"Office of Correspondence with the friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army, Washington, D. C., 3rd June, 1866. Mrs. Susan Cobb, Dear Madam, Yours of the 29th of May is received, E. Cobb Co. C, 3d Iowa Cavalry died at Andersonville Ga, on the 26 of September 1864--- the no. of his grave is 9820. Very truly yours, Elam Barton ____"

"State of Iowa Adjutant General's Office Clinton February 10th 1866 -To whom it may concern - This certifies the records on file in this office show that Ephraim Cobb enlisted as a private in Company C, 3d Iowa Cavalry, February 29th 1864. Mustered into the service of the United States of Captain T. W. Walker U.S.A. at Keokuk, Iowa, March 16th 1864, Taken prisoner at Ripley Miss. June 11th 1864, and died of Diarrhoea at Andersonville, Ga. September 26th 1864 , while a prisonerof War. N B Baker Adjutant General of Iowa"

"Application For Mother's Army Pension. State of Iowa County of Lee -
On this thirty first day of August A.D. 1863, personally appeared before me the Clerk of the District Court within and for the county and State aforesaid Susan Cobb aged sixty three years, a resident of Des Moines Township county of Lee in the State of Iowa who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, approved July 14, 1862: That she is the widow of Ambrose Cobb who died in Lee County Iowa on the 7th day of May 1863 and to whom she was married at Lincoln Co., NC on the 19th day of March 1824 by one John J. Abernathy a J. P. her maiden name S. Underwood and mother of Ephraim Cobb who was a Private in Company C commanded by Captain ___ in the 3rd Regiment of Iowa Cav. Vols. in the war of 1861, who died at Andersonville Prison Georgia on the ____ dayof 186_ , and it is impossible for her to obtain a copy of her marriage record on account of the disturbed state of the county in N. Carolina and she believes there is no public nor private record inexistence.

She further declares that her said son, upon whom she was wholly or in part dependent for support, having left no widow or minor child nor children under the sixteen years of age surviving, declarant makes this application for a pension under the above mentioned act, and refers to the evidence filed herewith, and that in the proper department to establish her claim. She states further that she______________________ date of the death of her said son_______________ .

She also declares that she has not, in any way, been engaged in, or aided or abetted, the rebellion in the United States; that she is not in the receipt of a pension under the 2d section of the act above mentioned, or under any other act, nor has she again married since the death of her son, the said Ephraim Cobb.

And she hereby constitutes and appoints Edmund Yaeger of Keokuk Lee County Iowa her lawful attorney, to prosecute this her claim for Pension, and to receive the certificate to be issued therefor.

My Post Office address is Belmont (?) County of Lee and State of Iowa
Witness D. F. Hiller
O. H. Kinnaman
Susan (her x mark) Cobb Seal
Also personally appeared Charles Jones and Elizabeth Jones residents of Des Moines Township in the County of Lee.