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John Wesley &
    Mary T. Cobb

John Wesley Cobb, 1846-1898, was the s/o Greenberry Cobb and Julia Ann Ashby and the brother of Greenberry Cobb II.

He volunteered in the Civil War at Calhoun, KY on 27 October 1861 at the age of fifteen; he was wounded in action in Tennessee February 1862 and mustered out 23 January 1865.

John Wesley Cobb married Mary Talitha Timmons 4 July 1865 Webster Co, KY.*
Mary Talitha Timmons, b Oct 1846, d Feb 1928, was the d/o Elijah Timmons and Catherine P. Dodge.
John W. and Mary T. were the parents of seventeen children - nine girls of whom seven lived to adulthood, and eight boys, all of whom lived to adulthood.
This photo was taken abt 1875, Onton, KY.

*Webster County KY Bond Book #42, page 139.

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