ures. He next sifted down to Kansas, where a similar experience awaited him. Not withstanding all the business reverses and ke

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ures. He next sifted down to Kansas, where a similar experience awaited him. Not withstanding all the business reverses and keen disappointments, Uncle John's intrepid spirit was such that he never conceived the idea of admitting that he was "down and out". Dutiful children had often tried to make him desist from self imposed cares, up to the moment of the sad accident. He was ambitious in providing a home and a competency for a faithful wife, as the most ardent and faithful lover.

"Besides the aged wife, four sons and three daughters are left to mourn the loss of a loving parent, who if he did not bequeath a vast estate , left a reputation for sterling honesty, something more enviable than the memory of a sordid wealth."

John Bobbitt died on August 24, 1909 in Dawson, Nebraska. Julia (Hoyt) Bobbitt died in Cortez, Colorado on July 28, 1923. Both are buried in a family plot in Dawson, Nebraska.

In my files are numerous letters from descendants of John and Julia Bobbitt. Their children and grandchildren have contributed their labor to the success of the country. Many are well educated and accomplished.

Perhaps one of the most interesting items to the history of the Bobbitt family is that many of the descendants of John and Julia Bobbitt had heard a legend in their family that they descended from three brothers who came to America from Wales.

It is the same branch of family that William J. Bobbitt was from and it was William J. Bobbitt who had papers which could prove that the family came from Wales and that they had received a land grant in Virginia for transporting themselves to the Virginia colony.

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