Mrs. Sally Darnall Webb, wrote us that her great, great, grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Bobbitt who was born April 8, 1838. She

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Mrs. Sally Darnall Webb, wrote us that her great, great, grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Bobbitt who was born April 8, 1838. She married William Figgatt in 1856 in Kanawha County.

Dr. 0. H. Bobbitt who was much interested in family history was acquainted with the Figgatt family and made many attempts to relocate the missing information concerning Greenville Bobbitt and his family. We are not certain when Greenville or Nancy Bobbitt died. Neither was listed in the 1880 census records. James R. Figgatt wrote to us the following letter.

"Some years ago, Dr. 0. H. Bobbitt and I drove to the cemetery where Greenville Bobbitt was buried. We found the marker to be of an ordinary stone of the locality with the initials on it of G. ? B. The cemetery is located in Union District, Kanawha County, West Virginia, on what used to be the farm of Davis Burford, located on what is now known as "Fishers Branch"."

There are undoubtedly many descendants of Greenville and Nancy Bobbitt living in the area of Charleston in Kanawha County. Unfortunately a research of one family name and the history of that name will not permit the time required to learn about the families that Bobbitt daughters married into.

Clarence Figgatt was a prominent Baptist minister in Kanawha County. For more than 50 years he was pastor of churches in Parkersburg, Huntington, and Mount Hope, West Virginia.

He was a graduate of Charleston High School in 1911 and a graduate of the Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago. He attended Wheaton College in Weaton Illinois and received an honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Alderson-Broaddus College in 1953.

He was a member of the first Baptist Church of St. Albans, the Civitans and the American Legion. Mr. Figgatt served in the First World War. He died on February 25, 1975 at the age of 84.

Reverend Clarence Figgatt was a son of Thomas Greenville Figgatt. Thomas Greenville Figgatt was a son of Eli Figgatt and Sarah (Bobbitt) Figgatt. Sarah was a daughter of Greenville and Nancy (Ewes) Bobbitt.

James,R. Figgatt of the letter above was a brother of Rev. Clarence Figgatt. Both James and Clarence were friends of Dr. 0. H. Bobbitt. They worked for many hours and many days trying to find more of the Greenville Bobbitt family history.