Columbus Webster Cogburn
1879 - 1932 (53 years)
Person ID: I2144 | Tree: Rudeen-Rademacher | Last Modified: 24 Apr 2022
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Name Columbus Webster Cogburn Birth 16 Feb 1879 Haywood, North Carolina, USA 
Gender Male Died 30 Oct 1932 Pysht, Clallam, Washington, USA -
Parents
Father John Austin Cogburn (ID:I2142), b. 6 May 1860, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 21 Mar 1937, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 76 years) Mother Bethany Thomas (ID:I2143), b. 22 Dec 1861 d. 2 Oct 1900, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 38 years) Marriage 26 Jan 1878 Haywood, North Carolina, USA 
1878 Marriage Record for John Austin Cogburn and Bethana Thomas Children + 1. Columbus Webster Cogburn (ID:I2144)
(current person)
, b. 16 Feb 1879, Haywood, North Carolina, USA d. 30 Oct 1932, Pysht, Clallam, Washington, USA (Age 53 years)2. Zebadee Cogburn (ID:I2145), b. 7 Aug 1880, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 20 Dec 1897, South Hominy, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 17 years)+ 3. James Western Cogburn (ID:I2106), b. 18 Jun 1882, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 28 Jul 1939, Platteville, Weld, Colorado, USA (Age 57 years)+ 4. John Wesley Cogburn (ID:I2146), b. 4 Apr 1885, Haywood, North Carolina, USA d. 19 Oct 1960, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 75 years)+ 5. 
Lyda Cogburn (ID:I2147), b. 21 Oct 1887, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 20 Jul 1964, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 76 years)+ 6. Altha Cogburn (ID:I2148), b. 1889, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 10 Sep 1934, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 45 years)+ 7. Charlotte Elizabeth Cogburn (ID:I2149), b. 12 Aug 1895, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 2 Jan 1970, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 74 years)+ 8. Lillie A. Cogburn (ID:I2150), b. 21 Feb 1900, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA d. 1 May 1973, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 73 years) -
Family
Wife Living (ID:I8725) Children + 1. Austin Newton Cogburn (ID:I8747), b. 27 Dec 1903, Cruso, Haywood, North Carolina, USA d. 31 Dec 1960, Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, USA (Age 57 years)+ 2. Ernest Isaac Cogburn (ID:I8748), b. 8 Jul 1904, Sprague, Lincoln, Washington, USA d. 13 Dec 1959, Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, USA (Age 55 years)3. Living (ID:I8749)+ 4. Living (ID:I8750)5. Norman Wesley Cogburn (ID:I8751), b. 21 Dec 1915, Dempsey Camp, Skagit, Washington, USA d. 22 Nov 1958, Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, USA (Age 42 years)+ 6. William Harvey Cogburn (ID:I8752), b. 3 May 1917, Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, USA d. 14 Feb 1972 (Age 54 years) -
Other Personal Events
1880 Federal Census 22 Jun 1880 Pigeon, Haywood, North Carolina, USA [1] 
1880 Census - David Henson Family
Daniel H Henson, Male, 72
John Cogborn, Grandson, 22
Bethany Cogborn, Granddaughter, 18
Columbus W Cogborn, Great-grandson, 1
Adaline Thomas, Daughter, 46
Joseph Mc Thomas, Grandson, 16Obituary 31 Oct 1932 Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, USA [2] - Falling Load of Ties Kills C.W. Cogburn
Port Angeles Man Loses Life at Merrill and Ring Headquarters Camp at Pysht Sunday
Sling Breaks
Employee of Logging Company Walking Beneath Suspended Weight When Strap Parts
Columbus Webster Cogburn, 53, a resident of Port Angeles for 16 years and an employee of the Merrill and Ring Logging Company, lost his life at the Pysht headquarters camp of that company at 9:30 A.M. Sunday, when a load of railroad ties fell upon him.
Working with a traveling crane mounted on a rail car, Mr. Cogburn was placing sand on the slippery track to improve the traction. As he walked beneath the heavy bundle of tie, suspended from the crane, the sling carrying the weight broke and he was caught beneath the descending timbers.
The late Mr. Cogburn was born in Haywood County, North Carolina, on February 16, 1879. Married to Miss Flora Trull in 1901, he and his wife came West in 1906, settling near Sprague in eastern Washington. Two years later they removed to Sedro-Woolley, where they resided until 1916, when they came to Port Angeles.
Mr. Cogburn followed the logging business, operating a yarder for the Merrill and Ring Company intermittently in recent years. He first became connected with that firm in 1922. One summer he spent in truck logging operations near Port Angeles and another season, he was employed in a British Columbia camp.
Surviving relatives include the widow, Mrs. Flora Cogburn, six children, Austin, Ernest, Edna, Norman and William Cogburn and Mrs. Daisy Ward and two grandchildren all living in Port Angeles. Mr. Cogburn's father, four sisters and a brother are at Candler, North Carolina and a second brother makes his home in Denver.
Funeral arrangements had not been completed today but will be announced later by the Dewey Lyden Company, funeral directors, in charge.
1932 Obituary Columbus Cogburn - Falling Load of Ties Kills C.W. Cogburn
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Source Citations
- [S14] 1880 U.S. Census, "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCX9-SY6 : 12 September 2017), Daniel H Henson, Pigeon, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 85, sheet 152A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,967.
- [S283] Port Angeles Evening News.