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The Cobbs were also patrons of charity. They assisted student ministers from [[Emory University]] in Atlanta by providing some of them free housing in their garage apartment.<ref name=cobbinst/> In 1938, the Cobbs purchased an historic house in Decatur, Georgia, built by Michael Steele, a pioneer of DeKalb County, along with eighty-seven adjacent acres on which to raise grain and livestock. Upon Cobb's death, the property was donated to Emory University. The current owners bought the Steele-Cobb property in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicforsale.com/historicrealestate/PropertyDetail.aspx?id=812|title=Steele-Cobb House|publisher=historicforsale.com|accessdate=July 16, 2010}}</ref>
The Cobbs were also patrons of charity. They assisted student ministers from [[Emory University]] in Atlanta by providing some of them free housing in their garage apartment.<ref name=cobbinst/> In 1938, the Cobbs purchased an historic house in Decatur, Georgia, built by Michael Steele, a pioneer of DeKalb County, along with eighty-seven adjacent acres on which to raise grain and livestock. Upon Cobb's death, the property was donated to Emory University. The current owners bought the Steele-Cobb property in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicforsale.com/historicrealestate/PropertyDetail.aspx?id=812|title=Steele-Cobb House|publisher=historicforsale.com|accessdate=July 16, 2010}}</ref>
Mrs. Cobb spent her remaining years in Decatur, where she died at the age of ninety-eight a dozen years after her husband's death. The couple is interred in DeKalb County. Mississippi State University [[historian]] Roy Vernon Scott of Starkville, co-author with [[Jimmy Shoalmire]] of a 1973 biography of Cobb, was a pallbearer at Cully Cobb's funeral.<ref>Statement of Roy Vernon Scott, July 16, 2010.</ref>
Mrs. Cobb spent her remaining years in Decatur, where she died at the age of ninety-eight a dozen years after her husband's death. The couple is interred in DeKalb County. Mississippi State University [[historian]] [[Roy Vernon Scott]] of Starkville, co-author with [[Jimmy Shoalmire]] of a 1973 biography of Cobb, was a pallbearer at Cully Cobb's funeral.<ref>Statement of Roy Vernon Scott, July 16, 2010.</ref>
==Cobb Institute of Archaeology==
==Cobb Institute of Archaeology==