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established a mill, farm, orchard and large vineyard. He would live there for the remainder of his life. His adult sons obtained titles to various parcels of adjoining land, and eventually the family owned most of the small valley. John Cobb died on 13 November 1893. He is buried in the
Pioneer Cemetery in Lower Lake with his wife Esther, son William and daughter Hester.
444:, then part of Napa County. and found a place to settle in what is now called Cobb Valley, since he was its first settler. In November 1853 he brought his wife and three young sons to the valley. They planted an orchard and a garden on the east bank of Nutmeg Creek, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of what is now Little Red Schoolhouse.
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Assessor for Napa County, serving for the year of 1855.. His daughter Mary was born in Cobb Valley in 1854, and his fourth son Thomas was probably born there in 1856. Once a year they made the journey by oxcart to Napa, which took five days each way, to sell excess
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farm produce, butter, cheese and chickens and to buy supplies. In 1857 Cobb was elected road overseer for Clear Lake
Township. Cobb sold his interests and moved back south. The records show that Thomas Standiford bought Cobb's Nutmeg Creek properties in 1858. Cobb moved down to the
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October 1853 he travelled north towards
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where his mother and family were living, and moved them to
Tippecanoe County, where he continued to farm and operate a keelboat until spring of 1836. Cobb next moved with his mother, two sisters and brother to Bloomington (now
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in Coyote Valley, which had been abandoned, and farmed there for about three years. He leased out farms on the ranches to settlers and encouraged them to buy when they could. He moved to nearby
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Madison in April 1839, then went back to Iowa, where he stayed until the fall. He decided to move to Texas, and reached Arkansas where he fell sick with the "white swelling" (
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in Sonoma County for two years so his children could go to school. He then returned to Little High Valley, and spent about four years improving the 520 acres (210 ha) farm.
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Ringold, then bought a grocery store and ran a boarding house. In September 1851 he sold out and moved to the
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