Hobbs Cemetery
Roby vicinity, Fisher County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Settlers began moving into this area of Fisher County in the early 1880s. The community that developed became known as Hobbs when Roby postmaster Vachel Hobbs Anderson suggested his middle name for the new post office here. In the early 1900s, area residents Robert and Ann Hayter donated land at this site for the cemetery to serve the growing settlement. The first burial was for Indiana native Thomas J. Bone (1833-1906). Hobbs later developed north near a new school site, but Hobbs Cemetery remains as a reminder of the community's early history. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986. Incise on back of marker: Marker Provided By: Fannie W. Albert, Connie H. Tutt, Lota W. Kennedy
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
As settlers filtered into Fisher County in the early 1880s, a community took shape and borrowed the middle name of Roby postmaster Vachel Hobbs Anderson. Local landowners Robert and Ann Hayter set aside ground for a cemetery in the early 1900s, first used to bury Indiana native Thomas J. Bone in 1906. Though the town later drifted north toward a new school, the cemetery endures as its memorial.
Why it matters
Hobbs Cemetery preserves the footprint of a vanished West Texas settlement, a reminder of how quickly frontier communities could form, shift, and dissolve.
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Related people
- · Vachel Hobbs Anderson
- · Thomas J. Bone
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