The War between the States, caused dissension between Gibson Bobbitt and some of the families of his sisters who were married t

The Bobbitt Family In America

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The War between the States, caused dissension between Gibson Bobbitt and some of the families of his sisters who were married to men who fought for the Union cause. The war was the beginning of first cousins losing track of their relationship to each other. The Bobbitt name began to be lost as a part of the families of the Andersons, Johnsons, and Cockrans.

George Gibson Bobbitt, son of John Houston Bobbitt, and a grandson of Gibson Bobbitt, was interested in family history. In the later years of his life, he wrote his memories of the Bobbitt family. George Gibson Bobbitt was born on August 28, 1873 near the township of Union, West Virginia. He taught schools in West Virginia and Virginia for eighteen years. He wrote many sermonettes, lectured, wrote a book called "The Three Harvests". The last twenty- years of his life were spent in Texas, where he died in 1949 in the town of Panhandle. His wife was Lula Eakin Bobbitt who was born in New Castle, Virginia on May 9, 1878 and died in Texas on March 3, 1948. George and Lula had two sons, James Monroe Bobbitt of Wichita Falls, Texas and Otho Edwin Bobbitt of Amarillo, Texas.

Edwin and Elaine Bobbitt of Amarillo, Texas sent me the notes and writings of George Gibson Bobbitt with their permission to use the material in any way that would be helpful. The writings of George Bobbitt are the best and only written insight we have from someone who lived closely to the members of the Gibson Bobbitt family. I have edited the account of George Bobbitt to what is essential family history for all of us to appreciate and enjoy.

"Gibson Bobbitt was for many years superintendent of the Monroe County farm for the poor. His sons, Allen Caperton and Issac Newton, lost their lives in the Confederate Army, while they were young men. Caperton was killed in the battle of Kernstown, Virginia. His comrades said that he could have been saved, if he had been treated by a physician. His wound was a hip wound, and he bled to his death. He was a member of Edgar's famous fighting battallion, which was always in the front line of battle, and noted for its bravery.

"Newton, the second unmarried son, died of fever in Virginia, while in service of the Confederate Army. He was in many of the fierce battles around Richmond when the Union army made many futile attempts to capture the capital of the Southern Confederacy. Newton Bobbitt was a non-commissioned officer, loved and respected by all his comrades.

"Gibson Bobbitt's wife, before her marriage, was Elizabeth Burdette, of Wolf Creek, near Alderson, Monroe County, West Virginia. She was a noble Christian woman, who took pride in caring for the poor and destitute people who were inmates in the county infirmary..

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