Martha Ann Sims, John Sims, W.T. Sims, Dick Sims, Edward Green Sims, Joe Sims, Lawson Sims, Rans Sims & Walker Sims.

His brother Andrew Sims died of pneumonia after receiving a ducking in Big Creek on a cold winter day.

John Wesley Bobbitt
of
Craighead, Co., AR

John Wesley Bobbitt son of Moses L. Bobbitt (1823  Maury Co., TN?) was a partner in a logging operation on the Cache River near Jonesboro, in Craighead, Co., AR. He first married Harriet Thrower and they had one son, Louis Bobbitt. b: Mar 1891 Craighead Co., AR who was listed on the 1900 Census of White County with the William Magness family. 1900 Census Clay TWP, White Co., AR  1900 Census Independence Co., AR
Magness, John 0013000100000-11101010000000
Magness, Wm. 0110210100000-0000000100000

John Wesley married Mary (Reden) Kitchens (whose mother was supposedly 1/4 Cherokee) from near Ward in Lonoke Co., 22 June 1893, the certificate located in White County Courthouse. Mary was born possibly near Newark in Independence Co., AR. They had two children, Clora Bell Bobbitt and Flemon Benjamin Bobbitt. 1900 Census Independence Co., AR Flemon Bobbitt listed as Thurman Bobett,
age 4 (son-in-law) of Henry Churchwell  p. 829 Bobbitt Book

Flemon's older sister,  Clora Bell Bobbitt was born in 1894 and Flemon Benjamin Bobbitt, was born 27 May 1896. John W. came down with consumption about 1897-8, traveled to Eureka Springs in NW Arkansas for the "cure" and died there.

After his death Mary moved back to White Co. with Flemon, his older sister Clora Bell and their half-brother Louis, where her mother, who had married Kirkwood Reeves, was located.  After John W. Bobbitt's death Louis Bobbitt who was red headed, resided and worked for the William Magness family in Clay TWP, White County, AR  from age 10 until his death at age 21. He was buried at the Walnut Grove Cem., McJester, Cleburne Co., AR. Flemon knew very little about his Bobbitt relatives, only that George Washington Bobbitt an older brother of his father John lived near Bloomfield, MO.

Hiram Bluff, originally a settlement in White County, listed a Babbitt as an early resident.

Flemon's  mother married Henry Churchill, 22 May, 1898 and they had one child, Harry Churchill. After Henry was killed in a farming accident Harry lived with his mother in White and Lonoke Co. Mary Churchill is buried in an unmarked grave in the Apple Hill Cemetery in Lonoke County located on Hwy 319 West.

A Craighead County Genealogist, Bob Couch,  had put a  Bobbitt tree online and I discovered it about June 2000. This set me off on the search again, I had not done any research for about 15 years. At that time I had only 1 1/2 pages in my tree, now look at it! The Craighead Co. tree has some duplications in it and is hard fo figure out. The 1870 Census for Craighead County has all Bobbitt's listed as Bobbert. 

My wife Janis Dyann Benton & I were born in White Co., AR, and attended the  Searcy High School but since she is 6 years younger we never knew each other while in school. I  quit school after the 11th grade & joined the Air Force. I spent 4 years in, got out moved back home & went to work in Little Rock. I met Dyann while "crusing" with some friends one weekend in Searcy where she lived. She was in 12th grade so we dated and got married in June after she graduated and as they say, the rest is history. I spent only 2 1/2 years out of the service and went back into Air Force. We retired in1981 & moved back too Searcy and built our home. We raised 2 sons, Shain Bobbitt & Kevin Bobbitt. Dyann now works for the First Arkansas Valley Bank & I work for the White County Government
Shain is married to Jacquline Going & they have two sons, Shaun Brayden & Stephen Matthew Bobbitt. 
Kevin is married to Alma _____ & have one son Kevin Tyler Bobbitt.