Lucy Plummer Battle was born 1861 in Wadesboro, Anson County, NC the eldest of 10 known surviving children (6 boys/4 girls) born to CSA veteran and attorney Richard Henry Battle and his wife, Annie Ruffin Ashe.
She was the paternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge William Horn Battle & Lucy Martin Plummer of Raleigh; and gr-grandchild of Col. Joel Battle & Mary Palmer Johnston of Edgecombe County. She is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, J. John Battle (1634-1691) who immigrated from England to the Virginia Colonies in 1654 with his family and a number of relatives and neighbors settling on the west Fork of the Nansemond River in a district since known as Nansemond County, Virginia. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge Thomas Samuel Ashe & Caroline Burgwyn, of Anson County, and descended from prominent families on all sides of her family tree.
Lucy grew up in Raleigh where her parents located during the Civil War and where her father was then private secretary to Governor-elect Zebulon Vance.
On April 6, 1904, the 43-year old spinster became the 2nd wife of 42-year old Collier Cobb, geology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, who was widowed in 1900 when his first wife, Mary Lindsay Battle, died at age 34 leaving him a widower with 3 small children. (Mary and Lucy were first cousins.)
The marriage was short-lived, as Lucy died April 27, 1905, just a few days after giving birth to her only child, Richard Battle Cobb. She was only 44 years old. Her twice-widowed husband would marry for the 3rd time to Mary Knox Gatlin in 1910.
Lucy Plummer Battle was born 1861 in Wadesboro, Anson County, NC the eldest of 10 known surviving children (6 boys/4 girls) born to CSA veteran and attorney Richard Henry Battle and his wife, Annie Ruffin Ashe.
She was the paternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge William Horn Battle & Lucy Martin Plummer of Raleigh; and gr-grandchild of Col. Joel Battle & Mary Palmer Johnston of Edgecombe County. She is a direct descendant of this family's patriarch, J. John Battle (1634-1691) who immigrated from England to the Virginia Colonies in 1654 with his family and a number of relatives and neighbors settling on the west Fork of the Nansemond River in a district since known as Nansemond County, Virginia. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of Superior Court Judge Thomas Samuel Ashe & Caroline Burgwyn, of Anson County, and descended from prominent families on all sides of her family tree.
Lucy grew up in Raleigh where her parents located during the Civil War and where her father was then private secretary to Governor-elect Zebulon Vance.
On April 6, 1904, the 43-year old spinster became the 2nd wife of 42-year old Collier Cobb, geology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, who was widowed in 1900 when his first wife, Mary Lindsay Battle, died at age 34 leaving him a widower with 3 small children. (Mary and Lucy were first cousins.)
The marriage was short-lived, as Lucy died April 27, 1905, just a few days after giving birth to her only child, Richard Battle Cobb. She was only 44 years old. Her twice-widowed husband would marry for the 3rd time to Mary Knox Gatlin in 1910.
Family Members
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Samuel Ashe Battle
1863–1865
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Dr Lewis Junius Battle
1865–1940
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Caroline Burgwyn "Lena" Battle Stitt
1867–1949
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Richard Henry Battle
1869–1880
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Nannie Ashe Battle
1871–1873
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Edmond Strudwick Ashe Battle
1873–1949
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Charles Phillips Battle
1875–1877
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Rosa Ashe Battle Miller
1879–1962
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William Kemp Battle
1880–1905
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