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Cobb Family Cemetery

Oyster, Northampton County, Virginia, USA

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    Coordinates: 37.34427, -75.72657
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Cobb Family Cemetery was located on Cobb's Island (formerly Sand Shoals), in Northampton Co., Virginia (prior to 1897). This is about 9 miles from the mainland, Oyster, Virginia.

It is likely that some victims of shipwrecks in the area are buried in this cemetery, as well as some of the many people who lived and worked on the island, at the hotel, the hunting business, and other workers.

As a result of the October 1896 severe storm and destruction to Cobb's Island, the graves were moved away from the Island. An 1897 newspaper article describes the removal of the graves from this cemetery.

Removing bodies from Cobb's Island

Onancock, Virginia - Nov. 7 - During the past week, Messrs. Warren and Lucius Cobb have had the remains of their dead relatives removed from Cobb's Island and reinterred on a point of the mainland in full view of all that is left of the island. The recent high seas washed all the earth from the top of the brick vaults in which the bodies were interred, and, as the island has about disappeared, the Messrs. Cobb determined to remove the bodies to keep them from being ultimately washed away by the waves.

The grave of Nathan Cobb, for whom the island was named, was found to contain only a few bones. The casket containing the body of Capt. Albert Cobb, who was drowned several years ago, while trying to save his brother, who had fallen overboard, was so heavy, to create the impression that it had become petrified. Some of those present, wanted to open the casket and make an investigation, but the relatives of the deceased would not permit this to be done.

Source: 8 November 1897, Baltimore Sun newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland, page 7.
















Cobb Family Cemetery was located on Cobb's Island (formerly Sand Shoals), in Northampton Co., Virginia (prior to 1897). This is about 9 miles from the mainland, Oyster, Virginia.

It is likely that some victims of shipwrecks in the area are buried in this cemetery, as well as some of the many people who lived and worked on the island, at the hotel, the hunting business, and other workers.

As a result of the October 1896 severe storm and destruction to Cobb's Island, the graves were moved away from the Island. An 1897 newspaper article describes the removal of the graves from this cemetery.

Removing bodies from Cobb's Island

Onancock, Virginia - Nov. 7 - During the past week, Messrs. Warren and Lucius Cobb have had the remains of their dead relatives removed from Cobb's Island and reinterred on a point of the mainland in full view of all that is left of the island. The recent high seas washed all the earth from the top of the brick vaults in which the bodies were interred, and, as the island has about disappeared, the Messrs. Cobb determined to remove the bodies to keep them from being ultimately washed away by the waves.

The grave of Nathan Cobb, for whom the island was named, was found to contain only a few bones. The casket containing the body of Capt. Albert Cobb, who was drowned several years ago, while trying to save his brother, who had fallen overboard, was so heavy, to create the impression that it had become petrified. Some of those present, wanted to open the casket and make an investigation, but the relatives of the deceased would not permit this to be done.

Source: 8 November 1897, Baltimore Sun newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland, page 7.















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