This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cobia, Barnes, Dukes, Penuel, Gray, Pellum Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.henry/437.441.444.1097.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: To Susan Pigot: This is in reply to your post of 29 June 2000 (better late than never!). After researching a little further, I have learned there were two Francis Marion Cobias in Henry County, father and son. My great great grandmother Clyde Rebecca Barnes, widow of Joshua Dukes, married F. M. Cobia the younger on August 14, 1884 according to Henry County Marriage Book 1884-1889, page 8. Then just four years later, F. M. Cobia married M. E. Gray on January 19, 1888 according to Henry County Marriage Book 1884-1889, page 390. Apparently Clyde Rebecca died in the short period between 1884 and 1888. Cause of death is unknown. She was buried in the small Pellum Cemetery a few miles north of Barnes Community on the Brown's Crossroads-Frankin (Shorterville) Road. There are eight graves here according to county historians who have located the unmarked grave. The one marked grave is that of Thomas Penuel, brother to "Pena" or "Penny" Penuel, wife of Joshua Franklin Barnes, Sr. Clyde Rebecca Barnes Dukes Cobia was a sister to J. F. Barnes, Sr. and moved with him to Henry County as a widow with three small children circa 1879 from the Byron and Fort Valley area of Georgia. Regards, Steve Elliott Great Great grandson of Clyde Rebecca Barnes Dukes Cobia