Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Oregon BOBBITT

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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OREGON BOBBITT - born near Amherst C. H., Amherst County, Virginia, October
5, 1817, was a son of John BOBBITT, born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia,
and Emelia (HILL) BOBBITT, born in Amherst County.  His mother died in 1861,
and his father in 1856, both in this county.  Oregon BOBBITT make his home
in Greenbrier County first in 1845, then lived for a time in Nicholas County,
returning here and then moving to Monroe County, where he lived two years.
He then made his permanent home in Greenbrier County.  He was eighteen years
superintendent of the county infirmary, from 1859 until his resignation in
1878, when he moved to the farm where he now resides, in Williamsburg
District.  He held the office of postmaster two years, and then resigned it
to give attention to personal business.  His first wife was Lucy Ann,
daughter of Francis and Emeline HILL, of Amherst County, Virginia.  She was
born in that county, September 23, 1818, and became his wife in Monroe
County, December 22, 1842.  Their children were five:  James H., born
October 8, 1843, lives at North Platte, Nebraska;  George W., September 9,
1845, lives in Iowa;  F. Napoleon, May 21, 1848, lives in Monroe County,
this State, Emily Jane, February 21, 1851, and Lewis Samuel Miller, July 22,
1853, are deceased.  James and George were soldiers of the Confederacy in
the war between the States.  The second wife of Mr. BOBBITT was Malinda J.,
daughter of Asheen and Nancy BURDITT, on Monroe County, and she was born in
Monroe County and there became the wife of Oregon BOBBITT.  Their children
were born:  Eliza C., July 1, 1855;  Thomas C., September 21, 1856;
John I., November 5, 1857;  Charles Spurgeon, May 19, 1859;  Nanny J.,
October 2, 1863, and two deceased:  Lewis Powell, born June 12, 1861,
died same year;  Martha Malinda Alice, born March 28, 1865, died in 1866.
In Greenbrier County, in 1865, Oregon BOBBITT married Margaret BROWN, who
was born in this county, Falling Spring District.  She is a daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (CAVENDISH) BROWN, of Virginia by birth, but settlers in
Greenbrier County, where both died about twenty-three years ago.  Mr.
BOBBITT's post office address is Williamsburg, Greenbrier County, West
Virginia.


[Oregon BOBBITT's death is recorded three times in Greenbrier County records.  
Once in Vol. 1A, death date on Feb. 18, 1893, age 77 yr, no parents listed, 
death reported by F. G. McFERRIN, son-in-law; of comsuption.
In Vol. 1, Oregon BOBBITT is listed twice: first, death date on Feb. 19, 1893, 
age 77 yr, no parents listed, of consumption; second, death date on Feb. 25, 
1893, age 78 yrs, no parents listed, cause - pulmonary phthisis. vfc]

[Malinda J. BURDITT BOBBITT died Apr. 3, 1865, age 37, of childbed fever.  
Greenbrier County Death Records, Vol. 1A. vfc] 


Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.