Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Cobb, Sallie Elizabeth Whitfield November 5, 1922
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News & Observer n/a April 30, 2015, 8:50 pm

News & Observer
Mrs. John P. Cobb Dies in Florida

Tallahassee, Fla., Nov 4.

Mrs. John P. Cobb died at her home in this city Monday, October 30, after an 
illness of several weeks. The funeral was held from the family residence on North 
Calhoun street Tuesday at 4:30 o'clock, Rev. Richard E. Boykin, rector of St. 
John's Episcopal church, conducting the service.

Mrs. Cobb, before her marriage Miss Sallie Elizabeth Whitfield, the third 
daughter of Gen. James Bryan Whitfield and his wife Sallie Elizabeth Wooten, was 
born at Burns Place, the old Whitfield home in Lenoir County, North Carolina 
November 13, 1837.

On December 7, 1865 she married Col. John Probert Cobb of the Second Regiment of 
North Carolina infantry, and for a number of years he and Mrs. Cobb made their 
home at Mount Auburn, NC, the ancestral home of the Cobb family. In 1883 the 
family moved to Florida and for the last twenty years have been residents of 
Tallahassee. Seven children were born to them

Mrs. Cobb is survived by her husband, Col. John P. Cobb, one brother Maj. James 
C. Whitfield of Alabama, one son, William D. Cobb of Brooksville, Fla., and five 
daughters, Mrs. J. C. Burwell of Tallahassee, Mrs. G. T. Marshall of Greenwood, 
SC, Mrs. A. S. Nelson of Dunedin, Fla, and Misses Winifred and Grace Cobb of 
Tallahassee, besides a large number of other relatives in North Carolina, 
Alabama, Mississippi and Connecticut.


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