Talk:Nicholas H. Cobbs

Prayers
How did Bishop Cobbs order any clergy not to pray for the President or Congress of the Confederate States which such did not even exist as the time of his death? Did he perhaps order them not to pray for elected officials who were supportive of succession? 2600:1004:B168:9C99:C44F:D9E8:B593:FA0 (talk) 23:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

More work needed
I expanded this article using basic online sources, and a book about prominent people from Bedford County, Virginia, which grew into a road and railroad hub to slaveholding areas in Tennessee and points south. Due to the Covid situation, I don't have access to the one or two published books about the Episcopal church and slavery, which presumably discuss his life and would confirm that at least one of his sons joined the Confederate army in Alabama. I've cleaned up the ending about him opposing secession because of the comment above and because I cannot access the Hobart College alumni resource cited. Though different sources list slightly different death dates, clearly Cobbs died months before Lincoln's inauguration (and Virginia seceded from union, which I'm more familiar with). Likewise, though one source said he received an honorary degree from Geneva College in 1844, the wikipedia article about the college said it was founded in Ohio in 1848 then moved to Pennsylvania after the Civil War, so I did not include that degree under his education.Jweaver28 (talk) 17:33, 10 October 2020 (UTC). P.S. I don't know why my header didn't carry over--another instance of the odd editing via source code template for the past 2 weeks or so. Also, IMHO, it would have been unlikely for him to become a bishop, even in a missionary area like Alabama, without some formal theological studies, but I'm not including him as a Hobart College grad without backup, and ancestry's college yearbook pages seem only to reflect that as a bishop he was on the General Theological Seminary board of trustees.Jweaver28 (talk) 17:39, 10 October 2020 (UTC)