I just want to say "Hi, Cuz"! Ty Cobb's ancestry, as far as I know it, goes back to John Cobb, born around 1830 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. His ancestry goes back to possibly another John Cobb, perhaps from a different state. John Cobb (1830) is the father of William Hershel Cobb (1860 - 1905), who is the father of Tyrus "Ty" Raymond Cobb, born in 1886, and died in 1961. Ty has five children; I think all who have recently died.