3.5 Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1829-1932

Scope and content:

This subseries includes correspondence sent and received by Mary Ann Lamar Cobb excluding any correspondence with her husband Howell Cobb, which is located in series 1. The majority of correspondence is between Mary Ann Cobb, her brother John B. Lamar, mother-in-law Sarah R. Cobb, and her children.

Biographical / historical:

Mary Ann (Lamar) Cobb (1818-1889) was the daughter of Col. Zachariah Lamar and Mary Ann Robinson of Milledgeville, Georgia. She married Howell Cobb in 1835. They had eleven children: John Addison Cobb, II (b. 1838); Lamar Cobb (1839-1907); Howell Cobb, Jr. (1842-1909); Henry Jackson Cobb (1844-1848); Basil Lamar Cobb (1846-1847); Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1850-1930); Laura Rootes Cobb (1851-1852); Sarah M. Cobb (1854-1930); Andrew Jackson Cobb (1857-1925); Elizabeth Craig Cobb (1859-1870); and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1861-1863).

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