"Times of Long Ago"
                            by Franklin Gorin
                            
Page 6:   How "No Bob" Creek obtained its name.

   The Military surveyors who surveyed the lands of this country
before any settlements were made, and while many Indians still
roamed over it, could obtain no food save wild meat; consequently
each corp camped out and possessed a cook, hunter, etc.  The hunter
was in the habit of hunting all day and returning to the camp at
night loaded with his game. It was while surveying on the above 
named creek that the hunter, Robert, one night failed to appear.
Each succeeding night the surveyors upon their return, Bob not
being present, would exclaim "No Bob, yet".  So the creek received
the name which it still retains.  Bob was never heard of again,
having, no doubt, been killed by Indians (Some historians have
pursued the possibility that Bob may have wandered into Polly
Andrew's Indigo garden).