In our research on William J. Bobbitt in Missouri, we found him listed as one of the justices of the peace who performed some m

The Bobbitt Family In America

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In our research on William J. Bobbitt in Missouri, we found him listed as one of the justices of the peace who performed some marriages. One of the records showed that he performed the marriage of William Campbell to Malinda Davis on January 31, 1829, not long before he left Missouri and returned to Morgan County, Illinois.

"William J. Bobbitt purchased forty acres of land from the government and began the construction of a homestead in the wilderness. He lived but seven years thereafter, resting from his earthly labors in 1836, at the age of 61. Both he and his wife (Elizabeth Hale) were members of the Regular Baptist Church. His wife survived her husband by many years, dying at the age of seventy six. She was a number of years younger than he. To their marriage was born eleven children, five sons and six daughters, all of whom reached mature years and married before a death occurred in the family.

"One son, William C. Bobbitt was waylaid and killed for his money in the gold regions of California. Three sisters are now deceased, all of whom left families. The eldest brother living has now reached the advanced age of over eighty years and the youngest member of the family is past fifty."

From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties Nebraska" published by Chapman Brothers in 1889, is an account of Theodore Newton Bobbitt, son of Everett Hale Bobbitt who was a son of William J. and Elizabeth (Hale) Bobbitt. These excerpts are from the sections that pertain to William J. Bobbitt.

"His father, Everett H. Bobbitt was born in Madison County Missouri in 1816, and married Mary A. Newton. William Bobbitt, the paternal grandparent of our subject traced his forefathers to Wales."

Stephen Bobbitt, brother of William James Bobbitt left Hopkinsville Kentucky and moved to Morgan County Illinois in 1826. His father, Isham Bobbitt and his mother Elizabeth, moved to Morgan County in 1827. Several of the children of Isham also moved to Morgan County before 1830. When William J. Bobbitt moved back to Illinois from Missouri he lived near his brother Stephen. Both families are listed in the 1830 census of Morgan County, Illinois.

William James Bobbitt married Elizabeth Hale on July 8, 1808 in Trigg County, Kentucky. They were married by James Thompson a justice of the peace, and a brother to William Bobbitt's brother-in-law, John Thompson, husband of his sister Amy (Bobbitt) Thompson. There are many records in Trigg County Kentucky that pertain to the family living in Christian County.

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