Elder Job Hobbs
Revolutionary War Veteran
1759-1862
Elder Job Hobbs was born June 21, 1759, in Frederick County, Virginia, the tenth of twelve children of Vincent and Ruth Thomas Hobbs. His childhood was spent in Washington County, Virginia. He entered the service during the American Revolution, in 1777, and was in a battle with Indians on the Head of Powell's River. He served three terms during the War. He applied for a pension at the age of 100. The Draper Manuscripts for April 1794 show that he was part of an expedition that went in pursuit of the Indian Benge and party, that month, to try to rescue the wives of Peter and Henry Livingston, after they were captured by Indians on North Fork of Holston. His Revolutionary War pension application gives an interesting account of his life during that period.
In 1796 he was living in Madison County, Kentucky. The following year he was found in Knox County, Tennessee, then Montgomery County in the same state. By 1805 he was living in Davies County, Kentucky, and was present at the constitution of Tanner's Meeting House church. He helped constitute Bethel Church in Henderson County in 1813, and Highland Church in Union County in 1812. He was the pastor of old Grave Creek Church in Henderson County as early as 1803, and was present at the constitution of the Red River Association in 1807, together with Josiah Horn, Dudley Williams, Jesse Brooks, Louis Moore, Robert Smith, and Fielding Wolf. In 1820 he moved to Spencer County, Indiana, where he lived several years. By 1830 he was living in what is now Richland County, Illinois, where he became a member of Union Church, near Claremont. He was dismissed by letter to help organize Liberty Church, in Marion County, Illinois, in 1831. He lived in Clay County, Illinois, for about four years, and then lived in Marion County, Illinois, for about four years. He moved to Washington County, Arkansas, in 1840, and thence to Madison County, Arkansas, in 1844, where he lived the remainder of his life.
He died in 1862, in Madison County, Arkansas, at the age of 103.
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