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- Posilla/Priscilla Cobb by Barbara Cobb Rowe:
By process of elimination, was born sometime before 1810 - because 4 daughters were shown on the 1810 Abbeville, SC census record and we know the other two daughters were born later than that. Little is known about this daughter, she was listed in AlexanderÂ’s estate probate records in 1856 as deceased. Someone has posted her name as Priscilla Rosella Cobb, but I have no idea where that came from and it is not proven. I have seen a written family tree where the person stated that the name in Alex's estate records might be Rosella rather than Posilla, so it appears that the Rosella name is just one interpretation of old fashioned handwriting.
We know Priscilla married David Goss on August 27, 1831 in Bibb County, Alabama and that they had a daughter, Frances (possibly Francis Elizabeth as she appears as Francis E. on the 1860 and 1870 census records). There is a David Goss age 30 to 40, on the 1840 Montgomery County, Alabama Census as head of the household, the only other member of the household is a female in the 50 to 60 age group (possibly his mother). If this is the same David Goss, than Priscilla was dead before 1840. Frances may have been one of the small females in the household of Alexander on the 1840 census, since he would have had the servants necessary to care for a small motherless child.
In April 2007 I was told that Priscilla is buried with her parents in the Cobb/Reid Cemetery.
Frances E. Goss born about 1835 married Larkin Gentry on August 1, 1852 in Shelby County. Frances and Larkin (who must have died in the Civil War or shortly afterwards (he served with the 31st Inf.), since he was not living in 1870) had 6 children; the oldest daughter is shown by different names on the 1860 and the 1870 census (Burda J. and Jane B., age 17). The other children listed on the 1870 census records were Mary C. age 15, William ?. age 14, John Alexander age 12, Robert L. age 10, and Larkin C. N. age 8. The family was living in Autauga County, AL on the 1870 census, with all the children including the 8 year old Larkin, working in the cotton mill.
I can find no record of Frances and her family after 1870, no marriage records or census records, so far. There is a possibility on the Washington County, Texas 1880 census, there are two young men, John and R. L. that are the right ages to be her sons, both single and working for others.
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