A Family Genealogy of
the Gentle House of Stapleton
 

James Edward COBB

[N2560]

5 OCT 1835 - 2 JUN 1903

  • OCCUPATION: Attorney
  • BIRTH: 5 OCT 1835, Thomaston, Upson, Georgia, USA
  • BURIAL: Evergreen Cemetery
    Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, USA
  • DEATH: 2 JUN 1903, East Las Vegas, San Miguel, New Mexico, USA
  • REFERENCE: 43330
Father: William Anderson COBB
Mother: Jane Augusta MACMURPHY

Family 1 : Caroline Elizabeth HUNTER
  • MARRIAGE: 24 OCT 1867, Macon, Alabama, USA
  1.  Edward Hunter COBB
  2.  Rosalie Julia COBB
  3.  Lucille Meredith COBB
  4.  Benajah Bibb COBB
  5.  Caroline Liguer COBB
  6.  William Peyton COBB
  7.  Cora Arcker COBB 
                                                         _James COBBS Sr._____+
                                                        | (1735 - 1798) m 1760
                           _Thomas COBBS _______________|
                          | (1764 - 1816) m 1790        |
                          |                             |_Barbara BIBB _______
                          |                               (1740 - 1798) m 1760
 _William Anderson COBB __|
| (1798 - 1877) m 1819    |
|                         |                              _____________________
|                         |                             |                     
|                         |_Catherine STITH ____________|
|                           (1766 - 1832) m 1790        |
|                                                       |_____________________
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|--James Edward COBB 
|  (1835 - 1903)
|                                                        _Archibald MCMURPHY _
|                                                       | (1686 - 1759)       
|                          _Daniel Downie MACMURPHY Sr._|
|                         | (1737 - 1819) m 1778        |
|                         |                             |_Elizabeth BROWN ____
|                         |                               (1690 - 1725)       
|_Jane Augusta MACMURPHY _|
  (1797 - 1854) m 1819    |
                          |                              _William CROSSLEY ___
                          |                             |                     
                          |_Susannah CROSSLEY __________|
                            (1750 - 1818) m 1778        |
                                                        |_Martha GALPHIN _____+

[N2560] James Edward Cobb was a prominent citizen of Tuskegee, Alabama. He was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and later served three terms as Circuit Judge, and still later as U.S. Representative from Alabama, for four terms.

COBB, James Edward, a Representative from Alabama; born in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., October 5, 1835; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in June 1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Texas in 1857; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as lieutenant in Company F, Fifth Texas Regiment, and served in the Army of Northern Virginia until he was made prisoner at the Battle of Gettysburg; after his release settled in Tuskegee, Ala., and practiced law until 1874; circuit judge from 1874 to 1886; reelected in 1886, but before qualifying was elected to Congress; elected to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to April 21, 1896, when he was succeeded by Albert T. Goodwyn, who contested his election; resumed the practice of law in Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala.; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1901; died in East Las Vegas, San Miguel County, N. Mex.,June 2, 1903; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Tuskegee, Ala.