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Robert A. COBB #37859

1842 - 22 APR 1864

Personal Information

  • BIRTH: 1842, Pickens, South Carolina, USA
  • DEATH: 22 APR 1864, Point Lookout, Maryland, USA

Notes

During the War Between the States, he served in Company K, 12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was captured in 1864, and died in the Federal Military Prison at Point Lookout, Maryland. Point Lookout was the largest Federal Prisoner of War camp, built after the battle of Gettysburg, and at one time held as many as 52,000 Confederate prisoners, some 3,800 of which died from exposure and disease. The site is now a Maryland State Park.

Parents

Father: Ephraim COBB #31217

Mother: Louisa TURNER #31218

 
 
                                             _John S COBB ________+
                                            | (1759 - 1841)       
                       _Robert COBB Sr._____|
                      | (1786 - 1849) m 1810|
                      |                     |_Frances SMITH ______+
                      |                       (1770 - 1851)       
 _Ephraim COBB _______|
| (1819 - 1899) m 1843|
|                     |                      _David GREER Sr._____
|                     |                     | (1760 - 1855) m 1787
|                     |_Ellender GREER _____|
|                       (1787 - 1860) m 1810|
|                                           |_Mary MCCOMBS _______
|                                             (.... - 1803) m 1787
|
|--Robert A. COBB 
|  (1842 - 1864)
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|                      _____________________|
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|_Louisa TURNER ______|
  (1823 - 1906) m 1843|
                      |                      _____________________
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                      |_____________________|
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