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John Poindexter COBBS

[N2604]

27 MAY 1785 - ____

  • OCCUPATION: Physician
  • BIRTH: 27 MAY 1785, Louisa, Virginia, USA
  • DEATH: Porter, Indiana, USA
  • BIRTH: 2 MAY 1785
  • DEATH: Porter co., Indiana
  • REFERENCE: 43431
Father: Robert Lewis COBBS
Mother: Anne Gizzage POINDEXTER

Family 1 : Jane Meredith GARLAND
  • MARRIAGE: 1812
  1. +Jane Henry Garland COBBS
  2. +Mary Louise COBBS
  3.  Robert COBBS
  4.  John M COBBS
  5.  David Garland COBBS
  6.  Martha COBBS 
                                                  _John COBBS _________+
                                                 | (1691 - 1758) m 1712
                            _Samuel COBBS _______|
                           | (1730 - 1758) m 1752|
                           |                     |_Susannah ADDISON ___
                           |                       (1691 - 1772) m 1712
 _Robert Lewis COBBS ______|
| (1754 - 1829) m 1785     |
|                          |                      _Robert LEWIS _______+
|                          |                     | (1704 - 1760) m 1725
|                          |_Mary LEWIS _________|
|                            (1734 - 1812) m 1752|
|                                                |_Jane MERIWETHER ____
|                                                  (1708 - 1753) m 1725
|
|--John Poindexter COBBS 
|  (1785 - ....)
|                                                 _____________________
|                                                |                     
|                           _John POINDEXTER ____|
|                          | (.... - 1813)       |
|                          |                     |_____________________
|                          |                                           
|_Anne Gizzage POINDEXTER _|
  (1763 - 1842) m 1785     |
                           |                      _____________________
                           |                     |                     
                           |_Sarah WHITE ________|
                                                 |
                                                 |_____________________

[N2604] He was an 1808 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College; and 1810 of Philadelphia College.

In 1812, the Executor of the estate of John Poindexter (John P. Cobb's maternal grandfather, sold the plantation called "Sunny Side" to John P. Cobb and wife Jane Garland. They sold the property the following year to Mr. Newell Baker.