Bulloch County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cobb, Lollie 1900
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Robesonian  Friday September 14, 1900, page 2, column 2
DEATH NOTICE OF MRS. LOLLIE COBB OF STATESBORO, GEORGIA
 
Death of a Former Robesonian.
 
   Dear Robesonian: - Our hearts are all bowned with sorrow to-day for we have 
just placed in her grave the body of out dear sister, Mrs. Lollie Cobb, the 
devoted wife of Rev. T. J. Cobb, formerly of Robeson county, North Carolina.  
Yesterday at 2 o’clock, p. m. a stroke of lightning struck the residence of 
brother Cobb with such terrific force that the whole south end of the building 
was wrecked and Mrs. Cobb, who was in the front room assorting her laundry, was 
instantly killed.  How any member of the family escaped is a mystery.
   To view the residence and know the position occupied by the others, it seems 
impossible!
   Brother Cobb had just finished preparing a sermon for the next day and passing 
his wife, kissed her and went in an adjoining room and lay across the bed.  His 
little boy was in the same room near a mirror, dressing.  Clara, his eldest, was 
standing near her mother and the baby girl, Annie, was in the hall.  When the 
shock came, learning out the end of the room in which he was and shattering the 
mirror, brother Cobb took up the little boy and ran out in the hall to the crying 
baby when Clara came out of the room screaming, “oh papa, is mamma dead,” when 
the poor fellow rushed to the room to find the devoted wife and mother already 
dead.  Neighbors soon came through the ruins, offering sympathy, help, money!  I 
never saw more kindness not generosity displayed.  But no wonder.  No man stands 
higher in Bulloch county than Mr. Cobb.  He has the confidence of all the people 
and is deservedly popular.  And his wife was a well beloved!  Hers was a 
beautiful character, unadorned simplicity, kindness of manner, modest, courteous, 
cheerful.  She was a noble wife and appreciated the high calling of her husband.  
When he started to his work and remarked about an early return her cheerful 
reply, was, “don’t come back on my accounty; you do your work and I will get 
along somehow,”  God bless the memory of such unselfish sacrifice for His cause.  
Her sprightly, cheerful service made her home a very happy one and well may her 
husband mourn her sudden taking away.  And what a funeral scene when we carried 
her to the church and thence to the cemetery.  Seldom has such a funeral been 
witnessed in our town.  Lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmer, Baptist, Methodist, 
Presbyterian and Primitives, all came to mourn with the mourner and weep for the 
dead.  As the pastor conducted the funeral, assisted by the Methodist and 
Presbyterian pastors, there was scarely a dry eye in the overflowing 
congregation.
   Mrs. Cobb was the daughter of Mr. S. P. Klarpp, of Robeson county, and well 
may we thank North Carolina and Robeson county for the gift of such noble 
children.
   We extend our sympathy to the many sorrowing relatives and friends in North 
Carolina and pray God to comfort the hearts of husband and children.
                                    Jno. F. McMillan.
Statesboro, Ga., Sept. 1, 1900.



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