Cosby is the third son and last child of William Joseph Cunningham and his first wife Rhoda Frances South. His mother died on July 1, 1897 when he was a little over a year old and he had no memory of her. He married Myra Agatha Sanders on February 16, 1916 sitting in a buggy in her father’s front yard. Cosby worked in sawmills, on road and railroad construction, share-cropping, and in the shipyards in Mobile, Alabama immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. Myra, in addition to raising the family, worked as a civil service worker at the Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Mississippi during World War 2 and in a retail store in Aberdeen, Mississippi afterwards. This eventually led them to open a dry goods store in Hamilton, Mississippi, where they lived the remainder of their lives. Cosby and Myra are buried at Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
(This site is dedicated to the full story of Cosby and Myra Cunningham’s life together. More details can be found on the home page and under the “Cunninghams” menu option.)
