This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hobbs, Bates, Peacock, Evans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ya.2ADI/125.348.1 Message Board Post: Hi, It sounds like we are researching the same family line. My grandmother was Ida Bell Bates who married James Thomas Hobbs. They lived in Pulaski County and Bleckley County, Georgia.