Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Anthoney F., 1920 

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ANTHONEY FLAVIUS LEONARD COBB

MR. A.F. COBB

   Mr. A.F. Cobb, one of our county's most prominent and esteemed citizens, 
died at his home in Ivor, Wednesday, February 18, at 5 o'clock p.m., in his 
seventieth year. He was familiarly known to acquaintances everywhere as "Tony" 
Cobb and numbered a wide circle of warm, personal friends who admired and 
esteemed him for his exceptional integrity of character and his conscientious 
performance of duty. He was true to every obligation in life, his family, his 
fellowman, his church and his God. 

   Mr. Cobb was born in the neighborhood of Trinity Church, this county, and 
was a faithful member of Trinity for many years, recently moving his membership 
to the Ivor M.E. Church. He was a brother of the late R. Henry Cobb of this 
town, a well-known citizen and former postmaster here. He is also survived by 
an older brother, Mr. W.R. L. Cobb of Sebrell, the latter serving in the 
Confederate armies throughout the Civil War. 

   He held the office of Commissioner of Revenue in District No. 1 of this 
county for sixteen years from 1899 to 1915, filling that responsible position 
with credit to himself and to general satisfaction of the county authorities 
and tax-payers. It will be remembered that upon his retirement from that office 
in 1915, his son, the late Herman Cobb of Franklin, was elected by a large and 
flattering vote to succeed his father, but died in January 1916, just on the 
eve of assuming office. 

   The members of his immediate family surviving him are his widow, who was a 
Miss Joyner of Hertford County, N.C.; one son Thomas Cobb of Crewe, Va.; three 
daughters, Mrs. Burke Crowder of Petersburg, Mrs. W.C. Rawls and Mrs. Robert 
Rawls of Ivor. Besides his brother, Mr. W.R.L. Cobb, he leaves two sisters, 
Mrs. Hurley Joyner of Sedley and Mrs. R.H. Brittle of Ivor. 

   The burial services were conducted from his late residence in Ivor this 
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o'clock, interment being made in the Ivor cemetery. 

[Anthoney Flavius Leonard "Tony" COBB, d. 18 Feb 1920, age 70, 
 interred in Ivor Cemetery, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 20 Feb 1920] 

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