Thomas Reade Rootes COBB Sr. #42199

4 APR 1823 - 13 DEC 1862
OCCUPATION Attorney-
He was admitted to the Bar in 1842. During his career he edited twenty volumes of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports (1849-1857), prepared "A Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Georgia" (1851), and a new state criminal code (1858-1861). He was a militant seccessionist, and during the Georgia Convention was Chairman of the committee that wrote a new state Constitution in 1861, and later helped write the Confederate Constitution.
BIRTH Cherry Hill Plantation 4 APR 1823, Columbia, Banks, Georgia, USA
BURIAL Oconee Hills Cemetery Athens, Clarke, Georgia, USA
DEATH 13 DEC 1862, Fredericksburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA

Historical Notes

In August 1861, he resigned his law practice to organize and command Cobb's Georgia Legion, for service during the War Between the States. He was promoted to Brigadier General in November 1862. On December 13, 1862, during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, he received a bullet wound in the leg which resulted in his death from the loss of blood. The location is now part of the Fredericksburg National Battlefield Park. A marker indicates the spot where he fell which was within sight of his mother's girlhood home.
He was admitted to the Bar in 1842. During his career he edited twenty volumes of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports (1849-1857), prepared "A Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Georgia" (1851), and a new state criminal code (1858-1861). He was a militant seccessionist, and during the Georgia Convention was Chairman of the committee that wrote a new state Constitution in 1861, and later helped write the Confederate Constitution.

Parents

Father : John Addison COBB #42173

Mother : Sarah Robinson ROOTES #42193

Family 1

Marion McHenry LUMPKIN
    MARRIAGE 9 JAN 1844, Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA

Children

  1. +Sarah Addison COBB
  2.  Lucy COBB
  3. +Callender COBB
  4.  Joseph Henry Lumpkin COBB
  5.  Thomas Reade Rootes COBB Jr.
  6. +Marion Thomas COBB

Lineage 

                                                  _John COBBS ______________+
                                                 | (1691 - 1758) m 1712     
                          _John Addison COBBS ___|
                         | (1740 - 1803) m 1769  |
                         |                       |_Susannah Slater ADDISON _
                         |                         (1691 - 1772) m 1712     
 _John Addison COBB _____|
| (1783 - 1855) m 1812   |
|                        |                        _Howell LEWIS ____________+
|                        |                       | (1731 - 1813) m 1765     
|                        |_Mildred LEWIS ________|
|                          (1750 - 1791) m 1769  |
|                                                |_Mary Isabella WILLIS ____+
|                                                  (1733 - 1813) m 1765     
|
|--Thomas Reade Rootes COBB Sr.
|  (1823 - 1862)
|                                                 __________________________
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|                         _Thomas Reade ROOTES __|
|                        | (1763 - 1824)         |
|                        |                       |__________________________
|                        |                                                  
|_Sarah Robinson ROOTES _|
  (1792 - 1866) m 1812   |
                         |                        __________________________
                         |                       |                          
                         |_Sarah Ring BATTAILLE _|
                           (1765 - 1811)         |
                                                 |__________________________

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