The Bobbitt Family In America

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"Aunt El, as we called her, was a very colorful person. She smoked a clay pipe, rocked in a cane bottom rocker, and gave my grandfather the devil if he came in out of the garden with muddy feet. He only laughed, he had a terrific sense of humor.

"Granddad was very distinguished looking, wore large hats and black suits with vests. He had a good philosophy about everything. He always said " a man's home is his castle" and if he wanted a reason for doing something it was " I shall not pass this way again". He was a 32nd degree mason and walked down Lansing Mountain to Fayette then up the other side to Fayetteville to attend lodge meetings.

"He was Justice of the Pease and solved the problems of the miners and people around the Mt. Cove District. He was known as "Squire Bobbitt" and that was the way he looked. All of his survivors are now dead. His old place made way for the New River Bridge approach. All that is left is the family cemetery on the hill by the highway."

George B. Bobbitt died in April 1937 on a Friday. His obituary was in the Charleston Gazette. Almost every Bobbitt in West Virginia saved a copy of his obituary because he was a West Virginia Bobbitt. Few if any of the Bobbitts knew their exact relationship to him.

"George B. Bobbitt, 80, prominent Fayette County citizen, died unexpectedly Friday morning at his home in Lansing. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the residence with burial in Lansing cemetery.

Mr. Bobbitt was born December 31, 1858 in Grayson County, Virginia. He came to West Virginia when a boy. He married Eliza Alexander, October 14, 1885. She died in 1909. In 1925 he married Mrs. Ellen Mitchell who survives him.

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. A. R. Jones of Lansing; two sons, George Bobbitt of War, and William E. Bobbitt of Gayetteville; a niece, Stella Newlin of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 13 grandchildren."