Biography of J. D. C. Cobb - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 325

Rev. J. D. C. Cobb, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and
editor of the Jonesboro Times, was born in Dyer County, Tenn., July 25,
1838. His parents, Christian S. and Judith (Clapp) Cobb, were natives
of Guilford County, N. C., and in 1836 moved to Tennessee, where the
father died, He was a farmer of sterling character and worth and was
greatly respected by all who knew him. The mother afterward went to
Texas and there died. They reared a family of five children, three now
living: Jackson D. C., Lucinda S. (wife of Elder E. P. Minton), and
Elizabeth S. (wife of Lake Summers). Rev. J. D. C. Cobb was reared and
educated in Dyer County, Tenn., remaining on the farm until twenty
years of age, and then taught and attended school. When twenty-three
years of age he entered the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church and was licensed to preach, but was not ordained until 1867.
During the late war he was chaplain of the Fifteenth Tennessee Cavalry.
The war over he returned to his duties, and in 1871 moved to Dunklin
County, Mo., and located at Clarkton, where he was pastor until 1874,
and then went to Gainesville, Ark., where he remained until 1876, when
he came to Jonesboro, where he has since resided. In 1874 he
established the Gainesville Times, and two years later moved the paper
to Jonesboro, where it has since been a leading and widely circulating
journal. In the fire of 1889 the office was burned, but was soon in
operation again. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, too, was burned,
and now efforts are being made to build a large brick edifice. Mr. Cobb
organized the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Jonesboro in 1876, and
has been its pastor since its organization. Miss Ann E. Kirk, a native
of the "Old Dominion," became his wife in 1861, and they are the
parents of two children: William D. and Mary J. Mr. Cobb is a prominent
citizen and one of the leading spirits of Jonesboro.