George Edward Hobbs (1871-1949)

George Edward Hobbs

Son of William M. Hobbs & Sarah Ann Graves

George Edward “Ed” Hobbs was born September 20, 1871 in Nelson County, Kentucky.  He was the youngest of five children born to William M. Hobbs and Sarah Graves.  He was raised on the family farm in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.

Ed married Salena Knightly around 1893 in Nelson County, Kentucky.  He was 22 years old and she was 18 years.  Salena was born on June 4, 1874 in Owen County, Kentucky, the daughter of Elija Knightly and Melly Smith. 

After their marriage, the couple made their home on a farm in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.  Ed and Salena had seven children:

            Grace                    born October 20, 1893

            Myrtle                  born January 15, 1896

            Alma Ruth           born October 15, 1897           

            Arleigh                 born 1900

            Dwight                 born October 23, 1902

            Carroll                  born June 8, 1907

            William G.            born April 1910

            Robert                 born 1911

Salena Knightly Hobbs died on May 17, 1922 in Nelson County, Kentucky, at the age of 47.  The cause of death listed was pulmonary tuberculosis.  She was buried in Chaplin. 

Sometime after the death of his wife, Ed found employment as a salesman for the Standard Oil Company.  In 1930 he was rooming with the William Redman family in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.

George Edward Hobbs died on June 5, 1949 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, at the age of 77 years.  The cause of death listed was coronary thrombosis and bronchial pneumonia.  He was buried in Chaplin, Kentucky.

 

Notes for George Edward “Ed” 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: 14A; Enumeration District: 95.

Residence & Occupation in 1930:  Year: 1930; Census Place:  Lexington,  Fayette,  Kentucky; Roll: 743; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 20; Image: 839.0.

Notes for Salena Knightly

Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com. Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

James William Hobbs (1862-1925)

James William Hobbs

Son of William M. Hobbs & Sarah Ann Graves

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 49^th 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 41^st 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.

John Thomas Hobbs (1859-1939)

John Thomas Hobbs

Son of William M. Hobbs & Sarah Ann Graves

John “Thomas” Hobbs was born on September 11, 1859 in Nelson County, Kentucky.  He was the eldest of five children born to William M. Hobbs and Sarah Graves.  He was raised on the family farm in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.

Thomas married Rachel Ann “Annie” Herndon on May 25, 1887 in Nelson County.  He was 27 years old and she was 30 years.  Annie was born on October 8, 1856 in Kentucky.  They were the parents of five children:

            Hubert H.                    born October 26, 1887

            William J.                    born October 1889

            Estella                         born March 12, 1892

            Catherine                     born March 1894

            Maggie                        born November 1896

Like his father, Thomas was a farmer.  He and Annie raised their children on their farm in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.  Sometime after 1910, Thomas and Annie moved their family to Taylorsville in Spencer County, Kentucky.

Rachel Ann Herndon Hobbs died in Taylorsville, Spencer, Kentucky, on October 20, 1917, shortly after her 61^st birthday.

By 1920, Thomas had married Sallie B. (maiden name unknown) and the two were living and working on Thomas’ farm in Taylorsville.  Sallie was born about 1864 in Kentucky. 

Just four days after his 80^th birthday, John Thomas Hobbs died on September 15, 1939, in Taylorsville, Spencer, Kentucky. 

Notes for John Thomas Hobbs

Birth, Death & Marriage to Sallie:  Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Notes for Rachel Ann Herndon

Birth, Marriage, & Residence in 1900:  Year: 1900; Census Place:  Chaplin, Nelson,  Kentucky; Roll: T623_546; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 95.

Death:  Ancestry.com Family Tree for Rachel Ann Herndon

Notes for Sallie B. (maiden name unknown)

Birth:  Year: 1930; Census Place: Taylorsville, Spencer, Kentucky; Roll: 776; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 1; Image: 363.0.

William M. Hobbs (1832-1873)

William M. Hobbs

Son of Eli B. Hobbs & Lavina McMakin

William M. Hobbs was born in February 1832, in Nelson, Kentucky.  He was the eldest of five children born to Eli Hobbs and Lavina McMakin.

William married Sarah Ann Graves on September 16, 1858 in Nelson, Kentucky.  He was 26 years old and she was just a few weeks shy of her 20^th birthday.  Sarah was born on October 2, 1838 in Fayette, Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas Sims Graves and Harriet R. Gist.  William and Sarah had five children:

            John Thomas               born September 11, 1859

            James William             born July 11, 1862

            Susan                           born about 1864

            Charles                        born about 1870

            George Edward          born September 20, 1871

William and Sarah raised their family in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.  William was a farmer, and Sarah kept house. 

William M. Hobbs died on March 11, 1873 and was buried in Old Methodist Cemetery in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky. 

After her husband’s death, Sarah lived with her youngest son, Edward, and his family, who also lived in Chaplin.  Sarah died on November 20, 1915.  She is also buried in Old Methodist Cemetery in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kentucky.

Notes for William M. Hobbs

Birth & Death:  Ancestry.com Family Tree for William M. Hobbs, and “Dave's Bodine Genealogy Web Site” found on RootsWeb, accessed 7 September 2011

Marriage:  Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914 [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.

Residence & Occupation in 1870:  Year: 1870; Census Place:  Chaplin, Nelson,  Kentucky;  Roll: M593_491; Page: 120B; Image: 244; Family History Library Film: 545990.

           

Notes for Sarah Ann Graves

Birth & Death:  Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Residence in 1900:  Year: 1900; Census Place: Chaplin, Nelson, Kentucky; Roll: T623_546; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 95.