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Cobb, George D.

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 23, credited to Waterbury, VT Unit(s): 134th IL INF Service: CPL, Co. A, 134th IL INF See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 10/28/1841, Waterbury, VT Death: 07/13/1918 Burial: Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL Marker/Plot: Not Recorded Gravestone photographer: il-state, c1850, c1880, c1910 Findagrave Memorial #: 76354955 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 6/8/1907, IL Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

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Obituary

G. D. COBB TO BE BURIED TODAY; 72 YEARS IN CHICAGO

Funeral services for George Day Cobb, a resident of Chicago for seventy-two years, who died Saturday night at the Evanston hospital, will be held at the home of Mrs. John T. Stockton, a daughter, at 1109 Hinman avenue, Evanston, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery.

Mr. Cobb came to Chicago in 1846 from Montpelier, Vt. He was associated with a board of trade firm when the civil war broke out and enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Illinois volunteers. Of late years he had been associated with the Joseph Stockton Transfer Company.

Mr. Cobb leaves a brother, Walter F. Cobb of Santa Barbara, Cal., and a sister, Miss Ella F. Cobb of Jacksonville, Mich.

Source: Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1918.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.