She was the second person to die in BARNSTABLE, and according to Rev. Lotrop, she was "the first that was buried in our new burying place by our meeting house" [NEHGR 9:285].
In the old cemetery on Lothrop's Hill, in Barnstable, within an enclosure about six feet square, surrounded by stone posts and iron rails, are Henry's & Patience's graves. In the center, between the two graves, stands a plain simple granite shaft about six feet in height from the base, on the front of which has been engraved the following inscription to his memory: "Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the Cobb Family in Barnstable. Died in 1679 --- Erected in 1871, by Enoch T. Cobb, a descendant."
Patience Hurst was born circa 1610 to James & Gertrude (Bennister) Hurst(in Leiden census of 1622). Patience married Henry Cobb by 1632. They had seven children: John, James, Mary Dunham, Hannah Lewis, Patience Parker Crocker, Gershom, & Eliezer. These seven Cobb grandchildren were named in Patience's father James Hurst's will.
per Mary Jo Freeman
In the old cemetery on Lothrop's Hill, in Barnstable, within an enclosure about six feet square, surrounded by stone posts and iron rails, are Henry's & Patience's graves. In the center, between the two graves, stands a plain simple granite shaft about six feet in height from the base, on the front of which has been engraved the following inscription to his memory: "Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the Cobb Family in Barnstable. Died in 1679 --- Erected in 1871, by Enoch T. Cobb, a descendant."
Patience Hurst was born circa 1610 to James & Gertrude (Bennister) Hurst(in Leiden census of 1622). Patience married Henry Cobb by 1632. They had seven children: John, James, Mary Dunham, Hannah Lewis, Patience Parker Crocker, Gershom, & Eliezer. These seven Cobb grandchildren were named in Patience's father James Hurst's will.
per Mary Jo Freeman
She was the second person to die in BARNSTABLE, and according to Rev. Lotrop, she was "the first that was buried in our new burying place by our meeting house" [NEHGR 9:285].
In the old cemetery on Lothrop's Hill, in Barnstable, within an enclosure about six feet square, surrounded by stone posts and iron rails, are Henry's & Patience's graves. In the center, between the two graves, stands a plain simple granite shaft about six feet in height from the base, on the front of which has been engraved the following inscription to his memory: "Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the Cobb Family in Barnstable. Died in 1679 --- Erected in 1871, by Enoch T. Cobb, a descendant."
Patience Hurst was born circa 1610 to James & Gertrude (Bennister) Hurst(in Leiden census of 1622). Patience married Henry Cobb by 1632. They had seven children: John, James, Mary Dunham, Hannah Lewis, Patience Parker Crocker, Gershom, & Eliezer. These seven Cobb grandchildren were named in Patience's father James Hurst's will.
per Mary Jo Freeman
In the old cemetery on Lothrop's Hill, in Barnstable, within an enclosure about six feet square, surrounded by stone posts and iron rails, are Henry's & Patience's graves. In the center, between the two graves, stands a plain simple granite shaft about six feet in height from the base, on the front of which has been engraved the following inscription to his memory: "Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the Cobb Family in Barnstable. Died in 1679 --- Erected in 1871, by Enoch T. Cobb, a descendant."
Patience Hurst was born circa 1610 to James & Gertrude (Bennister) Hurst(in Leiden census of 1622). Patience married Henry Cobb by 1632. They had seven children: John, James, Mary Dunham, Hannah Lewis, Patience Parker Crocker, Gershom, & Eliezer. These seven Cobb grandchildren were named in Patience's father James Hurst's will.
per Mary Jo Freeman
