John HOBART

Generation: 1

John HOBART was born 21 Apr 1782, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont; died 19 Jan 1857, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont ; was buried Middlesex Village Cemetery, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont.

John — Abigail LNU. [Group Sheet]

John married Irene Phelps Abt 1803, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont. Irene was born 1784, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont; died 30 Aug 1833. [Group Sheet]

Children:

2. Elijah HOBART was born 25 Oct 1806, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont; died 5 May 1879, Waterbury, Washington, Vermont; was buried Hope Cemetery, Waterbury, Washington, Vermont.

Generation: 2

Elijah HOBART

(1.John¹) was born 25 Oct 1806, Middlesex, Washington, Vermont; died 5 May 1879, Waterbury, Washington, Vermont; was buried Hope Cemetery, Waterbury, Washington, Vermont.

Elijah married Judith BRODERICK 28 Oct 1829, Waterbury, Washington, Vermont. Judith was born 20 Feb 1810, Waterbury, Washington, Vermont; died 23 Jun 1879. [Group Sheet]

Children:

3. Walter Scott HOBART was born 30 Oct 1839, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont; died 2 Jun 1892, San Francisco, California; was buried Initially buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco, but moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.

Generation: 3

Walter Scott HOBART

(2.Elijah², 1.John¹) was born 30 Oct 1839, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont; died 2 Jun 1892, San Francisco, California; was buried Initially buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco, but moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.

Notes:

In order to secure a reliable source for lumber for his mining operations in the Comstock, Walter Scott Hobart organized the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company. By the early 1880s, the company controlled tens of thousands of wooded acres in the Tahoe Basin, and a lumber mill in Incline. Logs cut from Tahoe's east shore were towed to Sand Harbor behind the company's steamship Niagara. The logs then made their way to the Incline mill on railway cars that ran out over the harbor on piers, then north along today's State Route 28. The lumber from the mill continued on its way to Virginia City on the steam powered Great Incline Tramway, which ran straight up the mountain with a vertical rise of 1,400 feet, then along a water flume to the Washoe Valley, where it was loaded onto railroad cars and hauled to the Comstock on the Viginia and Truckee Railroad. Towards the end of the 19th century, timber along the east lake shore became scarce. The railway and sawmill were dismantled and moved to a new location north of Truckee, where a town and sawmill called Hobart Mills was established in 1896 after Hobart's death. The town grew to over 1,500 people. It had wide streets, plentiful housing, social clubs, a schoolhouse, and even a hospital, a resource even Truckee lacked. Hobart Mills continued to operate until 1936 after which it was wound down, drawing to a close over 60 years of the Hobart lumber empire. The Hobart Mills forests, thriving with second growth trees, were sold off to the U.S. Forest Service.

Walter Scott and Mary Rounds Hobart are buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California. With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead - about 1.5 million, as of 2006 - outnumbers that of the living by nearly a thousand to one. This has led to Colma's being called "the City of the Silent" and has given rise to a humorous motto, now recorded on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma."

Our Frank Grant Hobart was the third cousin once removed of Walter Scott Hobart.

Walter married Mary Baker ROUNDS 1868, Passaic, New Jersey. Mary was born 14 Dec 1846, Bangor, Maine; died 8 Apr 1892, San Francisco, California; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California. [Group Sheet]

Children:

4. Alice HOBART was born 25 Dec 1870, San Francisco, California; died 10 Sep 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
5. Walter Scott HOBART, II was born 23 Apr 1873, San Raphael, Marin, California; died 9 Nov 1933, Hillsborough, San Mateo, California; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.
6. Ella Virginia HOBART was born 22 Dec 1874, San Francisco, California; died 17 Aug 1958, San Francisco, California; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California Garden / Section: E Lot: LOT 5.

Generation: 4

Alice HOBART

(3.Walter³, 2.Elijah², 1.John¹) was born 25 Dec 1870, San Francisco, California; died 10 Sep 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Alice married Winthrop Elwyn LESTER 10 Sep 1895. Winthrop was born Aug 1870, Ohio; died 29 May 1933, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet]

Children:

7. Carolyn LESTER was born 7 Aug 1896, California; died 22 Mar 1988, Los Angeles, California.
8. Beatrice LESTER was born Sep 1897, California; died 1972, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California; was buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California.

Walter Scott HOBART, II

(3.Walter³, 2.Elijah², 1.John¹) was born 23 Apr 1873, San Raphael, Marin, California; died 9 Nov 1933, Hillsborough, San Mateo, California; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.

Walter married Hannah Neal WILLIAMS 1896, California. Hannah was born 22 Jan 1877, Washington, District of Columbia; died 5 Sep 1957, Monterey, Monterey, California. [Group Sheet]

Children:

9. Hannah Neil HOBART was born 14 Mar 1897, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; died 8 Mar 1978, Pebble Beach, Monterey, California.
10. Ruth Mary HOBART was born 28 Aug 1898, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; died 14 Jun 1955, Tucson, Pima, Arizona; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.
11. Walter Scott HOBART, III was born 9 Aug 1903, Paris, Île-de-France, France; died 24 Sep 1957, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.

Ella Virginia HOBART

(3.Walter³, 2.Elijah², 1.John¹) was born 22 Dec 1874, San Francisco, California; died 17 Aug 1958, San Francisco, California; was buried Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California Garden / Section: E Lot: LOT 5.

Ella married Charles Adolphe BALDWIN 7 Jul 1896, San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Charles was born 4 Jan 1861, San Francisco, California; died 1934, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado. [Group Sheet]

Ella married Zourab Tchkotoua SABERISKI 10 Feb 1949, San Francisco, California. Zourab was born 18 Oct 1897, Soukhoum, Georgia, Russia; died 20 Jan 1975, New York, New York. [Group Sheet]