Hobbs of Sand Fly, Texas

The ancestors of William Right Hobbs of Sand Fly, Texas are:

1.Nathaniel Barrie Hobbs, born in 1696 in Dorchester, England, died 17 March 1748. He married Mary Orredge.

2.Vincent Hobbs, born in 1722 in Dorchester, England, died 28 May 1808, in Lee County, Virginia. He married Mary H. Shelby.

3.William Hobbs, born in 1760 in Maryland, died 22 October 1793, in Washington County, Virginia.

4.William Hobbs, born 18 February 1787, in South Carolina, died 17 August 1837, in Talladega County, Alabama. He married Mary Polly Sweeney on 21 August 1817, in Warren County, Kentucky. William and Polly Hobbs’ known children are: John Hobbs, Jonathan Perry Hobbs, Joel Washington Hobbs, Louisa Hobbs, William Right Hobbs, Mary “Polly” Caroline Hobbs, Scion Frances Hobbs, Tabitha Hobbs, and Hosea Archer Hobbs

William Right Hobbs was born on 13 August 1823, in Jefferson County, Alabama. He came on horseback to the Republic of Texas in 1839, joining older brothers who were already in Texas. William received an Unconditional Certificate #1360 for 320 acres in Bastrop County on 26 August 1845, from the Republic of Texas General Land Office. He had stated in his application for land that he had been in the Republic since 1839. On 15 September 1845, William joined the Texas Rangers under command of Captain D. C. Cady, fought in the Mexican War (!846-1848), and later enlisted in the Confederate Army but was furloughed on a Surgeon’s Certificate. William married Eleanor Jane Smith on 1 July 1847 and settled on his land grant, When Burleson County, Texas was organized in 1846, William’s homestead was in the new county until Lee County, Texas was organized in 1874, never moving from the Sand Fly area. Eleanor Jane Smith Hobbs, a daughter of John Lewis Smith

 (1796-1851) and Hester Ann Warren Smith (1796-1886).

William became the Postmaster at Sand Fly, Bastrop County, Texas on 7 November 1853, and was made a Master Mason on 22 December 1855 by Post Island Lodge # 181 A.F. and A.M. William and Eleanor Hobbs are buried in the Lawhon Springs Cemetery, in Lee County, Texas. Their known children are: Salina Ann Hobbs (1848-1872); Samuel Smith Hobbs (1849-1919); William Harrison Hobbs (1852-1913); John Perry Hobbs (1853-1878); Mary Caroline Hobbs Kellogg (1855-1932); Hosea Archie Hobbs (1857-1934); Louisa Wincey Jane Hobbs Keller (1860-1947); Eleanor Mariah “Ellie” Hobbs ( 1861-1867); James Alexander Keith Hobbs (1865-1865); Albert Rice Hobbs (1867-1917); Joel Washington Hobbs (1870-1881); Adaline Catherine Hobbs (1871-1934); America Meek Hobbs Jordan (1873-1938); and Ozelia Little “Dee” Hobbs (1878-1967).

Mrs. Eleanor Jane Hobbs (1830-1920) wrote two letters that were in Mike Cox’s column in Life in Frontier Texas in November 2011.

Last Update Monday, 07-May-2018 17:56:24 CDT