_Robert COBBS _______+ | (1660 - 1727) m 1706 _John COBBS ___________| | (1691 - 1758) m 1712 | | |_Rebecca VINCKLER ___ | m 1706 _John Addison COBBS _| | (1740 - 1803) m 1769| | | _____________________ | | | | |_Susannah 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
[N2406] 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.
[N2405] There were no children produced by this marriage. Howell Cobb's brother John Addison Cobb married Martha's sister Sarah.