Hobbs Cemetery

The Handbook of Texas names the Wilhite, Clegg, Brown and Martin families among the homesteaders of the mid-1880s and says Baptist preacher Robert Martin held camp meetings here. The Hobbs post office opened in the Martin home in 1888, and a Methodist church was built in 1903. By 1914 Hobbs had a general store, telephone service and forty-five people, and the post office closed in 1915. Over the years it had several stores, a doctor, a Woodmen of the World lodge and a blacksmith shop. Electricity arrived in 1939, and a co-op gin was organized in the 1940s.

What the plaque says

Settlers began moving into this area of Fisher County in the early 1880s. The community that developed became known as Hobbs when Roby postmaster Vachel Hobbs Anderson suggested his middle name for the new post office here. In the early 1900s, area residents Robert and Ann Hayter donated land at this site for the cemetery to serve the growing settlement. The first burial was for Indiana native Thomas J. Bone (1833-1906). Hobbs later developed north near a new school site, but Hobbs Cemetery remains as a reminder of the community's early history. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986. Incise on back of marker: Marker Provided By: Fannie W. Albert, Connie H. Tutt, Lota W. Kennedy (1986)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Scurry County Museum — 20 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• National WASP WWII Museum — 22 mi
  Hangar 1 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, where the women of the WASP trained to fly every aircraft in the Army's arsenal in World War II, then waited thirty-three years to be called veterans.
• Pioneer Museum — 23 mi
  Nolan County's settlement story in a dozen rooms of Judge R. A. Ragland's 1906 house in Sweetwater, a town that started as a dugout store for buffalo hunters and a post office called Blue Goose.

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• Rotan — 9.3 mi
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• Roby — 12 mi