The Central Presbyterian
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday, June 28, 1882
MRS. ARABELLA G. HOBSON. wife of Willis W. Hobson. Esq., died at their residence, in Powhatan County, Va., on May 28th, I882, aged fifty-four years.
Mrs. Hobson was the daughter of John Peyton and Anna Field Bolling, of Petersburg. Va. Brought up in a Christian family she early made a profession of faith in Christ under the ministry of the Rev. John Leyburn, D.D., then pastor of the Tabb Street Presbyterian church.
After her marriage to Mr. Hobson, her home was in Powhatan County until the time of her death. Residing in a retired place, it was chiefly in the bosom of her own family that her excellent mind and heart found their sphere. But in the days when they were blessed with plenty and prosperity, and afterwards, when they were visited with long and perplexing trials, she performed with noble heart the part of wife and mother in her household. She lived to bring up a large family of sons and daughters, being herself their chief instructor, both in secular and religous learning. The impress of her strong, well cultured mind, of her loving heart and fervent piety was left upon the children whom she fondly loved and diligently trained. To her devoted husband she was a fond wife, a worthy helpmate and a wise counse!lor. Family worship was never omitted in her house, she herself conducting it in case her husband were absent. In the church in which her husband is a ruling elder, she was an active member, and the sustained the cause of religion and encouraged the heart of her pastor in his work by her Christian example, her prayers, her interest in every good work, her cheering words and her generous gifts. To the afflicted, the suffering, the needy around her, she extended a sympathizing heart and a helping hand. During the last eight years of her life she an invalid, debarred the privileges of the house of God, but prayer, praise, and the reading of the Scriptures were her constant delight.
I make few extracts from a letter received her pastor: "In my judgment a woman of extraordinarily strong mind. strong faith, and deep piety. Her liberality always my expectation whenever I made an appeal to her for the various objects of the Church, and her sympathy for the poor and suffering was very marked." "She had one rule for governing her family—that was love." "For some months before her death her end was expected every day; her suffering was very intense, and yet in tho midst of it all there was calm submission, and relief was sought in the singing of sweet Gosphel songs, such as 'I heard the voiee of Jesus say' and 'Nearer, my God , to Thee.' Some while before her death she intimated that 'the time was short' and she was 'nearing the new Jerusalem,' and could see the golden streets."
By the removal from earth of this noble Christian woman a great blank is left in the home, the Church, and the community; and many friends have mingled their sorrows and tears with those of the stricken husband and children. W.A.C.
GRAVESITE DETAILS
Gravesite is unknown at present. One possibility was burial in the Bolling (her father) family plot in Blanford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA., however, the cemetery office did a thorough search, and she is not in that cemetery. The other possibility is burial in the "Old Hobson Family Cemetery" in Powhatan, VA (to be determined).
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday, June 28, 1882
MRS. ARABELLA G. HOBSON. wife of Willis W. Hobson. Esq., died at their residence, in Powhatan County, Va., on May 28th, I882, aged fifty-four years.
Mrs. Hobson was the daughter of John Peyton and Anna Field Bolling, of Petersburg. Va. Brought up in a Christian family she early made a profession of faith in Christ under the ministry of the Rev. John Leyburn, D.D., then pastor of the Tabb Street Presbyterian church.
After her marriage to Mr. Hobson, her home was in Powhatan County until the time of her death. Residing in a retired place, it was chiefly in the bosom of her own family that her excellent mind and heart found their sphere. But in the days when they were blessed with plenty and prosperity, and afterwards, when they were visited with long and perplexing trials, she performed with noble heart the part of wife and mother in her household. She lived to bring up a large family of sons and daughters, being herself their chief instructor, both in secular and religous learning. The impress of her strong, well cultured mind, of her loving heart and fervent piety was left upon the children whom she fondly loved and diligently trained. To her devoted husband she was a fond wife, a worthy helpmate and a wise counse!lor. Family worship was never omitted in her house, she herself conducting it in case her husband were absent. In the church in which her husband is a ruling elder, she was an active member, and the sustained the cause of religion and encouraged the heart of her pastor in his work by her Christian example, her prayers, her interest in every good work, her cheering words and her generous gifts. To the afflicted, the suffering, the needy around her, she extended a sympathizing heart and a helping hand. During the last eight years of her life she an invalid, debarred the privileges of the house of God, but prayer, praise, and the reading of the Scriptures were her constant delight.
I make few extracts from a letter received her pastor: "In my judgment a woman of extraordinarily strong mind. strong faith, and deep piety. Her liberality always my expectation whenever I made an appeal to her for the various objects of the Church, and her sympathy for the poor and suffering was very marked." "She had one rule for governing her family—that was love." "For some months before her death her end was expected every day; her suffering was very intense, and yet in tho midst of it all there was calm submission, and relief was sought in the singing of sweet Gosphel songs, such as 'I heard the voiee of Jesus say' and 'Nearer, my God , to Thee.' Some while before her death she intimated that 'the time was short' and she was 'nearing the new Jerusalem,' and could see the golden streets."
By the removal from earth of this noble Christian woman a great blank is left in the home, the Church, and the community; and many friends have mingled their sorrows and tears with those of the stricken husband and children. W.A.C.
GRAVESITE DETAILS
Gravesite is unknown at present. One possibility was burial in the Bolling (her father) family plot in Blanford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA., however, the cemetery office did a thorough search, and she is not in that cemetery. The other possibility is burial in the "Old Hobson Family Cemetery" in Powhatan, VA (to be determined).
The Central Presbyterian
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday, June 28, 1882
MRS. ARABELLA G. HOBSON. wife of Willis W. Hobson. Esq., died at their residence, in Powhatan County, Va., on May 28th, I882, aged fifty-four years.
Mrs. Hobson was the daughter of John Peyton and Anna Field Bolling, of Petersburg. Va. Brought up in a Christian family she early made a profession of faith in Christ under the ministry of the Rev. John Leyburn, D.D., then pastor of the Tabb Street Presbyterian church.
After her marriage to Mr. Hobson, her home was in Powhatan County until the time of her death. Residing in a retired place, it was chiefly in the bosom of her own family that her excellent mind and heart found their sphere. But in the days when they were blessed with plenty and prosperity, and afterwards, when they were visited with long and perplexing trials, she performed with noble heart the part of wife and mother in her household. She lived to bring up a large family of sons and daughters, being herself their chief instructor, both in secular and religous learning. The impress of her strong, well cultured mind, of her loving heart and fervent piety was left upon the children whom she fondly loved and diligently trained. To her devoted husband she was a fond wife, a worthy helpmate and a wise counse!lor. Family worship was never omitted in her house, she herself conducting it in case her husband were absent. In the church in which her husband is a ruling elder, she was an active member, and the sustained the cause of religion and encouraged the heart of her pastor in his work by her Christian example, her prayers, her interest in every good work, her cheering words and her generous gifts. To the afflicted, the suffering, the needy around her, she extended a sympathizing heart and a helping hand. During the last eight years of her life she an invalid, debarred the privileges of the house of God, but prayer, praise, and the reading of the Scriptures were her constant delight.
I make few extracts from a letter received her pastor: "In my judgment a woman of extraordinarily strong mind. strong faith, and deep piety. Her liberality always my expectation whenever I made an appeal to her for the various objects of the Church, and her sympathy for the poor and suffering was very marked." "She had one rule for governing her family—that was love." "For some months before her death her end was expected every day; her suffering was very intense, and yet in tho midst of it all there was calm submission, and relief was sought in the singing of sweet Gosphel songs, such as 'I heard the voiee of Jesus say' and 'Nearer, my God , to Thee.' Some while before her death she intimated that 'the time was short' and she was 'nearing the new Jerusalem,' and could see the golden streets."
By the removal from earth of this noble Christian woman a great blank is left in the home, the Church, and the community; and many friends have mingled their sorrows and tears with those of the stricken husband and children. W.A.C.
GRAVESITE DETAILS
Gravesite is unknown at present. One possibility was burial in the Bolling (her father) family plot in Blanford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA., however, the cemetery office did a thorough search, and she is not in that cemetery. The other possibility is burial in the "Old Hobson Family Cemetery" in Powhatan, VA (to be determined).
Richmond, Virginia
Wednesday, June 28, 1882
MRS. ARABELLA G. HOBSON. wife of Willis W. Hobson. Esq., died at their residence, in Powhatan County, Va., on May 28th, I882, aged fifty-four years.
Mrs. Hobson was the daughter of John Peyton and Anna Field Bolling, of Petersburg. Va. Brought up in a Christian family she early made a profession of faith in Christ under the ministry of the Rev. John Leyburn, D.D., then pastor of the Tabb Street Presbyterian church.
After her marriage to Mr. Hobson, her home was in Powhatan County until the time of her death. Residing in a retired place, it was chiefly in the bosom of her own family that her excellent mind and heart found their sphere. But in the days when they were blessed with plenty and prosperity, and afterwards, when they were visited with long and perplexing trials, she performed with noble heart the part of wife and mother in her household. She lived to bring up a large family of sons and daughters, being herself their chief instructor, both in secular and religous learning. The impress of her strong, well cultured mind, of her loving heart and fervent piety was left upon the children whom she fondly loved and diligently trained. To her devoted husband she was a fond wife, a worthy helpmate and a wise counse!lor. Family worship was never omitted in her house, she herself conducting it in case her husband were absent. In the church in which her husband is a ruling elder, she was an active member, and the sustained the cause of religion and encouraged the heart of her pastor in his work by her Christian example, her prayers, her interest in every good work, her cheering words and her generous gifts. To the afflicted, the suffering, the needy around her, she extended a sympathizing heart and a helping hand. During the last eight years of her life she an invalid, debarred the privileges of the house of God, but prayer, praise, and the reading of the Scriptures were her constant delight.
I make few extracts from a letter received her pastor: "In my judgment a woman of extraordinarily strong mind. strong faith, and deep piety. Her liberality always my expectation whenever I made an appeal to her for the various objects of the Church, and her sympathy for the poor and suffering was very marked." "She had one rule for governing her family—that was love." "For some months before her death her end was expected every day; her suffering was very intense, and yet in tho midst of it all there was calm submission, and relief was sought in the singing of sweet Gosphel songs, such as 'I heard the voiee of Jesus say' and 'Nearer, my God , to Thee.' Some while before her death she intimated that 'the time was short' and she was 'nearing the new Jerusalem,' and could see the golden streets."
By the removal from earth of this noble Christian woman a great blank is left in the home, the Church, and the community; and many friends have mingled their sorrows and tears with those of the stricken husband and children. W.A.C.
GRAVESITE DETAILS
Gravesite is unknown at present. One possibility was burial in the Bolling (her father) family plot in Blanford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA., however, the cemetery office did a thorough search, and she is not in that cemetery. The other possibility is burial in the "Old Hobson Family Cemetery" in Powhatan, VA (to be determined).
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