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Note: Info on Sallie Hobby from Barry White<bwhite11@home.com> Mary Pilcher Godbold recalls: "Aunt Sallie had a large house and whenever we went to Dothan we always stayed with her. When my brother Ralph was killed his body was taken from Birmingham and placed in Aunt Sallie's house over night. The funeral was held from her house the next day. Also, when my sister Kate was going to business school in Dothan she stayed with Aunt Sallie."
Comments of Cleoris Duhon (ph. 337-598-2016), daughter of Vallie Hobby, and grandaughter of Charlie Henry Hobby, made to Wayne Nielsen, December 20, 2002: "I remember as a child walking to aunt Sallie Hobby Pilcher's house". Family recollection and fact - Charlie Hobby had a sister named Sallie.
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Email from Barry White to Wayne Nielsen - 12/23/2002:
"Wayne, I'm sending you some of what I have on the Pilcher's from Aunt Sallie's family. She is definetly my great grandmother's sister (ie. Josephine HOBBY). I don't have any of the older Hobby relatives left that I would know, but a cousin who is quite a bit older talked about Aunt Sallie Pilcher coming to visit them whenever she was a little girl. She told me that Aunt Sallie and Uncle Ben were a very well to do family in Dothan and owned a lot of property in downtown Dothan Ala. She said also that Aunt Sallie would always bring them a big bag of candy and new clothes and shoes sometimes. My cousin said that she was sure they were used clothes but they looked like new, and that they were probably some her children had grown out of. She and my late Grandmother White also told me this same thing. That grt. grndmthr. Josephine was some kind of American Indian, but they didn't know what kind. This cousin is in her mid-to- late eighties now."
More About SALLIE E. HOBBY: Burial: Dothan City Cemetery,Dothan(Houston County)Alabama
_______________________________________________________________________ UNCLE BEN AND AUNT SALLIE - REMEMBRANCES OF LUCILE PILCHER HAYES Provided by Ed Godbold
Ben Pilcher married Sallie Hobby and they had five children; Jeff, Will J., Louise, George and one died young. When Aunt Florence died Uncle Fox brought me a table that Uncle Ben made for Aunt Florence's parlor before she married and before, I think, Uncle Ben left home and was married. Uncle Ben always had a workshop behind his house in Dothan and made things for Aunt Sallie's house which she relegated to a room upstairs. I remember a small chest with two or three drawers that sat by Myrtle and Jeff's bedside that I always coveted. Aunt Sallie had pretty furniture and could never come down to home made furniture. Uncle Ben was the head of the water works and he had a patent on some equipment there. It was he, instead of Uncle George who had a big hand in building the Opera House in Dothan. There was a small storage room upstairs in his house where he had every Sunday School book he had ever gotten and he never missed a Sunday and neither did the children. Jeff married Myrtle who was one of my favorite relatives. They had one girl named Flora. Will J.'s wife's name was Leathy. She was a staunch Seventh Day Adventist. Louise was my dearest cousin and friend. We spent almost every weekend together. Dothan was a small town and we would dress up and roam the town and see the sights.
Note: The table he built sits in the living room of Ed Godbold.
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Edna Beltz, grandaughter of Charlie H. Hobby and Hulda Patterson Hobby, recounted (in February, 2003) to Wayne Nielsen her knowledge that Sallie Hobby Pilcher was Charlie H. Hobby's blood sister. ____________________________________________________________________________
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