known, performed many surgeries inside the patient's home, traveling many miles in her horse-drawn buggy, and often refused to charge anything for her services. Retirement, personal life and death Cobb continued her practice until she fell and broke her hip in 1930. She retired soon after as her health deteriorated. Cobb never married, but she did adopt a six-year-old Italian orphan in 1895. She was a member of the Presbyterian church as well as many literary societies in Wagoner County. Cobb died from natural causes on August 11, 1947 in Wagoner and was laid to rest at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery. Posthumous recognition In 2015, students at Northeastern State University, which now sits on the land once occupied by the female and male Cherokee seminaries, voted to name the new student housing after Cobb. She received 43% of the 266 total votes cast. There is only one other building on campus named after a woman. Isabel Cobb Hall was dedicated in a ribbon cutting ceremony held September 19, 2016. On March 26, 2016, Mayor Albert Jones of Wagoner declared the day "Dr. Belle Cobb Day". There was an event at the Wagoner Historical Museum in which many of Cobb's relatives were in attendance. The declaration from the mayor read in part, "Today, we celebrate Dr. Belle Cobb and pay tribute to her outstanding leadership, perseverance and giving heart...the city of Wagoner honors and commemorates Dr. Cobb for making a definitive mark on history." References External links 1858 births 1947 deaths 19th-century American educators 19th-century American women educators 19th-century American physicians 19th-century American women physicians 20th-century American physicians 20th-century American women physicians 20th-century Native Americans 20th-century Native American women Cherokee Nation academics Cherokee Nation people (1794–1907) Schoolteachers from Oklahoma People from Wagoner County, Oklahoma Physicians from Oklahoma Educators from Oklahoma People from Loudon County, Tennessee Educators from Tennessee Physicians from Tennessee Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania alumni