Brig. Gen., CSA Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

1823 - 1862  (39 years)

• Name	Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb  [1]
  Title	Brig. Gen., CSA
  Birth	10 Apr 1823	Jefferson Co., GA   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Education	29 Jul 1837	Entered Franklin College, Athens, GA   [2]
  Education	5 Aug 1841	Graduated from Franklin College   [2]
  Education	Aft Aug 1841	Read law under William L. Mitchell   [2]
  Occupation	22 Feb 1842	Admitted to bar   [2]
  Death	13 Dec 1862	Fredericksburg, VA   [2]
  Burial	19 Dec 1862	Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA   [2]
  Notes	From William B. McCash's "Thomas R. R. Cobb, The Making of a Southern Nationalist": Sally was yesterday at 8 o Clock in the morning delivered of a fine boy, I say fine, because in reality he is so, a few minutes since I weighed him, you will hardly know how to believe me, when I tell you that he weighed 21 1/2 lbs, the delivery was almost too much for Sally. (John A. Cobb to Friend, 11 April 1823, ibid. In 1864 Sarah recorded that her second son weighed seventeen pounds at birth. See Henry Rootes Jackson Scrapbook, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA.) *** From "Genealogies of Virginia Families": 27. Thomas Reade Rootes [Cobb], regarded in his day as the most eminent lawyer of Georgia; Brigadier General C.S.A., and killed at the battle of Fredrickburg [sic]. He married Marian [sic] Lumpkin and left three daughters, all married, one of them being the wife of Hon. Hoke Smith, present Secretary of the Interior. *** From 1850 Census of Clarke County, Georgia: COBB, Thomas R. R. 27 M W Attorney $8000* Georgia *Value of real estate owned. Susan Castle, slave of Thomas R. R. Cobb The slave narrative of Susan Castle can be found at https://www.accessgenealogy.com/black-genealogy/slave-narrative-susan-castle.htm. https://memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/041/041.pdf
  Person ID	I0064	Hull
  Last Modified	18 May 2017

  
  

  Father	Colonel John Addison Cobb,   b. 5 Jan 1783, Granville Co., NC d. 21 Nov 1855, Athens, Clarke Co., GA (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Sarah Robinson Rootes,   b. 20 Sep 1792, Fredericksburg, VA d. 23 Jul 1866, Athens, Clarke Co., GA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	11 Apr 1812	Fredericksburg, VA   [5, 6]
  Photos		John Addison Cobb House Built 1840 1234 Lumpkin Street
  Family ID	F082	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marion McHenry Lumpkin,   b. 22 Feb 1822   d. 10 Jul 1897, Athens, Clarke Co., GA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	9 Jan 1844	Lexington, GA   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Lucy Cobb,   b. 7 Oct 1844   d. 14 Oct 1857 (Age 13 years)   2. Sarah Addison Cobb,   b. 4 Jul 1846, Athens, Clarke Co., GA d. 18 Apr 1915 (Age 68 years)   3. Callender Cobb,   b. 2 Jun 1848, Athens, Clarke Co., GA d. 10 Oct 1911, Athens, Clarke Co., GA (Age 63 years)   4. Joseph Henry Lumpkin Cobb,   b. 21 Jun 1850   d. 25 Oct 1851 (Age 1 year)   5. Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Jr.,   b. 14 Aug 1852   d. 8 Feb 1853 (Age 0 years)   6. Marion Thomas Cobb,   b. 31 Jan 1860, GA d. 6 Jun 1919 (Age 59 years)
  Photos » Slide Show		Thomas R. R. Cobb House Restoration in Athens, GA opened in 2007 as a house museum
  		Thomas R.R. Cobb House Built in 1830 194 Prince Avenue
  		1856 (c.) T.R.R. Cobb Family Portrait
  Headstones		Lumpkin-Cobb-Gerdine Monument: 5 Cobbs COBB LUCY COBB Born Oct. 7, 1844. Died Oct. 14, 1857. JOSEPH H.L. COBB Born June 21, 1850. Died Oct. 25, 1851. THOMAS R. R. COBB JR. Born Aug. 14, 1852. Died Feb. 8, 1853. THOMAS R. R. COBB Born April 10, 1823. Died Dec. 13, 1862. at Fredericksburg, Va. MARION MCH. COBB Born February 22, 1822. Died July 10, 1897. Plot: Lumpkin-Cobb, East Hill
  		Lumpkin-Cobb-Gerdine Monument On each side of the monument, members of the Lumpkin, Cobb, and Gerdine families buried there are listed. Since there are no separate gravestones, it is believed that there is an underground vault that holds the remains. It would have been opened for each burial and then reclosed. No evidence of the vault is apparent. Plot: Lumpkin-Cobb, East Hill
  Family ID	F022	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		1860 Thomas R. R. Cobb Thomas R. R. Cobb
  		Precursor of UGA School of Law Law Offices of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Thomas R. R. Cobb, and William Hope Hull
  		1866 (c.) House on Fredericksburg Battlefield T.R.R. Cobb was killed in front of this house.
  		1862 Thomas R.R. Cobb Bearded
  		Thomas R R Cobb and Lucy Cobb Reading to his daughter
  		Thomas R. R. Cobb The portrait we owned when I was a child.
  		Cobb Monument at Fredericksburg This marks the place where T.R.R. Cobb was hit in the knee by an artillery shell.
  		Cobb Marker at Fredericksburg

  
  

  Headstones

  Thomas R. R. Cobb Brig Gen 1 Army Corps Cobbs Brigade ANV Confederate States Army Apr 10 1823 Dec 13 1862 Plot: Lumpkin-Cobb, East Hill

  
  

• Sources

  [S06248] Augustus Longstreet Hull, The Hulls of Georgia, (Athens, GA, April 1904), 12. [S02860] William B. McCash, Thomas R. R. Cobb, The Making of a Southern Nationalist, (Mercer University Press, 1983). [S07508] Augustus Longstreet Hull, Hull and Cobb History, (Unpublished). [S15727] Howell Cobb and Martha Jaqueline Cobb, Howell Cobb Family Bible, (Unpublished), 678. Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb son of John & Sarah Cobb was born 10th April 1823. [S02818] Indexed by Gary Parks, Genealogies of Virginia Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore). [S15727] Howell Cobb and Martha Jaqueline Cobb, Howell Cobb Family Bible, (Unpublished), 677. John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson Rootes were married on the 11th of April 1812.