A Family Genealogy of
the Gentle House of Stapleton
 

Howell Lewis COBB

[N2406]

3 AUG 1772 - 26 MAY 1818

  • BIRTH: 3 AUG 1772, Granville, North Carolina, USA
  • DEATH: 26 MAY 1818, Jefferson, Georgia, USA
  • REFERENCE: 42174
Father: John Addison COBBS
Mother: Mildred LEWIS

Family 1 : Martha A. Jacqueline ROOTES
  • MARRIAGE: 8 MAY 1810, Washington, District of Columbia, USA [N2405]

                                               _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.