Gibson Bobbitt

Gibson Bobbitt
BIRTH 1814
Amherst County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 20 Aug 1876 (aged 61–62)
Union, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
Gates, Monroe County, West Virginia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5020619/gibson-bobbitt

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Eluzian Bobbitt Foster
1835–1862

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Lewis Hamilton Bobbitt
1836–1884

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Caroline Bobbitt Keller
1844–1908

Sarah Elizabeth Bobbitt Groves
1846–1892

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John Houston Bobbitt
1847–1925

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James Pendleton Bobbitt
1850–1934

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Robert Wellington Bobbitt
1852–1929

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Marietta Bobbitt Miller
1853–1904

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Mildred Jane Bobbitt Campbell
1857–1933

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Henry Paxton Bobbitt
1860–1943

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Floyd Preston Bobbitt
1861–1930

Died at age 62; son of Permelia Hill and John Bobbitt; married to Elizabeth Burdette on May 2, 1835 in Monroe County, Virginia.

The Border Watchman of Monroe County carried an obituary of Gibson Bobbitt on August 25, 1876. Some excerpts from the obituary follow.

"Died at his residence in this county, on Sunday the 20th, Gibson Bobbitt, aged about 65 years.

"The deceased had lived almost the whole of his life in Monroe and was well and favorably known to all its citizens. For the last sixteen years he had lived in the immediate community in which he died. For that length of time, with but a short interval, he was engaged in taking care of the poor at the Poor House, and well and faithfully did he discharge the important duties devolving upon him.

"He was a kind and affectionate husband and father, a good neighbor, and above all, he was a professed follower of Christ .....

"He was a member of the order of the Grangers and was buried by his brethern in a graveyard near the Valley Church, with their very beautiful and impressive ceremony. His remains were accompanied to their final resting place by a very large concourse of his friends and fellow citizens, the procession extending fully a quarter of a mile."

In later years his grave was moved to the Oak Grove Baptist Church yard, where most members of the Bobbitt family are buried.

Gibson Bobbitt
BIRTH
1814
Amherst County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
20 Aug 1876 (aged 61–62)
Union, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
Gates, Monroe County, West Virginia,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5020619/gibson_bobbitt