Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B
Bracken County

ROBERT D. HOBDAY, a physician and surgeon of Augusta, Ky., is a native of
Orange County, Va., was born March 11, 1832, and is a son of Edward and
Sarah P. (Moore) Hobday.  He was reared in Pendleton County, KY., where he
moved with his father's family in 1834.  He began the study of medicine in
1854, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1856.  Two
years later he married Miss Rebecca Curran, a daughter of S.B. Curran.  They
are the parents of six children, viz: Lenore, William M., Robert Lee,
Stephen C., Anna E. and Edward J.  Mr. Hobday's successors are of Scotch
extraction, and came to this country about the year 1740.

Hobday Moore Curran 
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Orange-VA Pendleton-KY 

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