Notes:

Died:
automobile accident

Notes:

Died:
died after complication open heart surgery

William married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1880 Federal Census: 22 Jun 1880, Pigeon, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
• Obituary: 31 Oct 1932, Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, USA

Notes:

Obituary:
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.

Columbus married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1860 Federal Census: 4 Jun 1860, Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, USA
• 1870 Federal Census: 9 Jul 1870, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA
• 1880 Federal Census: 22 Jun 1880, Pigeon, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
• 1900 Federal Census: 14 Jun 1900, Upper Hominy, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA
• 1910 Federal Census: 25 Apr 1910, Upper Hominy, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA
• 1920 Federal Census: 15 Jan 1920, Upper Hominy, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA
• 1930 Federal Census: 24 Apr 1930, Upper Hominy, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

John moved "over the mountain" to the Upper Hominy Township in Buncombe County. His first wife's (Bethany) background is sketchy. It is thought that her mother was Adaline Henson Thomas. In 1880, the census showed Bethany and son, Columbus, counted in the household of grandfather Daniel Henson.



Essie Sellers Jervis recalls that Uncle John always had a sense of humor and could initiate a variety of activity. On one occasion he came to visit Essie's mother, his niece, martha Ann Cogburn Sellers. John went with the family to East Fork Baptist Church where he was remembered as the one who established Flower Day (one Sunday each year everyone wore a flower on the lapel). This practice continued for many years.

Died:
Asheville Citizen-Times

Asheville, North Carolina

24 Mar 1937, Wed • Page 2



John Austin Cogburn, 79, of Candler, was buried yesterday afternoon in the Piney Mountain Cemetery following a funeral service at Piney Mountain Methodist church. The Rev. R. R. Mehafey, the Rev. B. N. Rogers, the Rev. T. A. Groce, the Rev. Mr. Mason and the Rev. Mr. White officiated.



Pallbearers were Kattren Smathers, Hugh Sorrells, Howard Foster, Junius Foster, Vern Cogburn and Medford Cogburn, grandsons. Flowerbearers were Lillian Cogburn, Lora Jackson, Margaret Smathers, Neil McElrath, Vanda McElrath, Mae Smathers and Edna, Lucille, Carolyn, Foster and Clota Curtis, granddaughters.



Mr. Cogburn, who died Monday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. J.H. Evans of Candler, is survived by five children, Mrs. Evans, Wesley Cogburn, Mrs. Charlotte McElrath, and Mrs. Lily Smathers, of Candler, and James Cogburn of Platteville, Colorado, two brothers, Pink and Posey Cogburn, of Candler; a sister, Mrs. Charlotte Mease, of Haywood County; 38 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.

Buried:
GRid=27907864

John married Bethany Thomas on 26 Jan 1878 in Haywood, North Carolina, USA. Bethany (daughter of John G. Thomas and Adeline Henson) was born on 22 Dec 1861; died on 2 Oct 1900 in Buncombe, North Carolina, USA; was buried in Piney Mountain Cemetery, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1870 Federal Census: 21 Jul 1870, Pigeon, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
• 1880 Federal Census: 22 Jun 1880, Pigeon, Haywood, North Carolina, USA
• 1900 Federal Census: 14 Jun 1900, Upper Hominy, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=51750717

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]