Christopher Crawford Cobb and Nannie Mable Edwards Cobb
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Christopher Crawford Cobb
Born July 21, 1870 in MS
Died: Dec 9, 1927 in Dickens, Dickens County, TX
Father: William Biddle Cobb Jr.
Mother: Mary Hibernie McNair
Spouse: Nannie Mable Edwards
Born: Sept 17, 1886 in MS
Died: June 24, 1957 in El Paso, El Paso, TX
Father: W. S. Edwards
Mother: Sarah Treadway

Biography

Christopher Crawford Cobb, born in Kemper County, Mississippi, July 21, 1870. Moved with his parents to Upshure County, TX in 1871. They traveled in a covered wagon pulled by oxen; they stayed there for a while and then went on to Eastland County. He spent his boyhood there in the Eastland County. When he grew to manhood, he moved to Aspermont and worked as a clerk in a Department Store. In 1900 he moved to dickens. He and Claude Christian operated a Tailor and Print Shop. He was Editor of the Dickens Item for many years.

Crawford Cobb and Nannie Edwards were married in March, 1910, in Tamala, MS. They came back and made their home in Dickens. six children were born to them, Mary, Woodrow, Ralph and Rowland, Thomas and Loyd.

Crawford Cobb served as County and district Clerk of Dickens County from 1911 to 1916. He served as Deputy Clerk under Martin Gay. He passed from this life on December 9, 1927.

Mrs. Nannie Cobb served as County Treasurer of Dickens County from 1929 to 1934. She moved to Lubbock and made her home with a daughter until her death on June 24, 1957. She and Mr. Cobb are both buried in the Dickens Cemetery, in the county that they both loved so much.


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Mrs. Nannie M. Cobb, 70, a Lubbock resident for 22 years, died at 4 a.m. today in a hospital in El Paso where she had spent the past month visiting in the home of her sons.

Mrs. Cobb made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Rufus H. Brewwer, 2808 2nd St., Lubbock. She had moved to Lubbock from Dickens.

Services are pending the transfer of the body from El Paso. Burial will be in dickens Cemetery under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home.

Survivors besides the daughter, Mrs. Brewer, include five sons, Woodrow Cobb, 3416 32nd St., Lubbock; Roland Cobb and Loyd Cobb, both of El Paso; Ralph Cobb, Long Beach, Calif.; and Thomas Cobb,Trinidad, Colo.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, 1957

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