When Lemuel Terrell Cobb was born on 18 February 1858, in Georgia, United States, his father, Alfred H Cobb, was 38 and his mother, Nancy LeGrand, was 30. He married Elizabeth Frances Simmons on 9 November 1884, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Cardiff, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1900. He died on 24 April 1936, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1871: Jefferson, Alabama, United States [Spreads across Jefferson and Shelby counties]
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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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