Isham Hobbs

When Isham Hobbs was born in 1792 in Greene County, Georgia, his father, Robert, was 38 and his mother, Mary, was 33. He married Martha Patsy Lankford on May 15, 1821, in Greene County, Georgia. They had six children in 10 years. He died in 1843 in Tippah County, Mississippi, at the age of 51.

Family

Parents

Robert L Hobbs 1754–1845
Mary Marion Caldwell 1759–1853

Siblings

Curtis Hobbs                      1778–1802
Sarah Sally Hobbs              1781–1860
James H Hobbs                   1783–1838
Joseph Henery Sr Hobbs    1785–1870
Nancy Hobbs                      1789–1834
Nathan Augustus Hobbs     1790–1889
Mary Polly Hobbs               1797–1879
Robert Jr Hobbs                  1805–1856

Spouse & Children

Martha Patsy Lankford         1792–1837
Mary Hobbs                          1822–1864
Berry Hobbs                          1824–1862
Meron Melinda Hobbs          1826–1886
Curtis Carter Cartis Hobbs    1828–1877
James H Hobbs                      1830–1880
Martha Edna Hobbs               1832–1914

1792

Birth

Isham Hobbs was born in 1792 in Greene County, Georgia to Mary Marion Caldwell, age 33, and Robert L Hobbs, age 38.
1792 • Greene, Georgia, USA

19 SEP 1797 

AGE 5

Birth of Sister 

Isham's sister Mary Polly was born on September 19, 1797, in Greene County, Georgia when Isham was 5 years old.

1802

AGE 10

Death of Brother

Isham's brother Curtis died in 1802 in Greene County, Georgia when Isham was 10 years old.

26 JUL 1805 

AGE 13

Birth of Brother

Isham's brother Robert was born on July 26, 1805, in Greene County, Georgia when Isham was 13 years old.

1812 AGE 20

Military

Isham Hobbs served in the military in 1812 when he was 20 years old.

Name: Isham Hobbs
Company: 2 REG'T (JENKINS'), GEORGIA VOLS. AND MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 100
Microfilm Publication: M602

11 Jan 1820

Savannah Fire 1820

Sometime after 1 a.m., a fire broke out in a livery stable behind a boarding house in Savannah. The fire spread to Bay Street and then on the city market, where illegal kegs of gunpowder were stored. There was a massive explosion, resulting in the fire spreading throughout the city. By the next afternoon, 463 buildings had been burned to the ground, and two out of every three Savannah residents were homeless. The cause of the fire was never officially determined, though it was believed to have been arson.

30th Jan 1814

In GA Journal Vol 1 1809-1818 page 248 Battle with the Indians! (Official) Headquarters 6th and 7th District Fort Hawkins 30th Jan 1814. Capt. Brownings Co: Isham HOBBS wounded severely.

Name:	Isham Hobbs
Company:	2 REG'T (JENKINS'), GEORGIA VOLS. AND MILITIA.
Rank - Induction:	PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge:	PRIVATE
Roll Box:	100
Microfilm Publication:	M602

1815

Greene Co., GA Tax Index 1814-1817 in 1815 #038

Robert Hobbs

Isham Hobbs

James Hobbs

Joseph Hobbs

Nathan Hobbs

Greene/Le 15 034

1815

By1800 cotton was king. The Deep South in the United States supplied most of the world’s cotton—in booming British factories, it was spun into fabric then sold around the empire. Farmers across the region were producing larger harvests than ever before thanks to the cotton gin, and more cotton required more labor. Four million enslaved African Americans lived in the South by 1850
After the bringing in of the cotton-gin in the first years of the century, and as the country on the west of the Oconee was opened, the men who had small farms and raised pro vision crops entirely began to seek other homes and the farms were absorbed by the plantations.

 

After the war of 1812 wealth very rapidly increased in Greene and cotton planting was vigorously pressed. As was the case in Wilkes and Columbia negroes began to take the place of white people, the plantations of farms, and cotton of grain.

 

The effort of the planter from 1815 to 1850 was to raise all the cotton possible. Grass is the deadly foe of this textile plant, and now the Bermuda grass was brought into Greene. Mr. John Cunningham, a merchant of Greensboro in the early twenties, told the author that he brought the first small tuft of this grass to Greensboro and planted it in his garden. The garden was soon covered, the farm was next to follow, and the pestiferous grass, as it was regarded, spread so rapidly that in some cases the fields were simply surrendered to it and the planter counted his plantation as ruined. With the new lands opening, the Bermuda grass spreading, the fields once so fertile becoming washed and worn, the planters of Greene began to seek fresher lands in the west, and as in Wilkes the farms were absorbed by the plantations. The after history told of Wilkes and Burke is true of Greene.

Bermuda grass is perennial and is the most valuable for pasturage of any grown in the Southern States. It can endure the greatest amount of summer heat, and its growth is not arrested by droughts that threaten the vitality of all other grasses. It does not propagate grass by seed, except to a limited extent. The best means of propagating it is to cut pieces of the turf and scatter it along shallow furrows, or sow it over the land well prepared by plowing and harrowing, and cover or compress the roots into the soil with a roller or drag brush; or the plants can be gathered, root and branch, from any patch of ground covered by them, and, after being shaken free from earth, passed through a cutting-box, as though being prepared for the stall. Then sow these little cuttings by hand broadcast before the harrow in the spring of the year. Every joint will germinate and bud. When Bermuda grass is once thoroughly rooted it spreads rapidly and soon takes possession of a field. Being extremely difficult to exterminate, it should not be planted on land intended for tillage. But Rev. C. W. Howard, who was in his fife-time a well-known writer on grasses, thought it very doubtful whether any acre of land in the South thoroughly set with Bermuda grass was not worth more than with any other crop that might be grown upon it

"A good Bermuda sod," says a writer in the Southern Farm Magazine, "will yield an almost incredible amount of pasturage that cannot be grazed out by the severest treatment in the hottest summer drought. Bermuda is highly esteemed for hay, wherever it grows to a sufficient height for mowing." It must be cut early and often to make good hay. When left until the culms harden, it will not do for feeding. To make good hay and make the largest yield, it should be mowed from three to five times every summer. *

Under the Bermuda sod large numbers of earthworms may be found. These add fertility to the soil, and when in summer hogs are turned into tlio pasture, the worms and grass combined make a fattening food which they much enjoy. Bermuda grass will not bear dense shade, but thrives best where most exposed to the sun.

On the same fields where cotton grows best Bermuda grass is most thriving. A grass which affords such excellent pasturage for cattle is capable of carrying also large flocks of sheep. There is no reason why the cheapest wool should not be produced on the same lands that produce the cheapest cotton. It has been estimated that one acre of Bermuda grass on soils entirely suited to its growth will, in many parts of the South, maintain ten sheep for ten months of the year. Bermuda grass pastures in Georgia, supplemented by pasture of winter grasses, suitable for grazing sheep, would add to our people another source of untold wealth. If Georgia should become a great wool-growing, as well as cotton-growing State, who can measure the degree of her prosperity? With cotton and wool, two of the most important fibers for clothing that the world produces and manufactures, our people would double their present opportunities for acquiring wealth. Dr. Thomas P. Janes in his "Hand Book of Georgia," in order to illustrate the fertilizing effects of a Bermuda grass sod of long standing, mentioned the following results obtained by Colonel A. J. Lane in Hancock kcounty: "The first year after breaking the Bermuda sod he harvested 1,800 pounds of seed cotton to the acre, the second year 2,800 pounds. His third crop, corn, manured with cottonseed in the usual way and quantity, yielded sixty-five bushels to the acre. The fourth year he harvested forty-two bushels of wheat to the acre. Neither the cotton nor wheat was fertilized. On this same land oats or wheat may be sown after the corn. If Bermuda sod is torn up by the plow, and after harrowing, but before rolling, blue grass seed, white clover and hairy vetch are sown, a pasture of the highest capacity for both winter and summer will be obtained. As the Bermuda dies down in the late fall, the blue grass and white clover appear, giving pasturage in the winter. As the summer approaches, the reverse of this occurs.

It will be well to bear one thing in mind. The cultivation of artificial grasses is accompanied with more or less expense. But Bermuda is within easy reach of the poorest farmer.

1800 cotton was king. The Deep South in the United States supplied most of the world’s cotton—in booming British factories, it was spun into fabric then sold around the empire. Farmers across the region were producing larger harvests than ever before thanks to the cotton gin, and more cotton required more labor. Four million enslaved African Americans lived in the South by 1850

1820

Name	Nathan Hobbs
Home in 1820 (City, County, State)	Rutherford, North Carolina
Enumeration Date	August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10	2
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44	2
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10	2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25	1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44	2
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture	2
Free White Persons - Under 16	4
Free White Persons - Over 25	4
Total Free White Persons	9
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other	9

There are two males age 26-45, Nathan (Isham's brother) married Nathan Lankford's daughter Mary Elizabeth Lankford several years ago.  I believe her father Nathan Lankford got ill and she and her husband moved back to help and Isham came along because in a year he married another daughter of Nathan Lankford, Martha Lankford.   

Also Nathan and Meron Lankford were Nathan and Isham's Aunt and Uncle through Meron Caldwell Lankford being sister to Mary Caldwell Hobbs, Nathan and Isham's mother.  

Isham is not living with his father, and at that point the only one out of the household that has extra male Isham's age who married sister to Nathan's wife etc... it is greatly possible the 2nd male 26-45 is Isham Hobbs living with Nathan Hobbs. 

6 MAY 1821  

AGE 29

Marriage

Isham Hobbs married Martha Patsy Lankford on May 6, 1821, in Greene County, Georgia, when he was 29 years old.



Martha Patsy Lankford 1792–1837

Name:	Isham Hobbs
Spouse:	Martha Lankford
Marriage Date:	6 May 1821
Marriage County:	Greene
Marriage State:	Georgia

1822  

AGE 30

Birth of Daughter

His daughter Mary was born in 1822 in Alabama.

1824   

AGE 32

Birth of Son

His son Berry was born in 1824 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1825 Dec 28

Nathan Lankford D:49 N. Lankford 28 Dec 1825 Feb Ct 1826, wife Meron use all of estate real and personal during her life of widowhood (except 2 heifers I give to my daughter Meron) for support of herself and unmarried children if any should leave her she is to furnish them a bed and furniture and sudras then that are already married were furnished. At her death or marriage lands bequeathed as follows:

Tract on Skywider below Mill to Son John Lankford

Tract on Long Branch known as Buice to son Curtis C. Lankford

Tract I live on to Robert L. Lankford under direction and guardianship of his brother John Lankford

1st increase of Negroes to daughter Elizabeth Lankford

2nd increase on Negroes to daughter Meron Lankford

To daughter Elizabeth Lankford 1 share and $50,

To son John Lankford 1 share, (Mina Carruth)

to daughter Mary Hobbs 1 share, (Nathan Hobbs)

to children of daughter Sarah Logan 1 share (no names stated), (James Logan)

to daughter Sibby Carruth 1 share, (Leroy Carruth)

to children of Rhodda Braden 1 share, (James Braden)

to daughter Martha Hobbs 1 share, (Isham Hobbs)

to son Minor L. Lankford 1 share, (Delilah Merritt)

to daughter Meron Lankford 1 share $50, (Jackson Pounds)

to son Curtis C. Lankford 1 share, (Catherine Anne Carruth)

to son Robert L. Lankford (m. Margaret McIntosh) 1/2 share to be under guardian of John Lankford

Wit: Alexr Carruth jsat Ezel Graham

Ref: Rutherford County, North Carolina Abstract of Wills 1779-1822 Caroline Heath Davis

2 JAN 1826  

AGE 34

Birth of Daughter

His daughter Meron Melinda was born on January 2, 1826, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1828 AGE 36

Birth of Son

His son Curtis Carter Cartis was born in 1828 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1830

Name	Jas Hibbs
Home in 1830 (City, County, State)	Perry, Alabama
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5	2
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39	1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5	1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19	1
Free White Persons - Under 20	6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	1
Total Free White Persons	7
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored)	7

On this page, you will find Thomas Harvill (brother in law to Polly Hobbs Harvill and brother to her husband Willian Harvill, James Hobbs (had plenty of girls), William Harvill and it was transcribed as Jas Hibbs actually it's Isham Hobbs.  Him and James moved west and lived near one another while William Harvill moved to Ark with Isham's sister Polly.   

1830  

AGE 38

Birth of Son

His son James H was born in 1830 in Perry County, Alabama.

25 MAR 1832  

AGE 40

Birth of Daughter

His daughter Martha Edna was born on March 25, 1832, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1834 

AGE 42

Death of Sister

Isham's sister Nancy died in 1834 in Greene County, Georgia when Isham was 42 years old.

7 NOV 1837 

AGE 45

Property

Issued 40.4788 Acres, Section 17, TWSP 17 South, Range 14 West.

1837 

AGE 45

Residence
Isham Hobbs lived in Lowndes County, Mississippi, in 1837.
1837 • Lowndes County, MS

Name:	Isham Hobbs
State:	MS
County:	Lowndes County
Township:	No Township Listed
Year:	1837
Database:	MS 1837 State Census Index

Lowndes Co., MS
Hobbs, Isham 1 3 3 14 5 24
Hobbs, James 1 2 2 5 30 4 5 22

1837 

AGE 45

Death of Wife

His wife Martha Patsy passed away in 1837 in Lowndes County, Mississippi, at the age of 45. They had been married 16 years. 

27 MAR 1838 

AGE 46

Death of Brother

Isham's brother James H died on March 27, 1838, in Columbus, Mississippi when Isham was 46 years old.

1 JUN 1840 

AGE 48

Residence

Isham Hobbs lived in Tippah County, Mississippi, on June 1, 1840.

Name	Isham Hobbs
Home in 1840 (City, County, State)	Tippah, Mississippi
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14	2
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19	1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49	1  Isham
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14	1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19	1
Persons Employed in Agriculture	3
Free White Persons - Under 20	6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	1
Total Free White Persons	7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves	7

6 OCT 1840 

AGE 48

Issue Date
6 Oct 1840 • Tippah, Mississippi, USA



Property

Issued 159.94 Acres shown on Document Below.

Name	Isham Hobbs
Issue Date	6 Oct 1840
Acres	159.94
Meridian	Chickasaw
State	Mississippi
County	Tippah
Township	4-S
Range	5-E
Section	21
Accession Number	MS2910__.272
Metes and Bounds	No
Land Office	Pontotoc
Canceled	No
US Reservations	No
Mineral Reservations	No
Authority	April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number	8801

1841 

AGE 49

Residence

Isham Hobbs lived in Tippah County, Mississippi, in 1841.

Name:	Isham Hobbs
State:	MS
County:	Tippah County
Township:	No Township Listed
Year:	1841
Database:	MS 1841 State Census Index

29 July 1842

Tippah County Deed Book DD-578 - 29 July 1842 - John Blevins, Hardin Co. TN. to Greenwell Woolverton, Henderson, TN, $55.00 NE1/4S36T2R2. S/ John Blevens, Elizabeth (X) Blevins. Wit: Reuben Anderson, Isham Hobbs, JP. Recorded 24 Oct 1842 HB.

6 Oct 1842

Isham was commissioned as a Justice of Peace. Still need to find how long he was one, and also did he perform marriages as Justice of Peace like his brother Nathan Hobbs.
TIPPAH COUNTY MISSISSIPPI Vol. 11 #2 p. 43 (Continued from DEED BOOK "D" V. 11 #

D-600 - 6 Oct 1842 - John Evans & Lourence wife, to John Ros $150.00 SW1/4S34T4R5. S/ John Evans, Lourence (X) Evans before Isham Hobbs, JP. Recorded 10 Nov 1842, HB.

15 JUN 1843 

AGE 51

Property

Issued 160.34 Acres shown on Document below.

Name	Isham Hobbs
Issue Date	15 Jun 1843
Acres	160.34
Meridian	Chickasaw
State	Mississippi
County	Union
Township	6-S
Range	5-E
Section	8
Accession Number	MS2990__.214
Metes and Bounds	No
Land Office	Pontotoc
Canceled	No
US Reservations	No
Mineral Reservations	No
Authority	April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number	12750

1843

The First Christmas Card Was Sent in 1843

Many Christmas cards are very pretty, but they bear no relation to the birth of Jesus

The 1st Christmas Card

1843

A Christmas Carol is published

On this day in 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published.

Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels.

According to a new exhibit at the University of Leicester Library, Charles Dickens and his fellow Victorians literally invented Christmas as we celebrate it today. Dickens wrote five novellas with holiday themes, and published one each December between 1843 and 1848. He followed these with "more than a dozen short stories and collaborations about Christmas between 1850 and his death in 1870.

AN ORANGE IN MY CHRISTMAS STOCKING

I cannot recall the first Christmas I experienced, but I know that then, as on each Christmas morning of my childhood, the stocking I had hung by the fireplace on Christmas Eve bulged at the bottom from the presence of a bright red apple and a golden orange. In northern Mississippi where I was born and spent my childhood in the early years of the twentieth century, both of these fruits, but especially oranges, were Christmas delicacies. Some poor quality apples were produced locally, but these were summer ripening kinds, or Ben Davis variety, that were used largely for pies. Because of the coddling moth, few worm-free fruits matured, and even when picked early for use in pies, apples often had worm-infested portions that had to be cut away. Thus it was that we all looked forward to the late fall months and the Christmas season when our two grocery stores and some of the general stores brought in Winesaps and Arkansas Blacks from wholesale distributors in Memphis, Tennessee, and displayed these beauties in large wire baskets.

 

Oranges were even more of a treat. Although one of our groceries carried them at other times of year, it was only at Christmas that they were readily available. The reasons for that were the seasonal production in Florida and problems associated with distribution. After harvesting and packing, transport to wholesalers in Memphis and distribution to retail stores by rail, there was often a considerable loss of fruit from decay. I learned that as a small boy when at Christmastime I helped to open the wooden boxes, remove the paper wrappers, and place the oranges in the wire baskets in which they were displayed at the front of my father’s general mercantile store. After all the years that have passed since then, I still remember the two distinct odors associated with those crates of oranges. The first was the normal smell that comes from the oil of the peel, and the other was the distinct odor of oranges in a stage of decay. At an early age, I learned from experience that these rots could spread from fruit to fruit and cause much spoilage, but it was not until I began to prepare for a career as a plant pathologist that I learned the cause, fungus species penicillium italicum and penicillium digitatum known to the housewife as “bread mold.” Additional years were to pass before I became associated professionally with men who devoted much of their scientific careers to finding means of controlling these organisms and reducing the tremendous losses they cause in citrus and other fruits while they are in storage, transit, or retail markets.


The Southern Sentinel, our local weekly newspaper, in addition to reporting social events, church and school activities, marriages, births, deaths, court trials, and occasional travels of local citizens, played an important role at Christmas time. Several pages were added to the pre-Christmas issues to print letters to Santa Claus. During my childhood it seemed that Santa Claus would pass us by if we did not inform him through the Southern Sentinel describing what we wanted for Christmas. Consequently, hundreds of letters were printed. For the most part these asked only for things the writers thought they had a chance of receiving, such as clothing, school supplies, or other practical gifts. Letters from girls included requests for dolls, books, and games, while boys asked for toy guns, wagons, tricycles, or sometimes a bicycle. But regardless of whether the writer was a girl or boy, all letters closed with “. . . and Santa, please bring me some candy, a sky rocket, some Roman candles and firecrackers, and an apple and an orange.”

1844 Aug 21

Robert Hobbs Sr from Isham Hobbs not recorded Oct 10, 1844 Vol B Book OO-194 Greene County, Georgia

1845

Residence

Isham Hobbs lived in Tippah County, Mississippi, in 1845.

Name:	Isham Hobbs
State:	MS
County:	Tippah County
Township:	No Township Listed
Year:	1845
Database:	MS 1845 State Census Index

Isham Hobbs 5 males 2 females

 Mississippi, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890

1845 Sep 8

1845 Sept 8 Estate Record began Estate Record of Robert L. Hobbs executor assignment of Nathan Hobbs and John Holzclaw, Robert Newsom and John Armstrong dated Sept 8, 1845. Holding $20,000 for payment of court, heirs, executors, debts, etc.

List of Heirs:
William Harvill $ 1,020.00
Joseph Hobbs $ 63.06 3/4
Mary Hobbs $ 1,041.14 wife
Nathan Hobbs $ 249.12 1/2
Isham Hobbs $ 810.00
John Southerland $ 100.00
James Greer $ 121.56
Robert Hobbs $ 60.12 1/2
Robert Hobbs $ 980.89 1/2
Inventory of Possessions $ 6,187.20 

1846

Father Robert L Hobbs, deceased probate
1846 • mentioned in father's estate

1850

Residence

Isham Hobbs lived in Tippah County, Mississippi, in 1850.
1850 • District 2, Tippah, Mississippi

Name:	Isom Hobbs
Age:	58
Birth Year:	abt 1792
Birthplace:	Georgia
Home in 1850:	District 2, Tippah, Mississippi, USA
Gender:	Male
Family Number:	189
Household Members:	Name Age Isom Hobbs 58 Martha Hobbs 17 Carter Hobb 23

Isom Hobbs United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850

residence: 1850 Tippah county, Tippah, Mississippi, United States

Isom Hobbs

United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850

Owner Name	Isom Hobbs
Event Type	Census
Event Year	1850
Event Place	Tippah county, Tippah, Mississippi, United States
Slave's Gender	Female
Slave's Age	33
Slave's Birth Year (Estimated)	1817
Slave's Race	Black
Slave's Race (Original)	B

26 Feb 1852

POA - Mary Hobbs Beasley

Isham Hobbs died between 26 Feb 1852, when he bought land from C. A. Green in Tippah Co., and March 18, 1854, when Mary and James Beasley of Cherokee Co., TX gave Power of atty to Berry Hobbs of Tishomingo Co., MS to get part of estate of Isham Hobbs, deceased, late of Tippah Co., who was the father of said Mary Beasley. (See Tippah Co. deed books)

18 MAR 1854

Probate

Tippah Deed Book N 182, Tippah County, Mississippi Deed Books as shown below.
18 Mar 1854 • Tippah County, Mississippi


On-line Deed, Tippah Deed Book N 182 , 18 Mar 1854.
James and Mary Basley of Cherokee Co., TX, power of atty to Berry Hobbs of Tishomingo, Miss to get part of estate of Isham Hobbs, deceased, late of Tippah Co., who was the father of said Mary Basley, March 18, 1854.
Tippah County, Mississippi Deed Books.