Biography:

Leader in women’s work in Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Born– January 20, 1860, Bolivar, Tennessee. Parents– William Horton and Mary Janette Safford Thompson. Married– Daniel Boone Cobbs, a lawyer, January 20, 1890. Children– Two. Moved to Mobile in 1884 and lived there until 1937. Instrumental in the development of the Presbyterian Women’s Auxiliary.  Women’s page editor of the Gulf States Presbyterian, 1910-1914.  Died 1953.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History, ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Presbyterian Women of the Synod of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Women’s Auxiliary of the Synod of Alabama, 1936.

Joint_Publication(s):

Around the Year in Mobile (1702-1924). Mobile, Ala.; Cobbs, Howard & Watkins, 1923.

Papers:

Papers of Aleathea Thompson Cobbs are included in the Safford Family Collection in the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia.