Thomas Bobbitt married Hannah (Gilmore) Bobbitt and had one child, a daughter, named Nancy who married George Amick. Thomas and

The Bobbitt Family In America

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Thomas Bobbitt married Hannah (Gilmore) Bobbitt and had one child, a daughter, named Nancy who married George Amick. Thomas and Hannah moved to Howard County Missouri along with other members of the Bobbitt family in 1841. Nancy Bobbitt the mother of Thomas, went with the family and lived out the rest of her life in Howard County with Thomas and Hannah.

Greenberry Bobbitt lived his entire life in Grayson and Carroll Counties in Virginia. He died on October 30, 1866 in Mt. Plains Virginia. Lydia (Jennings) Bobbitt remarried after the death of Greenberry, but was buried in the Mt. Plains family cemetery beside Greenberry. Greenberry and Lydia had three daughters who lived to maturity, Mary Bobbitt, Nancy Bobbitt, and Charity Bobbitt. One son was born to this marriage, but died young.

Mary Bobbitt was called Polly and she married Johnson Doolin. Johnson Doolin was a hat maker. Mary Bobbitt died at the age of 36 of dropsy. She left six children, the eldest was a son aced 18. Johnson Doolin remarried and I have not tried to trace the family in the records. Polly died on December 17, 1854 in Garrard County Kentucky.

William Bobbitt married Cecelia Jennings, a sister of Lydia Jennings, the wife of his brother, Greenberry Bobbitt. Both Cecelia and Lydia were daughters of Presley and Nancy Jennings. William and Cecelia reared a large family in Pulaski County Kentucky. Some of their children migrated to Missouri and Kansas.

Alexander Bobbitt married a widow by the name of Saphrona Coffey and had several children. Alexander died in the 1850's in Wayne County Kentucky. During the 1830's Nancy Bobbitt the mother of Alexander, made her home with him, until her son Thomas decided to move to Missouri.

Rebecca Bobbitt married Enoch Liggett and went with the family to Howard County Missouri. She lived near Thomas Bobbitt, her brother, and Nancy her mother. I cannot find any records that indicate that she had any children. She and Encoh reared one of the orphaned sons of her sister Sarah (Bobbitt) Thomas.

Sarah Bobbitt married Jacob Thomas and had several children. Sarah died young and Jacob died not long afterwards. The orphaned Thomas children went to Howard County Missouri and lived with their uncle, Thomas Bobbitt.

Nancy (Blair) Bobbitt, widow of Caleb Bobbitt, lived to see all of her children die before she succumbed in 1876 at the age of 98. Her entire life was spent being separated from the family she reared and loved. She left Virginia in 1827 and never returned to see any of her own family or relatives on the Blair side of her family.

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