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Mary Rose Sicard^1,2,3,4,5,6

Photo of Mary Rose "Mimi" Sicard Russo taken at her sister's wedding on 5 May 1927. (Photo: robsgenealogy.net)

Facts and Notes

• Name:⁷
• Name:
• Name:
• Anecdote: Richard Collier Cobb; See person note⁸
• Birth: About 1903; Alabama, USABGO⁷
• Birth: 13 January 1903; Blossburg, Jefferson County, Alabama, USABG^7,2,3,6
• Residence: 1910; Precinct 38, Jefferson County, Alabama, USABG; Age: 7; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter²
• Residence: 1920; Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USABGO; Age: 17; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter³
• Marriage: 7 September 1920; Richard Collier Cobb; Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USABGO^4,5
• Occupation: 1930; Gen. Merchant⁷
• Residence: 1930; Precinct 20, Shelby County, Alabama, USABG; Age: 27; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife⁷
• Residence: 1935; Queens, New York, USABGO⁶
• Divorce: 19 August 1937; Richard Collier Cobb; Jefferson County, Alabama, USABGO; The grounds for divorce that Mary Cobb sought from her husband, Richard Collier Cobb, were changed from "cruelty" to "abandonment" during the negotiation process.⁹
• Residence: 1940; A D 2, Queens, New York, USABG; StreetAddress: 45; Age: 37; Cashier Occupation: Cashier; AttendedSchool: No; ClassofWorker: Wage or salary worker in private work; EmploymentCode: 1; EmploymentDetails: No; EmploymentHistory: No; EnumerationDistrict: 41-214; GradeCompleted: High School, 4th year; HomeOwnership: Rented; HoursWorked: 40; Income: 1600; IncomeOtherSources: No; IsEmployed: Yes; PublicEmergencyWork: No; Respondent: Yes; SeekingWork: No; ValueOfHome: 43; WeeksWorked: 52; Divorced MaritalStatus: Divorced; Head RelationToHead: Head⁶
• Residence: 1950; 1707 N. Troy St., Apt 380, Arlington County, Virginia, USABG; Age 48; HoursWorked: 60¹⁰
• Occupation: 1950; Arlington County, Virginia, USABGO; Frozen Food Broker/Owner; worked 60 hours per week¹⁰
• Marriage: 17 January 1973; William Vandrille Russo; Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USABGO¹¹
• Death: 26 January 2002; Arlington Hospital, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USABG
• Burial: 12 February 2002; Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USABG

• Note: Martha Stone Cobb Daniel wrote the following about Richard Collier Cobb and Mary Rose Sicard:
  "Richard was a dear little boy, all of four when Mama and Daddy were married and Daddy said he felt as though he was his own son. As he grew older, he was up to great tricks [such] as sliding down the ladder with Rollie for an easy escape, so he was packed off to a Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee - a private school for boys. This school had a reputation which was similar to Marines! Send me a boy, and I will return you a man! How long Richard stayed there, I do not recall - he ran away and joined the Navy. Why? Had not his brother been in the Army? So, with his bell-bottomed trousers, he was a delight to the girls in each port, of that I am sure - He served his duty well, whatever it was, because you know damn well, no Cobb could possibly shirk!
  When he was released from the service, he met a most beautiful girl, Mary Sicard, and they were married by her Catholic Priest in her Catholic Church. All the women loved her Priest because he reminded them of the Cobb men. He kissed them all and loved Mr. Sicard's wine served at the reception. Richard and Mary lived in Vernon for a short time and Mary proved to be a real favorite. Nanny (Laura Chappell) Cobb had lost her contact with the Convent, but she had not forgotten and she was so proud to have a Catholic daughter-in-law. Pa Cobb (Rowland Wallace) used to chuckle and tell how he would say, 'Mary, what are you going to have for supper?' He would raise his voice and attempt to imitate Mary and say "Soup" - They (Richard Collier and Mary Rose), too, soon moved away, but would return frequently for visits and always arrived at the most ungodly hours! My! Reminds me of some trips we used to take when Hugh and I were young."

• Related Pages: Ancestors of Richard Sicard Cobb; Arlington National Cemetery List of People

Citations

1. [S457] Daniel, Martha Stone, Genealogy Project, Daniel, Martha Stone. Genealogy Project. Privately held by Provided by Richard S. Cobb, Arlington, Virginia, 1995., Descendants of Alexander Cobb
2. [S364] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=9562404&indiv=try, Year: 1910; Census Place: Precinct 38, Jefferson, Alabama; Roll: T624_17; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0124; FHL microfilm: 1374030, Record for Adrien Sicard
3. [S667] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1920usfedcen&h=1183986&indiv=try, Year: 1920; Census Place: Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama; Roll: T625_25; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 88; Image: 65, Record for A Sicard
4. [S707] Ancestry.com, Alabama, County Marriages, 1805-1967, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61365&h=1562476&indiv=try, Record for R. C. Cobb
5. [S674] Ancestry.com, Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1942, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60000&h=1264668&indiv=try, Record for R. C. Cobb
6. [S390] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2442&h=10029636&indiv=try, Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Queens, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02724; Page: 67B; Enumeration District: 41-214, Record for Mary Cobb
7. [S375] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=118418942&indiv=try, Year: 1930; Census Place: Precinct 20, Shelby, Alabama; Roll: 48; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 0029; Image: 1099.0; FHL microfilm: 2339783, Record for Richard C Cobb
8. [S26] Daniel, Martha Stone Cobb, Daniel, Martha Stone Cobb, "Cobb Notes" to Cobb, Richard and Marianna, Geneaology Correspondence, Geneaology Correspondence., 25 November, 1971
9. [S257] White E. Gibson, Gibson, White E. , Letter to Mary Cobb, 6 Aug 1936, Gibson, White E. (1605-16 Comer Building, Birmingham, Alabama) to "Mary Cobb". Letter. 6 Aug 1936. Privately held by Mary Jane Reyes, Lorton, Virginia. 2015.
10. [S815] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=62308&h=110569272&indiv=try, United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: All Places, Arlington, Virginia; Roll: 733; Sheet Number: 76; Enumeration District: 7-32, Record for Mary S Cobb
11. [S49] Mary Rose Sicard Cobb, Compiler: Mary Jane Cobb Reyes, History of Sicard and Mas Families