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James Murray COBBS
(1825 –1907)
Mary Jane TETRICK
(1835 –1920)
William MEYER
(1848 –1918)
Sarah Prudence GLENN
(1850 –1893)
John Calvin COBBS
(1862 –1950)
Augusta Isadora MEYER
(1869 –1944)
William Virgil COBBS
(1909 – 2001)

 

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1. Ledessa Irene STEWART

William Virgil COBBS 2 3
  • Born: 15 December 1909, Baker City, Grant County, Oregon, USA 2 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Ledessa Irene STEWART on 29 June 1930 in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA 1 2
  • Died: 9 July 2001, Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon, USA at age 91
  • Buried: 2001, Williams, Josephine County, Oregon, USA

bullet   Other names for William were Virgil COBBS 4 and William V. COBBS.5

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bullet  Burial Notes

Sparlin Cemetery

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He appeared on the 1920 US Federal Census on 24 January 1920 in Scappoose Precinct, Columbia County, Oregon, USA. 4

Census (24 Jan 1920) — Scappoose Precinct, Columbia County, Oregon, USA

Name; Relation; Owns or Rents (free or mortgaged); Gender; Race; Age; Marital Status; Birthplace;
Father's Birthplace; Mother's Birthplace; Occupation/Industry
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Cobbs, John       Head      Rents   M   W   57   M    Illinois   Virginia        Illinois        Section boss/Railroad
-----, Augusta    Wife              F   W   50   M    Kansas     Missouri        Iowa*           None
-----, Glenn      Daughter  **      F   W   16   S    Oregon     Illinois        Kansas          None
-----, Kenneth    Son       **      M   W   14   S    Oregon     Illinois        Kansas          None
-----, Glayds     Daughter          F   W   13   S    Oregon     Illinois        Kansas          None
-----, Virgil     Son       **      M   W   10   S    Oregon     Illinois        Kansas          None
-----, Mary J.    Mother            F   W   84   Wd   Illinois   United States   United States   None
-----, Arthur     Brother           M   W   46   S    Missouri   Virginia        Illinois        Laborer/Railroad
  *Illinois written first, but Iowa written over top of it         **Attended school within the past year
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Source Citation:  Year: 1920; Census Place: Scappoose, Columbia, Oregon;
                  Roll: T625_1493; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 101; Image: 200.

  • He worked as an offbearer for a saw mill on 7 April 1930 in Applegate Precinct, Jackson County, Oregon, USA. 5

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  • He appeared on the 1930 US Federal Census on 7 April 1930 in Applegate Precinct, Jackson County, Oregon, USA. 5

Census (07 April 1930) - Applegate Precinct, Jackson County, Oregon, USA

Name; Relation; Gender; Race; Age; Marital Status; Age at First Marriage; Birthplace; Father's Birthplace;
Mother's Birthplace; Occupation/Industry
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Cobbs John C.      Head*            M   W   67        M   38   Illinois   Georgia    Pennsylvania   Laborer/Dairy Farm
----- Augusta I.   Wife             F   W   60        M   31   Kansas     Missouri   Illinois       None
----- William V.   Son              M   W   20        S        Oregon     Illinois   Kansas         Offbearer/Saw Mill
Messinger Silva    Grand Daughter   F   W    3 8/12   S        Oregon     Oregon     Oregon         None
Cobbs Lesley R.    Nephew           M   W   20        S        Oregon     Illinois   Arkansas       Woodcutter/Logging Camp
   *Rents, does not have a radio, does not live on a farm
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Source Citation:  Year: 1930; Census Place: Applegate, Jackson, Oregon;
                  Roll: 1944; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 11; Image: 117.0.


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William married Ledessa Irene STEWART, daughter of Madison Edward STEWART and Sarah Elizabeth DEJARNATT, on 29 June 1930 in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.1 2 (Ledessa Irene STEWART was born on 30 September 1910 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA,1 6 died on 26 August 1988 in Josephine County, Oregon, USA 1 and was buried in 1988 in Williams, Josephine County, Oregon, USA.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Ancestry.com, Oregon, Death Index, 1898 – 2008 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of Oregon. Oregon Death Index, 1903 –1998. Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Archives and Records Center; and Oregon Death Indexes, 1903 –1970 and Oregon Death Indexes, 1971– 2008; Salem, OR, USA: Oregon State Library), Ledessa Irene Cobbs death, 26 Aug 1988, Josephine County, Oregon, Certificate No. 88-16030.
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 102. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  4. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), John Cobbs household, Scappoose Precinct, Columbia County, Oregon, USA.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. NARA microfilm publication T626, 2,667 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), John C. Cobbs household, Applegate Precinct, Jackson County, Oregon, USA.
  6. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Madison Stewart household, 718 12th Street, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.


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