Bienville-Bossier County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Mobley, William J.  July 21, 1843 - March 20, 1897
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Pauline S. Mobley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00028.html#0006760 July 19, 2010, 3:33 pm

Source: M. Watkins Ancestor Hunting Book
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Deacon William Jefferson Mobley - Born August 21, 1843 in Bienville Parish, is 
the son of William Mobley Born: South Carolina and Martha A. Williams He was 
born 1819 of Illinois and is the grandson of Michael Mobley, who was born in 
South Carolina and  Mrs. Williams native of Wales. She was also known as 
Martha Ann Brown.  William J. Mobley  was one of three children, and served in 
the Confederate Army, moved to Bossier Parish, La. in 1870, married Mattie L. 
Hardy in 1870.  She was the daughter of Eldred Hardy, and Mary Hardy, born 
South Carolina and Mary born in Bienville Parish, later they  moved to 
Shreveport and she died March 29, 1897.
 Dec,2, 1865
William Mobley filed final account of tutorship of Minor, Louisiana Burk, Sale 
of property of succession of Sarah Mobley deceased.

 Children born to this union:
Francis Marion Mobley 
Born Dec.13,1841- Bienville,La.
Died July 3, 1879

William Jefferson Mobley
Born August 21, 1843- Bienville, La.
Married in 1870- Mattie L. Hardy,
daughter of Eldred and Mary Hardy. The  
former was born in South Carolina, the
later in Bienville Parish. Both Dr. Mobley
and his wife ere devout members of the
Baptist Church, he being both deacon and clerk.
They moved from Bellevue to Gibbsland in 1892,
thence to Shreveport, where both died, the doctor
at the time of his death, on March 20, 1897, being
Superintendent of the Sunday School of the First
Baptist Church. During the yellow fever epidemic of
1873, Dr. Graves a Baptist philanthropist, found 
Jesse Woods (bereft of both parents), whom Dr. and 
Mrs. Mobley took, and educated, he assuming their 
name, hence Jess Woods Mobley, now Dr. J.W. Mobley,
Vivian, La.






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