Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 718-719 [Graves]

     MARSHALL HOBSON, now one of the prosperous farmers near
Sedalia, Graves county, Kentucky, has been a life-long resident of
the state, and his energetic efforts have brought him an unusual
degree of success.  He started out in life almost in poverty, but
during the succeeding years has reaped a fair reward for his
diligence and perseverance.
     Mr. Hobson comes of a well-known Virginia family, and his
grandfather, Benjamin Hobson, and both of his parents were born in
that state, being of English descent on both the paternal and the
maternal sides.  Henry Richardson, the maternal grandfather of
Marshall Hobson, was also a native of Virginia.  Benjamin and Susan
(Richardson) Hobson, the parents of Marshall Hobson, were early
settlers in the state of Kentucky, where the former was a farmer and
tobacco dealer the greater part of his life.  He lived for some time
in Trigg county, but in 1835 had taught the first school in Graves
county.  In politics he was a Democrat, and was a member of the
Missionary Baptist church.  He was throughly respected in his
community for his integrity and force of character, and lived to the
age of seventy-seven years, his death occurring in 1879, while his
wife died in 1885, at the age of eighty-five.  They were the parents
of six children: Josiah B., who died in 1893; Marshall; Benjamin,
Jr.; Sarah, now Mrs. W. S. Hunt; Mollie, Mrs. William Bingham;
Hubbard, circuit clerk of McCracken county.
     Marshall Hobson was born in Trigg county, Kentucky, May 12,
1844, and lived in that county until he was fifteen years old,
attending the public school near his father's home.  In 1859 he came
to Graves county, which has been his permanent residence ever since. 
In addition to his public school education he was a student in
Asbury (now DePauw) University at Greencastle, Indiana.  He then
took up farming as his occupation and has followed it ever since. 
For the last twenty years he has also engaged in tobacco growing,
and the successful prosecution of these two industries has placed
him in prosperous circumstances.  He has a well improved farm on one
hundred and sixty acres on the Sedalia road and near the little town
of Sedalia and in its careful cultivation and business like
management it will compare favorably with any other farm in the
vicinity.
     Mr. Hobson follows the footsteps of his father in matters of
religion and politics, and is a Democrat and a Missionary Baptist. 
He married, in 1867, Miss Mary Hunt, who was born and reared near
Cottage, Tennessee.  Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Hobson, as follows: Samuel P.; John B.; Ora, now Mrs. McNeeley;
Emma, the wife of William O'Conner; Mary, who died at the age of
four years; Marshall, who died in 1902; Thomas; and Floy K.

Hobson Richardson Hunt Bingham McNeeley O'Conner
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VA Trigg-KY McCracken-KY TN

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