Charles Cobb and John Anna Moore Cobb Collection

Digital Files Created 2017, Original Material 1880s-1950s
Manuscript Collection #1312
Creator(s)
Cobb, Thomas Jefferson
Physical description
19 Items
Preferred Citation
Charles Cobb and John Anna Moore Cobb Collection (#1312), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
This collection is open for research.

Collection of scanned digital photographs depicting several generations of the Wiley Howell Cobb (1819-1897) and wife Elizabeth Joyner Cobb Family of Farmville and Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. Originals were not included in the donation.


Scope and arrangement

This collection of scanned digital images was created by our Digital Collections Department from original photographs contained in a scrapbook. The original photographs were not included in the donation.

The scanned photographs are of several generations of the Wiley Howell Cobb (1819-1897) and wife Elizabeth Joyner Cobb Family of Farmville and Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina (N.C.). Included are Charles Cobb and wife John Anna Moore Cobb, Kinchen Wiley Cobb and wife Dorothy Long Cobb, and Charles D. Cobb and wife Jane Eloise Tobias Cobb and their children David, Toby, Kin and Jeff Cobb. Also included is the boyhood home of Dr. Henry Wood Tobias in Donaldson, Pennsylvania. He was the father of Jane Eloise Tobias Cobb. Locations in photographs include Pitt Street in Greenville, N.C., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and Sebec Lake, Maine.


Administrative information
Custodial History

June 8, 2017, (unprocessed), 19 items; Digital images created by Digital Collections in Joyner Library at East Carolina University from photographs loaned by Jeff Cobb. The images are of several generations of the Wiley Howell Cobb (1819-1897) and wife Elizabeth Joyner Cobb Family of Farmville and Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. Included are Charles Cobb and wife John Anna Moore Cobb, Kinchen Wiley Cobb and wife Dorothy Long Cobb, and Charles D. Cobb and wife Jane Eloise Tobias Cobb and their children David, Toby, Kin and Jeff Cobb. Also included is the boyhood home of Dr. Henry Wood Tobias in Donaldson, PA, and he was the father of Jane Eloise Tobias Cobb. Loaned for copying by Jeff Cobb.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Cobb

Processing information

Processed by John Dunning, June 2025

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Key terms
Family Names
Cobb family