Linah M. Cobb

Birth Date

c1838

Death Date

1904-04-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Robert L. Cobb and Cornelia B Mims Cobb. Attended school in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Clerk in Lyon County in 1860. Household owned fourteen enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860. Merchant in Lyon County in 1863. Served in the Confederate States Army (C.S.A.).

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 326B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 760.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 415B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 165B.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Lyon County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 5.
"Illness Ends," The Daily News-Democrat (Paducah, KY), April 21, 1904, p. 8.
"Death Claimed Capt. Linah Cobb," The Paducah Sun (Paducah, KY), April 21, 1904, p. 1.

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