Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hobbs, Woodland P., 1940 

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WOODLAND PAGE HOBBS

   His many friends in Southampton County were distressed at the death on 
August 31, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, of Woodland P. Hobbs, son of 
the late P.J. Hobbs and Mrs. Hobbs of Wicomico County, Maryland.  Mr. Hobbs 
was well known in Southampton, having resided for several years in Capron with 
his sister, Mrs. L.W. McGrath.  He married Miss Annie Brown Leigh, sister of 
Joshua and Vernon Leigh of Drewryville and daughter of the late William Leigh 
of the old Drewryville community.

   In recent years he had been engaged in the produce business operating in 
Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, but made frequent visits among his friends in 
Southampton who greatly admired him for his ready wit and charming manner. 
Funeral services were held in Capron at 3:30 o’clock September 4 and interment 
was made in the old Leigh family cemetery near Drewryville.  The services were 
conducted by Dr. A. L. Franklin, a former pastor of the deceased and friend of 
the family, assisted by the Rev. C.V. Morris of Capron and the Rev. R.F. Marks 
of Union Level.  Active pallbearers were: George Lankford, Frank Davis, Amos 
Pope, John Claud, Eldridge Pope, Elwood Fox, Virginius Pittman and Louis Marks.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Brown Leigh Hobbs; two sons, J.E. 
and W.P. Hobbs of Salisbury, Md., and a daughter, Mrs. Charles Parker of Ocean 
City, Md.; also two brothers and one sister who live in Maryland, and Mrs. 
L.W. McGrath of Capron.


Woodland Page HOBBS, businessman, formerly of Capron, 
MD native, d. 31 Aug 1940, Baltimore, MD, 
interred in the LEIGH family cemetery, near Drewryville, 4 Sep 1940, 
re-interred in Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery*, Drewryville, 1981, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 13, 1940, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Drewryville list (D-15): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt 


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