Brief Life History of Mississippi
When Mississippi Cobb was born in October 1850, in Georgia, United States, her father, Britian Cobb, was 24 and her mother, Mariann Brown, was 20. She married Cyrus G Hayman on 14 September 1870, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Richmond Hill, Bryan, Georgia, United States in 1880 and District 20, Bryan, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 December 1920, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Richmond Hill, Bryan, Georgia, United States.
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- Mississippi Cobb in household of Howard W Blitch, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mississippi Cobb, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Mississippi Cobb Hayman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Bryan, Georgia, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
Irish: shortened form of McCobb , a patronymic from the personal name Hob, an English pet form of Robert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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