Ruth Banks
Abt 1789 - Abt 1821 (~ 32 years)-
Name Ruth Banks Born Abt 1789 Abbeville or Edgefield Co., SC 
Gender Female Died Abt 1821 Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL Buried Possibly in "Cobb's Field" in Jemison, Chilton Co., AL (where her home once stood) Person ID I4584 MyTree Last Modified 16 Feb 2012
Father Father of Ruth Banks, b. SC (?) Mother Mother of Ruth MNU (Banks), b. SC (?) Married Lexington Co., SC Family ID F3649 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Alexander Cobb, b. 1773, Edgefield Co., SC , d. Bef 7 Nov 1856, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL (Age < 83 years) Married Abt 1803 Abbeville or Edgefield Co., SC Children + 1. Charles Banks Cobb, b. Abt 1800, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. 10 Feb 1865, Lower Yellow Leaf, Bibb Co., AL (Age ~ 65 years)+ 2. Rutha Banks Cobb, b. 19 Dec 1804, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. 5 Apr 1885, Jemison, Chilton Co., AL (Age 80 years)+ 3. Elizabeth Cobb, b. 16 Apr 1806, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. 16 Oct 1902, Chilton Co., AL (Age 96 years)+ 4. Telitha Cobb, b. 1808, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. Coosa Co., AL + 5. John S. Cobb, b. 1811, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. Aft 1880, Kerr Co., Texas (Age > 70 years)+ 6. Mary R. Cobb, b. 21 Jan 1812, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. 17 Sep 1892, Collin Co., Texas (Age 80 years)+ 7. William Pinkney Cobb, b. 26 Jan 1813, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. 28 Nov 1888, New London, Rusk County, Texas (Age 75 years)+ 8. James Alexander Cobb, b. 8 Feb 1815, Abbeville Dist., SC , d. 4 Jun 1865, Rocky Mount Community in Bibb Co., AL (Age 50 years)+ 9. Priscilla Cobb, b. 1816, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL , d. Bef 1850, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL (Age < 33 years)+ 10. Martha Elmira Cobb, b. 16 Jan 1817, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL , d. Abt 1862, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL (Age 44 years)+ 11. Levi Banks Cobb, b. 17 Feb 1819, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL , d. 10 May 1883, Union Parish, LA (Age 64 years)Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 Family ID F2658 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Elizabeth and her family came to the Mulberry Creek area (Bibb Co.,)
before 1920. Most members of the family were from SC with links to
Pendleton Dist. (A History of Early Bibb County Alabama, 1820-1870, by
Ulsses H. Abrams, 1981, pg. 153.
There is a descrepancy regarding Ruth's birthtime. The written
account of Ruth and Alexander's meeting and marriage states that
Alexander was 30 years her senior and that she was 14, at the time. He
was definitely born between 1773 and 1774. This would mean Ruth would
have been born in 1804 and that they met and were married in 1818.
Rutha Banks, their first child, was born in 1804 in South Carolina.
There must have been a mistake in the accounting. (Martha Cross
Mordecai, 2002)
Re. family of Ruth Banks Cobb:
The Banks came from north Alabama, Levi's sister married into the
church and their mother (second wife of their father) moved to the
area after her husband's death. Don't have his name on the tip of my
tongue, but am looking at him as a possible sibling of Ruth. There
were no other Banks in the area when Levi moved there and his sister
married to a local who became a minister. Frances was their mother. I
think the reason they moved there was they were related to Ruth.
(Source: Barbara Cobb Rowe - 2005)
- Elizabeth and her family came to the Mulberry Creek area (Bibb Co.,)