"Soon after the war he began to teach school and in 1868 he left Virginia and came to Decatur County, Indiana, where he remaine

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"Soon after the war he began to teach school and in 1868 he left Virginia and came to Decatur County, Indiana, where he remained for the rest of his life, except for a few years spent in Aurora, Indiana and the time he lived in Hillsboro.

"Upon his arrival in Indiana he again became a teacher and soon was popular as an educator. He was a student in the first session of the State Normal School. He successfully passed the examination and received a life license to teach in the common schools of Indiana.

"In 1876 he graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. In that same year he was elected County Superintendent of Decatur County, which office he held for ten years. After his retirement he practiced medicine for a short time, but soon returned to his first love, that of teaching, and that profession he followed until too old for active service.

"At different periods of his life he was active in newspaper work, as a correspondent and reported. After his retirement as a teacher he was for several years bookkeeper for the Bromwell Brush and Wire factory of Greensburg.

"Soon after coming to Indiana he was married to Miss Belle Barclay of Decatur county. To them were born five children, two of whom, Cora and Guy, died early in life. Charles died at the age of twenty seven years. John Leslie, a bright boy and a student of Purdue University, lived to see twenty summers when death called him home.

"Of the immediate family of Mr. Bobbitt there remain his daughter Stella, wife of S. J. Newlin, and Mary Louise Bobbitt, his grand daughter, who resides with her mother, Mrs. Sassmann, in Chicago. lie also leaves a brother, George B. Bobbitt and family who lives in Fayetteville, West Virginia.

"More than forty years ago Mr. Bobbitt confessed his faith in Jesus and became a member of the Church of Christ. Later his membership was transferred to the church in Greensburg, where he continued to be a member until his death.

"His devoted wife died in January 1909. After three months of intense suffering from what was pronounced a cancer on the tongue, Mr. Bobbitt died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Newlin, in Hillsboro, on Monday evening, June 2, 1919. He was buried in Greensburg cemetery."