Newport News-Norfolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hobbs, Dewitt T. Sr., 1952 

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DEWITT TALMADGE HOBBS SR. 

Portsmouth Deaths 

  Dewitt Talmadge Hobbs, Sr., 61, husband of the late Mrs. Evelyn Pruden 
Hobbs, of 1016 West 38th Street, Norfolk, died yesterday at 1:25 p.m. near 
Kempsville, Princess Anne County. 

  The deceased was a native of Gates County, N.C., and son of the late Patrick 
L. and Mrs. Sarah E. Hobbs.  He had lived in this section for the past five 
years. 

  Mr. Hobbs is survived by two sons, Dewitt T. Hobbs, of Norfolk, and William 
P. Hobbs, of Rural Retreat; three sisters, Mrs. W.A. Speight and Mrs. W.H. 
Stevenson, both of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Levy Butler, of Buckhorn; two 
brothers, N.L. Hobbs and H.H. Hobbs, both of Norfolk; one grandson, Dewitt T. 
Hobbs, III. 

  Mr. Hobbs was a member of Warwick Swamp Baptist Church, Chowan County, N.C. 

  The body was taken to Snellings Funeral Home, where funeral services will be 
held tomorrow at 2 p.m.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 

  The family will meet at the residence of a sister, Mrs. Speight, 531 Mount 
Vernon Avenue, Portsmouth. 

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Dewitt Hobbs Funeral Thursday 

  Funeral services for Dewitt Talmadge Hobbs, Sr., 61, a former resident of 
Suffolk who died yesterday afternoon at 1:25 p.m. near Kempsville, Princess 
Anne County, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Snellings 
Funeral Home in Portsmouth.  Interment will take place in Cedar Hill Cemetery, 
Suffolk. 

  A native of Gates County, N.C., and a resident of 1016 West 38th Street, 
Norfolk, the deceased was the son of the later Patrick L. and Sarah E. Hobbs, 
the husband of the late Mrs. Evelyn Pruden Hobbs, and had lived in the 
Norfolk-Portsmouth community for the past five years. 

  He is survived by two sons, Dewitt T. Hobbs, of Norfolk and William P. 
Hobbs, of Rural Retreat; three sisters, Mrs. W.A. Speight and Mrs. W.H. 
Stevenson, both of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Levy Butler, of Buckhorn; two 
brothers, N.L. Hobbs and H.H. Hobbs, both of Norfolk; one grandson, Dewitt T. 
Hobbs, III. 

  Mr. Hobbs was a member of the Warwick Swamp Baptist Church, Chowan County, 
N.C. 

  The family will meet at the residence of a sister, Mrs. Speight, 531 Mount 
Vernon Avenue, Portsmouth. 


Dewitt Talmadge HOBBS, Sr., service station employee, 
   former huckster & shipyard carpenter, 
b. 7 Oct 1892, Hobbsville, Gates Co., NC, 
d. 14 Oct 1952, Kempsville, Princess Anne Co., 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 16 Oct 1952, 
"Norfolk Virginian-Pilot," Vol. 205, No. 15, Wed., Oct. 15, 1952, p. 28 
   {image 30}; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 241, Wed., Oct. 15, 1952, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

The cemetery list gives b. 11 Oct 1891. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

Find a Grave Memorial #254407012  [no grave photo] 

D.Cert. 24397 (Kempsville #74) 

His WW-I&II draft cards both give b. 7 Oct 1892. 

He is buried with his first wife Evelyn Lottie (PRUDEN) HOBBS.  Her obits 
   obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Nov. 9, 1935, "Norfolk Virginian-Pilot," 
   Nov. 11, 1935, & donated) are  posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/newportnews/obits/h120e1ob.txt 

He 2m. divorcee Ada (McKINNEY) LONG 19 Jul 1945 in Suffolk (#111); however, 
   they must have gotten a divorce or annulment.  Ada appears as single in 
   the 1950 Census - Berkley, WV - with her father John "H." [sic; Jahue] 
   McKINNEY. 

His mother (1865 - 1949) is buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth. 
   Portsmouth Pulic Library, Special Collections, Olive Branch list: 
   https://www.portsmouthpubliclibrary.org/DocumentCenter/View/155/F---H-PDF 


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