When Margret Sarah Mary Cobb was born in September 1836, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Absolom Cobb, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Barfield, was 18. She married Henry H. Swords on 15 April 1860. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Moultrie, Colquitt, Georgia, United States in 1900 and District 1374, Colquitt, Georgia, United States in 1910. She died on 12 May 1928, in Colquitt, Georgia, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Colquitt, Georgia, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries 1854: Calhoun, Georgia, United States
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
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 .
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