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Title: Genealogy of the Current and Hobson families
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Current, Annie E., b. 1853
Subjects: Current family Hobson family
Publisher: New Castle, Ind. : M. O. Waters
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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. My father was a veryindustrious man, and showed carefully laid plans,system and neatness in all he did. He was afarmer, and acquired a farm adjoining Fortville,on which he built a beautiful home inside thecorporation limits, so that his family always hadthe advantage of town school and church; alsocountry life, with its orchards, broad fields andwoodland. He was a great reader and well in-formed on current events, and often expressedhis grief at the corruption of politics, the drinktraffic and the great evils of the day. He was anardent advocate of the temperance cause and wasidentified with the Blue Ribbon movement, whichat that time took the lead in temperance reform.Our mother, Anna, was bereft of her motherwhen only twelve years old. She was the oldestdaughter in a family of ten children, and theyounger ones looked to her for a mothers loveand care. She had been brought up under theinfluence of the Campbellite doctrine, but becamedeeply convinced of the need of a change of heart
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THE GURRENT FAMILY (07 under the preaching of Father J. W. Smith, andwas wonderfully converted. She and her sisterLizzie joined the M. E. Church, and were theonly ones of that large family who were notCampbellites. After a while her father married a woman whohad many good qualities, but was not strict in herreligious views. She almost entirely disregardedthe Sabbath by entertaining her friends and doingmuch unnecessary work on that day, which was agreat trial to Anna; so she covenanted with theLord that if He ever gave her a home of her ownthat she would honor His holy day, and in thathome He should be loved and obeyed. She alwaysremembered this covenant, and when the homewas given her, she endeavored to fulfil thispromise. Her home and her children she conse-crated to the Lord. My mother, Anna Chodrick, was devoted.to thedownfall of the liquor traffic. At the time of theCrusade movement a band was organized art:Fortville, and she, with the ministers wife, Mrs.J. B. Cams, headed the p

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