This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GUB.2ACE/479.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Allen, No I don't have a direct line to a Kinchen Cobb. I have a direct line to a William G. Cobb who was in Greene Co. the same time as your Kinchen. In fact, Wm G. Cobb is buried in the Cobb/Brand/Butts cemetery in Greene Co. near Farmville. I suspect that Kinchen and William G. were probably closely related, possibly brothers. But I haven't been able to find anything anywhere to help trace either one of these Cobb men. Thanks in part I'm sure to the Pitt and Greene courthouse fires. Anyway, I don't have any information on Kinchen in Edgecombe. All I remember is that somewhere I saw a Kinchen Cobb listed in a Mexican War roster as having served from Edgecombe Co. I think I remember his being listed as a drummer or some kind of musician. I found no reference to Kinchen Cobb in the Edgecombe deeds and wills. I did not check the estate records though. I don't know if you have tried to do any work on your Kinchen, but if you have you might be able to shed some light on one question. I believe the only Cobb on the Greene Co. census of 1840 was a Nancy Cobb. Do you have any idea who she was. Was she connected with Moses Cobb of the 1830 Greene census or was she a widow of one of the Pitt Co. Cobbs. I have no clue. Thanks for your consideration. I have a feeling that if we could find anything on either Kinchen or Wm G. of Greene then it would probably tell something about the other one of these men. William G. Cobb born circa 1826, on Greene Co. census in 1850 and in 1860 but gone by 1870. His tombstone lists date of death as 1892 but that is an error. The gravestone was placed fairly recently as it looks pretty new. Wm G.'s wife Gatsy was listed on 1880 census as a widow. She was probably widowed on the 1870 but I don't have that info in front of me right now. I wonder if Wm G. didn't die in the Civil War. There were more than one Wm G. Cobbs in the war but I have never figured out which one might have been him. That's about all for now. Till later, Tracy