| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Third Generation32. Rev. Thomas Morris (Tom) Cobb21,24 was born on 17 October 1842 in Lafayette County, Missouri. He appeared in the census in 1850 in Lafayette County, Missouri. Thomas M. 8 m MO. He appeared in the census in 1860 in Lafayette County, Missouri. T.M. 18 m MO. Thomas died on 8 May 1925 at the age of 82 in Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri.40 He was buried about 10 May 1925 in Cobb Family Cemetery, Johnson County, Missouri. Served in the Second Missouri infantry from 1861-1865. He and his wife and son are buried in the Cobb Cemetery, south of Chapel Hill, on the county line between Lafayette and Johnson counties. Thomas Cobb bought land from Joseph Meador in Johnson county, MO on 10/12/1867. The Rev. Thomas M. Cobb was born in Sni-a-Bar township, Lafayette county on Oct. 17, 1842, and was the fifth of 13 children of Polly Peters and James M. Cobb. His parents came to LaFayette county from Tennessee in April 1835. After attending neighborhood subscription schools and public schools, some in an old-fashioned log cabin, he entered Chapel Hill academy in 1860. When the academy was closed because of the War Between the States, Mr. Cobb enlisted in the Southern army in April, 1861. He was wounded at Baker's Creek, Miss. and Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., and captured at Vicksbkurg, Miss. before the city was surrendered to General Grant. Cobb surrendered April 17, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. Mr. Cobb was licensed to preach May 5, 1866, and served several Methodist churches as well as serving as chaplin of the Missouri House of Representatives and the state penitentiary. Mr. Cobb married twice, his first wife being Mary M. Wagoner, who lived only a few months. Jan. 20, 1868, he married Cammie Houck, daughter of Solomon Houck. Their children were Helen C., Thomas M. Jr., Mary C., Bess C., and William Benson Cobb. Upon retirement from his regular pastoral work, Mr. Cobb served as Chaplain at the Confederate home at Higginsville. His home was in Lexington, where he remained until his death. (See the History of Lafayette Co., Mo. (1910) by T.C. Young, Vol.2) Rev. Thomas Morris (Tom) Cobb and Mary M Wagoner were married on 15 May 1866 in Lafayette County, Missouri. Mary M Wagoner23, daughter of Amos Harris Wagoner and Mary Minerva (Polly) Meador, died about 1867. Rev. Thomas Morris (Tom) Cobb and Elisa Carrie Houck were married on 29 January 1868 in Jackson County, Missouri. Elisa Carrie Houck24 was born in 1844 in Republic, Greene County, Missouri. Rev. Thomas Morris (Tom) Cobb-8089 and Elisa Carrie Houck-28959 had the following children:
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