They all loved and respected "Mother Bobbitt" as they called her. Elizabeth Bobbitt departed this life on February 14, 1891 at

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They all loved and respected "Mother Bobbitt" as they called her. Elizabeth Bobbitt departed this life on February 14, 1891 at the home of her youngest son, Floyd Bobbitt, in Monroe County. She was 75 years of age. She had been a widow since 1876, and often visited among her children. Elizabeth was the mother of fifteen children, and eighty-seven grand and great grandchildren. In my boyhood days, I was always glad to see her come to our home for a visit. My only sister was named in her honor.

"Gibson Bobbitt was a Baptist and for many years a member of the Valley Baptist Church near Zenith in Monroe County. He always attended the Methodist Camp Meetings and was noted for his ability in prayer. When the meetings were spiritually cold, Gibson Bobbitt was called upon to lead in prayer, after which the congregation went to shouting and praising the Lord. He was welcomed to all those camp meetings which were an annual event in Monroe County. The camp meetings were held in the late summer or early fall before the corn harvest and sowing of wheat, and just after the hay harvest had ended.

"Gibson Bobbitt was a very tall man, and I was told by his wife, my grandmother, that he was a very handsome man, highly intelligent, friendly and courteous. He was liked by everyone, both the rich and the poor. He died on August 20, 1876 when I was a mere lad, but I distinctly remember seeing him in his last days, lying on his sick bed, suffering from pains and breathing the agony of a third attack of pneumonia, from which he died. His body was interred in a cemetery adjoining the Valley Baptist Church of Zenith, but was later moved to the Oak Grove Baptist Church, near Union, where most of the members of the Bobbitt family are buried.

"Lewis Hamilton, the eldest son of Gibson Bobbitt was married to Ellen Ross of near Alderson. They had two sons, Aquilla and Ocie Bobbitt. Aquilla married Elizabeth Hanna of Greenbrier County. The family moved from West Virginia to McCombs, Illinois. Ocie Bobbitt, married Anna Maxwell of Hinton. They had a son, Dr. Ray Bobbitt of Huntington, and a daughter, Anna, who died of a goiter operation in Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, when she was in her early teens.

"Ocie Bobbitt went to work for the C and 0 railroad as a young man, and worked his way to a passenger conductor. He was working as a conductor when he was eighty five years of age.

"Pendleton Bobbitt, son of Gibson, married Virginia Leach of Monroe County. She was a devout Christian and a Baptist. Her faith was demonstrated in acts of neighborly kindness and friendship. The black people of the community loved and respected her. I attended her funeral at the Greenbrier Baptist Church, conducted by Reverend Forebell, pastor of the church. The pastor

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