Biographical Note

Greenberry George McKenzie Bobbitt was born to Caleb Bobbitt and Nancy Blair Bobbitt in 1798 in Grayson County, Virginia. In 1825, Greenberry Bobbitt married Lydia Jennings (1802-1883), and they had at least two children, Nancy and Charity. Nancy married Tobias Quesinberry. In the 1830-1840 censuses, he is listed as living with a woman (presumably Lydia) and 3-4 children, presumably their own children.

Bobbitt was a farmer in Grayson and Carroll County for most of his life. (Carroll County was established from part of Grayson County in 1842.) In the 1860 census, he is listed as enslaving 3 people, including a 23-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl, and an 11-year-old boy. The U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records list several people in Carroll County as having been formerly enslaved by a G. G. Bobbitt in Carroll County: Harriet, Peter, James, Bird, Jane, Peter, Betty, Bob, and Caroline.

Greenberry Bobbitt died on October 30, 1866, and he is buried with his family in the Quesinberry-Bobbitt Cemetery in Fancy Gap, Carroll County.

External Sources:

U. S. Federal Census, 1830-1860

"Greenberry Bobbitt" in the 1860 U.S. Federal Census - [Enslaved People] Schedules, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/90022860:7668

"G G Bobbitt" in the U.S., Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/1331346:62309

"Greenberry George McKenzie Bobbitt (abt. 1798 - 1866)", WikiTree.com, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bobbitt-248

"Greenberry Bobbitt" in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/118177:7836

"Greenberry George McKenzie Bobbitt", Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69913165/greenberry-george_mckenzie-bobbitt

"Nancy Bobbitt Quesinberry", Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22320734/nancy_quesinberry

"G G M C Bobbitt" in the Virginia, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/137531:2558

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