Lothrop Hill Cemetery - Barnstable, Massachusetts

There is a monument to Deacon Henry C. Cobb, Jr. in the Lothrop Hill Cemetery, located west of Barnstable, Massachusetts on Highway 6A.  You can get more specific directions to the cemetery here. The historical marker reads, "Erected to the memory of Rev. John Lothrop, 1584-1653, and such first settlers who fill unmarked graves in this cemetery and at the "calves pasture."  Mr. Lothrop was pastor of the Church of England at Egerton, 1611-1623, The Congregational Society at Southwark, London, 1624-1632, Confined Newgate Prison, 1632-1634, Scituate, 1634-1639. Barnstable, 1639-1653.  He was a gentle, kindly man and beloved by all who knew him.  Barnstable Tercentenary, 1939." Henry Cobb was the father of Mary Cobb, who married Jonathan Dunham, Deacon Jonathan Dunham's son.

(From Left) Inscription on obelisk: ELDER HENRY COBB THE ANCESTOR OF THE COBB FAMILY IN BARNSTABLE.   DIED IN 1679.  ERECTED BY ENOCH T. COBB, A DESCENDANT, IN 1871. (2) Inscription on stone (on the ground in front of obelisk): COBB, HENRY COBB, PATIENCE HURST, SAMUEL COBB, HENRY COBB, NOAH COBB, MATTHEW COBB, AUGUSTUS COBB, WILLIAM M. COBB, BRADIE E. COBB, OATIS B. COBB, SR., OATIS B. COBB, NATHAN M. COBB, TYLER M. COBB.  THIS MEMORIAL SPANS COBB GENERATIONS 1596 TO DEC. 2004 & PROVIDED BY OATIS B. & CATHY L. COBB, BUFFLO, W.V.  (3 & 4)  Details from stone in front of Obelisk. Great thanks to Oatis B. and Cathy L. Cobb, and Enoch T. Cobb!  Without these memorials, we wouldn't even have known they were there!

Deacon Henry C. Cobb and Patience Hurst (Cobb) Memorial

Other Cobb Graves at the Lothrop Hill Cemetery

All three of these stones were well-weathered or boken, so I wrote down all the details I could make out.  From left: 1) HERE LIES YE BODY OF M- HANNAH COBB - OF MR - COBB; 2) The right half of the stone is actually lying in the grass, I picked it up for the photo; 3) Footstones like this one for Hannan Cobb accompanied many headstones in New England; 4) Lichen was a big problem for many stones like this one for HANNAH COBB, DIED --25, A.D. 1776.  Our friends at Spirited Ghost Hunting sent us a great link for Cape Cod Cemeteries - be sure to check it out!  One of the graves below, which is located in the Lothrop Hill Cemetery, is one of three of the oldest surviving headstones in Cape Cod.  You can also look up the meaning of many gravestone symbols - and the meaning of the word "consort" - on the Spirited Ghost Hunting site.

Left: HERE LYES INTERRED YE BODY OF MRS ANNA RUSSSEL WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBY YE 5 1729 IN Y 23d YEAR OF HER AGE AND IN HER AREM THEIR SON LEAONARD DIED YE SAME DAY.  AETATIS 17 DAYES / Beneath this marble stone dothe lye / Two subjects of Death's tyrrany / The mother who in this close Tomb / Sleeps with the Issue of her womb / Here Death dealt cruelty you see / Who with the Fruit cuts down the tree / Yet in his Malice all in vain / For tree and Fruit shall Spring again.  Right (one of the oldest stones in Cape Cod):  HERE LYETH INTERRED YE BODY OF MRS HOPE CHIPMAN YE WIFE OF ELDER JOHN CHIPMAN AGED 54 YEARS SHO CHANGED HIS LIFE FOR A BETER [sic] YE  8 OF JANUARY 1683.

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