Howell Cobb

Howell Cobb

Howell Cobb

Cody Godfree

Kendall Hallberg

​Howell Cobb was born on September 7, 1815 in Jefferson, Georgia and died on October 9, 1868 in New York City, New York. According to the Memphis Daily Appeal, October 13, 1868, “He was standing in one of the corridors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, conversing with his wife, in apparent health, when he suddenly put his hand to his head, gasped, ‘I am ill-very ill’, sank to the floor, and died”. It was not there in New York where Cobb would remain. Later within the same article it stated that, “the body of Howell Cobb has been moved to a Savannah steamer, and will be taken to Georgia tomorrow for interment”. According to Howell Cobb’s tombstone, he served as solicitor general for the western circuit, represented Georgia in the Congress of the United States 1843-1851, 1855-1857, was the 31st speaker of the House of Representatives, Governor of the state of Georgia 1851-1853, Secretary of the United States Treasury under Buchannan’s administration, and was named President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, and a Colonel in the 16th regiment of the Georgia Volunteers which then he was promoted to a Brigadier General and finally Major General in the Confederate States Army. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1868-10-13/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1868&index=0&rows=20&words=Cobb+Howell&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Georgia&date2=1868&proxtext=Howell+Cobb&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1