Sarah Anne Hobson (who was known by her middle name of Anne) was the oldest daughter of Judge James Marcellus Hobson and Sally Croom Pearson Hobson and granddaughter of Samuel Augustus Hobson and Laura "Anne" Morehead Hobson, as well as Justice Richmond Mumford Pearson and Margaret McClung Williams Pearson. Anne never married, and lived almost her whole life at the Hobson's Greensboro, Alabama mansion "Magnolia Grove".
Anne authored a book she based on folk stories passed on to her by former slaves that was published in 1903. It was titled "In Old Alabama, Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant". Anne was well intentioned in trying to share and preserve these folk stories, but the book painted an insulting picture of negro intelligence. The book, however, would later become indispensable to historians as Anne also included a few dozen authentic folk songs/negro spirituals she called "Plantation Songs", of some of which there had never before been a written account.
From THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol 2, edited by Thomas McAdory Owen and Joel Campbell Du Bose, 1903, Birmingham, Alabama, p 433:
"IN OLD ALABAMA. Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant. By Anne Hobson. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1903. (8vo., pp. 237.)
This is a book of negro dialect stories. Miss Hobson is a sister of Captain Richmond P. Hobson, and has lived her life in Greensboro, Alabama, in the midst of the Black Belt plantations. She has been thus in continuous contact with the negro folk lore, and she has made a very readable book of stories. There are, in her book, some eighty pages of "Plantation Songs." "
From "THE GREENSBORO WATCHMAN Newspaper" Oct 22, 1953:
"MISS ANNE HOBSON DIES, Last Rites to Be Held Today -
Miss Sarah Anne Hobson, the oldest daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. James M. Hobson, died Wednesday morning, October 21, after an illness of three weeks. Miss Hobson was injured in a fall at her home, "Magnolia Grove" about three weeks ago, and had been a patient at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham until the latter part of last week, when she was returned to Greensboro.
She was born in Greensboro July 10, 1874, and at an early age she graduated from the old Greensboro Female Academy. She later graduated with highest honors from Professor Hill's School for Girls in Tuscaloosa. She taught music in Monroeville, Ala., and Waynesboro, Miss., and for several years studied at Radcliffe College in Boston.
Miss Hobson was a devoted Episcopalian and active in the affairs of St. Paul's Church here. She taught a Sunday School class at St. Paul's Church for several years, and although in delicate health in the latter part of her life, she was a regular attendant at all church services up to the time of her last illness. While in Boston, she was active in mission work done by the Church of the Advent in that city, and for many years she did mission work in the mountains of North Carolina.
Miss Hobson was devoted to children and over a long period she conducted a kindergarten in Greensboro.
The funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Church at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Dr Oscar deWolf Randolph, the rector, will conduct the services, with burial in the Greensboro Cemetery.
Surviving Miss Hobson are two sisters, Mrs. Florence Hobson Morrison and Miss Margaret Hobson of Greensboro, and two brothers, Augustus and Joseph Hobson, of Greensboro. The other brothers, Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Spanish-American War, and Col. James M. Hobson, Jr. died several years ago."
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Anne authored a book she based on folk stories passed on to her by former slaves that was published in 1903. It was titled "In Old Alabama, Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant". Anne was well intentioned in trying to share and preserve these folk stories, but the book painted an insulting picture of negro intelligence. The book, however, would later become indispensable to historians as Anne also included a few dozen authentic folk songs/negro spirituals she called "Plantation Songs", of some of which there had never before been a written account.
From THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol 2, edited by Thomas McAdory Owen and Joel Campbell Du Bose, 1903, Birmingham, Alabama, p 433:
"IN OLD ALABAMA. Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant. By Anne Hobson. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1903. (8vo., pp. 237.)
This is a book of negro dialect stories. Miss Hobson is a sister of Captain Richmond P. Hobson, and has lived her life in Greensboro, Alabama, in the midst of the Black Belt plantations. She has been thus in continuous contact with the negro folk lore, and she has made a very readable book of stories. There are, in her book, some eighty pages of "Plantation Songs." "
From "THE GREENSBORO WATCHMAN Newspaper" Oct 22, 1953:
"MISS ANNE HOBSON DIES, Last Rites to Be Held Today -
Miss Sarah Anne Hobson, the oldest daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. James M. Hobson, died Wednesday morning, October 21, after an illness of three weeks. Miss Hobson was injured in a fall at her home, "Magnolia Grove" about three weeks ago, and had been a patient at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham until the latter part of last week, when she was returned to Greensboro.
She was born in Greensboro July 10, 1874, and at an early age she graduated from the old Greensboro Female Academy. She later graduated with highest honors from Professor Hill's School for Girls in Tuscaloosa. She taught music in Monroeville, Ala., and Waynesboro, Miss., and for several years studied at Radcliffe College in Boston.
Miss Hobson was a devoted Episcopalian and active in the affairs of St. Paul's Church here. She taught a Sunday School class at St. Paul's Church for several years, and although in delicate health in the latter part of her life, she was a regular attendant at all church services up to the time of her last illness. While in Boston, she was active in mission work done by the Church of the Advent in that city, and for many years she did mission work in the mountains of North Carolina.
Miss Hobson was devoted to children and over a long period she conducted a kindergarten in Greensboro.
The funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Church at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Dr Oscar deWolf Randolph, the rector, will conduct the services, with burial in the Greensboro Cemetery.
Surviving Miss Hobson are two sisters, Mrs. Florence Hobson Morrison and Miss Margaret Hobson of Greensboro, and two brothers, Augustus and Joseph Hobson, of Greensboro. The other brothers, Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Spanish-American War, and Col. James M. Hobson, Jr. died several years ago."
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Sarah Anne Hobson (who was known by her middle name of Anne) was the oldest daughter of Judge James Marcellus Hobson and Sally Croom Pearson Hobson and granddaughter of Samuel Augustus Hobson and Laura "Anne" Morehead Hobson, as well as Justice Richmond Mumford Pearson and Margaret McClung Williams Pearson. Anne never married, and lived almost her whole life at the Hobson's Greensboro, Alabama mansion "Magnolia Grove".
Anne authored a book she based on folk stories passed on to her by former slaves that was published in 1903. It was titled "In Old Alabama, Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant". Anne was well intentioned in trying to share and preserve these folk stories, but the book painted an insulting picture of negro intelligence. The book, however, would later become indispensable to historians as Anne also included a few dozen authentic folk songs/negro spirituals she called "Plantation Songs", of some of which there had never before been a written account.
From THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol 2, edited by Thomas McAdory Owen and Joel Campbell Du Bose, 1903, Birmingham, Alabama, p 433:
"IN OLD ALABAMA. Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant. By Anne Hobson. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1903. (8vo., pp. 237.)
This is a book of negro dialect stories. Miss Hobson is a sister of Captain Richmond P. Hobson, and has lived her life in Greensboro, Alabama, in the midst of the Black Belt plantations. She has been thus in continuous contact with the negro folk lore, and she has made a very readable book of stories. There are, in her book, some eighty pages of "Plantation Songs." "
From "THE GREENSBORO WATCHMAN Newspaper" Oct 22, 1953:
"MISS ANNE HOBSON DIES, Last Rites to Be Held Today -
Miss Sarah Anne Hobson, the oldest daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. James M. Hobson, died Wednesday morning, October 21, after an illness of three weeks. Miss Hobson was injured in a fall at her home, "Magnolia Grove" about three weeks ago, and had been a patient at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham until the latter part of last week, when she was returned to Greensboro.
She was born in Greensboro July 10, 1874, and at an early age she graduated from the old Greensboro Female Academy. She later graduated with highest honors from Professor Hill's School for Girls in Tuscaloosa. She taught music in Monroeville, Ala., and Waynesboro, Miss., and for several years studied at Radcliffe College in Boston.
Miss Hobson was a devoted Episcopalian and active in the affairs of St. Paul's Church here. She taught a Sunday School class at St. Paul's Church for several years, and although in delicate health in the latter part of her life, she was a regular attendant at all church services up to the time of her last illness. While in Boston, she was active in mission work done by the Church of the Advent in that city, and for many years she did mission work in the mountains of North Carolina.
Miss Hobson was devoted to children and over a long period she conducted a kindergarten in Greensboro.
The funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Church at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Dr Oscar deWolf Randolph, the rector, will conduct the services, with burial in the Greensboro Cemetery.
Surviving Miss Hobson are two sisters, Mrs. Florence Hobson Morrison and Miss Margaret Hobson of Greensboro, and two brothers, Augustus and Joseph Hobson, of Greensboro. The other brothers, Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Spanish-American War, and Col. James M. Hobson, Jr. died several years ago."
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Anne authored a book she based on folk stories passed on to her by former slaves that was published in 1903. It was titled "In Old Alabama, Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant". Anne was well intentioned in trying to share and preserve these folk stories, but the book painted an insulting picture of negro intelligence. The book, however, would later become indispensable to historians as Anne also included a few dozen authentic folk songs/negro spirituals she called "Plantation Songs", of some of which there had never before been a written account.
From THE GULF STATES HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, Vol 2, edited by Thomas McAdory Owen and Joel Campbell Du Bose, 1903, Birmingham, Alabama, p 433:
"IN OLD ALABAMA. Being the Chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant. By Anne Hobson. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1903. (8vo., pp. 237.)
This is a book of negro dialect stories. Miss Hobson is a sister of Captain Richmond P. Hobson, and has lived her life in Greensboro, Alabama, in the midst of the Black Belt plantations. She has been thus in continuous contact with the negro folk lore, and she has made a very readable book of stories. There are, in her book, some eighty pages of "Plantation Songs." "
From "THE GREENSBORO WATCHMAN Newspaper" Oct 22, 1953:
"MISS ANNE HOBSON DIES, Last Rites to Be Held Today -
Miss Sarah Anne Hobson, the oldest daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. James M. Hobson, died Wednesday morning, October 21, after an illness of three weeks. Miss Hobson was injured in a fall at her home, "Magnolia Grove" about three weeks ago, and had been a patient at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham until the latter part of last week, when she was returned to Greensboro.
She was born in Greensboro July 10, 1874, and at an early age she graduated from the old Greensboro Female Academy. She later graduated with highest honors from Professor Hill's School for Girls in Tuscaloosa. She taught music in Monroeville, Ala., and Waynesboro, Miss., and for several years studied at Radcliffe College in Boston.
Miss Hobson was a devoted Episcopalian and active in the affairs of St. Paul's Church here. She taught a Sunday School class at St. Paul's Church for several years, and although in delicate health in the latter part of her life, she was a regular attendant at all church services up to the time of her last illness. While in Boston, she was active in mission work done by the Church of the Advent in that city, and for many years she did mission work in the mountains of North Carolina.
Miss Hobson was devoted to children and over a long period she conducted a kindergarten in Greensboro.
The funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Church at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Dr Oscar deWolf Randolph, the rector, will conduct the services, with burial in the Greensboro Cemetery.
Surviving Miss Hobson are two sisters, Mrs. Florence Hobson Morrison and Miss Margaret Hobson of Greensboro, and two brothers, Augustus and Joseph Hobson, of Greensboro. The other brothers, Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Spanish-American War, and Col. James M. Hobson, Jr. died several years ago."
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