When Obediah Gobel was born on 16 September 1841, in Rowan, Bladen, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Gobbel (Goble), was 32 and his mother, Sarah Caroline Wyatt, was 21. He married Hannah Leland Clark on 28 September 1875, in Vallejo, Solano, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Detroit Township, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Williams Judicial Township, Colusa, California, United States in 1900. He died on 16 September 1932, in Williams, Colusa, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Williams, Colusa, California, United States.