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joescio Posts: 24 |
posted 07-12-2002 09:20 AM
  
I have two coin spoons with the name S. F. Hobbs and Pure Coin on the reverse. The only Hobbs I can find is Nathan from Boston. Can anyone help me? IP: Logged |
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Bill H Posts: 31 |
posted 07-12-2002 09:35 PM
S.F. Hobbs worked in Selma Alabama c. 1860, and with his brother E.H. Hobbs c1855-1880. The Hobbs Brothers purchased much of their silver from Wood & Hughes of New York City. James Cormany relates an interesting story about S.F. "...S.F. Hobbs was away in the Confederate Army when General Wilson's soldiers of the Union Army neared Selma, intent on destroying the Naval Arsenal and Foundry. As the story goes, Mrs. Hobbs, a Southern belle from Shelby County, hid the valuable jewelry and watches from her husband's store in her many petti-coats, the valuable silver in the walls of her home, and left only cheap, plated wares in the store to be taken by the advancing Yankees. This smart thinking on her part saved the family business, which prospered for many years after the end of the war." IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 07-12-2002 09:45 PM
Thanks, Bill; a lovely story -- I knew there was a use for petti-coats. . . IP: Logged |
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joescio Posts: 24 |
posted 07-12-2002 10:35 PM
Bill - Thanks for your great information on the spoons and for the equally great story of the maker's family. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 06-22-2008 12:56 AM
In case it hasn't already been mentioned anywhere else and judging by the 1870 U S Federal Census for Selma, Alabama, other census's and "personal memoirs" written in about 1893 while E H Hobbs was still living in Selma, Alabama, S F Hobbs was Samuel F Hobbs who was born in about 1826 in Maine, and E H Hobbs was Edward H Hobbs who was born on June 20, 1840 in Gloucester, Maine. Their parents were Josiah and Miranda (Merrill) Hobbs. Josiah was a farmer by occupation, and the family apparently goes back several generations in Maine. Samuel was a jeweler and silversmith who had come to Selma before the Civil War. Edward was a jeweler who had fought with an Illinois voluntary infantry company during the Civil War. At the end of the war, Edward joined his brother Samuel and remained in his brother's employ until 1883 when he bought him out. Samuel in the meantime had gone into the cotton mill business in Alabama and Illinois. In 1891 Edward married his brother Samuel's widow who happened to be younger than he was. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 06-22-2008).] IP: Logged |
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