The Bobbitt Family In America

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Robert Bobbitt              69 Virginia (1791) 

Dicey (Bullard) Bobbitt  66 Virginia (1794) 

James Bobbitt               45 Virginia (1815) 

Sarah (Carroll) Bobbitt  35 Virginia (1825) 

Margaret Bobbitt            3 Virginia (1857)

William A. Bobbitt    10/12      Virginia         (1859)

In 1856, James Bobbitt married Sarah Carroll, a niece of John Carroll, the first archbishop of Baltimore. Margaret Carroll, a sister of Sarah had married William R. Bobbitt in 1846. They lived near to Robert and Dicey Bobbitt. It is likely that Sarah Carroll met James Bobbitt on a visit to her sister, Margaret.

Robert Bobbitt died in Carroll County in 1864. He was buried in the Bobbitt family cemetery on the Bobbitt farm. His grave is marked with a monument that states:

R. L. Bobbitt      Born: October 12, 1790      Died: December 23, 1864

The estate of Robert L. Bobbitt was settled in 1866 and the total value of the estate was listed as $ 48.00. The land had been deeded to James and Sarah Bobbitt before the death of Robert.

In the spring of 1867, James Bobbitt and his family, along with his mother, Dicey Bobbitt, and all their possessions, left Grayson County Virginia. The went by horses and wagons, by way of Fort Madison, to Randolph County Missouri. They settled in a country side near the township of Cairo.

Dicey Bobbitt was 72 years of age when she undertook the trip. She applied for a veteran's pension as the widow of a soldier of the War of 1812. The pension was granted. Since the Bobbitt family lived six miles northeast of Cairo, the pension vouchers had to be notarized for payment. A J. W. Carver was the notary public officer and gave permission to the son of Dicey Bobbitt, James L. Bobbitt, to sign the vouchers in place of his aged mother. In time Carver began to sign the vouchers, cash them, keep most or all of the money, and cheated Dicey Bobbitt out of her pension. Dicey at this time was 98 years of age.

Dicey Bobbitt died at the age of 101 in 1894 and is buried in the Union Cemetery near Cairo, Missouri. James died in 1893. Both James and Sarah are also buried in the Union Cemetery near Dicey Bobbitt.

James and Sarah Bobbitt had six children who were born before 1870. The children who lived to maturity are in the 1880 census.