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Surnames: Cobbs, Johnson
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mQJ.2ACIB/142
Message Board Post:
I am trying to find the family of Mr. John L. Cobbs who was born in Michigan in the 1920's. If Mr. Cobbs is still living, he needs to know that his son, born in 1952 in Chicago, IL is now aware of his existance, and is actively looking for him.
Anyone have any information on Ellen Mary Cobb, daughter of Caleb
Clark Cobb (c.1797-aft.1860) and apparently of Mary W. Machen
(1804-1835)? I'm finding conflicting information that I'm trying to
reconcile.
Ellen is known to have been Caleb's daughter from his consent to her
marriage to Robert Garrett (14 Feb 1854) in which he says so. Her
mother would appear to be Mary Machen, Caleb's first wife, primarily
because Ellen appears in the household of Mary's parents in 1850, and
appears to be there in 1840 as well. Caleb is not known to have
re-married until he married Lousia Long 30 Jan 1853, and census
records in 1840 don't show a female of any age in his household.
But Mary's death date is reported by two sources to be 11 Oct 1835.
And Ellen's birth is shown on the 1900 census as Apr 1836, which is
consistent with her age 14 in the 1850 census. Other census ages are
are split between those consistent with her birth in 1835 and 1836.
Perhaps both the 1900 and 1850 census are simply wrong, and she was
actually born in 1835. But those two seem likely to be the most
accurate of available census records; 1850 because it's the closest to
her birth and the data supposedly furnished by the parents of her dead
mother, and 1900 because it actually asked for month and year, as well
as age.
Terry Reigel