Joshua Clark Cobb

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1839-07-07

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1895-12-22

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"Joshua Clark Cobb" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019191, (accessed May 2, 2024).

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Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk and merchant. Caldwell County, 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.
Charles Kerr, William Elsley Connelly, and E.M. Coulter, History of Kentucky (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1922), 497.
"Joshua Clark Cobb (1839-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 52903612, accessed January 23, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52903612.

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