Son of Nathan Harvey Hobson and Rebecca Freeman

Married Catherine Dougherty, 6 Apr 1835, Naperville, Cook, Illinois
Married Nancy Simpson Henderson, 10 Apr 1859, Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Sarah Dowell Rogers Clarkson, 29 Jun 1865, Richmond, Cache, Utah

Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, p.41. Jesse Hobson was born on the 26th of January, 1812, in Randolph County, North Carolina. He was the third child of Nathan Harvey and Rebecca Freeman Hobson. It is not known when Jesse left his father's home but, in 1835, he was living in Cook County, Illinois, and here on the 6th of April of that year, it is recorded that he married Catherine Daugherty. By 1843 Jesse had moved his family to Hancock County and later they lived for a short time at Camp Creek about fourteen miles from Nauvoo to be with the body of the Mormon Church of which they had become members. After the exodus of the Saints from that city, they moved across the river into Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where they resided for the next five years. In 1852 they came to Utah in the Benjamin Gardner company and settled first in Farmington, Davis County.

In the spring of 1856, Jesse was called by President Young to go on a mission to England. His wife had died and it was a great trial to think of leaving his motherless children. However, he considered it his duty and accordingly journeyed to New York where he set sail for Liverpool, England arriving there August 6, 1856. His first field of labor was in Norwich.

On September 27, 1857, the missionaries were called home. They sailed from Liverpool on the ship Empire and Jesse Hobson was placed in charge of the Saints. They docked in New York harbor on March 20, 1858.

When the company arrived at the Utah mountains they found Johnston's Army stationed there but he, with several others, carefully picked his way through the canyon and reached his home in Farmington. Shortly after he married Nancy Henderson. They moved to Richmond where they were comfortably situated. In 1863 Nancy died leaving six children. In 1865 he married Sarah Dowell who gave birth to three children. She died in 1883.

Jesse then went to Arizona to be with his son and daughter, but became ill and returned to Utah, where he died June 18, 1883. He was buried in Richmond, Utah. —Mary E. Russell Hamblin