History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 728.
[Harrison County]  [Claysville Precinct]

J. M. HOBDAY, farmer, P. O. Claysville, a native of Gordonsville,
Virginia and son of Edward and Sarah P. Hobday; he was born in 1825; his
father was born in Virginia and removed to Pendleton County, Ky., where
he followed the occupation of farming; he died aged eighty-five years.
His mother was born in Charlottesville, Va., in 1796, and is now residing
in Harrison County, Ky.  J. M., the subject of our sketch, received his
education in Pendleton County, Ky., and at the age twenty left home and
began first by teaching school in Harrison County, which he followed for
eighteen years, during that time he bought a farm and managed it. In 1872,
he married Rebecca M. Jackson; she was born in Bracken County in 1842. His
children by his first wife are James H., and by his present wife, Charles
B., Thomas M. and Howe.  He is the owner of 600 acres of land; he is a
member of the Masonic Order, Taylor Lodge, No. 164, at Berry's Ky.

Hobday Jackson
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Bracken-KY Pendleton-KY VA

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