None of the marriage records of Pittsylvania or Amherst Counties list any marriages in which John Bobbitt was a bondsman or wit

The Bobbitt Family In America

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None of the marriage records of Pittsylvania or Amherst Counties list any marriages in which John Bobbitt was a bondsman or witness. We have not been able to decide who were his daughters or to whom they were married. We believe that several of his family moved to what is now West Virginia and to what is today Carroll County Virginia.

In 1976 Second Lieutenant John Bobbitt was accepted by the National Daughters of the American Revolution with the membership of Jean Bobbitt Dunn. The National DAR number is 608912 and she was listed as a descendant of John Bobbitt of Sandy Level, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was published in new ancestor records on June 11, 1976.

In 1980, Jean Bobbitt Dunn and her husband C. Thomas Dunn and I went to Galax Virginia where we visited with Paul U. Bobbitt, his brother Delmar H. Bobbitt and other members of various Bobbitt families. We were particularly interested in locating the grave of John Bobbitt which was supposed to be in a cemetery near Hillsville Virginia. With the aid of Elmer and Mae Harris Webb we found the cemetery. Jean, Tom, and I went early one morning to the cemetery and searched carefully each and every old grave marker for the name of John Bobbitt. The grave was found and the engraving on the marker is readable today. It simply states "John Bobbitt" and below his name is the date "1816".

June Rexrode Foehr, a Bobbitt descendant, and a Regent for the Daughters of the American Revolution offered to pay for any expenses involved in order to have John Bobbitt's grave properly marked for his Revolutionary War service. Suggestions were made to do this through the Veterans Administration. The bronze marker was supplied by the Veterans Administration and with the aide of Paul U. Bobbitt the marker was placed in September 1983.

The cemetery is called the "North End Cemetery" and is located near the community library at the end of the main street in the village of Hillsville. It is a beautiful cemetery with numerous old graves and well cared for by the community. In and through the years additional grave sites have been placed adjoining the old cemetery so that it is in use today.

Approximately three miles from the grave of John Bobbitt is the land and family cemetery where James and Rosanna Bobbitt lived. James Bobbitt was a son of John Bobbitt and he made his home with them until the time of his death. Rosanna Bobbitt was a daughter of Captain William Bobbitt and a first cousin to her husband James Bobbitt. James and Rosanna Bobbitt reared a large family and have many descendants living in Southwest Virginia today.

In Carroll and Grayson counties of Virginia there are numerous Bobbitt areas of historical interest. Two soldiers of the Revolutionary War are buried there and two from the War of 1812. Many other Bobbitt patriots are also buried there from various wars.

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