James William Hobbs
James
William Hobbs was
born July 11, 1862 in Nelson County, Kentucky.
He was the second of five children born to William M. Hobbs and Sarah
Graves. He was raised on the family farm
in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.
James married Salina (maiden name
unknown) around 1883 in Nelson County, Kentucky. They were both about 23 years old at the time
of their marriage. Salina was born April
25, 1861 in Kentucky. The couple did not
have any children. James and Salina made
their home on a farm in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.
Salina Hobbs died on April 29, 1910 in
Nelson County, Kentucky. She was buried
in the Old Methodist Cemetery in Chaplin, Nelson County. She died four days after her 49th
birthday.
James remarried around 1911. He married Annie E. Hardesty, daughter of
William H. Hardesty and Nancy Ray Searcy.
Annie was born on August 8, 1877 in Anderson County, Kentucky.
James and Annie had one child:
James William, Jr. born July 4, 1912
Annie E. Hardesty Hobbs died on July
28, 1918 in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.
The cause of death was consumption.
She was just a few weeks shy of her 41st birthday. Annie was buried in Highview Cemetery in
Chaplin.
In 1920, James and his son were living
and working on their family farm on Asher Creek Road in Chaplin, Nelson County,
Kentucky.
James William Hobbs died of
tuberculosis on June 2, 1925, just a month shy of his 63rd birthday. He was buried in Highview Cemetery in Chaplin,
Kentucky.
After the death of his father, James
William Jr. moved in with Samuel and Lizzie Terrell and their family, who also
lived on Asher Creek Road. In the 1930
US Census, they list James as their adopted son.
Notes for James William Hobbs
Birth
& Death: Ancestry.com. Kentucky Death Records,
1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc,
2007.
Marriage,
Residence & Occupation in 1900: Year: 1900; Census Place: Chaplin, Nelson,
Kentucky; Roll: T623_546; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 95.
Residence
in 1920: Year: 1920; Census Place: Chaplin,
Nelson, Kentucky; Roll: T625_593; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 49; Image:
878. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States
Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc,
2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Notes for Salina (maiden name unknown)
Birth
& Death: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave
Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data:
Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Notes for Annie E. Hardesty
Birth: Ancestry.com.
Kentucky, Birth Records, 1852-1910 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original
data: Kentucky. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm
(1852-1910). Microfilm rolls #994027-994058. Kentucky Department for Libraries
and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
Death:
Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953 [database on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Notes for James William Hobbs, Jr.
Birth: Ancestry.com.
Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006. Kentucky
Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death
Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for
Libraries and Archives.
Residence
in 1930: Year: 1930; Census Place: District 5, Nelson,
Kentucky; Roll: 772; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0018; Image: 546.0; FHL
microfilm: 2340507. Ancestry.com. 1930
United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2002.
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