Son of Joshua Hobbs (1742-1813) and Margaret Sellman Hobbs (1746-1775. Husband of Elizabeth Hamilton Hobbs.∼No stone has been found in this cemetery for him, but the following newspaper article indicates he was likely buried here.
Article published in The Kentucky Standard (Bardstown, Kentucky), Thursday, May 23, 1901, page 1, column 3: Eli Hobbs was born in Maryland in 1761. He came to Kentucky at a very early day, and settled in Nelson County. Exposed to the dangers of frontier life, he became familiar with its privations and sufferings. He formed one of the class at Ferguson's Chapel, which was the second Methodist house of worship in Kentucky. He was distinguished for his usefulness as a preacher of the gospel, and for his devotion to the church. If you ask the oldest citizens of the community in which he lived and died, who was the best man that ever lived at Chaplin, they will answer unanimously, "Uncle Eli Hobbs." For more than twenty years he was never known to be the least out of humor, while his life was equally correct in very particular. He never came to the church but that before entering he retired a little way apart in the thicket to pray; and so regular was he in these devotions that the grass never grew in the path which he made. He was a man of wealth and influence, and withal a good man. He died at this home near Chaplin, March 11, 1830. He closed his own eyes, and died calmly and peacefully. A marble slab marks his last resting place in the graveyard at Chaplin.
Article published in The Kentucky Standard (Bardstown, Kentucky), Thursday, May 23, 1901, page 1, column 3: Eli Hobbs was born in Maryland in 1761. He came to Kentucky at a very early day, and settled in Nelson County. Exposed to the dangers of frontier life, he became familiar with its privations and sufferings. He formed one of the class at Ferguson's Chapel, which was the second Methodist house of worship in Kentucky. He was distinguished for his usefulness as a preacher of the gospel, and for his devotion to the church. If you ask the oldest citizens of the community in which he lived and died, who was the best man that ever lived at Chaplin, they will answer unanimously, "Uncle Eli Hobbs." For more than twenty years he was never known to be the least out of humor, while his life was equally correct in very particular. He never came to the church but that before entering he retired a little way apart in the thicket to pray; and so regular was he in these devotions that the grass never grew in the path which he made. He was a man of wealth and influence, and withal a good man. He died at this home near Chaplin, March 11, 1830. He closed his own eyes, and died calmly and peacefully. A marble slab marks his last resting place in the graveyard at Chaplin.
Son of Joshua Hobbs (1742-1813) and Margaret Sellman Hobbs (1746-1775. Husband of Elizabeth Hamilton Hobbs.∼No stone has been found in this cemetery for him, but the following newspaper article indicates he was likely buried here.
Article published in The Kentucky Standard (Bardstown, Kentucky), Thursday, May 23, 1901, page 1, column 3: Eli Hobbs was born in Maryland in 1761. He came to Kentucky at a very early day, and settled in Nelson County. Exposed to the dangers of frontier life, he became familiar with its privations and sufferings. He formed one of the class at Ferguson's Chapel, which was the second Methodist house of worship in Kentucky. He was distinguished for his usefulness as a preacher of the gospel, and for his devotion to the church. If you ask the oldest citizens of the community in which he lived and died, who was the best man that ever lived at Chaplin, they will answer unanimously, "Uncle Eli Hobbs." For more than twenty years he was never known to be the least out of humor, while his life was equally correct in very particular. He never came to the church but that before entering he retired a little way apart in the thicket to pray; and so regular was he in these devotions that the grass never grew in the path which he made. He was a man of wealth and influence, and withal a good man. He died at this home near Chaplin, March 11, 1830. He closed his own eyes, and died calmly and peacefully. A marble slab marks his last resting place in the graveyard at Chaplin.
Article published in The Kentucky Standard (Bardstown, Kentucky), Thursday, May 23, 1901, page 1, column 3: Eli Hobbs was born in Maryland in 1761. He came to Kentucky at a very early day, and settled in Nelson County. Exposed to the dangers of frontier life, he became familiar with its privations and sufferings. He formed one of the class at Ferguson's Chapel, which was the second Methodist house of worship in Kentucky. He was distinguished for his usefulness as a preacher of the gospel, and for his devotion to the church. If you ask the oldest citizens of the community in which he lived and died, who was the best man that ever lived at Chaplin, they will answer unanimously, "Uncle Eli Hobbs." For more than twenty years he was never known to be the least out of humor, while his life was equally correct in very particular. He never came to the church but that before entering he retired a little way apart in the thicket to pray; and so regular was he in these devotions that the grass never grew in the path which he made. He was a man of wealth and influence, and withal a good man. He died at this home near Chaplin, March 11, 1830. He closed his own eyes, and died calmly and peacefully. A marble slab marks his last resting place in the graveyard at Chaplin.
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Rev. Eli Hobbs departed this life March 11, 1830, In the 69th year of his age.
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