Okey Warren Cobb
Okey Warren Cobb
Born April 4, 1888 at Ward (Kanawha County), West Virginia
Died December 23, 1918 at Ward, West Virginia
Wife: Agnes M. Tucker
Born August 19, 1890 at Davis Creek (Kanawha County), West Virginia
Died December 20, 1948 at Cedar Grove (Kanawha County, West Virginia
Okey Warren Cobb was killed in a slate fall inside the mine at Ward, West
Virginia on December 23, 1918. This accident occurred just four days after
the death of his just born son, Okey Warren Cobb, Jr., December 19, 1918.
The father left a wife and six young children. She ran a boarding home in
Cedar Grove and took in laundry to support the family, until her death in
December 1948. Remarkably, her son (my father), Charles William Cobb also
died in the month of December in 1976.
Okey and Agnes' children: Eulah Marie Cobb; Irvin Howard Cobb; Eunice
Madeline Cobb, Charles William Cobb, Ruth Elaine Cobb and Okey Warren Cobb,
Jr.
Okey Warren Cobb and Okey Warren Cobb, Jr., buried side-by-side at the Ward
Community Cemetery at Ward, West Virginia.