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Rufus Rowland COBB #34805

11 APR 1865 - 4 JUL 1947

AKA: Burk

Personal Information

  • BIRTH: 11 APR 1865, Fayetteville, Talladega, Alabama, USA
  • DEATH: 4 JUL 1947, Arapaho, Custer, Oklahoma, USA

Notes

In April 1892, Rufus, his father-in-law George Wesley Stephens, and brothers-in-law Jim and Bill took part in the Cheyenne/Arapaho Land Rush. In Oct 1892, Rufus moved his wife and children to Arapaho from their farm near Healdton, in three wagons; George Wesley Stephens driving one. It took two weeks to travel from Stephens Post Office near Healdton, to Arapaho. They homesteaded at Gyp, fourteen miles west of Arapaho, and built a store there. In 1907, they moved to Arapaho and opened Cobb's mercantile.

Parents

Father: Thaddeus Hiram COBB #33539

Mother: Emma Caroline BURKE #34802

Family 1 :

Wife: Martha Olivia STEPHENS

  • MARRIAGE: 30 JAN 1887, Jimtown, Love, Oklahoma, USA
Note:

Children:

  1.   Rexie Elmo COBB #35041
  2.  +Harvey Glen COBB #35042
  3.   Cecil Clarence COBB #35043
  4.   James Rufus COBB #35044
  5.   George Henry COBB #35045
  6.   Walter Rollie COBB #35046
  7.  +Fannie Fern COBB #35047
  8.   Randle Wesley COBB #35048
  9.  +Mildred Lucille COBB #35049
  10.   Lois Estelle COBB #35050
  11.  +Franklin Paul COBB #35051
  12.   Mary Irene COBB #35052
 
 
                                              _John S COBB ________+
                                             | (1759 - 1841)       
                        _Rowland COBB _______|
                       | (1796 - 1867) m 1817|
                       |                     |_Frances SMITH ______+
                       |                       (1770 - 1851)       
 _Thaddeus Hiram COBB _|
| (1834 - 1905) m 1853 |
|                      |                      _Fnu EDWARDS ________
|                      |                     |  m 1803             
|                      |_Mary Ann EDWARDS ___|
|                        (1803 - 1889) m 1817|
|                                            |_Elizabeth MILLER ___+
|                                              (1780 - 1861) m 1803
|
|--Rufus Rowland COBB 
|  (1865 - 1947)
|                                             _____________________
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|_Emma Caroline BURKE _|
  (1837 - 1899) m 1853 |
                       |                      _____________________
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