{"id":1410,"date":"2025-06-11T02:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:25:43","slug":"bobbett-james-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/06\/11\/bobbett-james-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobbett, James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of\nClark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and\nWashington.\nJohn M. Gresham &amp; Co.  Chicago 1889\n\n\nJames Bobbett was born in Orange county, Ind., September 12, 1854, and is a son of \nJohn H. and Catherine (Goble) Bobbett, natives os Tennessee and North Carolina respectively.\nThe father of James, the subject, came to Crawford county in 1877.  He had five sons, three\nof whom served in the late civil war.  He has been a minister of the Gospel in the Christian\nChurch for forty years, and has preached in many of the counties of Southern Indiana.  He is\nabout 73 years of age.  James Bobbett was educated in the schools of his native county (Orange) \nand in Marengo Academy, under Prof. Johnson.  He came to Crawford county and taught school for\ntwelve years.  In June, 1885, he was elected ounty superintendent of schools, and in 1886, he\nwas elected was elected county auditor, the ounty being over 300 Democratic.  In 1885 he began \npreaching the Gospel, and still preaches on Sundays.  He was married in June, 1876, to Miss \nMattie E. Smith of Crawford county.  She died inMay, 1884, and was married again in June, 1885, \nto Miss Lizzie Gresham, of Harrison Co., a daughter of Elias Gresham.  He had four children by \nhis first wife, and one by his last wife.  He belongs to Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities.\n\n\n\nData Entry Volunteer:  Dee Floyd-Pavey   \"dee1234@aye.net\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington. John M. Gresham &amp; Co. Chicago 1889 James Bobbett was born in Orange county, Ind., September 12, 1854, and is a son of John H. and Catherine (Goble) Bobbett, natives os Tennessee and North Carolina respectively. The father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}