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Richard Collier Cobb^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}

Photo of Richard Collier Cobb taken in about 1919 when he was 20 years old. (Photo: robsgenealogy.net)

Facts and Notes

• Name:¹³
• Military: EyeColor: Blue; HairColor: Black; Height: Medium; PhysicalBuild: Medium¹²
• Military: A F McKenzie Occupation: A F McKenzie; Complexion: Ruddy; EyeColor: Blue; HairColor: Brown; Height: 5 10; Weight: 160¹¹
• Anecdote: Mary Rose Sicard; See person note¹⁴
• Birth: 10 April 1899; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO^{6,5,1,2,3,4,7,8,13,11,12}
• Residence: 1900; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO; Age: 1; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son⁴
• Residence: 1910; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO; Age: 12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son¹³
• Residence: 1917; Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO; Age: 18¹²
• Occupation: 1918; Meat cutter with L.P. Robertson³
• Military: Between 25 July 1918 and 30 September 1921; Served in the US Navy Reserve during WW1⁷
• Registration: 14 September 1918; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO; World War 1 Draft Registration; Age: 19³
• Education: Before 1920; completed 4 years of high school⁶
• Marriage: 7 September 1920; Mary Rose Sicard; Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USABGO^9,10
• Occupation: 1930; Coal mine operator⁵
• Residence: 1930; Precinct 20, Shelby County, Alabama, USABG; Age: 31; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head⁵
• Residence: 1935; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO⁶
• Divorce: 19 August 1937; Mary Rose Sicard; 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.¹⁵
• Occupation: 1 April 1940; Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USABGO; Hospital attendant at the veteran's administration facility⁶
• Residence: 1 April 1940; Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USABGO; Age: 41; Marital Status: Divorced; Relation to Head of House: Head⁶
• Residence: 1942; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO; Age: 43; Self RelationToHead: Head¹¹
• Registration: 16 February 1942; Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABGO; World War 2 Draft Registration; Age: 42¹¹
• Military: Between 23 October 1942 and 21 November 1944; Served in the US Navy Reserve during WW2⁷
• Occupation: Before 1963; "Warehouse man" before he died²
• Death: 8 January 1963; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USABGO; Died at 3:15 AM; he was 63. Cause of Death: Acute respiratory failure and chronic pulmonary emphysema^2,1,7,8,16
• Burial: 12 January 1963; Vernon Cemetery, Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USABG^2,7,8

• Note: Richard Collier Cobb served in U.S. Naval Reserves during World War I and II.
  
  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; Vernon Cemetery List of People

Citations

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10. [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
11. [S565] Ancestry.com, U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2238&h=11608188&indiv=try, National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for Alabama, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 53, Record for Richard C Cobb
12. [S392] Ancestry.com, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=6482&h=21159268&indiv=try, Registration State: Alabama; Registration County: Lamar County, Record for Richard Collier Cobb
13. [S450] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=2309&indiv=try, Year: 1910; Census Place: Vernon, Lamar, Alabama; Roll: T624_20; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0057; FHL microfilm: 1374033, Record for Ratie W Coob
14. [S26] Daniel, Martha Stone Cobb, Daniel, Martha Stone Cobb, "Cobb Notes" to Cobb, Richard and Marianna, Geneaology Correspondence, Geneaology Correspondence., 25 November, 1971
15. [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.
16. [S532] The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama, USA (print edition), The Birmingham News. Alabama, USA. Birmingham., "Richard C Cobb"; Jan 9, 1963, Funeral Notice for Richard Cobb