THE HOME OF EARLY AND HATTIE HOBBS, submitted by Mary Ellen Sharp

The attached picture is of a house 3 miles from the old courthouse square on GA 257.  It was built in the early 1900s, probably around 1910, by Early and Hattie Hobbs.  It was back from the road behind a pecan grove.  The land was originally purchased in the late 1860s by Robert F. Maddox and then was inherited by his daughter Hattie.  Pictured are Estoria Hobbs (young girl) on left, Early Hobbs standing behind Hattie, W. A. Lee and Lila Hobbs Lee, with children Mavis and baby Carl. 

 Contributed by Mary Ellen Sharp, the great gramd aughter of Early Washington Hobbs and Hattie Maddox Hobbs.  The property was originally purchased from Col. Stubbs by Robert F Maddox in the late 1860s after the civil war.  Robert Maddox was my gggrandfather.  He is burried in alittle family cemetery by the side of 257 just above the property of John and Estoria Hobbs Brown.  If you are interested I have a picture of that cemetery.  If you are familiar with the Frank Waldrip property and the little meat market, it is just beyond that.  The little meat market property was once part of that property.