Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

AMBROSE COBB was born January 3, 1832, and is the youngest of ten children
born to John and Susan (White) Cobb, natives of Rockingham County, N. C.
John Cobb came to Jessamine County with his father, Vintner Cobb, who died
here.  John was born in 1773; was a farmer, and died with Asiatic cholera
in 1833.  Ambrose Cobb, a native of Jessamine County, was reared on the
home farm, receiving a common school education.  At the age of twenty he
became a partner with his brother, John, in the mercantile business near
Big Hickman, and continued but one year.  He married, April 3, 1852,
Malinda Hunter, daughter of Henry Hunter, a native of Jessamine County,
whose father, Henry Hunter, immigrated from Pennsylvania.  They has six
children: Mary F., William H., Ann M., Margaret E., Richard H. and Ambrose
M.   Mr. Cobb owns 145 acres of land.  He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Pleasant Hill.  He is also a member of the Masonic
fraternity.  He was elected magistrate in 1866 and served two terms.  He
was postmaster at Sulphur Well while selling goods, which was his
occupation in Garrard County in 1878.  In 1881 he began to sell goods in
Jessamine County and continued until 1883.  Since then he has been a
general stock trader.  William H. Cobb was born August 22, 1854; married
May 8, 1878, Maggie Burdine, daughter of John Burdine of Jessamine County.

Cobb White Hunter Burdine
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Garrard-KY Rockingham-NC PA

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