Charles H. Hobbs of Hillcrest Cemetery

This sketch highlights Charles H. Hobbs who is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in East Point, Fulton County, Georgia.

Charles H. Hobbs, the son of Samuel Thomas Hobbs and Margaret C. Mobley, was born October 22, 1856 in Graves County, Kentucky. Known siblings are Alex Hobbs, Henry R. Hobbs, Lenna F Hobbs, Alice Hobbs, Annie Hobbs, and Susan F. Hobbs. Like Charles, both of his parents and siblings were born in Kentucky.

On July 9, 1860, the Hobbs family lived in the Milburn District of Ballard County, Kentucky. Charles’ father worked as a farmer and had a personal estate valued at $200. His brother Alex (born 1855) was not enumerated so had most likely died.

On June 16, 1870, Charles and his family lived in the Fancy Farm community of Boswells Precinct, Graves County, Kentucky. His father, who worked as a farmer, had real estate valued at $1500 and a personal estate valued at $1350. His mother was keeping house, Charles and Henry worked on the farm, and Lenna was “at home.” Only Charles and Henry were attending school. There was an 11-year-old mulatto female named Ursala Hobbs living in the home who worked as a domestic servant. She was unable to read or write.

I am not related to Charles, and with no real family information, am unable to track his paper trail between the 1870 and 1930 census records where he appears on April 16 living as an inmate (patient) at the Little Sisters of the Poor facility in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. Sometime after this census was taken, Charles contracted carcinoma of the neck. The next record for Charles is his death certificate that shows he died at age 79 on May 16, 1939 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, a “free home for incurable cancer.” Their website shows they were established in 1939 as a “comfortable haven for the many who came to spend their last days in peace and security.” Charles, apparently one of their early patients, was treated by a doctor [name unreadable] from March 25, 1939 until his death. He was buried on May 17 at Hillcrest Cemetery in East Point following a graveside service officiated by Rev. Father Joseph Smith.

References

• C. H. Hobbs, Susan F. Hobbs, Alex Hobbs, Kentucky, U.S., Birth Records, 1847–1911.
• Charles Hobbs Certificate of Death no. 11229, Georgia Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1939.
• Charles Hobbs obituary and funeral notice, The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, May 17, 1939.
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home; http://www.olphhome.com/home.html. 
• U.S. Federal Census, Boswells Precinct, Graves County, Kentucky, 1870.
• U.S. Federal Census, Milburn, Ballard County, Kentucky, 1860.
• U.S. Federal Census, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, 1930.