Robert Livingston Cobb

Birth Date

1804

Death Date

1875

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County and Lyon County, Kentucky, merchant. Virginia native. Married to Cornelia Mims Cobb in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on May 13, 1835. Father of Robertson H. Cobb, Lina M. Cobb, Joshua C. Cobb, Sam Glenn Cobb, Robella Cobb, and Mark T. Cobb. Engaged in commerce in Caldwell County in 1840. Owned three enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1840. Merchant in Caldwell County in 1850. Employed Octavius Marcellus Jenkins as a merchants clerk in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Merchant in Lyon County in 1860. Employed Sarah T. Tyler as a servant in Lyon County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, in November 1861.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, p. 16.
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, p. 835.
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, Eddyville, p.415B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film 000851644.
Charles Kerr, William Elsley Connelly, and E.M. Coulter, History of Kentucky (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1922), 497.
KYR-0004-033-0001.

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