_Edmund COBBS Sr.______+
| (1737 - 1799) m 1760
_John Lewis COBBS Sr._____|
| (1763 - 1851) m 1790 |
| |_Sarah LEWIS __________+
| (1740 - 1811) m 1760
_Nicholas Hamner COBBS _____|
| (1796 - 1861) m 1821 |
| | _Nicholas HAMNER ______+
| | | (1742 - 1793) m 1767
| |_Susannah HAMNER _________|
| (1775 - 1824) m 1790 |
| |_Agnes TOMPKINS _______
| m 1767
|
|--John Lewis COBBS II
| (1832 - 1897)
| _Edmund COBBS Sr.______+
| | (1737 - 1799) m 1760
| _Edmund COBBS Jr._________|
| | (1773 - 1856) m 1807 |
| | |_Sarah LEWIS __________+
| | (1740 - 1811) m 1760
|_Lucy Henry Landonia COBBS _|
(1808 - 1876) m 1821 |
| _Peter MANSON _________
| | (1765 - 1823)
|_Elizabeth Willis MANSON _|
(1779 - 1853) m 1807 |
|_Lucy Whiting CLAYTON _
(.... - 1773)
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He attended the University of Alabama for several years, and had established himself as a successful merchant in Tuscaloosa by 1858. When the War Between the States began he enlisted in Company D, 2d Alabama Cavalry Regiment. In 1863, with the rank of Captain, he was transferred to Company F, 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment, a position he held until the end of the war. After the war he relocated to Montgomery and established John L. Cobbs & Company, a firm that was eventually handed over to his sons John, Jr. and Christopher Claudius.
In 1888, he was nominated and elected Treasurer of the state of Alabama, and was re-elected in 1890, serving through two terms. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Episcopal Church, serving for years as vestryman of St. John's Church, and afterwards holding the same office in the Church of the Holy Comforter.