When papers certifying her relationship to the deceased soldier were completed, the widow gave her address as Hopkinsville, Perry County AL. Elijah Hobson served a total of four months and twenty-nine days in Confederate service. He enlisted on Feb. 3rd and died on June 30th, 1863. I do not see this family on the 1860 census of Alabama.

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