• James William Cobb (Sr.), b. 1841 North Carolina, d. 30 Nov 1898 Pierce City, Lawrence Co., MO; buried 2 Dec 1898 Pierce City City Cemetery. Exhumed and reburied 2 Jun 2005 at Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield, Missouri.
  Married date and place unknown. Before 1870 census, Obion Co., TN.
  Served 4th Regiment US Colored Artillery. Note: "The attached document indicates AWOL 1864. Later documents indicate Cobb missed a roll call due to illness and it took a few months for the record to catch up." Per Charles Brown, March,2005.
  
• Arminta Bransford, b. Mar 1852 Virginia, d. 18 Jul 1914 Springfield, Greene Co., Mo.; buried 21 Jul 1914 Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield. Daughter of Louisa, former slave of Bransford family. The record of slave births in the Bransford Bible ends in 1851, when the Bransford family granted indentured servant status to their slaves. Arminta, conceived in slavery, was born in freedom March 1852 so is not listed in the slave birth record with her brothers and sisters.

J W Cobb Family


Family of Mary and Sterling Scruggs


James W Cobb, Jr.


Lotty and Minta Moss


Emma Cobb


Irva and Pinky Cobb


Arthur Cobb


Earnest Cobb


Aunt Jenny and
Aunt Irva


Cobb Children


Irva and dau, Aulette


Agatha McCullah

Children of James William Cobb and Arminta Bransford:

• 1. Mary Cobb
  
  Married in probably TN
  Sterling Scruggs.
  
  • 1.a Bertha Scruggs, married Pert Beasley
    
  • 1.b Bessie Scruggs, married Jessie Futrell
    
  • 1.c Lillard Scruggs
    
  • 1.d Wallace Scruggs, married Mary Ann (nee unknown)
    
  
  
• 2. James William Cobb Jr.: born 1 Dec 1871, TN; died 2 Mar 1925, Springfield, Greene Co., Mo; buried Hazelwood Cemetery.
  
  Married 1st: probably circa 1898/9
  Ona Young, Pierce City, Missouri
  Divorced before 1900 census. One daughter.
  Married 2nd:
  Odessa Hardrick Boyd, Springfield, Mo.
  No children this union.
  
  
• 3. Martha A. (Pattie) Cobb: born Oct 1874 TN.
  
  Married circa 1890 in prob. TN.
  William S. Moss, born Feb 1867 KY
  
  • 4.a Lottie Moss, born Dec 1891 TN, married O. U. Brown
    
    Child: Bruce Brown
    
  • 4.b Unknown. Died in childhood.
    
  • 4.c Harry Hobert Moss, born Aug 1896 TN; married (unknown)
    
    Children: Hobert Moss and Pattie Moss
    
  • 4.d Minta A. Moss, born Nov 1898 TN; married Harold (Sunny) Hale
    
    Children: Barbara Ann Hale and Harold Jr. Hale
    
  • 4.e Willa Blanche Moss, born after 1900; married Elliott Hardemann
    
  
  
• 4. Emma Cobb: born Mar 1876 TN.
  
  Married 1st:
  Unknown; divorced before 1900 census.
  Married 2nd:
  Charles F. Brown
  
  • 5.a Charles Urban Brown, married: Ethelinda James.
    
    Children: Charles Urban Brown, Jr. (living) and James W. Brown (living)
    
  Married 3rd:
  Robert W. Johnson
  
  
• 5. Lucy Cobb: born Apr 1879 TN
  
  Married circa 1893 Joseph Ford b. Aug 1868, KY.
  
  • 5.a Hawlett Ford; born May 1895, MO
    
  • 5.b Leroy Ford; born Mar 1898, MO
    
  • 5.c Unknown. Died in childhood.
    
  
  
• 6. Pinkey Cobb: born May 1882 TN
  
  Married:
  Dave P. McCullah, died Jul 1939.
  
  • 6.a Barbara Agatha McCullah, born 1909 (living)
    
  • 6.b Mildred McCullah
    
  • 6.c Emma McCullah
    
  
  
• 7. Arthur Cobb: born Dec 1884 TN
  
  Married:
  Mabel (nee unknown)
  No children this union.
  
  
  
• 8. Irva Cobb: born May 1890 TN
  
  Married James Abernathy
  
  • 8.a Aulette Abernathy, married Clyde Allen
    
    Children: Clyde Allen, Ramon Eric Allen and James Kanatl Allen
    
  • 8.b Maurice Abernathy
    
  
  
• 9. Earnest Francis Cobb, D.D.S: b. Mar 1892, TN
  
  Married:
  Geneva Vickers
  No children this union.

Notes on James W. Cobb, Sr.:

• 1. Lot 1, block 9 Pierce City Cemetery. No date of purchase in record at cemetery. Purchased by, Jas. Cobb, and may have been either James Sr. prior to his death in 1898 or by James Jr. at the time of his father's death. Old cloth bound ledger at the cemetery shows Cobb name on Lot 1 Block 9.
  
• 2. Notice of death published 1 Dec 1898 in Pierce City Empire, page 4: "Jas. Cobb, colored, died at his residence last night of dropsy. He will be buried tomorrow from the A. M. E. church. He was a well-known colored man of this city, honest and upright."

Notes on Arminta Bransford:

• 1. Death certificate lists mother as Louisa Bransford. Information from Arminta's son, Earnest Cobb, DDS.
  
• 2. Interviewed in Springfield, Missouri as a refugee from Pierce City, Missouri by Robertus Love, reporter from St. Louis, following the lynching of Will Godley, the burning of five black residences, the murder of French Godley and Peter Hampton and the expulsion of all persons of color from Pierce City by a mob.
  St. Louis Post Dispatch, 25 Aug 1901, Page 1. [Reconstruction of front page; large file]

Notes on Mary Cobb:

• 1. Lived in Arkansas.

Notes on James W. Cobb, Jr.:

• 1. Purchased Lot 6 Block 43, Original Survey Pierce City, Lawrence Co., MO with brother-in-law, William S. Moss.
  Book 83 Page 215 Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust and Savings Co. to W. S. Moss, et al.; lot 6 blk 43 OS,PC; 15 Jan 1900; filed 2 Feb 1900; Trust Deed. Names of grantees on original document are: Wm. S. Moss, M. A. Moss, his wife, and James Cobb.
  Disposition of property after 1901:
  Book 87 Page 380 W. S. Moss, et al, by trustee to Brinkerhoff, Faris Trust & Savings Co.; lot 6 blk 43 OS,PC; $175 at auction; 28 Dec 1901; 2 Jan 1902. "Trust Deed". [Note: the document is headed "Sheriff's Deed under Trust Deed Sale." L. L. Allen had been appointed trustee on the original instrument but refused to execute foreclosure. Faris then went to Sheriff John Manlove, who executed the sale and deed.]
  
• 2. Listed as a porter on the railroad on 1900 census.
  
• 3. Ona Young listed 1900 as divorced in household with mother, Lizzie Young, and two brothers. Listed as Lizzie's grand-daughter is Harold Cobb, age one year.

Notes on William S. Moss:

• 1. Purchased Lot 6 block 43, original survey Pierce City. See note #1 for James W. Cobb, Jr.
  
• 2. Listed as porter on the railroad on 1900 census.
  
• 3. Maria McFadden, b. Jul 1840, widow, listed on 1900 census with family of William S. Moss. His mother?

Notes on Emma Cobb:

• 1. Listed as a nurse on 1900 census.
  
• 2. Listed as divorced on 1900 census.

Notes on Odessa Hardrick Boyd Cobb:

• 1. Named in her brother's will, Burton A. HARDRICK, a member of Hardrick Bros. Grocers on McDaniel St in Springfield, Mo.; Springfield Republican, 16 Jul 1914, pg 5/2. Also named in will are, decedent's brother, James S. HARDRICK; half-brother, U. G. HARDRICK; sisters Nannie LEAK and Mollie MOORE; and widow, Juanita HARDRICK.

Notes on Earnest Francis Cobb:

• 1. memorial record, Herbert V Smith Mortuary: b. 1892 d. 1961; Services, 17 Feb 1961 Benton Ave AME Church; Officiating, Rev O L BROWN; Pallbearers: Harry ROLLIN, Howard ANDERSON, Thomas DARTON, E G BEDELL, Hardy KNOX, Joe BONNER; Honorary Pallbearers: Trustees of Benton Ave AME Church; Condolences and Obituary, Evelyn CAIN; Interment, Hazelwood Cem
  
• 2. unidentified, undated clipping: Estate of dentist to Wife's Nephew; late Dr Ernest F Cobb; Springfield dentist; wife's nephew, Howard GREEN, main heir to estate according to a will filed yesterday in probate court; was Springfield's only Negro dentist; other heirs listed: wife's nephew, Larry Francis GREEN, niece, Mildred GRAY, nephew, Charles Irvin [Urban] BROWN, friend, Minnie TILMAN.

  C U Brown, Jr. & daughter

  James and Dr. Jillar Brown

  Thomas Carl McConnell A Pierce City friend