The Bobbitt Family In America

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Susan Bobbitt               born 1831

Mary Jane Bobbitt        born 1834

James Tolliver Bobbitt  born 1836

George W. Bobbitt        born 1839

Elizabeth Bobbitt         born 1840

Joseph Bobbitt            born 1843 

William Bobbitt           born 1845

Eliza D. Bobbitt          born 1846

Emily Bobbitt             born 1854

On October 7, 1850, Susan Bobbitt married Alexander Knight in Greenbrier County. Susan and Alexander had two children. On June 7, 1854, Susan (Bobbitt) Knight died. She was only 24 years of age. In the same year that Susan died, Emily Bobbitt, her sister was born on March 17, 1854. Emily Bobbitt's birth was recorded in Greenbrier County.

In 1854, at the age of 41, Jane (Hill) Bobbitt died. Tilman was left to rear a family of young sons and daughters, the eldest of whom was Mary Jane, 20 years old, and James Tolliver, 18 years old.

On December 31, 1857, James Tolliver Bobbitt married Malinda Catherine Alderson in Monroe County. Soon after his marriage, he and his wife Catherine moved into the farm home of Rufus and Mary Bobbitt in Nicholas County. James Tolliver worked on the farm as an aid to Rufus Bobbitt. The first child and son of James and Catherine Bobbitt was born at the home of Rufus and Mary Bobbitt, on December 31, 1858. The son was named Joseph Alderson Bobbitt.

By 1861 we believe that Mary Jane Bobbitt, and Elizabeth had married in Monroe or Greenbrier Counties, although we cannot find their marriage records. By this same year, many families of the area were split by the politics of the struggles between the Confederate and union philosophies. Three of the sons of Tilman and Jane Bobbitt were very much on the side of the Confederate States. James Tolliver, George, and Joseph, quickly joined the Confederate army.

By 1861 James Tolliver and Catherine were living on a farm in Cabell County. In that same year, James volunteered as a private and enlisted in the confederate army near Huntington in Cabell County. By September 17, 1862, he was appointed a second lieutenant of Company C, 36th Battalion of the Virginia Cavalry. By December 31, 1863, he was a first lieutenant, and later was made a captain of his unit. During the last stages of the war, he was captured at New Creek, Virginia and in 1864 was sent as a prisoner to Camp Chase, Ohio.