Hobbs, Jacob Thomas – Obituary
North Powder, Union County, Oregon Jacob Thomas Hobbs was born July 25th, 1839, in Battes County, Missouri, and died at North Powder, Oregon, Sunday morning, May the 25th. A post mortem examination showed that death was due to cancer of the liver. When a boy of 13, Mr. Hobbs went to California making the trip by way of Cape Horn. This was in the historical year of 1852. Later he returned to New York and thence to Missouri, where he was married to his childhood friend, Mary Estes, 52 years ago. Mr. Hobbs made the trip across the plains in … Read more