Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Estella Hobbs (1892-1966)

Estella Hobbs



Estella Hobbs was born March 12, 1892 in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.  She was the third of five children born to John Thomas Hobbs and Rachel Ann Herndon.  She was raised on the family farm in Chaplin, Nelson, Kentucky.



Estella married William Thomas Edwards around 1911 in Nelson or Spencer County, Kentucky.   She was 19 years old and he was 22.  William was born on November 1, 1888 in Kentucky, the son of Thomas Lee Edwards and Mary J. Lane.



Edward and Estella made their home in Spencer County, Kentucky, where Edward worked as a farmer.  They had four children:



            Irene                            born 1912

            Hally M.                      born 1915

            Ralph Woodrow         born 1918

            Marjorie                       born 1921



Estella Hobbs Edwards died on November 14, 1966 at the age of 74.  She was buried in Valley Cemetery in Taylorsville, Spencer, Kentucky.  William died 16 years later, on February 4, 1982, at the age of 93.  He was buried in the same place.




Notes for Estella Hobbs

Birth & Death:  Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.  Original data: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning. Kentucky Death Index, 1911-present. Frankfort, KY, USA: Kentucky Department of Information Systems.



Notes for William T. Edwards

Birth & Death:  Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.  Original data: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning. Kentucky Death Index, 1911-present. Frankfort, KY, USA: Kentucky Department of Information Systems.

Residence & Occupation in 1920:  Year: 1920;Census Place: Camp Branch, Spencer,  Kentucky; Roll: T625_598; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 152; Image: 1093.

 

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