Schley County GaArchives Photo tombstone.....Johnson/Jonathan Hobbs murder  
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The Schley County News  Thursday, August 8, 1889
 
Johnson Hobbs, who was killed last Sunday at St. Cloud in Lake County, 
Florida, by a negro, was for a long time a resident of Schley County and his 
many friends and relatives still residing here learn with deep regret the news 
of his untimely death.  


Additional Comments:
Transcriber's Note:  This report is somewhat in error as St. Cloud has never 
been a part of Lake County.  It was originally part of Orange County and later 
became one of the principle cities of Osceola County.  Today it is located 25 
miles east of Walt Disney World and is the transcriber's home.  It was 
originally begun as a retirement community for veterans of the Grand Army of 
the Republic and would have been in it's infancy at this time.  It did not 
have a cemetery at this time.  St. Cloud residents were then buried in nearby 
Kissimmee's Rose Hill cemetery.  A Jonathan Clements Hobbs' grave is in Rose 
Hill Cemetery.  His marker indicates he died Aug 6, 1889 and that he was 
murdered.  This must be the same man.  I was unable to locate for certain the 
same Jonathan Hobbs on census.  There are two, one 10 years older and one 10 
years younger.  I did however locate a marriage record.  Jonathan C. Hobbs 
married Ella Threlkeld in Schley Co. 24 Dec. 1885.

Does anyone know anything about Jonathan and Ella?

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