Howell Lewis COBB #42174

3 AUG 1772 - 26 MAY 1818
BIRTH 3 AUG 1772, Granville, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 26 MAY 1818, Jefferson, Georgia, USA

Historical Notes

On February 23, 1793, he was commissioned an Ensign in the 2d Sub-Legion of the US Army. By 1803, he had risen to the rank of Captain of Artillery. In January 1806, he resigned his commission and returned to Georgia. He was a United States Representative from Georgia, from 1807-1812. On April 4, 1817, he filed his Will in Columbia County, Georgia. This Will was probated on June 2, 1818; and, in it he named his brother, John A. Cobb, John's son Howell, and his sisters, Mary Flournoy and Mildred ... the wife of Colonel William Jackson.

Parents

Father : John Addison COBBS #31928

Mother : Mildred LEWIS #42000

Family 1

Martha A. Jacqueline ROOTES
    MARRIAGE 8 MAY 1810, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
    There were no children produced by this marriage. Howell Cobb's brother John Addison Cobb married Martha's sister Sarah.
No known children

Lineage 

                                                  _Robert COBBS _______+
                                                 | (1660 - 1727) m 1706
                       _John COBBS ______________|
                      | (1691 - 1758) m 1712     |
                      |                          |_Rebecca VINCKLER ___
                      |                             m 1706             
 _John Addison COBBS _|
| (1740 - 1803) m 1769|
|                     |                           _____________________
|                     |                          |                     
|                     |_Susannah Slater ADDISON _|
|                       (1691 - 1772) m 1712     |
|                                                |_____________________
|                                                                      
|
|--Howell Lewis COBB 
|  (1772 - 1818)
|                                                 _Charles LEWIS ______+
|                                                | (1696 - 1779) m 1717
|                      _Howell LEWIS ____________|
|                     | (1731 - 1813) m 1765     |
|                     |                          |_Mary HOWELL ________
|                     |                            (1700 - 1783) m 1717
|_Mildred LEWIS ______|
  (1750 - 1791) m 1769|
                      |                           _Henry WILLIS _______
                      |                          |  m 1725             
                      |_Mary Isabella WILLIS ____|
                        (1733 - 1813) m 1765     |
                                                 |_Mildred HOWELL _____
                                                    m 1725

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