The next obituary was written for Sheerwood H. Bobbitt and apparently by the same author as the one written for Ann Bobbitt. I

The Bobbitt Family In America

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The next obituary was written for Sheerwood H. Bobbitt and apparently by the same author as the one written for Ann Bobbitt. I believe the author was the Rev. James H. Brent, who was a fellow seminarian with William H. Bobbitt in Craven County in 1850.

"Died, at Elkin, North Carolina January 24, 1877, Sheerwood Haywood Bobbitt, aged 70 years, 5 months and 22 days. He only lived 19 days after the death of his wife.

"We deeply sympathize with the children and relatives in their double bereavement.

"Brother Bobbitt was for more than fifty years a consistent and faithful member of the Methodist Church. For more than forty years he held official positions in the church. He was a pure and holy man. He enjoyed life and the power of religion. Kind and affectionate in heart, true and upright in life, he "let his light so shine" as to be influential for good. He was a simple hearted, sweet spirited, humble and devoted Christian, A man of faith and prayer, ever ready to do and to suffer the will of the Master. ....We were not surprised to hear that he died in great peace.

"Rev. T. S. Whittington, who was much with him in his last illness, says, "He called his daughter and her husband and family to his bed side and told them he would soon die, that he was going to heaven, and that he was then waiting by the river. That he exhorted them all to meet him in heaven and to tell his children and grand-children (who were absent) to meet him in heaven. (The daughter and her family was Mary Eliza Bobbitt Edison.)

"He had a good influence at his home in Elkin. Brother Whittington says, " We as his friends all deeply feel our loss. He was our standard of piety. When I saw him, I remembered the scripture, "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace."

The obituary closed with a poem written by L. S. Burkhead.

There is no doubt that Sheerwood and Ann Bobbitt were persons of strong character. A study of their children shows that they were able to pass these characteristics on to their descendants.

William H. Bobbitt, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, is a great-grand-son of Sheerwood and Ann Bobbitt. His grandfather was James Burrows Bobbitt, and his father was James Henry Bobbitt.

James B. Bobbitt, D. D. was editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate for more than twenty five years in Raleigh.

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