Orange County Indexed
The Cobey surname
The Cobey name in Orange County Indexed: 1 historical record and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1768
most named in the 1760s
- Wills 1768
- In the chronology
- 1926 to 1986 2 people in 20 entries, most in the 1980s
- Spellings to try
- Coley, Cobea, Covey
- Search beyond these records
- Cobey in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Cobey there)
- Cobey in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 2 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
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Cobey, Bill 18 entries, 1926–1986
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- 1926–1988: Kenan Memorial Stadium, 1926–1988
- 1973–1977: Title IX at UNC and in the Chapel Hill schools, 1973–1977
- February 27, 1976: The UNC Board of Governors raises Chapel Hill's student athletic fee to build up women's sports
- April 2, 1977: The New York Yankees play an exhibition game against UNC at Boshamer Stadium
- 1978: UNC hires Willie Scroggs to coach men's lacrosse
- by September 8, 1979: Kenan Stadium gets four women's restroom buildings and new student seats
- November 30, 1979: UNC's athletic department agrees to pay the rest of the women's basketball team's trip to London
- January 3, 1980: Athletic Director Bill Cobey resigns to run for lieutenant governor
- January to February 1980: Local advocates campaign for a woman as UNC athletic director
- early October 1980: Members of about a dozen Orange County churches form the Carolinians Concerned political action committee
- September 23, 1980: Republicans open a Reagan-Cobey campaign headquarters on East Rosemary Street
- 1981–1989: Chapel Hill protests over U.S. policy in Central America, 1981–1989
- November 2, 1982: Orange County voters help return Ike Andrews to Congress over Chapel Hill Republican Bill Cobey
- September 10, 1984: Orange County Republicans open their first county headquarters since 1978
- June 12, 1985: Protesters march on Rep. Bill Cobey's Chapel Hill office against Contra aid
- March 14, 1985: Students for America shows The Silent Scream and holds an abortion forum with Rep. Bill Cobey
- September 8, 1986: David Price opens his fall campaign for Congress at the Franklin Street post office
- August 21, 1986: Former President Gerald Ford campaigns for Rep. Bill Cobey at a Chapel Hill reception
- Cobey, William 2 entries, 1976–1979
In the historical records 1 record
1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1768WillsWill of John McCoy
