Wood & Torbert Families

John L. Cole

b. circa 1810

John L. Cole was born circa 1810 possibly in South Carolina.
He married Rebecca F. Haden, daughter of Robert Gillespie Haden and Mary Leonard Fisher, on 10 November 1836 in Macon County, Alabama.
On Friday, 6 July 1849, Green Wood recorded in his travel journal: "Left our waggons at Mr. Rugeleys & went to Major Coles & to Mr. Robert G. Hadens to get land titles for Milo Abercrombie & returned in the evening to Mr. Rugleys."
On Friday, 6 July 1849, Green Wood recorded in his travel journal: "Left our waggons at Mr. Rugeleys & went to Major Coles & to Mr Robert G Hadens to get land titles for Milo Abercrombie & returned in the evening to Mr. Rugleys."
John L. Cole and Rebecca F. Haden appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, enumerated next to Rebecca's mother and not far from her brother Joseph.. Other members of the household included Robert F. Cole, Sarah Cole and Camella C. Cole. Enumerator for the area was Thomas Whitaker Brodnax.
He was a civil engineer, according to the 1850 census.
His wife Dixie Beatrice Abercrombie became a widow at his death.