Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Cobb, J. O., 1940
Monday, July 31, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                     J. O. Cobb Dies At Ranch Home Monday Morning

                Deceased Had Lived in Kimble County More Than 40 Years

                                  By Mrs. A. T. Whetstone

  Our community was shocked by sad intelligence of the death of J. O. (Ollie) Cobb which
occurred at his ranch home in the Segovia Community in the early morning hours of January
22, 1940.  Mr. Cobb had been suffering for some time with an affliction of the heart and 
death came suddenly.  He had lived a long and useful life and had won for himself the
esteem of his fellow men.  He was born April 24, 1864 in Florida, but came to Texas when
a small boy.
  In young manhood he was married to Miss Irene Griffin in Gonzales County, March 4, 1891,
and to this union were born ten children, nine of whom survive.  They are:  Mrs. Jim Hull
of Segovia; Mrs. Tom Rammage, Mathis; Bryan Cobb of Ingram; O. H. Cobb of Mt. Sharp; 
Robert Cobb of Ingram; Bennie Cobb and Bernice Cobb of Segovia; and Mrs. Earl Hyde of
Mountain Home, and Mrs. John Reynolds of Segovia.  He came to Kimble county in 1878, and
in 1906 moved to his present ranch where he established a home that breathes all the
hospitality and good cheer for which pioneer homes of early Texas were famous.  The Cobbs
number their friends by their acquaintances, and their ranch home is the mecca for visitors
for miles around.  It was a characteristic of his generous nature that all who visited his
home should partake of a sumptous meal before they departed.
  His latch key always hung on the outside, and all who visited his home didn't need to be
urged to come again.  There was an emination from the heart in his genuine cordiality,
which cannot be described, but was immediately felt, and put the visitor at once at his
ease.  Boundless love for all mankind held its place supreme in his heart. His life was 
emptied of all that is cheap and common and narrow and selfish.  He was concerned with the
sick and afflicted ones, and the little children.  He ministered to all these and found joy
in doing so.  He was a good husband, an indulgent father and a true friend.  Mr. Cobb was
natuarally home-like and sincere, ever kindly approachable and fatherly; he was rightly
entitled to the appellation bestowed upon him of "Uncle Ollie".  Men of Ollie Cobb's type
are all too scarce in this materialistic world, men who practice the principles of good
citizenship, moral uprightness, frugal and industrious habits, self=reliance and a love of
country; men imbued with the spirit of charity and love for their fellow man so nobly
exemplified in their lives.  He practiced in his life the teachings of brotherhood and friend-
ship and sympathy which had sweetened his own pathway.  He had a new puzzle or a new joke
every time he met you.
  This was Ollie Cobb, a man who carried a boy's heart in his breast, a heart full of love for
his fellow beings, famed for his generosity, his broad human sympathies, his unfailing cheer-
fulness, as the body lay in state in the ranch home 18 miles east of Junction, many called to
view the remains and express sympathy for the family in their bereavement.  Services were
conducted at the residence at two o'clock January 23, by the Rev. Don E. Dulaney, pastor of
the Junction Methodist Church.
  The body was laid to rest in the family plot in the Junction cemetery, by the side of his 
wife who preceded him in death January 12, 1934.
  The following were active pall bearers:
  J. C. graham, Billie Beasley, Ed Walker, Walton Whitworth, Willie Collins, Chas. Fairchilds,
Lemuel Jones and Chester Brown.
  As a token of love and esteem friends covered the grave with flowers.  Thus we took our
leave of one of the noblest and kindliest men of his time--or of any time.  Only yesterday,
it seems, he walked among us, the flawless character, the faithful and spotless citizen,
with all the splendid inspiring presence of his erect and sturdy form, his frank and fearless
eye, and his unbowed silver crest; and now he lies lifeless and still, amid all the sad and
quiet pagentry of death.
    "For friendship binds the world together
     World over there, world over here,
     From earth to heaven is the tether
     That brings the earth and heaven near
     And makes them bond forever"
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