The Bobbitt Family In America

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Lewis Hamilton Bobbitt               married 1857 Ellen Ross 

Virginia Bobbitt                           married 1838 American Alford

Louisa Ann Bobbitt                     married 1856 Oliver Foster

Caroline Bobbitt                         married  1865 James Wallace Keller 

Sarah Elizabeth Bobbitt               married 1866 Alexander H. Groves 

John Houston Bobbitt                  married 1870 Mahala Jane Shirey 

James Pendleton Bobbitt              married 1871 Virginia Leach (1) 

James Pendleton Bobbitt              married 1920 Mattie H. McNeer (2)

Robert Wellington Bobbitt            married 1872 Harriet Clark Duncan

Mary Etta Bobbitt                        married 1872 Christopher Miller 

Millie Jane Bobbitt                       married 1878 Charles C. Campbell 

William Maston Bobbitt                married 1879 Martha Alice Leach 

Henry Paxton Bobbitt                   married 1879 Bettie Duncan 

Floyd Preston Bobbitt                  married 1882 Sallie R. Brown 

Gibson Bobbitt died on August 20, 1876 in Monroe County. Elizabeth Bobbitt died on February 14, 1891. The Border Watchman of Monroe County carried an obituary of Gibson Bobbitt on August 25, 1876. Some excerpts from the obituary follow.

"Died at his residence in this county, on Sunday the 20th, Gibson Bobbitt, aged about 65 years.

"The deceased had lived almost the whole of his life in Monroe and was well and favorably known to all its citizens. For the last sixteen years he had lived in the immediate community in which he died. For that length of time, with but a short interval, he was engaged in taking care of the poor at the Poor House, and well and faithfully did he discharge the important duties devolving upon him.

"He was a kind and affectionate husband and father, a good neighbor, and above all, he was a professed follower of Christ .....

"He was a member of the order of the Grangers and was buried by his brethern in a graveyard near the Valley Church, with their very beautiful and impressive ceremony. His remains were accompanied to their final resting place by a very large concourse of his friends and fellow citizens, the procession extending fully a quarter of a mile."

In later years his grave was moved to the Oak Grove Baptist Church yard, where most members of the Bobbitt family are buried.