Benjamin Andrew Hobby Sr.

Birth: 3 May 1869
Georgia, USA
Death: 20 Sep 1952 (aged 83)
Ware County, Georgia, USA
Burial: Westview Cemetery

Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 31.1723262, Longitude: -83.7966274
Plot: Lane 4 East; Section 4, Block L, Lot 33 (4 L 33 4th East)
Memorial ID: 94981508 View Source

As of December 2013 this plot held eight graves:
1. Laura Wilyne Perkins (1928-1929),
2. William Leonard Perkins (1899-1973),
3. Willie Hobby Perkins (1897-1965),
4. Benjamin A. Hobby, Sr. (1869-1952),
5. Mary Whitley Hobby (1869-1924),
6. Mamie Juda Hobby (1895-1937),
7. Elzie C. Rhodes (1901-?), and,
8. Ruby Hobby Rhodes (1901-1970).

Plot information from December 31, 2006
survey coordinated by the Morning Glory
Garden Club of Moultrie, Georgia
mccls.org/Genealogy/Cemeteries

Benjamin Hobby and Mary Whitley married in Irwin County, Georgia, on December 31, 1890. In addition to two children who died prior to the 1900 US Census, the couple had (at least) the following ten children:
* Leon F. Hobby (1894-1960,)
* Mamie Juda Hobby (1895-1937),
* Willie Emma Hobby Perkins (1897-1965),
* Georgia F. Hobby Hall (1898-1943),
* Flossie B. Hobby Daniel (1900-1997,)
* Ruby Hobby Rhodes (1901-1970),
* Martha Almyrta Hobby Boyd (1906-1972),
* Viola (Ola) Hobby (b. ca. 1908; may have married a "Davenport;")
* Ella Lee Hobby (b. ca. 1910; may have married a "Polk;") and,
* Benjamin A. Hobby, Jr. (1917-1988.)

Information other than that taken from grave (see "Inscription") came from US Census enumerations for 1870 (with parents and brother in Worth County, Georgia,) 1880 (with widowed mother and brother in Worth County, Georgia,) 1900 and 1910 (with spouse and children in Worth County, Georgia,) 1920 (with spouse and children in Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia,) 1930 and 1940 (with children in Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia;) Georgia Marriages, 1851-1900; and Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 (Certificate 24223.)