When Elkanah Hobbs was born in January 1836, in Washington, Virginia, United States, his father, Harrison Hobbs, was 22 and his mother, Mariah Claman, was 20. He married Eliza Francis Sorah on 20 June 1887, in Washington, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Kinderhook District, Washington, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1913, in Washington, Virginia, United States, at the age of 77.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
English (southern): from the Middle English personal name Hobb(e), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Hobb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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