HOBBS COAT OF ARMS

THE HOBBS COAT OF ARMS HEREBY ILLUSTRATED IS OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED IN BURKE'S GENERAL ARMORY.
THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ARMS (SHIELD) IS AS FOLLOWS:
"GU. A CHEV. ENGR. BETWN. THREE FISHES NAIANT AR. ON A CHIEF OF THE SECOND AS MANY HERONS SA. MEMBERED AND BEAKED OF THE FIRST."

When translated the blazon also describes the original colors of the HOBBS ARMS as:
"Red; a Silver Engraviled Chevron, between Three Silver Fish Swimming; on a Silver upper third, Three Black Herons with Red Beaks and Legs."
Above the Shield and Helmet is the Crest which is described as:
"A Black Half Heron Flying, holding in the Red Beak a Silver Fish."


Researchers Note: From Lowell Jean Hobbs
The following is from the book "Hobbs and Related Families, Vol 2", Page 2.

According to Burke's General Armory, there were a total of six coats of armour issued to the Hobbs. Two were identical, so there are five that have different designs. They were issued in the following English Counties; Middlesex, Stoke Gursy, County Somerset, West Wickham, County Buckingham, Weybridge, County Surry; one in Tooting County, Surry and another of the same design in Quedgeley County, Gloucester.

A coat of arms was issued to a particular person. No one else was allowed to use the coat of arms except the person to whom it was issued, plus those who owed him their allegiance and who fought on his side. It may be that the two that were issued in the same design in Tooting County, Surry, and in Quedgeley County, Glouchester were issued to a man and his son or to a kinsman.

There is no explanation why the Coat of Arms for the Hobbs in County Middlesex is the most popular. It certainly isn't because it is the most regal.

There is no motto included with either Coat of Arms, however we have seen the motto "Always Ready" used by some. There is no authority for it's use.

Americans seem to enjoy displaying a Coat of Arms as if it were their very own, having been handed down from generation to generation by their direct ancestor. If there are any Hobbs today who can trace their ancestry directly to an ancestor to whom a Coat of Arms was issued, they are in an extreme minority. We have not seen one yet. Even then, they can not claim it as their own, but only that it was issued to their ancestor.

If you wish to display a Hobbs Coat of Arms, feel free to pick either of the five you have a preference for, however we strongly suggest you seriously consider the one from County Middlesex simply because it is the one most commonly used, and the one most widely recognized.

The art work on the Hobbs shields doesn't seem as fierce as on some Coats of Arms. They contain fishes, herons, a three legged trivet, falcons, eagles, and lions.

Hope this is what you are looking for. Jean Hobbs

Bartleson-Bidwell Party . . . David L. Bigler Utah History Encyclopedia

The first emigrants to cross Utah with wagons came in 1841, six years before the Mormon pioneers, this party numbered thirty-two men and one woman, who carried a baby daughter in one arm and led a horse with the other. Nancy Kelsey, barely eighteen years old and the first white woman ever to see Great Salt Lake, was later remembered for her "heroism, patience and kindness."

Named in part after its captain, John Bartleson, the party had numbered more than sixty when it assembled in May 1841 at Sapling Grove, near Westport, Missouri, for the journey to John Marsh's California ranch at the foot of Mount Diablo in present-day Contra Costa County. Its most active organizer was twenty-one-year-old John Bidwell, who kept a daily diary of the journey. Moving west, the emigrants traveled over the emerging Oregon Trail with Father De Smet and a Jesuit party guided by the renowned mountain man, Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick. At Soda Springs, in present Caribou County, Idaho, about half of the original party decided to play it safe and continue on to Oregon. The more resolute members, holding to their original destination, headed nine wagons south down Bear River "with no guide, no compass, nothing but the sun to direct them" toward the present border of Utah. Their track never became a trail and has long since disappeared, but as traced by historian Roy Tea using the Bidwell and Johns journals, the emigrants crossed the 42nd parallel into Utah on 16 August and camped near present-day Clarkston.
Intending to rest in Cache Valley while several men sought directions at Fort Hall, the party mistakenly crossed the low range just north of the Gates of the Bear to arrive in the Great Salt Lake Valley near present Fielding. After fording the Malad River opposite Plymouth, they continued south through the future towns of Garland and Tremonton until, desperate for water, they headed east to strike the Bear River, just south of Corinne. The party then headed northwest, intersecting its own trail, to skirt the north end of the Great Salt Lake, find the Mary's River (now the Humboldt), which, it was then believed, flowed from the lake to the Sacramento River, and follow it to California. They crossed Promontory Mountain on the route of the later transcontinental railroad and passed just north of Kelton to rest at Ten Mile Spring near the base of the Raft River Mountains. Crossing Park Valley to the south of the present town, they came on 11 September to Owl Spring, just north of Lucin, where Kentuckian Benjamin Kelsey abandoned his wagons and put his wife and baby on horseback. Two days later, the emigrants were the first of many to arrive at Pilot Peak on the Utah-Nevada border and find relief at the freshwater springs at its base. On the line of modern Interstate 80, the party crossed Silver Zone Pass and abandoned its remaining wagons at Relief Springs in Gosiute Valley, east of Wells, where the wagons were found in 1846 by Hastings Cutoff emigrants. The rest of the journey was a race with starvation which all barely won on November 4 when they arrived, destitute and almost naked, at Marsh's Los Medanos Rancho. Some members of the Bartleson-Bidwell company later gained renown, including Bidwell and noted trails captain Joseph B. Chiles. Known for her courage and optimism, Nancy Kelsey, the first white woman ever to see Utah, died in California at age seventy-three.

See: Charles Hopper, "Narrative of Charles Hopper, A California Pioneer of 1841," Utah Historical Quarterly 3 (1930); Charles Kelly, Salt Desert Trails (1930); Roderick J. Korns, "West from Fort Bridger," Utah Historical Quarterly 19 (1951); David E. Miller, First Wagon Train to Cross Utah, 1841," Utah Historical Quarterly 30 (1962); Dale L. Morgan, The Great Salt Lake (1947).

Vincent Hobbs, Jr.

Notes for Jr Vincent Hobbs:
Vincent Hobbs, Jr. who killed the Indian Benge, April 9,1794. The following is an account given by Mrs. Elizabeth Livingston, who was one of the people captured by the Indian Benge. The full account is in the book "Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786 - Washington County, 1777-1870".

Just the last day of capture is given here.

"April, 9th. After traveling about five miles, which was over Powell's mountain, and near the foot of the Stone mountain, a party of thirteen men under the command of Lieutenant Vincent Hobbs, of the militia of Lee county, met the enemy in front, attacked and killed Benge the first fire, I being at that time some distance off in the rear. The Indian who was my guard at first halted on hearing the firing. He then ordered me to run, which I performed slowly. He attempted to strike me in the head with the tomahawk, which I defended as well as I could with my arm. By this time two of our people came in view, which encouraged me to struggle all I could. The Indian making a effort at this instant pushed me backward, and I fell over a log, at the same time aiming a violent blow at my head, which in part spent its force on me and laid me for dead. The first thing I afterwords remembered was my good friends around me, giving me all the assistance in their power for my relief. They told me I was senseless for about an hour." Vincent Hobbs was a Lieutenant in the militia of Lee county and, at the time in question, he was attending the court of that county which was in session. Upon the arrival of the express with the news of the Indian invasion, the court immediately adjourned and a party was organized upon the spot., under the command of Hobbs, to waylay a gap in Cumberland mountain called the Stone gap, through which, it was supposed, the Indians were most likely to pass. On his arrival at the gap, Hobbs discovered that the Indians had just passed through before him; he therefore pursued with eagerness and soon discovered two Indians kindling a fire; these, they instantly dispatched, and finding some plunder with them, which they knew must have been taken out of Livingston's house they at once came to the conclusion that these two had been sent forward to hunt for provisions and that the others were yet behind with the prisoners. "The object of Hobbs was now to make a quick retreat, to cover his own sign if possible, at the gap, before the Indians should discover it, and perhaps, kill the prisoners and escape. Having gained this point he chose a place of ambuscade; but not exactly liken this position he left the men there, and taking one with him by the name of Van Bibber, he went some little distance in advance to try if he could find a place more suitable for his purpose. As they stood looking around for such a place, they discovered the Indians coming up with their prisoners. They cautiously concealed themselves and each singled out his man. Benge, having charge of the younger Mrs. Livingston, led the van, and the others, followed in succession; but the Indian who had charge of the elder Mrs. Livingston was considerably behind, she not being able to march with the same light, elastic step of her sister. When the front came directly opposite to Hobbs,and Van Bibber they both fired, Hobbs killing Benge, and Van Bibber the one next behind him. At the crack of the rifle the other men rushed forward, but the Indians had escaped into a laurel thicket, taking with them a negro fellow. The Indian who had charge of the elder Mrs. Livingston tried his best to kill her, but he was so hurried that he missed his aim. Her arms were badly cut by defending her head from the blows of his tomahawk. The prisoners had scarcely time to recover from their surprise before the two Livingstons, who heard the guns and were now in close pursuit with a party of men from Washington, came running up and received their wives at the hands of Hobbs with a gust of joy. Four Indians were killed and five had escaped, and it appears they were separated into parties of three and two. The first had the negro fellow with them, and, by his account, they lodged that night in a cave, where he escaped from them and got home.

In the meantime a party of the hardy mountaineers of Russell County collected and proceeded in haste to waylay a noted Indian crossing place high up on the Kentucky river. When they got there they found some Indians had just passed. They immediately drew the same conclusion that Hobbs had done, and hastened back to the river for fear those behind should discover their sign. Shortly after they had stationed themselves, the other three made their appearance; the men fired upon them, two fell and the other fled, but left a trail of blood behind him, which readily conducted his pursuers to where he had taken refuge in a thick canebrake. It was thought imprudent to follow him any further, as he might be concealed and kill some of them before they could discover him. Thus eight of the party were killed and the other perhaps mortally wounded." Colonel Campbell communicated to the Governor of Virginia the circumstances attending this raid by the Indians, along with the written statement of Mrs. Livingstone, as heretofore given. Colonel Campbell in his letter to the Governor, says: "The scalp of Captain Benge, I have been requested to forward to your Excellency, as Lieutenant Hobbs, in killing him and relieving the prisoners. Could it be spared from our treasury, I would beg leave to hint that a present of a neat rifle to Mr. Hobbs would be accepted, as a reward for his late services, and the Executive may rest assured that it would serve as a stimulus for future exertions against the enemy." The General Assembly of Virginia, pursuant to this recommendation, voted Lieutenant Vincent Hobbs a handsome and costly silver-mounted rifle. Many of the descendants of Lieutenant Hobbs live in Southwest Virginia at this time, and are highly respected and patriotic. One of the principal creeks in the county of Wise, at this day bears the name of the Indian chief, Benge. This is the last recorded invasion of Southwest Virginia by the red men.

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[This is an excerpt from "Frontier Forts," by Emory L. Hamilton found on Scott County, VA genweb, Historical Sketches, at: http://vagenweb.org/scott/HSpubl27.html. There is another article about Chief Benge's last raid by Luther F. Addington which gives a lively account by Mrs. Livingston and speaks of the special rifle presented to Vincent Hobbs, Jr.]
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
PUBLICATION 4 - 1968

FRONTIER FORTS
By Emory L. Hamilton
"...Benham's Fort
Located on the North Fork of the Holston River near Mendota was the fort of John Benham. This was perhaps only a family fort for no mention is made of militia troops ever having been stationed there, or that it was in use after the Revolutionary War. The date the fort was built is unknown, but John Benham settled there in 1769.
He owned a thousand acres of land along the Holston River about four miles below the village of Holston. (39) John Benham was evidently a brother-in-law to the elder Vincent Hobbs, and Benham had a son named Vincent as did Hobbs, and both had sons named Joel. The Hobbs and Benhams lived on adjoining farms. There was also a connection between these families and the family of John Douglas who was killed by the Indians at Little Moccasin Gap in 1776. (40) John Douglas who lived with his father Edward Douglas on Clinch River, near Flour Ford in present day Scott County, Virginia, may have been returning from a visit with these relatives when slain by the Indians. John Benham, builder of Benham's Fort died in 1800..."

Vincent Hobbs (1) First Generation

Apparently, the Vincent Hobbs family originally lived on the southern bank of the Potomac River just south of Hagerstown, Maryland. This area is now in West Virginia (about 60 miles northwest of Washington D.C.), but was part of Virginia until 1863 when West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War. Hagerstown is in present Washington County, Maryland. The area just south of Hagerstown and on the south bank of the Potomac River is in present Berkeley County, West Virginia. Hobbs and his family eventually sought land with enough area to raise their large number of children and grandchildren in the southwestern Virginia area. They formed their own communities in the valley of the Powell River near Cumberland Gap in southwest Virginia. According to the article in the Big Stone Gap Post, dated March 31, 1926, Vincent and Mary Hobbs settled on the bank of the Powell River about two miles below Debusk Mill, near Dryden, Virginia (where they are buried).

The book, Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia, by Bales repeated the theory that Vincent Hobbs emigrated through the Port of Dover, Delaware in 1735 and implied he migrated with Evan Shelby into Hagerstown, Maryland. The sketchy history of Vincent Hobbs has led this author to believe one or more of Vincent's sons began explorations into the mountains east of Cumberland Gap about 1773 with the idea of settling in Kentucky. The hostile Indians in that area prohibited continuing with the family past the Gap. The entire family must have arrived in southwestern Virginia by 1780, when Vincent Sr. was about age 60. The 1787 tax records indicate part of the family settled in what is now Lee County, Virginia and the other part in present Washington County, Virginia – just west of Lee County. Vincent's son Job Hobbs, in his pension papers, said his mother's name-was Ruth Thomas.

Vincent Hobbs' Unproven Wives

From somewhere in the past, someone stated Vincent's first wife was Mary Hannah Shelby, daughter of Evan Shelby who immigrated with Vincent Hobbs. There has never been any proof presented for this marriage. From the Shelby family histories I have seen, Evan Shelby was born in Wales in 1690. He married Catherine Morgan. They were first documented on a deed July 1735 in Lancaster Co. PA. Then they were listed July, 1739 in Prince George Co., MD. There was a baptism listed for Mary Shelby in Christ Church in Philadelphia, age 3 weeks, on 6 Sept 1735 -daughter of Evan and Catherine Shelby. Her tombstone listed her born 28 Aug 1735 and died Nov. 1813. There is a record for Mary Shelby's marriage to Col. Adam Alexander in 1750 in her brother General Evan Shelby's home. There were six children born to this marriage. The main evidence for Ruth Thomas comes from a pension paper for Job Hobbs, who stated his mother was Ruth Thomas. No other evidence provided. Job Hobbs was born about 1759 in MD. Then, there is another theory concerning how the Mary Hannah Shelby marriage rumor started. Vincent Hobbs Jr. married a Hannah, proven by court and deed records. One deed stated her name as Hannah in the body of a deed, then the signature was written as Mary. There is no record of Hannah’s maiden name.

Below is what records have been gathered concerning this Hobbs’ family. A system of tracking each family member is used where each person has their own number. Vincent Hobbs Sr. is labeled (1). His children are labeled as 11, 12, 13, etc. Grandchildren produced by the second child would are labeled 121, 122, 123, etc.

1. Vincent Hobbs - estimated 1746(?) - Ruth Thomas (??) B. c. 1720 England? D. c. 1808 VA

Records – Washington Co. VA:

John Kindrick, 600 acres, Commissioners Certificate, on both sides of north fork of Holstein River, beginning on a spur of Clinch Mountain, corner to Peter Livingston, joining his preemption, crossing the Poor Valley Knobs, Jan. 12, 1783. John Kindrick, assignee of William Williams, assignee of Vincent Hobbs, 400 acres by settlement made 1772, 280 acres surveyed on Dec. 21, 1774, on north fork of Holstein River - Aug. 13, 1781.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Vincent Hobbs, 300 acres on north fork of Holstein on both sides of John Benham above and John Kindrick below - actual settlement in 1776 - Aug. 16. 1781. John Kindrick, 600 acres Preemption Warrant, on both sides of north fork of Holston, beginning corner to Vincent Hobbs’ land -corner to his settlement right, Jan. 12, 1783.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Vincent Hobbs, 272 acres, Commissioner's Certificate, on both sides of the north fork of Holstein, beginning on the north bank of the river, by a spring, on the south side of Poor Valley Knobs - April 15, 1782.

Washington Co. Survey Records: April 17, 1782 - James Philips, assignee of Jesse Robinson, assignee of Vincent Hobbs, Treasury Warrant, 94 acres on both sides of Wolf s Run, branch of the north fork of Holston, beginning on the north side of the run, by the bank of the above run - Warrant #10094.

Washington Co. Survey Records: William Smith, 140 acres, Preemption Warrant, assigned to him by Vincent Hobbs, assignee of Peter Livingston, on waters of Livingston's Creek, south branch of the north fork of the Holston River - July 7, 1783.

Washington Co. Survey Records:

Jan. 10, 1783 - Page Portwood assignee of William Cocke, who was assignee of Vincent Hobbs 200 acres on north fork of Holstein River - actual settlement in 1773.

Page Portwood to Joseph Frost Aug. 25, 1781. Joseph Frost 200 acres, Commissioner's Certificate, on both sides of north fork of Holston River being the place where he lives, beginning on a spur of the Poor Valley Knobs.

Augusta County, Virginia court record, October 27, 1800: Simon Ely vs. Robert Davis, William Davis, and Alexander Wiley. Vincent Hobbs deposes he first became acquainted with the lands in 1773. He had moved his family into Turkey Cove in 1780 and found Rachel Arbuckle and her family there on a tract she claimed by Jethro Massay's improvements. In the spring following, all the families moved away because of the Indians being troublesome.

Augusta County, Virginia court record, 1803: Simon Ely vs. James Thomas - Vincent Hobbs deposes he first became acquainted with the land (Powell Valley) in 1773 and settled there in 1780.

Virginia Genealogist (July 1966): Botetourt County, Virginia - Robert Doaks list of tithables (tax polls) not returned to court August, 1771, included Vincent Hobbs, James Young, and John Brennarn (Benham?).

1782 Washington County, Virginia tax list Capt. Fulkison's Precinct: Vincent Hobbs Sr. = 1 poll tax, 2 horses 13 cattle no- slaves.

Russell Co. VA, formed 1786 from Washington Co. VA – tax records for Vincent Hobbs:

1790 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1787 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll, 4 horses, 8 cattle

1789 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1792 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1793 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

The British burned the 1790 census for Virginia in Washington during the War of 1812. A statewide tax list for 1787 was substituted for this missing census for record keeping purposes. This list recorded the name of the head of household age 21 or older/ the number of white males age 16 to 21/ number of black males over age 16/ number of black males 16 and younger/ number of horses, mares, colts and mules/ number of cattle.

This 1787 list showed the Hobbs family owned no slaves and was split into two different counties - Washington and Russell. Russell County in 1787 covered the present counties of Lee, Wise, Scott, Russell, Dickinson, Buchanan, and part of Tazewell. Washington County was established as today. Those listed are age 21 and up (born 1767 or before), except for the Russell sons.

Washington County Russell County

Joel Hobbs 0005-10 Vincent Hobbs 00048

Thomas Hobbs 0004-20 Ezekiel Hobbs 00044

Job Hobbs 00019 John Benham 0306-30

William Blanton 00088 Wm. Russell 1004-10

William Russell's sons Jno., Sam., Wm.(16-21).

General William Russell 0619-21

Washington County, Virginia, Feb. 16, 1795: Roland Chiles sold 182 acres on the south side of the north fork of the Holston River.

1810 Washington County Census:

Mathew Hobbs (p.215) -males 26-45=1; females under 10=1, 16-26=1, 26-45-1.

Ezekiel Hobbs (p.233) - males under 10=2, 10-16=2, 16-26=3, 26-45=2, over 45= 1; females 10- 16=3, 16-26=2, 26-45= 1.

Descent of southwestern Virginia counties (where the records are found):

1. Augusta County formed 1745.

2. Boutetourt County split off of Augusta County 1769.

3. Fincastle County formed from part of Boutetourt County in 1772.

4. Fincastle County was abolished in 1776-77 with the western portion becoming the state of Kentucky, the central part becoming Washington County, and the eastern portion Montgomery County.

5. Russell County (1786) split off of Washington County. This area was described as 3000 square miles with boundaries extending north from Clinch Mountain to the Cumberland Gap, then east to a point near present Bluefield, VA

6. Lee County (1793) split off of Russell County.

7. Tazewell County (1799) split off of Russell Co.

8. Scott County (1814) and Wise County (1856) split off of Lee County.

The last known record for Vincent and wife appeared in a Court of Quarters Sessions hearing for Lee County on the 26 day of May 1808. It ordered that the overseers of the poor receive Vincent HOBBS and his wife on their list and provide for them according to the law. It is not known exactly when or where they died. They are believed to have been buried along the Powell River, two miles below DeBusk Mill near Dryden, Virginia.

Children of Vincent Hobbs

Most of the birth dates for the children below are estimates based on birth dates of children, tax records, etc. Vincent Hobbs was in Maryland up to about 1769-70, so most children were born there.

11. Vincent Hobbs Jr. B. 1750-55 MD D. About 1820 (probable Lincoln Co. TN - other sources say Turkey Creek)
SEE LATER

12. William Hobbs B. c. 1760 MD D. Oct. 22, 1793 (killed by Indians)

1788 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

Russell Co. VA D.B. 1: May 22, 1792 - William Hobbs witnessed the deed between James Parberry and John Henderson, which had been a 1000 acre patent dated Nov. 30, 1784, on both sides of north fork of Clinch River, by the KY Road, near the Flat Lick, crossing the north fork near the foot of Powell Mountain, on Poor Valley Knobs.

Was enlisted by Col. Arthur Campbell for two months for relief against the Indians in Powell's Valley.

Dec. 19, 1793 in a letter from Cap. Andrew Lewis Jr. to the Governor of Virginia - described a party of 20 men were formed in October to go after several Indians, whose signs had been found near the settlements. The company was formed under Capt. James Hawkins. When they found signs of several Indians, Hawkins ordered several of his men to return to the settlement and warn the inhabitants. These men refused. Then Hawkins decided he would return with several men and leave the rest of the company with a scout Samuel Oxer (Auxier). These men proceed up the trail in an unorganized manner, shooting game, although they had found evidence of at least ten Indians in the area. Apparently the Indians heard the noise and ambushed these men, killing four - by the names of Hobbs (William), Stennett, Fowler, and Knowles.

Dec. 24, 1793 in a letter from Cap. Lewis to James Wood, Lt. Governor of Virginia - information collected respecting the loss of his troops on the 22nd of October last - Horses had been stolen by Indians camped over Cumberland Mountain and Capt. Hawkins had taken a party of 19 men out in order to find these Indians. After going 40 miles, he found signs of several Indians making toward the settlements. He proposed 4 men return and report these signs and give warning. The men refused, but a non-commissioned officer said he would return if Hawkins went with him. He did so after directing the remaining 15 men to follow the trail and then go north back to the settlements. After another 35 miles, they spotted signs of up to ten Indians and followed these for another day and a half. They did not respect the signs and did not follow orders, firing at everything they met until discovered by the enemy who had superior numbers. Four soldiers were killed. This area is somewhere in KY - across Cumberland Mountain, but in area unknown.

13. Joel Hobbs – by 1782 – Margaret (Unknown -may have been daughter of Richard Price)

B. Before 1759 MD? D.1820-30 TN

According to notes from Miriam Hobbs, Joel moved later to Williamson Co. TN, then went into Hickman Co. TN. He had son John Hobbs who named sons Joel C. Hobbs and Richard. Miriam believes it was Joel who died on the Big Piney Creek, branch of the Duck River.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Thomas Hobbs, assignee of Joel and Johab Hobbs and company, 150 acres, Treasury Warrant #13221 dated Aug. 3, 1782, and 100 acres by warrant #1247, dated Dec. 29, 1780, on both sides of Moccasin Creek and joining lines of the place he now lives - corner to Christopher Huston - March 9, 1786.

Washington County, Virginia, Aug. 14, 1786: Joel Hobbs sold 250 acres to Drury Fletcher on both sides of the north fork of the Holston River. On Aug. 23, 1788, Drury Fletcher sold Roland Chiles 272 acres on a branch of the middle fork of the Holston River, originally patented to Joel Hobbs.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Commissioner's Certificate - Joel Hobbs, assignee of William Gill, 180 acres, on both sides of Moccasin Creek, waters of the North Fork of Holstein, May 21, 1782.

Washington Co. Survey Records: William Gill, assignee of William Tate, 200 acres on Moccasin Creek joining William Tate above (north side) and Alexander Montgomery below (south side) – actual settlement made 1775 – assigned to Joel Hobbs by purchase May 21, 1782. Signed William Gill. Witness was John Tate.

Russell Co. D. B. 1: Oct. 23, 1792, William Blanton to Joel Hobbs, on both sides of Moccasin Creek, a branch of the north fork of Holston River, 185 acres conveyed to William Blanton from James King Carr Sep. 17, 1785, granted to Carr by patent dated June 26, 1786, beginning on the bank of the creek on Alexander Barnet's lower line - signed William Blanton and Hannah, his wife. Witnesses were Nathan Ellington, Richard Price, and Charles Carter.

Russell Co. D. B. 1: Dec. 25, 1792, Joel Hobbs, along with Richard Price and Charles Carter, witnessed the deed from William and Hannah Blanton to Robert Kilgore, on Copper's Creek, a south branch of Clinch River containing 226 acres, beginning above Amo's Branch.

Russell Co. D. B. 1: Feb. 25, 1793, Joel Hobbs and his wife Margaret to William Tate, on both sides of Moccasin Creek, beginning on a spur of Clinch Mountain, corner to Robert Tate, at the foot of Clinch Mountain - signed Joel and Margaret Hobbs.

Russell Co. Survey Records: May 4, 1795 - Hugh McClung 400a to Joel Hobbs near Poor Valley Rd. - see Thomas Hobbs.

Russell Co. Survey Records: Aug. 8, 1798, Thomas Frost, assignee of Joel Hobbs, 300a, part of Treasury Warrant #8193, dated Feb. 2, 1782, on south side of Moccasin Ridge, on waters of Big Moccasin Creek, branch of Holston, corner to James Taylor and Richard Price, near sugar tree camp.

Russell Co. Survey Records: Sep. 6, 1798, Joel Hobbs and Richard Price, 78 acres, part of two Treasury Warrants, 27 acres by part of warrant #9041, and 51 acres by part of #14292, dated Dec. 16, 1782, on south side of Big Moccasin Creek, joining land on which Price now lives, corner to James Dickenson. This record is the source of speculation that Joel married a daughter of Richard Price.

1782 Washington Co. VA tax, Capt. Fulkison's Precinct: 1 poll tax, 6 horses, 6 cattle. Indicates Joel was married with children.

1787 Washington Co. VA tax = 5 horses, 10 cattle

1788 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1790 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1792 Russell Co. VA tax = 180 acres

1792 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll, 0 age 16-21

1793 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1794 Russell Co. VA tax 150 acres

1795 Russell Co. VA tax 1 poll

1795 Russell Co. VA tax 180a assignee of Blanton

1796 Russell Co. VA tax 2 polls (may indicate one son age 16)

1820 Hickman Co. TN, page 3: Joel Hobbs 11101-01101 – males under 10=1, 10-15=1, 16-25=1, over 45=1; females 10-15=1, 16-25=1, over 45=1. Indicates Joel was born before 1775, 2 children born 1795-1804.

14. James Hobbs - 1780 - Rachel Reynolds B. 5-14-1759 VA D. After 1805 (may have moved to Missouri)

Augusta County, Virginia Records, Hobbs vs. Hobbs: August 2, 1805 - Orator James Hobbs. In 1773, orator made a settlement in Washington County on the north fork of the Holston River, but left it for some time during which he was considered dead. When he returned, he found his father Vincent Hobbs had sold (James' property) to William Williams. Orator had enlisted in a company to go against the Indians and was on the frontier 21 years, during which William Williams had sold to John Kindrick.

Washington Co. VA Survey Records: James Sprowl, 220 acres, Commissioners, on both sides of Abraham's Creek, south branch of the north fork of the Holston River, beginning corner to John Robinson. Dec. 16, 1782, James Sprowl, assignee of James Hobbs, 220 acres in the Rich Valley, on the north fork of Holston River surveyed for Sprowl on Feb. 16, 1774 - actual settlement made 1770 -Aug. 16, 1781.

Washington Co. VA Survey Records: James Sprowl, 220 acres, Commissioners Certificate, on both sides of John Robinson - Dec. 16, 1782 - James Sprowl assignee of James Hobbs, 220 acres in the Rich Valley on the north fork of Holston River, surveyed for Sprowl Feb. 16, 1774, actual settlement made 1770 -Aug. 16, 1781.

Russell Co. VA Survey Records: Feb. 29, 1792, James Hobbs, 73 acres, part two Treasury Warrants, 50 acres by #11344, dated Mar. 11, 1782, and 23 acres by #14585, dated Sep. 1, 1782, on waters of Moccasin Creek, corner to Rachel Taylor and corner to David Caen.

Russell Co. VA Surveyor's Book 2: June 27, 1800, Richard Price Jr. 44 acres, part of Treasury Warrant 6092, dated Aug. 30, 1780, on waters of Carr's Creek, part of waters of Big Moccasin Creek, corner to James Hobbs.

1789 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1793 Russell Co. VA tax = I poll

1796 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll - James Sr., James Jr. listed separately = 1

1798 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1799 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1802 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll - James Jr. listed separately = 1

1802 Washington County, Virginia. James Hobbs was listed as a minister.

Russell Co. VA, September 19, 1817: James Hobbs Sr. and his wife Rachel and Jacob Olinger and Hannah his wife made a conveyance of land to Jeremiah Muncey... (DBK 6:242).

He died in March of 1847 and she died September 1841. They are buried in Decatur County, Indiana.

15. Job (Johab) Hobbs B. June 21, 1759 MD D. 1862 AR (unconfirmed)

Washington Co. VA Survey Records: Thomas Hobbs, assignee of Joel and Johab Hobbs and company, 150 acres, Treasury Warrant #13221 dated Aug. 3, 1782, and 100 acres by warrant #1247, dated Dec. 29, 1780, on both sides of Moccasin Creek and joining lines of the place he now lives - corner to Christopher Huston - March 9, 1786.

Russell Co. VA Survey Records: Dec. 2, 1791, Job Hobbs, assignee of said Chrisman, 50 acres, part Preemption Treasury Warrant #1926, dated Dec. 12, 1781 in Powell's Valley, corner of John Benham,

1787 Washington Co. tax I poll, 1 horse, 9 cattle.

1789 Russell Co. VA tax 1 poll

1790 Russell Co. VA tax 1 poll

Job Hobbs has never been found in any census index 1790-1850.

1860 Madison Co. AR, Bowen Twp., p.450: Job Hobbs, age 102, born VA, August, O.S.B. Preacher, in household of Nathan Davis 54 TN, Isabel 46 TN, and family. “O.S.B.” probably stands for Old School Baptist. In the 1850 AR census, Nathan Davis was age 34, with wife Rachel 22 and family. A Mary A. Hobbs, age 14 was also in the household.

Much of the proof of this family derives from the Revolutionary pension papers of Job Hobbs, which are important. This does not prove everything concerning the family though. The papers do mention his brothers, and what Job thought happened to them.

Job Hobbs Pension Application:

Questions for Mr. Hobbs

Q. Where were you born?
A. Fredrick County, Virginia.
Q. What were the names of your father and mother and mother’s Maiden name?
A. My father’s name was Vinson, my mother’s name was Ruth and her maiden name was Thomas.
Q. Give names of all of your brothers and sisters?
A. My oldest Brother was James, Merry, Hannah, Vinson, Joel, Ezekeal, Ruth, Racheal, William, Absolem, Abner and myself, Job.
Q. In what town did you live when you entered Service?
A. In Washington County, Virginia.
Q. Did you have a brother or relative in the Service and if so which tour?
A. I had a Brother in the Service but not at the same time with me.
Q. Had you a brother or relative by name of Ezekiel Hobbs?
A. I have a Brother of that Name and he is the one Refured to above.
Q. Can you State what year it was in that you left Botetonet or Washington County, Virginia--and if so please do so.
A. As near as I can Recollect it was in 1789 that I left Washington County, Virginia.
Q. What county did you first move to and when did you finally leave Virginia?
A. I moved to Powels Valley, Vir. and my family left Washington County Vir when I did.
Q. When and where did you father die?
A. He died in Washington Co., Vir. I do not Recollect when he did die.
Q. When and where did your mother die?
A. She died in the Same County my father died. Some time after my father’s death . As I have learned.
Q. In care of each brother and each Sister, State when and where he or she died? and when and where you last saw him or her? and if you can remember when you had a letter from him or her?

A. My oldest Brother died Some where in KY. My oldest Sister died in Washington County, Vir. My next oldest sister I don’t no where She died. My next oldest Brother Died on Hickry Creek, Tenn. My next oldest Brother Die on a creek called Big Piney, not far from Duck River, Tenn. I have one Brother killed by the Cherokees Indians in Tennesee or Kentucky and I do not no which. I have not seen any of my Brother or Sisters for 40 years. The last time I saw any of my Brothers they lived in Virginia. Brother Ezekeal Hobbs, lived in Washington County, Vir. and Brother Absolem Hobbs lived in Lee County, Vir. I had a letter from Brother Absolem Hobbs about twenty five years ago, and he still lived in Vir. the last account.

Q. Did you Know Ezekiel Hobbs? or did you ever hear of him when you lived in Virginia?
A. Ezekiel Hobbs is my Brother and we was Boath Raised Children together in Washington County, Virginia.
Q. When and where did you last see Ezekiel Hobbs?
A. He came to see me when I lived in Knox County, Tennessee about forty years ago.
Q. Where was he when you last heard form Him ? and where were you then living? And how many years ago has it been?
A. When my Brother Aboslem Rote to me he Rote that Ezekiel Hobbs was engaged in trading and did not State where he was at that time. I lived at that time in the State of Ilanois it has bin some twenty five or six years ago.
Q. Why did you leave Virginia?
A. Because I wanted to emigrate to a new Country.
Q. In your application you name the following named persons as having been in Service with you Viz: Peter Fulkerson, Timothy Lax, John Eilerison?, James Frazer, Wm. Williams, John Lamar---Please name others, and if you can, State which tours each one was in with you--Calling your tours as heretofore given by you, Your 1st tour, 2nd tour, 3rd tour.

A. In the 3rd tour Henry Mahon , Page Partiel?, Alexander Crockett, Jacob Goodman.
Q. Report from the Reunion Office admits that your Statements of Service, seem to be both historically and geographically correct and that some person have been previous for Service under same officers, for same period, and who were at Same places named by you - Persons sending in Washington County, Virginia---and in one case to a man by name of Ezekiel Hobbs, who they suppose very reasonably must have been your brother or near relative, or at least that you probably knew him, and as I have heretofore informed you that the vols. of evidence of this claim of Service were destroyed. You will therefore see the Propriety of there questions, in order to see if you can name some who have been allowed pensions --- Please answer fully as you can And state whether you ever hear of any of these fellow Soldiers getting their pensions, which one and where he lived at time?

A. I never knew of any of my fellow Soldiers applying for a pension and therefore, I don’t no of any of them geting a pention for I left that country a long time ago and moved to the Western Countrys and I could no Everything what tho done Back in that cuntry. Claiming due allowance for lap of memory on account of my old age, and the long lapse of time since. I was among my old friends and among the Scenes of my youth and vigorous manhood. I Jobb Hobbs of the county of Madison, State of Arkansas, the applicant above named do State that the foregoing answers are true to the best of my knowledge belief and memory.

This 8th day of July 1859 his Job X Hobbs mark

16. Abner (Abraham) Hobbs - 1804 - Peggy Rignor (may have moved to Tennessee with brother Vincent)

1796 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll (Abraham)

1801 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll (Abraham)

17. Mary (Polly) Hobbs - before 1769 - John Benham B. Estimate 1849 B. ? D. April 1823 D. 1800

Family settled in Dryden on what has recently been known as the Elkanah Pennington farm. They introduced the Benham apple there. Land was next to that of Vincent Hobbs Sr. Benham supposedly settled on the North Fork of the Holston River, about 4 miles or less the village of Holston and owned about 1000 acres. He had built a fort before the Revolutionary War between Saltville and the Anderson Blockhouse near Big Moccasin Gap. Benham was a hunter who kept a camp on the spur of Black Mountain in present Harlan County, Kentucky, which carries the name Benham Spur. 1787 Washington County, Virginia tax list = I poll, 3 age 16-21, no slaves, 6 horses, 30 cattle. John Benham's will was dated 12 March 1796.

171. Sarah Benham - 7-6-1786 Wash. Co. VA – Drury Fletcher

172. Vincent Benham

173. William Benham – Mary Kendrick B. c.1771 D. 11-28-1814 Canada (War of 1812)

174. John Benham - Elizabeth Grimes B. c.1772 D. 1835 Wayne Co. TN

175. Joel Benham - Rebecca Hix (Hicks)

176. Ruth Benham - James Fugate B. c.1774 D. after 1850 KY

177. Ann Benham - Elijah Flanary

178. James Benham

179. Rachel Benham

17A. Mary Benham - 5-18-1791 Wash. Co. VA - Samuel Cornett

17B. Rebecca Benham

18. Rebecca Hobbs - 1770 - William Blanton B. 1751 (unconfirmed) D. 1833 (unconfirmed) Lee Co. VA

He was son of William Blanton and Margaret Moss.

1787 Russell County tax list - William Blanton. Another report has Rebecca born 1769 MD, died 1804. Married in 1804 Knox Co. KY to William Blanton (1762 Caroline Co. VA-1856 Harlan Co. KY). This version has 4 children: Ezekiel, Vincent, Abner, and Absolom in Knox Co. KY. Tax records of Knox Co. KY show John and William Blanton there from 1800 to at least 1806, living near the Vincent Hobbs family. In 1803, Knox Co. listed a Vincent, William, and John Blanton.

19. Ezekiel Hobbs - (1) c. 1776 Hannah Hardy- (2) July 27, 1803* - Elizabeth Lilly (da. of Hardy Lilly) B. 1762 D. June 13,1835 Wash. Co. VA

1787 Russell County VA tax list = I poll, 4 horses, 4 cattle.

Washington County Cemetery Records: Hobbs' Cemetery, McFadden's Ford, northwestern section of Washington County, near Little Mountain River and southwest of Pine Grove - Ezekiel Hobbs buried, Revolutionary soldier. Another report has him married to Hannah Hardy before 1777

Washington Co. Survey Records: Ezekiel Hobbs, 29 acres, Treasury Warrant #10179, dated Dec. 22, 1791, on the south side of the land he now lives, corner to Chiles - April 26, 1795.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Ezekiel Hobbs, 71 acres, part of two preemption warrants, 41 acres by warrant #2534 dated 8-15-1783, and 30 acres by warrant #1924 dated 12-12-1781, on both sides of the north fork of Holstein River, corner to his own land that he Ives on - on south side of Poor Valley Knobs – 1-21-1797. 191. Rachel Hobbs (c. 1777)

192. Nancy Hobbs (c. 1779)

193. Betsey Hobbs (c.1782) - S. Rollins

194. Rebecca Hobbs (c. 1782)

195. Ruth Hobbs (c.1783)

196. Mary Hobbs (c.1784) - Rouse

197. Vincent Hobbs (c.1785 Wash Co. VA) – Sarah (Unknown)

1971. Ezekiel Hobbs (1820)

1972. Mary A. Hobbs (1826)

1973. Eveline Hobbs (1833)

198. John-Hobbs (c. 1786 Wash. Co. d.-3-1865 Pike Co. IL – Elizabeth McGuire

1981. John Hobbs (1819)

1982. Francis M. Hobbs (1820)

1983. Ezekiel P. Hobbs (1821)

1984. William S. Hobbs (1822 IN-1858 Scott Co. IN) – 1858 IN - Eliz. Hogg

1985. Isaac Hobbs (1824 IN)

1986. James Hector Hobbs (1837 Scott Co. IN).

199. Joel Hobbs (c.1788 Wash. Co. VA - d. 1850-60 Scott Co. VA) - Hannah

1991. John Hobbs (1822 Scott Co. VA)

1992. Elizabeth Hobbs (1825 Scott Co.)

1993. Isaac Hobbs (1826 Scott Co.)

1994. Sarah Hobbs (1828 Scott Co.)

1995. William Hobbs (1829 Scott Co.)

1996. Sophia Hobbs (1830 Scott Co.)

19A. Nathaniel Hobbs (1790 Wash. Co. VA - 1863 Morristown TN) Marriages: (1) Rosa Ozina King (2) Mary Mildred Hargis 1815 KY, (3) Mary Smith before 1817,

(4) Cynthia (?) 1850. Apparently he was married to two or more women at the same time.

19A1. Rachel Hobbs (1816) - Samuel Moore

19A2. Martha Jane Hobbs (1817) - Abbot Cole

19A3. Ruth M. Hobbs (1818)

19A4. Winfred B. Hobbs (1819)

19A5. Harriett N. Hobbs (1820) -Willis Woodcock

19A6. Eliza P. Hobbs (1821) - W. Chance

19A7. Sarandoty Hobbs (1822) -William Bowens

19A8. Samuel Hobbs (1823) - Louisa C. Brent

19A9. Alan Wiley Hobbs (1824)

19AA. Mary C. Hobbs (1826)

19AB. Catherine D. Hobbs (1827) - John H. Thompson

19AC. Sarah A. Hobbs (1828) - John H. Stubblefield

19AD. Nathan Hobbs (1829)

19AE. Reed Fulton Hobbs (1834 Hawkins Co. TN - 1876 Lee Co. VA)

Children by Mary Smith Hobbs

19AF. Henry Hobbs (1817 VA- 1880)

19AG. Abraham Hobbs (1818 VA)

19AH. Aranndocty Hobbs (1823 Lee Co. VA - 1912 Pulaski Co. KY)

19AI. Agnes Hobbs (1828-1914)

19AJ. Elizabeth Hobbs (1831)

19AK. John Hobbs (1833 Russell Co. VA)

19AL. Polly Hobbs (1836)

19B. Isaac Hobbs (c.1794 VA-1869 IN) - 1809 Wash. Co. VA Sally Cook, (2) 1826 Scott Co. IN - Nancy Stark 19B1. Rebecca Ann Hobbs (1829)

19B2. Isaac G. Hobbs (1830)

19B3. Sally Hobbs (1832)

19B4. James Stark Hobbs (1834)

19B5. Eunice Hobbs (1836)

19B6. Nancy Hobbs (1839)

19B7. Martha Mahala Hobbs (1840) - 1858 Scott Co. IN - Elias Richards

19B8. Clemintine Hobbs (184 1)

19B9. John Hobbs (1847)

19C. William Zion Hobbs (c.1797 Wash. Co. VA - 1858 Lee Co. VA) - 1822 - Mary Spencer

19C1. Isaac Spencer Hobbs (1826 VA-1892 Wolfe Co. KY)

19C2. Sarah Hobbs (1831 Lee Co.) - William Chrisman

19C3. Washington Hobbs (1833 VA)

19C4. Aaron Spencer Hobbs (1834 Lee Co. VA - 1863 Douglas IL)

19C5. Nervesta Hobbs (1835 VA) - Joseph Branson

19C6. Ezekiel P. Hobbs (1836) - 1851 Lee Co. VA - Ann Eliza Olinger

19C7. Margaret E. Hobbs (1838)

19C8. Mary Ann Hobbs (1838 Lee Co. - 1920 Wolfe Co. KY)

19C9. Catherine C. Hobbs (1841 VA)

19CA. William Zion Hobbs (1844 Lee Co. - 1915)

19CB. Jemina Hobbs (1949)

19D. Benjamin Hobbs (c.1800-bef.1835) - Agnes Smith

19D1. Polly Hobbs (1834)

19D2. Ezekiel Hobbs (1834)

Children of Elizabeth Lilly Hobbs:

19E. Wayne Hobbs (c. 1804 to 1870-80) - 1828 Wash. Co. VA - Catherine Cossett

19E1. James Madison Hobbs (1830-bef.1880)

19E2. Mary E. Hobbs

19E3. Amanda Hobbs (1837) - 1863 Wash. Co. - Gasper Fleenor

19E4. Esquire Monroe Hobbs (1838-bef. 1880)

19E5. Margaret Hobbs (1840)

19E6. Lafayette Hobbs (1843)

19E7. Rachel Hobbs (1845)

19E8. Jefferson (Japheth) Hobbs (1847)

19E9. Cynthia Hobbs (c.1849) - High Lawson

19F. Madison Hobbs (c.1807-bef.1870) - 1850 Wash. Co. VA - Nancy Hughes

19F1. Stokey Hobbs (1854)

19F2. Elizabeth Rebecca Hobbs (18 56)

19F3. John E. Hobbs (1858)

19F4. Lydia Hobbs (1860)

19F5. Jacob Hobbs (1865)

19G. Greenberry Hobbs (1807 Wash. Co. - 1897 Scott Co. IN) (1) 1832 Lee Co. VA Marg. Casebolt, (2) 1838 Scott Co. IN - Sarah Sutton

19G1. Harrison Hobbs (1833)

19G2. Susanna Eliz. Hobbs (1839)

19G3. Zacheaus Hobbs (1840)

19G4. Francis Marion Hobbs (1842)

19G5. Mary Ann Hobbs (1844)

19G6. Nancy Melissa Hobbs (1845)

19G7. Randolph Hobbs (1848)

19G8. Gabriel Hobbs (1850)

19G9. Gilbert Hobbs (1850)

19G(10). James S. Hobbs (1853)

19G)l 1). Ray Hobbs (1853)

19G(12). Rebecca Jane Hobbs (1856)

19G(13). Sarah Emeline Hobbs (1860)

19H. Polly Hobbs (c. 1808 Wash. Co.) - William M. Gobble

19I. Harriett Hobbs (c. 1808)

19J. Harrison Hobbs (c. 1809 Wash Co.-bef. 1880) - (1) bef. 1836 – Mariah (Unknown)- (2) 1874 - Sarah Fleenor.

19J 1. Elkany Hobbs (1836)

19J2. Jacob Hobbs (1840)

19J3. James K. Hobbs (1845-1856)

19J4. Elizabeth Hobbs (1848) - John Shaffer

19J5. Hugh Lawson Hobbs (1851) - 1876 Wash. Co. VA Cynthia Hobbs

19J6. Floyd Hobbs (1862)

19K. Rebecca Hobbs (c. 1810)

19L. Matilda Hobbs (c.1810-1891 Wash. Co. VA)

19M. Ruth Hobbs (c. 1811)

19N. George Washington Hobbs (c. 1811 to 1870-80)

19O. Shelby Hobbs (1812 Wash Co. VA-1897 Lee Co. VA)

19P. Andrew Jackson Hobbs (c.1813 to 1870-80 Russell Co. VA)

19Q. Preston Hobbs (c.1816)

1A. Absalom Hobbs - (1) estimated 1797 – Susan Helvy - (2) 1825 Lee Co. - Mary Ann Olinger B. 1764 MD D. c.1741 Lee Co. VA

1796 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1820 Lee Co. VA Census, page 130A: Absalom Hobbs, males under 10=1, 10-16=2, 16-26=1, over 45=1; females 16-26=1, over 45=1, no slaves. Same page as Joel Hobbs.

Lee County Death Records: Vincent Hobbs (died December 8, 1861 - 30 years, 1 month, 10 days), informant, friend Caff Bailey, parents Absolom and Mary Hobbs; Job Hobbs (died Oct. 13, 1880 - 79 years, 8 months, 16 days), Yokum Station - parents Absalom and Susan Hobbs. There is a report Absalom's will was dated 13 Oct 1840.

1A1. Henry Helvy Hobbs (1798-1852 Tipton Co. IN).

1A2. Rebecca Hobbs (c.1799)

1A3. Job Hobbs (1800 Lee Co. VA - 1880 Lee Co.)

1A4. Emory Hobbs (1802 Lee Co.) - 1825 Lee Co. - Lavina Curry

1A5. Mary Hobbs (1804 Lee Co. - 1832 Lee Co.) - 1832 James Pearl Abbey

1A6. William Hobbs (1804 - died Fayette Co. KY)

1A7. Levi T. Hobbs (1807-1863)

1A8. Absolom Hobbs (1808-1880 Tipton Co. IN)

1A9. John Hobbs

1AA. Margaret Ann Hobbs (1826) - (Wise Co. VA) - Eli Buckles

1AB. Vincent Hobbs (1827 Lee Co.-1861 Lee Co. VA)

1AC. Jacob Hobbs (c.1829)

1AD. Dewitt Clinton Hobbs (1831)

1AE. Caleb Hobbs (1834)

1AF. Joshua Hobbs (1835-1926). Same Joshua mentioned in the first part of this paper who gave history of the family.

1AG. David Creed Hobbs (1837-1926).

1AH. David Crokett Hobbs (1837)

1B. Rachel Hobbs - Sept. 13, 1783 – John Russell B. November 24, 1767 B. 1758 Hereford, Eng. D. 2-23-1830 Lee Co. VA D. 8-3-1838 Lee Co. VA

John Russell was son of William Russell, born 1732 England, and died c.1794 Guilford Co. NC. William married Eleanor Cross. According to the Russell family members, below are the descendants of Rachel Hobbs Russell:

1B1. William Russell - Mary R. Ely B. 1785 D. 1831-39 Bartholomew. Co. IN

1B2. James Russell (1786)

1B3. John Russell (1788)

1B4. Robert Russell (1789)

l B5. Vincent Russell (1790)

1B6. Margaret Russell (1793)

1B7. Ruth Russell (1796)

1B8. Alexander Russell (1800)

1B9. Faith Russell (1802)

1BA. Isaac Russell (1805)

1BB. Ransom Russell (1801)

1BB. Alfred King Russell (1805)

Rachel had 12 children - first five born Guilford Co. NC - apparently moved back to Lee Co. VA between 1793-95.

1C. Thomas Hobbs (probable son) B. Before 1746 MD D.??

Unproven connection to the Vincent Hobbs family, but lived in the same area as Vincent and was wounded at the battle of King's Mountain in 1780. This may be the son of Vincent who explored the western Virginia area before the rest of the family arrived.

Augusta County, VA Will Book #4-71 (1767): Contract by Thomas Hobbs, John Drake, Thomas Jones, Charles Druerson, James Adams, William Dean, James Nelly, and James Waddy.

1774 - on a list of men to be paid under Capt. William Russell's Militia.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Thomas Hobbs, 200 acres, Commissioner Certificate, on both sides of Moccasin Creek, north branch of the north fork of Holstein River - April 30, 1782. Thomas Hobbs, assignee of John Lemar, assignee of Jessie Cain - actual settlement made 1773 -Aug. 23, 1781.

Washington Co. Survey Records: Thomas Hobbs, assignee of Joel and Johab Hobbs and company, 150 acres, Treasury Warrant #13221 dated Aug. 3, 1782, and 100 acres by warrant #1247, dated Dec. 29, 1780, on both sides of Moccasin Creek and joining lines of the place he now lives - corner to Christopher Huston - March 9, 1786.

Dec. 1785 - Thomas Hobbs was on the petitioner's list to form Russell Co., which included the head of the Clinch River and Powell Valley settlements.

Russell Co. Survey Records: May 4, 1795 - Hugh McClung received two Treasury Warrants -7000 acres on #1159, and 50,000 acres on #1160, both dated Feb. 7, 1795 - both in Russell and Washington Cos. - greater part in Washington Co., beginning near the head of Bushes Mill Creek, north side of Poor Valley Road, included within the boundary - sold 300a to Zacharah Fugate, 400a to John Tate, 300a to Charles Dever, 200a to widow Taylor, 400a to Joel Hobbs, 500a to James Dickenson, 1400a to Benjamin Astll, 666a to Timothy Burgess and Henry Dickenson, 300a t John Anderson, 200a to Richard Price, 234a to Robert Preston, 3000a to Thomas Stepleton.

1782 Washington County, Virginia tax list = 1 poll. 1787 Russell County VA tax list = 1 poll, 4 horses, 20 cattle.

1(13). Ruth Hobbs (speculative daughter) - James Fugate

1(14). Nathaniel Hobbs (possible son) B. before 1767 D. after 1802

Russell Co. Deed Book 1: October 17, 1788 - Christopher Houston of NC to Nathan Hobbs, on both sides of Moccasin Creek, beginning on a rocky spur, corner to the land where John Walker formerly lived, by a path ... 100 acres, signed John Tate.

Russell Co. D. B. 1: Sep. 1, 1793, Nathan Hobbs of Birch (???) Co. NC 100 acres to David Cane, on both sides of Moccasin Creek, beginning corner to land where John Walker formerly lived, along a rocky brake of land. Signed Nathan Hobbs. Witnesses were John Lemar, Betty Lemar, Richard Barns.

Moccasin Valley is in present Russell Co. VA about 15 miles SW of present Lebanon, VA.

1788 Russell Co. VA tax = I poll

1790 Russell Co. VA tax = I poll

1792 Russell Co. VA tax = 100 acres

1794 Russell Co. VA tax = 400 acres

1796 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1798 Russell Co. VA tax = 2 polls

1799 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1801 Russell Co. VA tax = 1 poll

1802 Russell Co. VA tax = I poll

1810 Russell Co. VA tax = I poll

1818 Scott Co. VA = 1 poll, 2 horses (not sure this is correct Nathan).

Some marriages records from the Washington County, Virginia marriage bonds. Other information from the Hobbs Family Newsletter, M.J. Keppeberger, Killeen Texas, and from Sue Morrow on Washington and Lee Co. Hobbs families.

Descendants of Abner (Abraham) Hobbs

Researchers NOTE: The number behind the name denotes the generation from NATHANIEL HOBBS born 1675 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.His son NATHANIEL BARRYE HOBBS had 10 children 7 sons, 3 daughters. Three of his sons were the first in this line to come to AMERICA.
Vincent Hobbs Sr., arrived in America with his two brothers Beale and William, in 1735 at the age of about 15. It is believed that they sailed from Cardiganshire,Wales, although family tradition states that the family is English. All three brothers settled in Maryland for a time; William eventually migrated to North Carolina, possibly into the part that is now East Tennessee. Vincent and Beale remained in MD for a time. The brothers settled on land bordered by a John Hobbs. (It is unknown whether this is uncle or what relationship he is to the Hobbs brothers.)After a time Beale relocated to Pennsylvania, Vincent ended up moving to Washington County, Virginia.


Generation No. 1
1. ABNER (ABRAHAM)6 HOBBS (NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born 1796 in Virginia, and died August 20, 1873 in Stone Co, MO. He married EDITH RUTH"ANNIE" KELSEY, daughter of SAMUEL KELSEY and ANNIE THORNTON.
More About ABNER (ABRAHAM) HOBBS:
Fact 1: Dr. Abner Hobbs & a Minister
Children of ABNER HOBBS and EDITH KELSEY are:
i. JANE7 HOBBS, b. December 15, 1818, Indiana; m. MCDOWELL.
ii. MARY ANN HOBBS, b. January 10, 1821, Indiana; d. November 03, 1910, Stockton, California; m. JESSE STEWART LEWIS.
2. iii. SARAH JANE HOBBS, b. June 05, 1826, Indiana; d. December 23, 1915, Bakersfield, CA.
iv. ELIZABETH HOBBS, b. November 11, 1830; m. MOORE.
v. JOHN HOBBS, b. 1831.
3. vi. SAMUEL KELSEY HOBBS, b. November 22, 1834, Indiana; d. 1901, California.
4. vii. NATHAN HOBBS, b. 1835.
viii. ANNA ELIZABETH HOBBS, b. 1839.
5. ix. JAMES HOBBS, b. April 29, 1844, MO.

Generation No. 2
2. SARAH JANE7 HOBBS (ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born June 05, 1826 in Indiana, and died December 23, 1915 in Bakersfield, CA. She married (1) JOHN SLOAN WHEELER LEWIS September 20, 1847 in AK, son of WILLIAM LEWIS and ELVIRA SLOAN. She married (2) ROBERT COLEMAN STUBBLEFIELD April 1858 in Napa, CA.
Children of SARAH HOBBS and JOHN LEWIS are:
6. i. SARAH ELIZABETH8 LEWIS, b. May 20, 1849, Park Township, Scott Co. Arkansas; d. May 25, 1940, Bakersfield, CA.
ii. JULIA ANN LEWIS, b. May 17, 1854, San Andreas, CA; d. June 01, 1912, Bakersfield, CA; m. WILLIAM HOUSTON HOLLOWAY, 1872, Santa Maria, CA.
Children of SARAH HOBBS and ROBERT STUBBLEFIELD are:
7. iii. ROBERT8 STUBBLEFIELD.
iv. RICHARD STUBBLEFIELD.
v. JULIA STUBBLEFIELD, m. WILLIAM HOLLOWAY.
vi. LIZ STUBBLEFIELD.
3. SAMUEL KELSEY7 HOBBS (ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born November 22, 1834 in Indiana, and died April 28,1901 in California. He married MAHALA JANE GANN September 08, 1857 in San Joaquin, CA, daughter of NICHOLAS GANN and RUTH FRAZIER.
Children of SAMUEL HOBBS and MAHALA GANN are:
8. i. WILLIAM ADRIAN8 HOBBS, b. November 04, 1857, O'Neal Twp, , San Joaquin, Sonora, California; d. March 27, 1943, Bakersfield, Kern, CA.
ii. JOHN HENRY HOBBS, b. March 1860, Stockton, California; d. Dec 17, 1907, Orcutt, Santa Maria, CA; m. EMMA BABCOCK. married July 7, 1884 Union Co., OR.
iii. JOSEPH LANE HOBBS, b. August 21, 1862, O'Neal Twp., San Joaquin, California; d. August 16, 1936, Fruitvale, Kern, CA; m. NANCY ELNORA STUBBLEFIELD.
9. iv. MELVINA JANE HOBBS, b. February 17, 1865, Stockton, California; d. December 04, 1954, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, CA.
v. BERDINA OLIVE HOBBS, b. April 03, 1867, Stockton, California; d. June 05, 1896; m. MATTISON WARREN HOWERTON, November 09, 1887, Santa Maria, CA.
vi. ROSETTA LEE HOBBS, b. November 21, 1869, Stockton, California; d. April 28, 1887.
vii. JAMES ANDREW HOBBS, b. November 21, 1872, La Gracos (Orcutt), California; d. September 18, 1954, Santa Barbara, California.
viii. BERTHA MAE HOBBS, b. December 13, 1874, La Gracious, (Orcutt), Santa Barbara, CA; d. August 30, 1964, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, CA; m. THOMAS FRANKLIN HOWERTON, February 26, 1889, Pine Grove(Orcutt), Santa Barbara, CA. d.May 24, 1953, Lompoc Evergreen Cemetary
ix. RUTH ANN HOBBS, b. April 12, 1876, La Gracious, (Orcutt), Santa Barbara, CA; d. June 1918; m. FRANK BURNHAM.
x. MINNE ESTELLA HOBBS, b. 1879. married JOHN DUNLAP, resided in Santa Cruz,CA area
xi. NELLIE HOBBS, b 1881 d.,1900 Died as a child.
xii. NICHOLAS NATHAN "JAKE" HOBBS, b. January 11, 1882; d. September 07, 1962, Santa Barbara, California.
xiii. EDITH ESTELL HOBBS, b. October 5,1884; d. February 9, 1963 Never Married.
4. NATHAN7 HOBBS (ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born 1835.
Child of NATHAN HOBBS is:
i. NATHAN8 HOBBS, b. 1863.
Notes for NATHAN HOBBS:
STONE COUNTY MISSOURI
ABSTRACTS OF WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS

LEONARD, ANDREW J.
Guardian and curator of Nathan Hobbs, minor heir of Nathan Hobbs, dec.
Sec. David Leonard and e. J. Melton, bond filed 11 Feb. 1868
page 80

5. JAMES7 HOBBS (ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born April 29, 1844 in MO. He married REBECCA.
Child of JAMES HOBBS and REBECCA is:
i. PHILEMON8 HOBBS, b. 1870.

Generation No. 3
6. SARAH ELIZABETH8 LEWIS (SARAH JANE7 HOBBS, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born May 20, 1849 in Park Township, Scott Co. Arkansas, and died May 25, 1940 in Bakersfield, CA. She married JOHN WHEELER GREEN, son of JOHN DUNCAN GREEN.
Children of SARAH LEWIS and JOHN GREEN are:
i. BERNARD G.9 GREEN.
ii. ELEANOR GREEN.
7. ROBERT8 STUBBLEFIELD (SARAH JANE7 HOBBS, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1).
Child of ROBERT STUBBLEFIELD is:
i. NELL9 STUBBLEFIELD.
8. WILLIAM ADRIAN8 HOBBS (SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born November 04, 1857 in O'Neal Twp, , San Joaquin, Sonora, California, and died March 27, 1943 in Bakersfield, Kern, CA. He married CORA EDNA FRANCIS CRABTREE September 07, 1887 in Orcutt, Santa Maria, CA, daughter of EFRAM CRABTREE and LAURA FOSTER.
Children of WILLIAM HOBBS and CORA CRABTREE are:
i. JASPER ROSS9 HOBBS, b. June 13, 1888, Santa Maria, California; d. 1966, Alameda, CA.
More About JASPER ROSS HOBBS:
Fact 1: Never Married
10. ii. CLARA OLIVE HOBBS, b. April 29, 1890, California; d. November 20, 1984, Bakersfield, CA.
iii. JESS ELMER HOBBS, b. November 28, 1892, Cayama, Ca; d. September 14, 1974, Bakersfield, CA; m. MYRTLE CURLEY(?).
More About JESS ELMER HOBBS:
Fact 1: Social Security Number: 551-42-1857
iv. JOSEPH CLAY HOBBS, b. November 28, 1892, Cuyuma, CA; d. 1917, Bakersfield, CA.
More About JOSEPH CLAY HOBBS:
Fact 1: Never Married
v. LILLIAN EDNA BEATRICE HOBBS, b. April 24, 1894, Santa Maria, CA; d. August 1982, Taft, CA; m. LEE TOWNSEND.
vi. IRA VICTOR HOBBS, b. May 04, 1896, California; d. September 11, 1918, Arroy Grande, CA.
More About IRA VICTOR HOBBS:
Fact 1: Never Married
vii. WILLIAM BRIAN HOBBS, b. April 26, 1899, Rio Bravo, Kern Co., CA; d. October 25, 1971, Santa Maria, CA; m. RUTH.
viii. LENA ELIZABETH HOBBS, b. December 10, 1902, Kratzmier Ranch, CA; d. April 23, 1928, Taft, CA; m. HUSTON GILLESPIE.
11. ix. JOHN PERRY HOBBS, b. August 21, 1904, Rosedale, Kern Co., California; d. April 17, 1994, Santa Barbara, California.
12. x. FRANK JAMES HOBBS, b. December 13, 1907, Adobe Station, Kern Co., California; d. July 20, 1991, Tuolumne, CA.
xi. CLYDE LANE HOBBS, b. June 30, 1909, Old River, Kern Co., California; d. March 29, 1986, Grover Beach, San Luis Obispo, CA.
More About CLYDE LANE HOBBS:
Fact 1: SS# 547-18-3084
13. xii. JAY DEE HOBBS, b. April 20, 1912, Old River, Kern, CA; d. November 06, 1953, Bakersfield, Kern, CA.
9. MELVINA JANE8 HOBBS (SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born February 17, 1865 in Stockton, California, and died December 04, 1954 in Lompoc, Santa Barbara, CA. She married THOMAS HENRY MARTIN September 15, 1883 in Pine Grove-Project City, Shasta, Ca, son of THOMAS MARTIN and SARAH GOATLEY.
Children of MELVINA HOBBS and THOMAS MARTIN are:
i. CHARLES9 MARTIN, b. 1888, California.
ii. DELBERT MARTIN, b. 1890, California.
iii. RUTH MARTIN, b. 1892, California.
iv. JAMES MARTIN, b. 1894, California.

Generation No. 4
10. CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS (WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born April 29, 1890 in California, and died November 20, 1984 in Bakersfield, CA. She married (1) LESLIE ALLEN MEAD. She married (2) FRANK LEONARD.
Children of CLARA HOBBS and LESLIE MEAD are:
14. i. CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD.
15. ii. LESLIE ERWIN "BUD" MEAD, b. March 20, 1912, Long Beach, California; d. 1979, Bakersfield, California.
11. JOHN PERRY9 HOBBS (WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born August 21, 1904 in Rosedale, Kern Co., California, and died April 17, 1994 in Santa Barbara, California. He married MARGARET THATCHER.
Children of JOHN HOBBS and MARGARET THATCHER are:
i. JOHN PERRY "JACK"10 HOBBS.
ii JOSEPH LEE HOBBS10.
iii. PAUL THATCHER HOBBS10.
12. FRANK JAMES9 HOBBS (WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born December 13, 1907 in Adobe Station, Kern Co., California, and died July 20, 1991 in Tuolumne, CA. He married (1) LENORA. He married (2) GLADYS ORA VAN HORN March 04, 1944.
Children of FRANK HOBBS and GLADYS VAN HORN are:
i. RICHARD ADRIAN10 HOBBS, m. MARILYN DALE.
ii. CAROL LYNN HOBBS, m REA CHARLES STONIER.
13. JAY DEE9 HOBBS (WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born April 20, 1912 in Old River, Kern, CA, and died November 06, 1953 in Bakersfield, Kern, CA. He married VIRGINIA FERN HENDERSON 1939, daughter of HOBART HENDERSON and FERN MILLER.
Children of JAY HOBBS and VIRGINIA HENDERSON are:
16. i. SHIRLEY ANN10 HOBBS, b. June 12, 1938, Colinga, California.
17. ii. JAMES DEE HOBBS, b. January 31, 1942, Techacapi, California.
18. iii. BILLIE JEAN HOBBS, b. March 18, 1943, California.
19. iv. PATRICIA SUSAN HOBBS, b. December 18, 1944, Bakersfield, CA.
v. GARY BRIAN HOBBS, b. January 12, 1946, Bakersfield, CA; d. July 9, 1993, Multnomah, Oregon.

Generation No. 5
14. CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD (CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1). She married (1) CHARLES HAROLD HILLGARTNER. She married (2) JAMES BURKETT, son of BURKETT.
Children of CLARA MEAD and CHARLES HAROLD HILLGARTNER are:
20. i. ALLEN ERWIN11 BURKETT. b.1932
21. ii. TRUDY KARLENE11 BURKETT, b. May 1933 Ontario, Canada.
15. LESLIE ERWIN "BUD"10 MEAD (CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born March 20, 1912 in Long Beach, California, and died 1979 in Bakersfield, California. He married MYRTLE THATCHER.
Children of LESLIE MEAD and MYRTLE THATCHER are:
i. SAMUEL ROBERT11 MEAD.
22. ii. MICHEAL DENNIS MEAD.
23. iii. LESLIE WILLIAM MEAD, b. June 06, 1938, California; d. November 13, 2004, Lake Isabella, Caifornia.
16. SHIRLEY ANN10 HOBBS (JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born June 12, 1938 in Colinga, California. She married (1) RICHARD LEON MCCOLLUM. She married (2) KENNETH SPEER 1957.
Children of SHIRLEY HOBBS and KENNETH SPEER are:
i. TIMOTHY JOE11 SPEER, b July 26, 1966
ii. KENNETH SCOTT SPEER, b. November 1958; d. May 30, 1978.
iii. SUZANNE JEAN SPEER, b. February 13, 1960.
17. JAMES DEE10 HOBBS (JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born January 31, 1942 in Tehachapi, California.
Children of JAMES DEE HOBBS are:
i. DAVID11 HOBBS.
ii. TAMI HOBBS.
18. BILLIE JEAN10 HOBBS (JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born March 18, 1943 in California. She married ROBERT EUGENE WEST November 04, 1961 in Visalia, CA.
Children of BILLIE HOBBS and ROBERT WEST are:
24. i. REBECCA LEE11 WEST, b. May 31, 1962, Fresno, CA.
25. ii. ROGER ALLEN WEST, b. January 23, 1964, Fresno, CA.
26. iii. SARAH JANE WEST, b. September 06, 1966, Fresno, CA.
19. PATRICIA SUSAN10 HOBBS (JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born December 18, 1944 in Bakersfield, CA. She married JAMES WILLIAM PERRAULT June 04, 1964 in San Jose, CA, son of LAWRENCE PERRAULT and GLADYS BUTCHER.
Children of PATRICIA HOBBS and JAMES PERRAULT are:
27. i. LLOYD ALLEN11 PERRAULT, b. March 23, 1964, Los Gatos, California.
28. ii. JAMES KELLY PERRAULT, b. August 01, 1967, Orange, California.

Generation No. 6
20. ALLEN ERWIN11 BURKETT (CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1). He married (1) CLEO. He married (2) JOYCE ANN BRYANT.
Child of ALLEN BURKETT and CLEO is:
i. JENNIFER12 BURKETT, b. March 20, 1964.
Children of ALLEN BURKETT and JOYCE BRYANT are:
29. ii. CONNIE JEAN12 BURKETT, b. September 16, 1951, Bakersfield.
30. iii. CHARLES ALLEN BURKETT, b. December 15, 1952, Bakersfield, CA; d. November 28, 2001.
31. iv. STEVEN WILLIAM BURKETT, b. February 25, 1954.
v. DONALD IRWIN BURKETT, b. August 11, 1957.
21. TRUDY KARLENE11 BURKETT (CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born in Ontario, Canada. She married (1) LEROY ANDERSON. She married (2) LAWRENCE SPEARS.
Children of TRUDY KARLENE BURKETT and LEROY ANDERSON are:
32. i. PAUL DENNIS12 ANDERSON.
ii. TERRI LYNETTE ANDERSON.
Child of TRUDY BURKETT and LAWRENCE SPEARS is:
iii. LORI ANN12 SPEARS.
22. MICHAEL11 MEAD (LESLIE BUD10, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1). He married JEANNETTE.
Child of MIKE MEAD and JEANNETTE is:
i. MIKE JR.12 MEAD.
23. LESLIE WILLIAM11 MEAD (LESLIE BUD10, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born June 06, 1938 in California, and died November 13, 2004 in Lake Isabella, Caifornia. He married BEVERLY JOAN WILSON.
Children of LESLIE MEAD and BEVERLY WILSON are:
33. i. MATTHEW VINCENT12 MEAD, b. May 11, 1962, California.
ii. LESLIE MARK MEAD, b. December 31, 1960.
24. REBECCA LEE11 WEST (BILLIE JEAN10 HOBBS, JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born May 31, 1962 in Fresno, CA. She married (1) DANIEL HOOLE. She married (2) DENNIS T. LOWERY June 23, 1990 in Clovis, CA.
Child of REBECCA WEST and DANIEL HOOLE is:
i. SCOTTI LYNN12 HOOLE, b. November 16, 1984.
Child of REBECCA WEST and DENNIS LOWERY is:
ii. DARCI RENEE12 LOWERY, b. November 06, 1991.
25. ROGER ALLEN11 WEST (BILLIE JEAN10 HOBBS, JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born January 23, 1964 in Fresno, CA. He married JUDI JAROCKI May 14, 1988.
Children of ROGER WEST and JUDI JAROCKI are:
i. NICOLAS ALLEN12 WEST, b. November 10, 1989.
ii. NATHANIEL ROBERT12 WEST, b. April 10, 1991.
26. SARAH JANE11 WEST (BILLIE JEAN10 HOBBS, JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born September 06, 1966 in Fresno, CA. She married (1) JESSE M. WILLIAMS. She married (2) BRIAN PARFITT September 19, 1992.
Child of SARAH WEST and JESSE WILLIAMS is:
i. MICHAEL TODD12 WILLIAMS, b. May 25, 1983, Fresno, CA.
27. LLOYD ALLEN11 PERRAULT (PATRICIA SUSAN10 HOBBS, JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born March 23, 1964 in Los Gatos, California. Mother of Desire (1) SUSAN LOGAN.
Child of LLOYD PERRAULT and SUSAN LOGAN is:
i. DESIRE ELISE12 PERRAULT, b. November 21, 1988.
Child of LLOYD PERRAULT is:
iii. BRODI LAINE12 PERRAULT, b. October 06, 2003.
28. JAMES KELLY11 PERRAULT (PATRICIA SUSAN10 HOBBS, JAY DEE9, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born August 01, 1967 in Orange, California. He married (1) JULIA BELINI. He married (2) MEAGAN O'ROURKE.
Children of JAMES PERRAULT and JULIE BELINI are:
i. JAMES ANTHONY12 PERRAULT, b. December 09, 1986.
ii. JACQULINE CHRISTINE12 PERRAULT, b. February 5, 1988.
Child of JAMES PERRAULT and MEAGAN O'ROURKE is:
iii. DYLAN JARRET12 PERRAULT, b. October 24, 2003.

Generation No. 7
29. CONNIE12 BURKETT (ALLEN ERWIN11, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born September 16, 1951 in Bakersfield. She married EDWARDS.
Children of CONNIE BURKETT and EDWARDS are:
i. MATTHEW FOREST13 EDWARDS, b. July 09, 1973.
ii. NATALIE EDWARDS, b. January 20, 1976.
30. CHARLES ALLEN12 BURKETT (ALLEN ERWIN11, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born December 15, 1952 in Bakersfield, CA, and died November 28, 2001.
Children of CHARLES ALLEN BURKETT are:
i. HEATHER RENEE13 BURKETT, b. November 29, 1981.
ii. NICKOLAS CHARLES13 BURKETT, b. February 19, 1983.
31. STEVEN WILLIAM12 BURKETT (ALLEN ERWIN11, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born February 25, 1954.
Children of STEVEN WILLIAM BURKETT are:
i. KRISTOPHER ROBERT13 BURKETT, b. January 09, 1980.
ii. KAMERON LEE BURKETT, b. September 25, 1998.
32. PAUL DENNIS12 ANDERSON (TRUDY KARLENE11 BURKETT, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1).
Child of PAUL DENNIS ANDERSON is:
i. ANDREA NICHOLE13 ANDERSON.
33. TERRI LYNETTE12 ANDERSON (TRUDY KARLENE11 BURKETT, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1). Married PHILLIP DOUGLAS NIXON.
Children of TERRI LYNETTE12 ANDERSON AND PHILLIP DOUGLAS NIXON.
i. MICHELLE ANDREA13 NIXON
ii. PATRICE NOELLE13 NIXON
34.LORI ANN12 SPEARS (TRUDY KARLENE11 BURKETT, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1).Married MIGUEL AGENJO.
Children of LORI ANN SPEARS and MIGUEL AGENJO are,
i. ERIN DANIELLE13 AGENJO
ii. EMILY LOREN SPEARS13 AGENJO
35. MATTHEW VINCENT12 MEAD (LESLIE WILLIAM11, LESLIE ERWIN10, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1) was born May 11, 1962 in California. He married DENISE.
Child of MATTHEW MEAD and DENISE is:
i. MATTHEW VINCENT13 MEAD.
36. ANDREA NICHOLE13 ANDERSON (PAUL DENNIS12 ANDERSON, TRUDY KARLENE11 BURKETT, CLARA LILLIAN10 MEAD, CLARA OLIVE9 HOBBS, WILLIAM ADRIAN8, SAMUEL KELSEY7, ABNER (ABRAHAM)6, NATHAN5, EZEKIEL4, VINCENT "VINSON"3, NATHANIEL BARRYE2, NATHANIEL1).
Married TIM SCANLON. Child of ANDREA NICHOLE13 ANDERSON AND TIM SCANLON is,
i. ALEXIS KATE14 SCANLON

Hobbs/Mead

Hey patti here is some of the filler names for the meads
Leslie William(Bill)
Beverly Joan(wilson)
Leslie Mark (dob12/31/60
Matthew Daniel(Matt)(dob 11 may 62)
Matthew vincent(matts son)
 
i will send more soon
 
love mark mead
 

John Henry Hobbs

Ok I have John Henry Hobbs death cert. He died 12/17/1907 in Bakersfield he was 47 years 8 months 29 days old when he past of and intestinal obstruction contributed by rectal cancer. The person listed as confirming the personal info. on John was W.A. Hobbs. John is buried at union cemetary. I also have his funeral cost sheet which is interesting as well as the notice in the newpaper. The death cert. confirms Samuel as his father born in Ind.and M.J. Gann born in Missouri.

His daughter Hazel Married Ernest Mathis (Have Cert.) 3/10/1917 She was 18 and He was 27!

Hazel Grace Hobbs DOB 7/29/1898 in California DOD (Have Cert.) 3/1/1973 in Bakersfield after a severe stroke leaving her unable to speak and paralized on one side of her body. She was in a convalesent hospital for almost a year and a half before her passing.

Child # 1 George Deryl Mathis DOB 9/2/1918 DOD 1/1/1994 in Kern

Child # 2 Vernon Alston Mathis DOB 12/10/1919 DOD 8/26/1958 in Kern

Child # 3 Betty Louise Mathis (Meaglia) DOB 4/27/1925 DOD 12/10/1987 in Kern ( Have Cert.)

Betty is my Grandmother she Married James Franklin Vertrees (no cert. yet) They had my Mother;

Diane Leigh Vertrees DOB 9/7/1942 DOD 7/9/1993

Betty married and divorced 4 times. Gave a son up for adoption (we found him) he currently live in Montana.

Census records: 1920 Kern county 16th twp. page 45 list My great grandparents Ernest, Hazel 2 sons alon with Ernest Hobbs and wife Clara with Mother Emma and her son George Hobbs in one house.

" " 1930 Kern co. Taft page 48 (my great Grandparents).

I hope this was not confusing? I have more info. I can share with you later. I would also love to hear about your side an picture too.

Jenne

Sarah Hobbs

Here's some info from the History I have and I also have an article on Dr
Abner Hobbs at home, if you want it. There is also some other researchers,
I'll pass your email along.

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.

Wagon Train to California

MISS AMERICA KELSEY
Heroic Lass of 1844
from California's Sesquicentennial Wagon Train To Port of Stockton 1999




She was pretty, she was pert, and she was barely twelve years old in 1844 when a life already chock full of adventure turned tragedy and made her an unexpected heroine. Her name was America Kelsey.

Born on the frontier, she had never been to school, never learned to read and write. But she was bright, and if she was not "school smart," she surely was wise to the ways of living and surviving on the frontier.

America was born in St. Clair County, Missouri in 1832, the tenth and youngest child of frontiersman David Kelsey and his wife, Susan Cazzort. David Kelsey was born in Kentucky in 1793. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, who had served with the famous Kentucky Rifles.

In the winter of 1840-41, the call of California was heard up and down the Missouri frontier. The published letters of California immigrant Dr. John Marsh coupled with hard times, ignited a flare of enthusiasm that led perhaps 500 people to declare they were ready to pull up stakes and head west as soon as the grass greened up in the spring of 1841. When the time came to rendezvous for the trek, only about eighty drifted into camp, including the four oldest sons of David Kelsey, Americas brothers. They joined with a Jesuit missionary group led by Fr. Pierre DeSmett and guided by renown Mountain Man Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick.


This first attempt at wagon travel to California succeeded only as far as Utah. After DeSmett and Fitzpatrick left them to continue north, the California group suffered from lack of supplies and sufficient knowledge to blaze a new trail. The party split About half - mostly families - elected to pick up the more certain trail to the Oregon Territory. The remainder, today known as the Bidwell-Bartleson Party, abandoned their wagons and continued to California.

Sam Kelsey with his wife and five children and brother Isaac (also called Zediddiah)with his new bride headed for Oregon. Brothers Andrew and Ben stayed the course for California. Ben's wife Nancy and tiny daughter Martha Ann became historic figures by becoming the first white woman and child to migrate to California over the Sierras. Dauntless Nancy, carrying her child, stumbled out of the mountains into the Great Valley barefoot and faint from hunger to become a lasting heroine.

In 1843 father David Kelsey, wife Susan, little America, and the remainder of the family, joined the Applegate train and made the long trek to Oregon. The trip lasted six months and they arrived in winter. They wintered with Sam, where America had a warm bed and new cousins to meet.

When spring arrived in 1844, Ben and farmily took the Siskiyou trail to Sutter's Fort in search of California's touted opportunities. A search was not necessary for here he met William Gulnac who was disparately seeking people to settle on his new land grant,located about 40 miles south of Sutter's (present day Stockton). Gulnac promised Kelsey title to a farm of one square mile if he would settle on his new grant and remain there for one year. David immediately agreed.

Gulnac's partner was Charles Weber, a quiet member of the Bidwell-Bartleson Party and therefore a family friend. Weber had been trying since he arrived in California in '41 to acquire a land grant, but lacked Mexican citizenship to qualify. Therefore he recruited Gulnac to apply for the grant that was subsequently awarded. Gulnac was already a citizen and was Weber's associate in several endeavors in San Jose. There was a big proviso that went with the grant-since it was the maximum legal size, it had to include more than one settler. Weber and Gulnac were forced to search for eleven other families or individuals to settle on their grant in order to prove title. Pickings were poor in 1844 and Gulnac traveled to Sutter's in hopes of finding new over-landers fresh from the trail to entice into settling on their rancho, called Campo de los Franceses (French Camp). This led to his fateful meeting with David Kelsey.

When Kelsey first arrived in the area of present day Stockton in August of 1844, there was a flurry of activi on the grant. Later testimony at Weber's land title hearings indicated there were at least four houses near McLeods Lake (named for Alexander McLeod, leader of the first Hudson's Bay trappers to visit the delta), with two individuals in temporary residence.Corrals were constructed, fruit trees planted as well as a small patch of wheat. There were horses and cattle and some vaqueros on site. David Kelsey had a man named Kelly who worked with him in building his cabin at French Camp, the site of his promised square mile.

By autumn, however, it was quiet. Only James Williams and Thomas Lindsay remained at McLeod's Lake, occupying two cabins and tending the stock. The Kelsey family was now also on it's own and apparently consisted of only Kelsey and his wife, and daughter America.

The little family would expect to face hostile Indians, thieves, disease, and mosquitoes in enormous swarms. Their only neighbors would be the two cattle herders at McLeods Lake, several miles to the north. This was the only white occupation in the enLire San Joaquin Valley at that tirhe. Sutter had given Guinac a swivel cannon and he passed it on to Kelsey. Each night Kelsey would charge the piece and fire an evening salute to warn any marauding Indians that he was armed.

Late in the fall supplies ran short The family was existing on wheat gruel (his seed for his first planned crop?), game, and tea made from herbs gathered along French Camp Slough. Kelsey therefore buried his cannon, packed up his valuables and his family, and traveled to San Jose for supplies. It is not known how long the Kelseys stayed in San Jose, but they would have to return before winter rains raised the San Joaquin River and made it impossible to ford.

While in San Jose, Kelsey visited a sick Indian. The reason for this visit is a puzzle. Kelsey was too new to the area to have a close acquaintance in far off San Jose. Further, the Kelseys were noted for their prejudices agaihst Indians.
One sensible speculation is that he was referred to the Indian as a possible
employee to take back to the grant.

This short meeting had dire consequences, for soon after return to French Camp, Kelsey took ill, presumably with the malady that Infected the Indian. Susan Kelsey had spent her life on the frontier and was used to dealing with ordinary illness without outside aid, but something made her quickly realize this was something home remedies could not handie. She loaded David and little America into the wagon and started for Sutter's Fort to find a doctor. When they reached Lindsay's cabin at McLeod's Lake,he urged them to spend the nlght. He said Williams would soon return and was good at doctoring. Williams had some medicine he thought would probably be the cure. Williams arrived and dosed his patient. According to later testimony, by morning the nature of David Kelsey's illness became obvious-small pox! Ths was the dreaded killer disease of the Valley, having already decimated the Indian population. Sutter had warned he would kill anyone who brought the disease to his settiement. Lindsay and Wililams immediately took off, separating themselves from the highly contagious disease. Lindsay's parting advice is said to have been that they shouldn't try to bury Kelsey should he die, but rather drag him out to where the coyotes could dispose of the body. As Kelsey grew weaker, wife Susan fell ill and was qulckiy blinded by the disease.

America, now only twelve, became nurse, cook, and protector of her parents. There was little anyone could have done, let alone a child. Kelsey died three weeks after his first syrnptoms. America was not strong enough to move or bury him. She could still tend her mother, but now she was also becoming ill. The plight and despair of that little girl can't really be imagined, nor can we appreciate the anguish of her mother. Dead father unburied, blind mother, and a stricken child alone in the wildeness: this was the fate of the first white family to settle in San Joaquin Valley.

Some cowboys traveling between San Jose and Sutter's Fort happened by and found the destitute family. One of them had the gumption to ignore the danger and rescue America and her mother. He buried David, nursed mother and daughter until they were well enough to travel, and then he took them out of the foggy San Joaquin Valley to safe haven in Monterey.


After a few weeks, James Williams and Thomas Lindsay returned to their cabins at McLeod Lake. Lindsay stayed with the stock and Williams went to Sutter's for supplies. A short time later, riders on their way from San Jose to Sutter's, found Lindsay's cabin burned and his arrow-riddled body floating in McLeod Lake. They buried him close by Kelsey near where the Stockton City Hall now stands.

Susan never recovered her sight and so moved to Oregon to the home of one of America's brothers. America, the brave little nurse, would have to stay with relatives in California or join her mother in Oregon. Which to do?


Suddenly a third option was offered. Her rescuer returned and asked her hand in marriage and she accepted. And so, on June 2, 1846, America Kelsey and her rescuer, George Wyman, were married at Sutters Fort by Captain John Sutter. The bride was fourteen and the groom twenty-seven.

Spunky America lived a long and happy life. She and George took root in Half Moon Bay, California - the second English speaking family to settle there - and reared a family of seven boys and two girls. They were married 47 years before George died in 1893, aged 74. America survived him by eighteen years.

A San Mateo County historian interviewed her in 1883 and noted "She is not favorably impressed [with] the present state of things,and would like to see the times of thirty-five years ago, when beans and beef alone made the bill of fare."

She died in 1916 at the age of 83. A niece remembered "Aunt America could not read or write, but she eamed her own living..." and noted America was still cooking her meat on the stove grate. A pioneer to the end!

Hanna Boone Link

Squire BOONE
• BORN: 26 NOV 1696, Brandnich, England
• DIED: 2 JAN 1765, NC
• BURIED: ,
• MARRIED: Sarah MORGAN, 23 JUL 1720, Gwynedd Meeting House, PA
• CHILDREN:
1. Sarah BOONE
2. Samuel BOONE
3. Israel BOONE
4. Jonathon BOONE
5. Elizabeth BOONE
6. Daniel BOONE
7. Mary BOONE
8. George BOONE
9. Edward BOONE
10. Squire BOONE
11. Hannah BOONE
12. Nathan BOONE


Hanna Boone, sister of Daniel Boone
Hannah Boone, the daughter of
Squire Boone (1696-1765)
and Sarah Morgan (1700-1777)
b. 24 August 1746, Exeter Township, Philadelphia, PA;
d. 9 April 1828, Monroe County, KY.

4 Jesse Stewart Lewis (1822 - 1899)
m. Mary Ann Hobbs (1821 - 1910)
5 James Knox Polk Lewis (1845 - dec.)
m. Mary Ellen Hitchcock (1847 - 1941)
6 Nettie Lou Lewis (1866 - 1918)
6 Jessie Mabel Lewis (1867 - dec.)
6 Dora Elizabeth Lewis (1871 - 1885)
6 James Knox Polk Lewis (1873 - dec.)
6 Carl Warren Lewis (1875 - dec.)
6 Mary Eleanor Lewis (1877 - dec.)
6 Guy M. Lewis (1882 - dec.)
6 Lenore Lewis (1887 - dec.)
5 Arena Jane Lewis (1846 - 1884)
m. Cyrus Moreing, Sr. (1843 - 1911)
6 Arthur M. Moreing (1869 - 1877)
6 Nellie M. Moreing (1871 - 1877)
6 Lewis Jessie Moreing (1873 - 1935)
6 Henry M. Moreing (1874 - 1877)
6 Charles Moreing (1876 - 1929)
6 Nettie Moreing (1878 - 1893)
6 Cyrus Moreing, Jr. (1880 - 1924)
6 William John Moreing (1880 - 1938)
6 Helen Susan Moreing (1882 - dec.)
6 David Burr Moreing (1885 - 1964)
5 Eliza Ann Lewis (1850 - AFT 1850)
5 Flora Ellen (Laura) Lewis (1851 - 1871)
m. Joseph F. Parrish (1834 - dec.)
6 Emma Parrish (1869 - dec.)
6 Clara Gertrude Parrish (1870 - dec.)
5 Lydia Margaret Lewis (1853 - 1872)
5 Thomas Henry Lewis (1856 - 1889)
5 Mary Elizabeth Lewis (1858 - 1947)
m. Christopher Columbus Franklin (1857 - BEF 1923) **
6 Elinor Lewis Franklin (1889 - 1978)
6 Floyd Atherton Franklin (1891 - 1922)
5 William Martin Lewis (1859 - 1886)
5 Sarah Caroline Lewis (1864 - 1943)
m. Ludwik S. Pazneski (1872 - 1945)
4 John Sloane Lewis (1824 - 1858)
m. ? Stubblefield ( - dec.)
m. Sarah Hobbs (1829 - 1915)
5 Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (1849 - 1940)
m. John Wheeler Green (1842 - 1926)
6 Robert Green ( - dec.)
6 Mattie Green ( - dec.)
6 Ray Green ( - dec.)
6 Minnie Green ( - dec.)
6 Clarence Seymore Green (1868 - 1927)
6 John Lewis Green (1873 - 1956)
6 Bernard G. Green (1880 - 1941)
6 Georgia Florence Green (1883 - 1974)
6 Dulcie Green (1889 - 1909)
5 Delia A. Lewis (1854 - dec.)

Nancy Kelsey

NANCY KELSEY, THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO CROSS UTAH
Lyndia Carter
History Blazer, November 1996
"Where my husband goes I can go. I can better stand the hardships of the journey than the anxieties for an absent husband." With those words Nancy Kelsey began a journey across country no white woman had ever made. With her baby on her hip, Nancy, who had just turned 18 a few days earlier, became the first woman, other than Native Americans, to walk on Utah soil. The year was 1841 and the Kelsey clan, often on the move, once again had itching feet. A letter from a Dr. Marsh in California praising the new land excited many Missourians yearning for a great adventure. However, when spring came only a small group gathered at Sapling Grove near Weston, Missouri, to actually make the trip. Among them were several members of the extended Kelsey family, including Nancy, her husband Ben, and their daughter Martha Ann. Known as the Bartleson-Bidwell company, this group followed dim traces of the new Oregon Trail. Tom "Broken-Hand" Fitzpatrick, famous mountain man, was their guide as far as Soda Springs, Idaho. Then they were on their own. Seven long, weary months would pass before they arrived at Sutter's Fort in California. Nancy would also earn the distinction of being the first white woman to cross the Sierra Nevada.
After crossing South Pass in Wyoming, some families in the company began to worry about going to California. No one knew the route, and wagon trains had never gone there before. Oregon—at the end of a known road and more settled every year—sounded safer. By the time they reached Soda Springs, all the families had decided to abandon the California dream—all that is but Ben and Nancy. Nancy bid farewell to her in-laws and became the only woman among the 31 men who turned south into the unknown country that was to eventually become Utah. Surely it was rash for a woman to venture on so perilous a journey, but that did not seem to occur to Nancy. Most of the young men were adventurous and willing to take risks, but this was no ordinary lark for a young woman in 1841.
The travelers knew absolutely nothing of the terrain ahead. In fact, they were so ignorant of western geography that some had brought boat-building equipment so that when they came upon the Great Salt Lake they could build a boat and float down its outlet to the ocean! The advice they got from Fort Hall, where some of the men had gone for provisions, was no better than their own strange notions. No one knew the territory well enough to be their guide. The people at the post could only tell them to be careful not to turn west too soon or they would become lost and perhaps perish in the canyons and chasms below the Snake River and not to go too far south or they would perish of thirst on the salty desert. The small party continued south along the Bear River. They had heard from mountain men about Cache Valley and hoped to stop and hunt there, but somehow they went right through it without realizing where they were. They continued on through the "gates" of the Bear River and then had to take a long detour to find a place to cross the salty, undrinkable Malad River whose banks were impossibly steep for wagons. After finally reaching a place to ford, they again turned south toward the Great Salt Lake. They could see nothing before them "but extensive arid plains, glimmering with heat and salt," wrote John Bidwell. They were desperate for water. As Nancy and the men skirted the northern end of the Great Salt Lake, the only feed for the animals was coated with salt, and water at the few springs was also somewhat salty. In their search for good water they camped on a hill on August 23 and got their first full view of the Great Salt Lake to the south. The location offered little water, however, and their animals strayed off in search of something to drink and had to be rounded up.
On August 24 they camped near numerous springs, a bit salty, but drinkable. The salt clung in lumps to the grass, and the travelers gathered lumps ranging from the size of a pea to a hen's egg. Following an old Indian trail they hoped would lead to water, they fought their way through sage and wormwood but found no water, though they searched until ten o'clock at night. In the morning light, they continued on toward a green spot five miles away in a small canyon. To Nancy's great joy the water and grass were excellent. For 10 days the immigrants rested there while scouts tried to locate a route to the Humboldt River. Friendly Native Americans came to this campsite to trade. Although the scouts had not yet returned, the party moved on because their oxen had eaten all the grass. Slowly they moved southwest around the northern end of the Great Salt Lake. It was early September, but the weather had turned very cold with ice freezing in their water buckets. At last, on September 9, the scouts rode into camp with word that Mary's River, now called the Humboldt, was only five days away.
The Kelseys' oxen, weaker by the day, had difficulty pulling the wagons. The weather warmed, and Ben decided the wagons must be left. At what was likely Owl Spring, about eight miles west of Lucin, Nancy parted with her wagon home. Ben fashioned packs for the horses to carry food and other necessities, and the young couple trudged on. They camped on Pilot Creek and on September 14 passed out of Utah's domain around the southern end of the Pilot Range and into Nevada. Nancy's adventurous journey continued across Nevada and over the Sierra Nevada. Hunger dogged every step, and the specter of winter loomed over the mountains. Tattered, exhausted, and with nothing but their lives, they at last arrived at Sutter's Fort in December. Fellow traveler Joseph Chiles later wrote of the indomitable Nancy: "Her cheerful nature and kind heart brought many a ray of sunshine through clouds that gathered round a company of so many weary travelers. She bore the fatigue of the journey with so much heroism, patience and kindness that there still exists a warmth in every heart for the mother and child, that were always forming silvery linings for every dark cloud that assailed them."
Sources: Charles Kelly, Salt Desert Trails (Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1969); Dale L. Morgan, The Great Salt Lake (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975); Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., ed., The Bidwell-Bartleson Party: 1841 California Emigrant Adventure (Santa Cruz, CA: Western Tanager Press, 1991).
More Data
In 1841, the Bartelson Party of wagon trains headed west from Missouri, using the route many of us traversed on the summer XP 2001. Among them was eighteen year old Nancy Kelsey and her husband Benjamin. They began their journey with sixty nine men, women and children. On November 4, 1841, six months after beginning their journey, Benjamin Kelsey and John Bidwell led the remaining twenty-four emigrants across the Sierra Nevada Range into California. During the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846, Nancy Kelsey was chosen to create the flag for the California Republic. With designs of William Todd, a nephew of Abraham Lincoln, she fashioned the flag from a piece of unbleached muslin and a strip of red fabric from her petticoat. Her design is still flown today as the state flag of California. Throughout the years, Nancy and her husband traveled extensively. When Benjamin died in Los Angeles in 1888, Nancy, remembering the Cuyama Valley as one of her favorite places, applied for and received a government homestead of 160 acres in what is now Kelsey Canyon. She built a homestead cabin and began raising poultry. At regular intervals, she traveled by buckboard to Santa Maria to market fryers and setting hens. When Nancy neared death she was cared for by the family living nearby in Cottonwood Canyon. After her death a “real” coffin was brought from Santa Maria by buckboard as per her request and she was buried by the homestead she died at. Bonnie Goller now lives on that homestead and has graciously allowed us to pass through her private property on the ride. We will pass by the Nancy Kelsey grave site on the last day just before we enter Bates Canyon, on the climb to the top of the Sierra Madres. The Mexican land grants in the valley are relatively recent and date to the period just before California was taken over by the United States. After California was admitted to the Union, many smaller homesteads were granted in the area, including the one that you are camped on. The base camp is located in Schoolhouse Canyon, named for the first school in Cuyama Valley. That one room school was located in the north end of the camp pasture near the yellow gate. Old stone ruins remain along the fence line west of the gate. A second school was built in the 1930’s and was later used as the ranch house for the Spade ranch. Most of the later homesteads are in the brush covered foothills, while the old Mexican land grant was located in the lower country where the grazing would have been better. The town of New Cuyama is probably most famous, in current times for the Buckhorn Bar and restaurant. Established in 1953 by Richfield Oil, to service the new town and to provide a meeting and recreation place for its employees, it has come to be known in modern times for its great food and friendly atmosphere. The banquet room features “ Lamar’s Cabin”, named for Cuyama’s longest resident, Lamar Johnson. A mini museum, Lamars Cabin should be seen by anyone interested in the colorful history of Cuyama. In the two years following the initial oil strike, Cuyama’s oil fields boomed into fifth place among California’s oil areas in average daily production. Today, Hallador production is still involved in gas and oil production on the same location and is a major employer in the valley. The original land grant is now known as the Russell Ranch and runs from the area north of New Cuyama down to Cottonwood Canyon. Most of the open lands in the lower elevations are part of the ranch. It has been divided into large pastures so that the cattle can be moved from one pasture to another to make the best use of the feed. In most years, the cattle will be able to remain here in the valley on a permanent basis, but modern transportation now allows the flexibility to move them to summer pastures and some distant location during drought years, such as the present. The wild pigs are a fairly recent addition and have moved into the Schoolhouse and Deadman Canyon areas in the last few years. The pigs are not a native species but are descendants of domestic pigs, Spanish escapees and Russian pigs imported for hunting. The pigs can often be seen in the brushy areas along the river and have been seen recently near the windmill just north of the yellow gate.

Editor's Note *****
Nancy was an "in law" to the Hobbs and not blood kin. She was married to Ben Kelsey making her a sister-in-law to Annie Hobbs (wife of Abner). No direct relationship to her. Should probably only be an interesting side light in the Hobbs family.