Walter Laurence Cobbs

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Name: Walter Laurence Cobbs
Death Date: 10 Feb 1920
Death Place: Elizabeth, , Allen, Louisiana
Gender: Male
Race (original): White
Race (standardized): White
Age: 36
Estimated Birth Year: 1884
Birth Place: Louisiana
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: William M Cobb
Mother's Name: Rachel F Durr
Film number: 2365686
Image Number: 00698
Certificate Number: 5878
Digital Folder Number: 4219120
Collection: Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956

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Census Listings:

1880 Census
Louisiana, Sabine Parish, Bayou San Miguel, Ward No. Seven
Enumerated 28 Jun 1880
Pages 11 and 12 SD 3 ED 45 Stamped 186
28-28
Cobb, William W M 35 Farmer La Va Tenn
Cobb, Rachel F W F 32 Wife Keeping House La Ala Un
Cobb, Elizabeth R W F 12 S At Home La La La
Cobb, Cynthia A W F 11 F At Home La La La
Cobb, William H W M 10 Son At Home La La La
Cobb, Margaret A W F 8 Son (sic) La La La
Cobb, Charles M W M 6 Son La La La
Cobb, Frances P W M 4 Son La La La
Cobb, George D W M 2 Son La La La
Cobb, Elizabeth W F 62 Mother At Hom Tenn Unk Unk

William married Rachel F. Durr on 5 Jul 1865 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Rachel (daughter of David H. Durr and Parilee Allred) was born on 25 Nov 1848 in Louisiana; died on 27 Feb 1926 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Jerusalem Cemetery, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
They had a total of 15 children and are listed throughout the Sabine Parish Census records. (Casagranda, 1850 Census, 35).

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The name Cobb is found spelled in several different ways throughout the Parish records including Cobb, Cobbs, and Cobs. (Casagranda, 1850 Census, 34).

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Louisiana, Sabine Parish
Enumerated 28 Aug 1850
52-52
Willis L Cobb 45 M $200 NC
Betty Cobb 35 F Tenn
Ann Cobb 17 F Miss
Jas. Cobb 15 M Miss
John Cobb 13 M La
Frances Cobb 5 F La
William Cobb 4 m La

Willis married Elizabeth "Betty" Waldrop on 29 Oct 1834 in Rankin County, Mississippi. Elizabeth (daughter of Claiborne Parrish Waldrop and Mary Ann Bowlin) was born on 17 Nov 1817 in Maury County, Tennessee; died after 1880 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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At the time of the 1880 Federal Census, she was living with her son and daughter-in-law, William M. and Rachel Cobb, in Bayou San Miguel, Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

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Married:
Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935
Willis L. Cobbs
Elizabeth Waldroop
29 Oct 1834
Rankin

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Although his last name is listed on DUNN on both the 1850 and 1860 census, Durr appears to be correct. Casagranda, in her transcription of the Sabine Parish, Louisiana 1850 census, notes that DIRR is also used, but that DURR seems to be the most used and correct spelling of the name. She further notes the family is listed through the 1880 census records of Sabine Parish, but few cemetery or marriage records are present under any variant spelling......(Other DURR family members) can be found in Natchitoches, Rapides, and Caddo Parishes. (Casagranda, 1850 Census, 35).

Casagranda suspects he was a son of Michael DURR and Elizabeth PINCHARD. However, Susan Laurent, who maintains a website Durr Families Of North Louisiana www.doubledurr.com which is the compilation of all the research the descendants of Michael & David Durr have done thru the years, says this is incorrect. She also notes that David's wife was Paralee ALLRED.

David married Parilee Allred. Parilee was born about 1828 in Louisiana; died on 16 Jan 1887 in Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Last name courtesy of Susan Laurent, Durr Families Of North Louisiana www.doubledurr.com which is the compilation of all the research the descendants of Michael & David Durr have done thru the years.

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Married:
David and Parilee had 6 children and are listed throughout the Parish census until the time of their deaths. Other children include Michael, William Rufus, Hellen, Lucinda A., and David A. (Casagranda, 1850 Census, 35).

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Kathy Casagrande writes that Claiborne Waldroup was born Claiborne Parrish Waldrop 1-11-1792 in South Carolina. Claiborne is the son of Hezekiah Waldrop born circa 1772 and Martha Davenport. Hezekiah Waldrop was the child of John Waldrop b. circa 1732 in Hanover Co., VA and Tabitha Parrish. This family can be traced further back to Michael Waldrop b. circa 1680 in VA. The father of Claiborne Waldroup died in MS after 1850 in possibly Holmes County. Paula Jones, a family researcher, states that Claiborne Parrish Waldrop always spelled his name as WALDROP.

No listings for Waldrop or any spelling variation in the Sabine Parish cemetery records.

The History of Sabine Parish, Louisiana (author John Belisle, The Sabine Banner Press, 1912) states that "in 1860 the white population of Sabine Parish numbers about four thousant, and there were less than two thousand slaves. There were few really wealthy people in the parish, and many owned not more than one of two slaves. the owners of six or more in 1861 included C. P. Waldrup.

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Louisiana, Sabine Parish
Enumerated 27 Aug 1850
Stamped 108
33-41
Claiborne Waldroup 52 M Farmer 5000 SC
Frank Waldroup 19 M Labourer Miss
Hiram Waldroup 16 None Miss
Samuel Waldroup 14 M Miss
Napoleon Waldroup 12 Miss
Darius Waldroup 9 M Miss

Claiborne married Mary Ann Bowlin before 1830 in Mississippi. Mary was born on 11 Feb 1799 in Kentucky; died in Jan 1848 in Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Howard Waldrop shows her as a daughter of Deasymine Bowlin.