Sarah Hobbs

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Sarah Hobbs Lewis Stubblefield was born in Indiana. She was the daughter of Dr. Abner Hobbs and Ann Kelsey/Hedric, both of New York. A true pioneer, Sarah crossed the plains in sole charge of the wagon train in 1853. With a party of relatives, including her four-year-old daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, she began her journey to California to join her husband, John Sloan Lewis. The party joined a wagon train at Independence, Missouri.
Over the Oregon Trail, near Utah, Indians made off with most of their stock and the remainder of the journey was made with a milk cow and an ox-pulled covered wagon. The party arrived in California at “Hangtown,” now Independence, after a long overland journey fraught with danger. A year after her arrival in California, daughter Julia was born (1854).

Her father, Dr. Abner Hobbs was a physician and a minister of the Christian
Church.

Upon her husband’s death, Sarah married Robert Coleman Stubblefield. Together, they had four children; Martha Jane, Robert Absolom, Mary C., and Charles Andrew “Dick” Stubblefield. In a double wedding, Martha Jane married Samuel Lewis Hopkins from Wales and her sister Mary wed James Howard Drumm on November 5, 1879.

She is buried next to Robert, at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, California.