This is the.family that was born to Charles and Sarah and lived to maturity. Ten sons and one daughter. The ten sons must have

The Bobbitt Family In America

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This is the family that was born to Charles and Sarah and lived to maturity. Ten sons and one daughter. The ten sons must have been a real blessing for a plantation owner in those days. As a matter of fact Charles enjoyed property and wealth before the war between the states. Sometime before the way, Charles and his family moved from Grayson County into Carroll County and lived in the wilderness district at the foot of several large mountains, near what is today called, Lambsburg. It is one of the most beautiful sections of Virginia, but isolated even by our standards of today. The family was counted on June 13, 1860 in the census of Carroll County.

Family # 1271

Charles Bobbitt 57 1813 Virginia

Sarah (DeFries) Bobbitt 57 1813 North Carolina

Joseph Bobbitt 16 1844 Virginia

Greenberry Bobbitt 14 1846 Virginia

Peyton Bobbitt 12 1848 Virginia

Polly A. Bobbitt 13 1847 Virginia

The older children remained on land owned by their father, in Grayson County. In 1861 Sarah (DeFries) Bobbitt died in Carroll County. On November 8, 1863 Charles married Lucinda Bedsole in Surry County, North Carolina. Not long after this marriage Charles at the age of 54 volunteered to serve in the army of the Confederate States. Four of the sons of Charles and Sarah served in the Confederate Army. They were George, Samuel, Joseph and Greenberry and they served in Company E of the 45th. Virginia Infantry. This company was organized at the time the state seceeded in May of 1861, and was mustered in May 29, 1861 at Wytheville by Col. Henry Heth (later a Major General) who was its first commander. It took part in the 1861 campaigns in West Virginia, August 1863, and then in the spring of 1864 took part in the battle at Cloyds Farm in Pulaski County, and Piedmont, Virginia. They fought at White Sulphur Springs in August 1863, thereafter it was part of Jubal Early's Army in the Shenandoah Valley.

By 1870 the sons of Charles and Sarah had scattered and were living in Missouri, North Carolina, and Kentucky. George, Greenberry, and Alexander remained in Virginia. Charles and his second wife, Lucinda were listed in the 1870 census as living alone in the Fancy Gap area of Carroll County, Virginia.

The wealth and property of this family was completely destroyed by the war between the states. Many records are missing, and we have only a few notes as to what happened to the ten sons who lived to maturity.

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