Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Cobb, Dr. W. H. H. July 21, 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Goldsboro Daily Argus n/a April 30, 2015, 8:16 pm Goldsboro Daily Argus Dr. W. H. H. Cobb Dead This Noted and Beloved Physician is No More, and the City Mourns For days the readers of The Argus have with saddened hearts anticipated what it is now our sorrowful duty to chronicle the death of Dr. W. H. H. Cobb which occurred this morning at 2:40 o'clock at his residence on William Street north surrounded by his wife and children and solaced in his passing as he had ever been through life by their loving ministrations that were to him in his busy solicitude professionally for others the chief joy of his life which was a living sacrifice to the amelioration of suffering humanity. Dr. Cobb was born on his father, the late William D. Cobb's, country estate, "Mt. Auburn," near Spring Bank in this county on April 3, 1841. At the age of twenty he graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861 and immediately thereafter volunteered in the Confederate service and was made assistant surgeon of the famous Second North Carolina Regiment in which arduous position he served till the close of the war and many a maimed old soldier today of that regiment and hundreds who have passed away in the intervening years, were saved from death on the field or in the hospitals by his skill as a surgeon and his attention as a physician, without money and without price. No grander specimen of humanity has the world ever produced or so grand as the Confederate surgeon giving his time, his skill, his life, his all upon the field of battle, where brave men faced death and heroes fell, taking his chances alike with them in the fortunes of the fight and then devoting himself to the relief of the stricken and the care of the dying, day after day and during the weary watches of the night through all those stormy years that culminated in the crowning tragedy at Appomattox. Soon after the was Dr. Cobb located at Goldsboro for the practice of his profession, and here for forty years he has devoted himself with his characteristic heroism and philanthropy to its calls among all classes in the community, the humblest as well as the highest receiving the same conscientious care and treatment that the nature of their ailments required, never pausing in their emergencies to enquire as their financial ability to requite his services. And so through the rolling years he has builded himself a monument of unfathomable love in the hearts of these Goldsboro people, who today mourn his death as a personal sorrow in every home. In his profession Dr. Cobb stood at the head not only in the community and the State, but wherever he had occasion to come in contact with the leaders. He had been president of the State Medical Society; and was an ex-member of the State Board of Medical Examiners. He was one of the founders and ex-president of the Tri-State Medical Society; was for years State medical examiner for the Royal Arcannum, was Grand Dictator of the Knights of Honor and yet with all his professional duties and the high honors awarded him by the profession in recognition of his ominent qualifications, he still found time to take interest as a citizen in all things trending for the uplift and general welfare of the community and so for years he served his people on the board of city alderman in the days when the city's present proud eminence was being laid out and ribbed in. Dr. Cobb was as active and earnest a church member as he was in his profession and as a citizen, being from early manhood a zealous Methodist and with his good wife who survives him, rearing their children in this consoling faith. The funeral conducted by Rev. E. H. Davis, pastor of St. Paul Church assisted by Rev. Dr. F. D. Seindell of Kinston, will be held from the home tomorrow, Thursday afternoon at five o'clock, and the interment will be made in Willow Dale Cemetery. Beside his devoted wife and four children, who are Dr. W. H. Cobb, Mrs. Mariana Garelssen, Misses Nellie and Leila Cobb, Dr. Cobb is survived by a wide circle of relatives, while the whole community felt akin to him; and so he goes to his long home and the mourners go about the streets not as those go without hope but cherishing the sweet assurance that God giveth his beloved sleep. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/obits/c/cobb2892ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb