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Sarah Hobbs Lewis Stubblefield was born in Indiana. She was the daughter of Dr. Abner Hobbs and Ann Kelsey/Hedric. Abner Hobbs born in VA, and Ann Kelsey born in KY.
A true pioneer, Sarah crossed the plains in sole charge of the wagon train in 1853.
With a party of relatives, including her four-year-old daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, she began her journey to California to join her husband, John Sloan Lewis, who had gone ahead. The party joined a wagon train at Independence, Missouri.
Over the Oregon Trail, near Utah, Indians made off with most of their stock and the remainder of the journey was made with a milk cow and an ox-pulled covered wagon. The party arrived in California at "Hangtown", now
Independence, after a long overland journey fraught with danger.
A year after her arrival in California, her daughter Julia Ann was born (1854). Julia Ann married William Huston Holloway in 1872. They had three children, John W., Charles R. & Bettie M.
Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" married John Wheeler Green in 1865, they had eleven children, Clarence S., Minnie, John L., Robert H., Mattie, Martha E., Bernard G., Georgia F., Sarah L., Dulcie, & Douglas R.
Sarah Jane's father, Dr. Abner Hobbs was a physician and a minister of the Christian Church.
Upon her husband’s death, Sarah Jane married Robert Coleman Stubblefield.Together, they had four children; Martha Jane, Robert Absolom, Mary C., and Charles Andrew “Dick” Stubblefield.
In a double wedding, Martha Jane
married Samuel Lewis Hopkins from Wales and her sister Mary wed James Howard Drumm on November 5, 1879.
Sarah Jane is buried next to second husband, Robert Coleman Stubblefield, at Union Cemetary in Bakersfield, CA.
Burial: 1915, Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, California
Census: 1880, Page 555A, Los Alamos, California
Emigration: 1853, Drove a wagon train to California, her husband John Slone Lewis proceeding her in 1850
The Lewis-Stubblefield Family
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