Wayne County NcArchives Photo Person.....Cobb, Col. John Probert ************************************************ 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: Stacey Jones stayjones02@nc.rr.com February 4, 2010, 3:56 pm Source: UNC Wilson Library Name: Col. John Probert Cobb Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/photos/cobb1220ph.jpg Image file size: 20.5 Kb John Probert Cobb, Colonel, 2nd NC Infantry Regiment, CSA. Lost leg at the last battle of Winchester. Picture shows cane. Son of William Donnell & Ann Spicer Collier Cobb ----- Cobb and Whitfield Family Papers, 1736-1946 #1708 - Wilson Library, UNC Abstract Cobb and Whitfield families of North Carolina and Florida. Family members include John P. Cobb (1834-1923), who was born in Wayne County, N.C., married Sally Eliza Whitfield in 1865, and moved to Florida, and James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841) of Falling Creek and Strabane, Lenoir County, N.C., who was a planter, state senator, and major general in the North Carolina militia. The collection includes 18th and early 19th-century Cobb and Whitfield family deeds, land grants, and legal agreements from eastern North Carolina, especially Wayne, Craven, and Duplin counties. Also included is family correspondence, after 1837, of James Bryan Whitfield, including two letters, 1840, from United States Senator Robert Strange regarding the admission of Florida to the United States as a slave state. Additional Comments: Source: From Cobb Family Papers #4008 Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/photos/cobb1220ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb