Gilmer County GaArchives Biographies.....John P. Cobb July 2 1827 - March 23 1899
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John Patrick Cobb was born 1827 in South Carolina and moved to Georgia soon 
thereafter.  He appears on the 1850 Gilmer County census as a merchant with 
wife and child.  John married Mary Louise Bradley, daughter of Briant Brown 
and Malinda Eaton Bradley, of Pickens County, Georgia. John and Mary Cobb had 
12 children.   John Cobb appears on the 1860 census of Gilmer County.  There 
is record of John P. Cobb in Company D., 16th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry, 
State Guards, who enrolled at Ellijay on July 7, 1862.  
The 1864 census for re-organizing the Georgia Militia shows John Cobb exempt 
from service because he was a postmaster.  He was post master again in Ellijay 
from November 1872 to July 1873.  John Cobb was the Gilmer County Treasurer in 
1866.  He was a Baptist and a Mason.  In 1875 & 1876 he represented Gilmer 
County in the Georgia legislature.  In 1891 John and Mary Cobb moved to Texas 
with their younger children.  He died 1899, she in 1912.  John and Mary are 
buried in Bluff Dale, Erath County, Texas. 


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