Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Dr. Richard H., 1946 

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RICHARD HENRY COBB

    Dr. Richard Henry Cobb, age 82 years, prominent and beloved physician of 
Franklin died at a local hospital Thursday night after an illness of many 
months.

   Dr. Cobb was born September 6, 1863 in Franklin and was the son of the late 
Henry Vaughan and Caroline Frances Harris Cobb of this County.  He attended 
King’s Military Academy of Suffolk and graduated from University of Tennessee 
School of Medicine at Memphis at the age of 19 years.  He interned at the 
University of Maryland Hospital from 1882 to 1883 and came to Franklin to 
practice medicine in that year.  In 1884 he married Miss Nettie Holland of 
this county.  A member of the Franklin School Board for 23 years and a former 
member of the Town Council.

   Surviving him are four daughters, Mrs. R.I. Beale, Mrs. W.A. Moyler, and 
Mrs. R.J. Howell all of Franklin, and Mrs. W.W. Miller of Johnson City, 
Tennessee.  Four grandchildren, Mrs. Walter Hankins, W.W. Miller Jr., Lt. 
(j.g.) and Richard Cobb Miller all of Johnson City, Tenn., and Major Roger I. 
Beale, Jr. of Franklin, 3 great-grandchildren, Helen Calvert, Hankins of 
Johnson City, Sarah Louise Miller, Susan Hayes Miller, Johnson City, Tenn.; 
two sisters, Mrs. A.T. Holland of Suffolk and Mrs. David Rawls of Norfolk.

   Services were conducted at the residence on High Street Saturday afternoon 
at two o’clock by Rev. E.W. Aaron of the Franklin Methodist Church, assisted 
by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Franklin Baptist Church, followed by interment 
in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Rev. Mr. Aaron read the scripture from the impressive ritual service of the 
Methodist Church, which includes the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of St. 
John and the Fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians, while Rev. Mr. Stephenson 
read the twenty third Psalm and offered a most comforting prayer.

   Rev. Mr. Aaron read two poems, "Now The Laborers’s task is o’er" by J. 
Ellerton, and one especially descriptive of the personality of Dr. Cobb, 
entitled "On the death of an aged Friend," by R.M. Montgomery*, as follows:

    "You are not dead - Life has but set you free!        \ 
       Your years of life were like a lovely song,        \ 
       The last sweet, poignant notes of which held long, \ 
     Passed in silence while we listened, we              \
     Who loved you, listened still expectantly!           \ 
       And we about you whom you moved among              \ 
       Would feel that grief for you were surely wrong-   \ 
     You have but passed beyond where we can see!         \ 

     For us who knew you, dread of Age is past!           \ 
     You took Life, tiptoe, to the very last;             \ 
     It never lost for you its lovely look;               \ 
     You kept your interest in its thrilling book;        \ 
     To you Death came, no conqueror, in the end-         \ 
     You merely smiled to greet another friend!" 


Dr. Richard Henry COBB, Franklin physician, 
school board member & former town councilman, 
b. 6 Sep 1863, Franklin, d. 3 Jan 1946, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 22A**), Franklin, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*poem incomplete, in donated obit.  Completed by reference to publication: 
 "Good Housekeeping" (Vol. 79, No. 3; Sept. 1924); 
 poet Roselle Mercier Montgomery 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," =Feb. 19, 1943, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100a6ob.txt 


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