Virginia Dean Royster copied this information from her grandmother's family Bible. Her grandmother was Mourning Eliza Bobbitt,

The Bobbitt Family In America

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Virginia Dean Royster copied this information from her grandmother's family Bible. Her grandmother was Mourning Eliza Bobbitt, who married James A. Crews. James A. and Mourning E. (Bobbitt) Crews were the parents of Rosa Lee Crews, who married Ernest M. Dean. Rosa and Ernest Dean are the parents of Virginia Dean who married Dr. J. Dan Royster.

Records from the family Bible:

Lewis T. Bobbitt was born, March 26, 1819

Lewis T. Bobbitt married Ann T. Minor, January 20, 1842

Ann T. Minor was born, November 16, 1823

Ann T. Minor Bobbitt, died May 13, 1854

Lewis T. Bobbitt, died May 19, 1862

Lewis T. Bobbitt married Mary F. Minor (October 17, 1855)

Mary F. Minor was born April 18, 1817. She was a sister of Ann T. minor. (Mary minor died in 1857)

Children of Lewis T. and Ann T. (Minor) Bobbitt:

Lewis H. Bobbitt born, Mar. 22 1843

John T. Bobbitt born, may. 21 1845

Susan F. Bobbitt born, Nov. 23 1847

George W. Bobbitt born, Dec. 14 1849

Eliza Mourning Bobbitt born, Jan. 17 1852

Ann T. Bobbitt born, Apr. 18 1854

Children of Lewis T. and Mary F. (Minor) Bobbitt:

Laura T. Bobbitt born, Aug. 31 1856

Mourning Eliza Bobbitt married James A. Crews, Feb. 19, 1879

James A. Crews was born,

James A. Crews died, February 14, 1900

Mrs. Royster did not know about the third marriage or the names of the other children. In August 1977 1 attended a Bobbitt reunion in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mrs. John H. (Magdalene Bobbitt) Hedgepeth, supplied the missing information needed to complete this family study. Magdalene (Bobbitt) Hedgepeth is a daughter of Walton Clark Bobbitt. In the records and family notes of Mrs. Hedgepeth, she had a letter written by Eliza Mourning Bobbitt to Walton Bobbitt. It is apparent that Mourning Bobbitt knew about the third family of Lewis Bobbitt but had not made the recordings in the family Bible. Mrs. Royster lives in Benson, and Mrs. Hedgepeth lives in Raleigh. Each have treasures that tell the history of a near ancestor, but have lost the connections that keep a family history together. Throughout the state of North Carolina are many such fragments of our family history that must be put together by a central source.

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