TITLE: Mary C. Cobb Abbott

SOURCE:  Keowee Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  Susan Brock-Booker

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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ABBOTT, Mary C. Cobb (1863-1932) Tugaloo Tribune March 15, 1932, MRS. 
MARY ABBOTT DIES SUDDENLY, Mrs. Mary Abbott, life-long resident of 
Oconee county and widow of the late Marshall Abbott, died at her home 
on North Main street Wednesday night, March 9th, at about 11 o'clock. 
Her death was a great shock to her family, friends and neighbors. She 
had for a number of years been in poor health, being a sufferer of 
heart trouble. Increased worries over recent losses and bereavements 
is believed by members of the faily to have hastened the end. However, 
she had been up and about her household duties and retired Wednesday 
night at the usual time and apparently in her usual health. At about 
10 o'clock she became alarmingly ill and a physician was summoned and 
neighbors called. She breathed her last soon after the doctor arrived 
and only a few present outside the family. Two daughters, Miss Katie 
Abbott and Mrs. E. R. White livve with her and a son, Z. T. Abbott 
lives only a short distance from the house. The death is a distinct 
shock to the family, as it is the seventh member to pass away in a 
little more than seven years, the first being Mr. Ronnie Abbott, son 
and brother, who died shortly after their residence was burned, kown 
as the house Dr. Mitchell built, which later became the Oconee 
hospital. Mrs Abbott was the daughter of the late John Cobb and her 
mother was Ara Adair Cobb and she was born in the Coneross section. 
She was in her sixty-eighth year. Of the large family of brothers and 
sisters, only two brothers now living, Mr. William M. Cobb of Walhalla,
and Mr. James Cobb of Pelzer. While in her teens she was married to 
Marshall Abbott and they reared a large family of sons and daughters. 
She was a good homemaker, a devoted wife, kind friend, and an 
affectionate mother, and in every community she made her home her life
rang out true and she made others happy. Surviving are the following 
sons and daughters: Mr. H. E. Abbott, McKesport, Pa.; Mr. J. D. Abbott,
Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. Z. T. Abbott, Westerminster; Mrs. W. W. Mitchell
(Lila), Tallahassee, Fla.; Miss Katie Abbott and Mrs. E. R. White 
(Guynelle), Westminster. The three children preceding her to the grave 
being Claude, Ronnie, and Mrs. R. W. (Mallie) Grubbs. To the children, 
brothers and grandchildren is extended the profound sympathy of a 
large circle of friends. Mrs. Abbott had been a member of Coneross 
Baptist church for more than fifty years and the old home church 
always had a warm place in her heart. Mr. Abbott, her husband, died 
March 18, 1926. His death also, was sudden as he dropped dead in the 
road while returning from the field to his home for dinner. Brief 
funeral services were held from the Abbott home on Friday afternoon 
at three-thirty and the large number who gathered for the tribute of 
respect testified the esteem in which Mrs. Abbott was held. The 
services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. L. H. Raines and assisted 
by Dr. F. O. Mixon and Rev. M. J. Stansell. The Abbott Brothers, 
Seneca undertakers, had charge of the burial which took place in 
Coneross cemetery at the conclusion of the funeral. The pallbearers 
were Messrs. Jas. A. Lawrence, D. J. Miller, W. F. Crenshaw, Lee A. 
Haley, O. W. Pitts and C. M. Miller. Among the relatives who came for 
the funeral and interment out of town and out of the county ? Mr. and 
Mrs. W. W. Mitchell, Marshall and daughter, Miss May Mitchell, 
Tallahassee, Fla.; Jadie D. Abbott, Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. and Mrs. A. 
T. Cobb, Ray Cobb, Alfred and Sam Cobb; Mr. M. M. DePass, Mrs. Gay and
? Emerson, and Albert N. ?, Hodges; W. T. Abbott and Mr. and Mrs. Lee 
Sprouse, Spartanburg; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Coffee, Miss Ina Coffee, 
Miss Ina Reaves, Miss Victoria Miller, Mrs. W. J. Brown, G. W. 
Leathers, Atlanta, Ga.; Jesse Coffee, Gainesville, Ga.; Mrs. Rob 
Worley, Miss Nannie Worley, Mrs. Wade, Mrs. Reeves, and Mrs. R. C. 
Topping, of Anderson; Mrs. Janie Thompson, Nashville, Tenn.; Mr. and 
Mrs. J. H. Cobb, B. F. Cobb, Drayton and Annie Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. 
Romaine Cobb and two sons of Pelzer; Warren T. Cobb and family of 
Catteechee, and a large number from Seneca, Walhalla and other 
sections of Oconee. Contributed by: Susan Brock-Booker, 
sbrockbooker@aol.com

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