After the first declaration of Isham Bobbitt before the open court of Morgan County, he returned with additional information o

The Bobbitt Family In America

[3]
After the first declaration of Isham Bobbitt before the open court of Morgan County, he returned with additional information on February 2, 1833.

" Isham Bobbitt stated that he was born on May 3, 1754, in ,hat was called then, Granville County, North Carolina, the county was subsequently divided and is now a new county, called Warren, which includes the residence of the correspondent. He has a record of his age in his pocession which was made by his father in the family Bible, and the same Bible is now appropziated by this department.

"This applicant resided in Warren County until the year of 1782. in 1782 he moved to Guilford County, North Carolina and resided there for about seven years. He moved to Spartenburg County, South Carolina and resided there about fourteen years, then moved to Christian County, Kentucky and arrived there in 1803. He resided there until the spring of 1827 when he moved to Morgan County, Illinois, where he now resides.

"He received a written discharge which along with a box of other papers, he left with William James in Guilford. When he returned five years afterwards to obtain the box of papers, he found that the papers had been destroyed and he not only lost his discharges but lost about ten thousand dollars of continental money.

"He is personally known by Joseph M. Fairfields, David Brassmon, John Chrisman, Samuel B. Jones, and Moses Carlick, and John P. Wilkerson, all of whom reside in the neighborhood. He is also known by William McCord a clergyman who has already testified in his behalf, along with William Bobbitt."

The name of Isham Bobbitt is engraved on a metal plaque and placed on the Morgan County, Illinois, court house. Isham died March 6, 1836. Elizabeth his wife died on March 6, 1847 and was buried beside Isham. Their graves were marked with stones that bear their names and dates of birth and death, and with a notation that Isham Bobbitt was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution.

For many years the graves were cared for by the James Caldwell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Jacksonville, Illinois.

On June 6th, 1838, Charles Holliday a great great grandson of Isham Bobbitt, had the remains of Isham Bobbitt's body removed from the Paschal farm to the Chapin Cemetery in Chapin, Illinois.

[4]