Married Ellen Mears on 30 Dec 1855 in Northampton County, Virginia
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Died in an open Boat
Mr. B. Quarles, on Tuesday, received a letter
announcing the death of Mr. Albert Cobb, owner of the Hotel at Cobb's Island. This sad event occurred last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Cobb, with his son and a Justice of the Peace, was on his way in an open boat from the mainland to Cobb's Island, to sign the paper conveying the Cobb's Island property to the company recently purchasing it. Death was, it is supposed, caused by some affection of the heart. Mr. Cobb was the youngest of the three Cobb brothers, owners of the well-known Island of that name. - Richmond (Va.) State.
Source: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), Thursday, 13 November 1890.
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Albert Cobb was buried on Cobb's Island, in the Cobb Family Cemetery burial plot there, during November 1890. As a result of the October 1896 severe storm and destruction to Cobb's Island, his grave and others were moved away from Cobb's Island. An 1897 newspaper article describes the removal of the graves from this historic cemetery:
Onancock, Virginia - Nov. 7 - During the past week, Messrs. Warren and Lucius Cobb have had the remains of their dead relatives removed from Cobb's Island and reinterred on a point of the mainland, in full view of all that is left of the Island. The recent high seas washed all the earth from the top of the brick vaults, in which the bodies were interred, and as the Island has about disappeared, the Messrs. Cobb determined to remove the bodies to keep them from being ultimately washed away by the waves.
The grave of Nathan Cobb, for whom the Island was named, was found to contain only a few bones. The casket containing the body of Capt. Albert Cobb, who was drowned several years ago, while trying to save his brother, who had fallen overboard, was so heavy, to create the impression that it had become petrified. Some of those present, wanted to open the casket and make an investigation, but the relatives of the deceased would not permit this to be done.
Source: 8 November 1897, Baltimore Sun newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland,
page 7.
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Died in an open Boat
Mr. B. Quarles, on Tuesday, received a letter
announcing the death of Mr. Albert Cobb, owner of the Hotel at Cobb's Island. This sad event occurred last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Cobb, with his son and a Justice of the Peace, was on his way in an open boat from the mainland to Cobb's Island, to sign the paper conveying the Cobb's Island property to the company recently purchasing it. Death was, it is supposed, caused by some affection of the heart. Mr. Cobb was the youngest of the three Cobb brothers, owners of the well-known Island of that name. - Richmond (Va.) State.
Source: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), Thursday, 13 November 1890.
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Albert Cobb was buried on Cobb's Island, in the Cobb Family Cemetery burial plot there, during November 1890. As a result of the October 1896 severe storm and destruction to Cobb's Island, his grave and others were moved away from Cobb's Island. An 1897 newspaper article describes the removal of the graves from this historic cemetery:
Onancock, Virginia - Nov. 7 - During the past week, Messrs. Warren and Lucius Cobb have had the remains of their dead relatives removed from Cobb's Island and reinterred on a point of the mainland, in full view of all that is left of the Island. The recent high seas washed all the earth from the top of the brick vaults, in which the bodies were interred, and as the Island has about disappeared, the Messrs. Cobb determined to remove the bodies to keep them from being ultimately washed away by the waves.
The grave of Nathan Cobb, for whom the Island was named, was found to contain only a few bones. The casket containing the body of Capt. Albert Cobb, who was drowned several years ago, while trying to save his brother, who had fallen overboard, was so heavy, to create the impression that it had become petrified. Some of those present, wanted to open the casket and make an investigation, but the relatives of the deceased would not permit this to be done.
Source: 8 November 1897, Baltimore Sun newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland,
page 7.
Married Ellen Mears on 30 Dec 1855 in Northampton County, Virginia
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Died in an open Boat
Mr. B. Quarles, on Tuesday, received a letter
announcing the death of Mr. Albert Cobb, owner of the Hotel at Cobb's Island. This sad event occurred last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Cobb, with his son and a Justice of the Peace, was on his way in an open boat from the mainland to Cobb's Island, to sign the paper conveying the Cobb's Island property to the company recently purchasing it. Death was, it is supposed, caused by some affection of the heart. Mr. Cobb was the youngest of the three Cobb brothers, owners of the well-known Island of that name. - Richmond (Va.) State.
Source: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), Thursday, 13 November 1890.
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Albert Cobb was buried on Cobb's Island, in the Cobb Family Cemetery burial plot there, during November 1890. As a result of the October 1896 severe storm and destruction to Cobb's Island, his grave and others were moved away from Cobb's Island. An 1897 newspaper article describes the removal of the graves from this historic cemetery:
Onancock, Virginia - Nov. 7 - During the past week, Messrs. Warren and Lucius Cobb have had the remains of their dead relatives removed from Cobb's Island and reinterred on a point of the mainland, in full view of all that is left of the Island. The recent high seas washed all the earth from the top of the brick vaults, in which the bodies were interred, and as the Island has about disappeared, the Messrs. Cobb determined to remove the bodies to keep them from being ultimately washed away by the waves.
The grave of Nathan Cobb, for whom the Island was named, was found to contain only a few bones. The casket containing the body of Capt. Albert Cobb, who was drowned several years ago, while trying to save his brother, who had fallen overboard, was so heavy, to create the impression that it had become petrified. Some of those present, wanted to open the casket and make an investigation, but the relatives of the deceased would not permit this to be done.
Source: 8 November 1897, Baltimore Sun newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland,
page 7.
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Died in an open Boat
Mr. B. Quarles, on Tuesday, received a letter
announcing the death of Mr. Albert Cobb, owner of the Hotel at Cobb's Island. This sad event occurred last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Cobb, with his son and a Justice of the Peace, was on his way in an open boat from the mainland to Cobb's Island, to sign the paper conveying the Cobb's Island property to the company recently purchasing it. Death was, it is supposed, caused by some affection of the heart. Mr. Cobb was the youngest of the three Cobb brothers, owners of the well-known Island of that name. - Richmond (Va.) State.
Source: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), Thursday, 13 November 1890.
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Albert Cobb was buried on Cobb's Island, in the Cobb Family Cemetery burial plot there, during November 1890. As a result of the October 1896 severe storm and destruction to Cobb's Island, his grave and others were moved away from Cobb's Island. An 1897 newspaper article describes the removal of the graves from this historic cemetery:
Onancock, Virginia - Nov. 7 - During the past week, Messrs. Warren and Lucius Cobb have had the remains of their dead relatives removed from Cobb's Island and reinterred on a point of the mainland, in full view of all that is left of the Island. The recent high seas washed all the earth from the top of the brick vaults, in which the bodies were interred, and as the Island has about disappeared, the Messrs. Cobb determined to remove the bodies to keep them from being ultimately washed away by the waves.
The grave of Nathan Cobb, for whom the Island was named, was found to contain only a few bones. The casket containing the body of Capt. Albert Cobb, who was drowned several years ago, while trying to save his brother, who had fallen overboard, was so heavy, to create the impression that it had become petrified. Some of those present, wanted to open the casket and make an investigation, but the relatives of the deceased would not permit this to be done.
Source: 8 November 1897, Baltimore Sun newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland,
page 7.
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