On May 28, 1804, the Park family requested the Warren County Court to make a division of the estate of Lavina Bobbitt. Drury Bo

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On May 28, 1804, the Park family requested the Warren County Court to make a division of the estate of Lavina Bobbitt. Drury Bobbitt Senior and Robert Park posted a bond of 500 pounds to Governor Turner to assure a proper division of the estate of the deceased Lavina Bobbitt. Drury Bobbitt Junior, was appointed the administrator of the estate. The records do not show how the estate was divided or a final settlement of the estate. The record is in Warren County Will Book 12, page 169.

On December 26, 1804, Drury Bobbitt IV, son of John and Mary Hazelwood Bobbitt, and a grandson of Drury Bobbitt Senior, was married. It has been a common error to decide that Drury Bobbitt Junior married as his second marriage, Rebecca Burrow. Actually we do not believe that Drury Bobbitt Junior ever married again after the death of his wife Lavina.

The 1820 census of Orange County, North Carolina lists the family of Drury Bobbitt Junior (born in 1773).

Drury Bobbitt:

1 male 45 4 over (....-1775) 1 female 10 - 16 (1804-1810)

1 female 16 - 26 (1794-1804)

1 female 45 & over (....-1775)

The two daughters of Drury and Lavina are Sarah born in 1802 and Emily born in 1804. The female 45 or over is a sister of Drury Bobbitt Junior. Living nearby and recorded in the same census record is William Bobbitt born in 1797 and now married to Sarah Woody.

William Bobbitt:

1 male 16 - 26 (1794-1805) 3 females under 10 (1810-l820)

2 females 16 - 26 (1795-1805)

The females 16 - 26 are Sarah Woody and probably one of her sisters. The three girls are Elizabeth Ann, born in 1818, Mary Jane, born in 1819, and Emily Helen, born in 1820. William Bobbitt moved his family from Orange County, North Carolina to Maury County, Tennessee in 1823. Drury Bobbitt Senior died in Moore County in 1826.

Sarah Bobbitt, daughter of Drury Bobbitt Junior, married Richard Hight of North Carolina, on May 5, 1823 in Maury County. Sarah was born on April 30, 1802 in Warren County. Sarah and Richard Hight had three sons whom they named, Washington Hight, born in 1825, Calvin Hight, born in 1830, and Richard Hight Jr., born in 1832. Richard B. Hight Senior died in 1835 and Sarah married John Atkinson on August 30, 1838 in Maury County. No children were born to the second marriage. Sarah died in Maury County, Tennessee on April 14, 1857.

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