William Blount the Treasonous “Dirt King”
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