>From: "Michelle Haley" <mhaley2000@mediaone.net> >Reply-To: TNHICKMA-L@rootsweb.com >To: TNHICKMA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [TNHICKMA] Hickman County Hobbs' >Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:11:34 -0400 > >Hi, Miriam, I am from the Aaron Potter and Ruth Hobbs line.Through their >son >Joel. I would love any info on the Hobbs/Potter clan. I also have the >Hickman Co TN 1807-1993 book and Spence History of Hickman Co. Spence's >book >mentions a Joel C. Hobbs as a captain in the Hickman Co militia in 1832 and >as a major in 1836. I'll check my other Hickman books on thurs. Take Care, >Todd Haley Todd, thanks for the reply. I don't have much on the Hobbs/Potter family, but am glad to share what I have. I'll e-mail from my AOL mamirho box so I can write off line. Miriam > >-----Original Message----- >From: Miriam Hobbs [mailto:miriamhobbs@hotmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:41 PM >To: TNHICKMA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TNHICKMA] Hickman County Hobbs' > > >My name is Miriam and I am researching my husband's family which is Hobbs. >The earliest we can verify his family is on the 1830 Hickman County Census >where Joel C Hobbs was living with his new wife Rosannah White Hobbs and >several children, some of which may have been children of other family >members because Joel and Rosannah are too young to have had them all. This >is my husbands gggrandfather. Family legend says Joel's father was John >Hobbs from North Carolina and I am trying to verify if this is the truth, >or >if it is the Joel C Hobbs or Joel A Hobbs who were also in the area at the >time. > >Our Joel C Hobbs' children were William Washington Hobbs, Mary, Jesse, >David, James, Narcissa and Sarah. There may have been others and we are >still searching. The family eventually moved to Humphreys County where >the >next generations were born. My husband and I found the old family >graveyard >in a pasture in Humphreys County with Joel and Rosannah's markers and some >of the children. I am trying to place a Choate and Jakson (no c) who were >also in this graveyard (which has fewer than 12 markers and is presumably >only family). > >I have visited Vernon (what is left) and been to the Hickman Courthouse and >several others in TN searching and have a number of deeds involving Hobbs >and other lines, including Potter, Hunter and Dobbins. I am finding >marriages between the families and trying to establish relationship to >ours. > I feel like I have a giant jigsaw puzzle with 10,000 piece and no clue >what it is supposed to look like--but you may know that feeling. > >I look forward to sharing information. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > >==== TNHICKMA Mailing List ==== >For problems, questions or instructions, >email list admistrator: Gordon at gmharbison@mediaone.net > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > >==== TNHICKMA Mailing List ==== >Practice random acts of genelogical kindness > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com