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Huldah Norton^1,2

Parents

Key Events:

• Huldah married William Cobb, son of Gideon Cobb and Abigail Dyer, on 22 Dec 1768 in Windham, Connecticut.^3,4

Citations

1. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176, marriage record.
2. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153.
3. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176, shows date.
4. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153, shows date.

William Cobb^1,2

Parents

Key Events:

• William Cobb was born on 18 Sep 1769 in Windham, Connecticut.^3,4

Citations

1. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176.
2. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153.
3. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176, shows date.
4. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153, shows date.

Sarah Cobb^1,2

Parents

Key Events:

• Sarah Cobb was born on 30 Oct 1772 in Windham, Connecticut.^3,4

Citations

1. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176.
2. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153.
3. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176, shows date.
4. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153, shows date.

Esther Bennett^1,2,3

Key Events:

• Esther Bennett was born on 18 Mar 1785 in Pawlet, Vermont.^4,5
• Esther married first Henry Cobb, son of John Cobb and Mary Fuller, on 16 Jun 1805.^6,7
• Esther married second Ira Barber on 16 Feb 1814.^6,8
• Esther died on 27 Jun 1855 in Hickory Corners, Michigan, at age 70.⁴
• She was buried in Gull Praire, Michigan.⁴

Citations

1. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 184, shows name as Ester Bennett.
2. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45, shows name as Ester Bennett.
3. Ira Barber household, 1850 U.S. Census, Barry Co., Michigan, shows name as Esterh Barber.
4. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 184.
5. Ira Barber household, 1850 U.S. Census, Barry Co., Michigan, shows age 64 and state.
6. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 184, shows date.
7. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45, shows year.
8. Ira Barber household, 1850 U.S. Census, Barry Co., Michigan, shows them apparently living as husband and wife.

Sarah Robbins^1,2,3

Parents

Key Events:

• Sarah Robbins was born on 1 Sep 1789 in Grafton, Massachusetts, according to the inscription read from her tombstone, but her birth does not appear in the vital records of Grafton, Massachusetts. Perhaps she she was born in Grafton, Vermont?^4,5
• Sarah married Dr. John Cobb, son of John Cobb and Mary Fuller, in 1814.^6,7,8
• Sarah died on 27 Jul 1844 in Buffalo, New York, at age 54.^9,10
• She was buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Spencerport, Monroe Co., New York.¹¹

Citations

1. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 185.
2. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45.
3. Hughes, Thomas P., American Ancestry, XI:65.
4. , "Pioneer Cemetery," copied from July 1934 tombstone reading by the Irondequoit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, shows date, town and state.
5. Lautz, John Adam application, The Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, shows year.
6. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 185, shows year.
7. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45, shows year.
8. , "Pioneer Cemetery," copied from July 1934 tombstone reading by the Irondequoit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, shows her as his wife.
9. , "Pioneer Cemetery," copied from July 1934 tombstone reading by the Irondequoit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, shows date, city, and state.
10. Lautz, John Adam application, The Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, shows year and city.
11. , "Pioneer Cemetery," copied from July 1934 tombstone reading by the Irondequoit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Roxana Worden^1,2,3,4

Parents

Key Events:

• Roxana Worden was born on 4 Mar 1794 in Vermont.^5,6,7
• Roxana married Gideon Cobb, son of John Cobb and Mary Fuller, on 18 Oct 1819 in Rochester, New York, with Rev. C. Williams officiating.^8,9,10
• Roxana died on 21 Apr 1863 at age 69.^11,12
• She was buried on 24 Apr 1863 in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, next to her husband, in his lot.^13,14

Citations

1. "Married," Rochester Telegraph, 19 Oct 1819, shows name as Miss Roxana Worden.
2. "Tombstone Inscriptions from Section I - Mt. Hope Cemetery," GenWeb Monroe County NY, shows name as Roxana Worden, wife of Gideon Cobb.
3. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 186, shows name as Roxey Worden.
4. Worden, O. N., Some Records of Persons by the Name of Worden, pg 128.
5. General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, record for Rocksey Worden, prepared by Nathan Fish, town clerk, shows date and place, as Halifax, Vermont, but her birth may have been registered after the family moved there some years lager.
6. Sherman, Howard Cole application, The Michigan Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, shows name date, town, as Shasbury, and state. But Shasbury does not appear to have existed; the family was living Shaftsbury in Bennington Co. in 1790.
7. Gideon Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York, shows age 56 and state.
8. "Married," Rochester Telegraph, 19 Oct 1819, shows married "in this village, yesterday morning" and officiant.
9. Sherman, Howard Cole application, The Michigan Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, shows month and year, and place as Shasbury Vermont.
10. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 186, shows year.
11. "Tombstone Inscriptions from Section I - Mt. Hope Cemetery," GenWeb Monroe County NY, shows date.
12. Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, Aug 1860 to Dec 1881 - Coa, shows she was interred 24 Apr 1863.
13. Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, Aug 1860 to Dec 1881 - Coa.
14. Mount Hope Cemetery, plot records, range I, lot 48, shows her grave in lot purchased by Gideon Cobb 10 Mar 1845.

Abigail W. Nichols^1,2,3

Parents

Key Events:

• Abigail W. Nichols was born on 12 Oct 1797 in Bennington, Vermont.^4,5,6
• Abigail married Horace Cobb, son of John Cobb and Mary Fuller, on 19 Nov 1829 in Williston, Vermont.^7,8,9,10
• Abigail died in Jun 1852 at age 54.^11,12
• She was buried on 19 Jul 1852 in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, next to her husband.^13,14

Citations

1. General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, birth record for Abigail Nichols, prepared by Bennington town clerk; marriage record for Abigail W. Nichols, prepared by Williston town clerk.
2. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45, shows name as Nichols.
3. Jane Thankful Cobb, Jane Thankful, Certificate of Death, shows name as Abigail Nichols.
4. General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, birth record for Abigail Nichols, prepared by Bennington town clerk, shows date.
5. Abigail W. Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., New York, shows age 53 and state.
6. Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to Jul 1860 - Cola, record for Abagail W. Cole, interred 19 Jul 1852 at age 56.
7. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 186, shows married.
8. Muff, Janet, "Fwd: cobb," e-mail to author, 6 May 2009, citing Margaret R. Jenks, Orwell Cemetery Inscriptions, Addison County, Vermont (Granville, New York, privately published), shows his first wife died 19 Feb 1828.
9. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 45, shows married, as his second marriage.
10. General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, marriage record for Abigail W. Nichols, prepared by Williston town clerk, shows date.
11. Mount Hope Cemetery, plot records, range I, lot 49, purchased by his heirs 26 Feb 1850, shows year.
12. Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to Jul 1860 - Cola, record for Abagail W. Cole, shows interment date as 19 Jul 1852. The record shows lot as 49-I, but there is no Abagail Cole in the plot of that lot, and the age (56) and residence (Brighton) are correct for Abigail Cobb, so it appears the recorder confused the surnames.
13. Mount Hope Cemetery, plot records, range I, lot 49, purchased by his heirs 26 Feb 1850, shows her next to Horace.
14. Mount Hope Cemetery, burial records, May 1837 to Jul 1860 - Cola, record for Abagail W. Cole, shows interment date and lot.