Biography of J C Cobb, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 654 

J. C. Cobb, an honored ex-Federal soldier of the Eighth Tennessee
Cavalry, was born in Fulton County, Ky., in 1838, and grew to manhood on Blue
Grass soil, but his educational advantages in his youth were of the most meager
description. He was left an orphan when a small lad, and was reared by
strangers, but left the family with whom he made his home, before he attained
his majority, on account of ill treatment, and started out to seek his own
fortune. He first went to Mississippi County, Mo., where he found a home with
Dr. Snuzer, near Charleston, and remained with him until the war became an
assured fact, when he joined the Federal forces at Indianapolis, Ind., being a
member of the Eighth Tennessee Cavalry, and served honorably and well
throughout the war, and was mustered out of service at Bull's Gap, in East
Tennessee. He participated in the engagements at Elizabeth (Ky.), Franklin,
Hartsville, Galena, Clarksville, Knoxville, Jonesboro, and Bull's Gap, Tenn. At
the latter engagement he was quite severely wounded, being shot from his horse
and baving his jaw broken. He served in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida. In 1883 his application for a pension was
recognized, and he received back pay to the amount of $1,233. He returned to
Kentucky at the close of the war, and was married four months afterward, to
Miss Nancy Whitlock, who was born in Kentucky, in 1841, and by her has a family
of three living children: Martha A., wife of Walker Dunnagan; Mary L., and
Myrtle May. Those deceased are John J., who died when eight years of age;
Elizabeth, at the age of six months, and Emma J., when ten months old. About
one year after the war Mr. Cobb removed with his wife to Arkansas. but only
remained a short time: then they returned to Kentucky, and remained six years.
Since that time they have been residents of Arkansas, and up to January 1,
1889, resided five miles from Sulphur Rock, but at [p.654] that date moved to
the town, where they have since made their home. They are quite well-to-do, and
each of their children owns forty acres of land, which was deeded to them by
their parents. Mr. Cobb is a son of Amsy and Lettie (Ryan) Cobb, the former of
whom was a native of North Carolina, and at an early day became a citizen of
Kentucky, and lived and died in that State. The mother was born in Newcastle,
Ky., and of their five children, four are still living: J. C., Anna, wife of A.
McNutt; Elizabeth, wife of Bert Watton, and—––. The maternal grandparents were
John and Alsie (Smith) Whitlock. John was born in North Carolina, but was left
an orphan in his youth, and ran away to Kentucky. He lived in Monroe and
Phillips Counties, but died in Crittenden County, at the age of seventy-six
years, followed by his wife, who was of Kentucky stock, at the age of sixty-six
years.