Ina Noel corresponded with a large number of people about family history. He letters were lengthy and interesting. If all of he

The Bobbitt Family In America

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Ina Noel corresponded with a large number of people about family history. Her letters were lengthy and interesting. If all of her letters to Allen Wade Mount, Jennie Weeks, Robert McDaniel Bobbitt, and Adelaide Bobbitt were combined, we would have an interesting account of how the history of the Bobbitt family has finally taken shape. Some excerpts from Ina's letters are a part of this history.

November 23, 1965:

"Since early childhood, I have known that great- grandfather James Bobbitt had a son Miles, born in 1826 and died in 1836. He was the first person buried in what became the Bobbitt Cemetery at Dyer, Tennessee. Later James Bobbitt gave four acres of land, two acres for the church and one acre for the white persons cemetery and one acre for the black persons cemetery. The black people still bury their dead there, but the whites have turned to a well cared for cemetery just out of town. James Bobbitt named his first child William L. Bobbitt, and I imagine that the "L" is for his own father, Lewis Bobbitt.

"My own father, James Robert Bobbitt, named his second son, Miles, in memory of his little Uncle who died so young. This Miles, my brother, died in early manhood and lies buried not far from his great grandparents."

In a letter from Allen Wade Mount, Sr. dated November 26, 1971 he wrote, 11 1 am sure that you know that Mr. Noel of Pilot Point, Texas died on December 17, 1969. Ina has moved to Houston, Texas to live with her son, Judge James Noel. Ina was very weak the last time I saw her."

While I am not certain when Ina Bobbitt Noel died, I believe it was in 1972.

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