The Bobbitt Family In America

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Almost everyone who knew and loved Lee Hill Bobbitt has a story that is sad, joyful , inspirational, or filled with pathos in one way or another. It would take a skillful writer to tell these stories in writing in a way that would conform to what each person regards as their story and their personal experience with "Uncle Bud".

An experience of my own comes from my youth. I stood unnoticed at an open door to the bedroom where my father was very ill. Uncle Bud sat beside my father's bed and told him that he was very likely not going to recover from his attack of serious pneumonia. In a tone of voice and with words that cannot be placed on paper, I heard Uncle Bud help my father to physically and spiritually prepare for his death which came some few hours later. This scene has been with me all my life, and was most vividly recalled when on June 16, 1960, some twenty-three years later., Uncle Bud was asked by the Reverend John E. Brown to pray at my mother's graveside.

At 75 years of age, Uncle Bud was ready, willing and probably able to scrap with the young men of an entire high school football team.

His sense of humor had no limits and in the many snapshots taken of Uncle Bud he would be pictured as having a good hearty laugh.

When Uncle Bud was 63 years of age he cut his hand while working in one of his farm fields. The cut became infected and there seemed little that would make the wound heal. After he had done all that he usually did for his physical wounds, he resigned himself to the care of a physician. Several doctors decided that he hand could not be cured and would have to be amputated above the wrist. When the doctors gave Uncle Bud their decision, he stood and thanked them for their advice and attention. He then announced that he came into this world in one piece and that he intended to leave in one piece. He treated his hand with time-tried remedies and careful prayer. The hand healed with very little scar tissue, and became a very useful hand for another thirty-seven years.

Stress and worry are said to kill many of our modern men early in their lives. Uncle Bud would attribute his long life to the fact that his trust and confidence in God and his Son made stress and worry unnecessary in the life of a Christian.