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Edna Bobbitt (Perkins)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Georgia, USA
Death: 1869 (52-53)
Houston County, Texas, USA
Place of Burial: Augusta, Houston County, Texas, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Lunsford Perkins; Lunsford Perkins and Sarah Ann Perkins
Wife of John Greer Bobbitt; Elbert Gage and Elbert Gage
Mother of Mary Matilda Sanders; Peter C Gage and Emma Gage

Managed by: Nick adam Ward
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About Edna Bobbitt

Edna was the daughter of Sarah and Lunsford Perkins, who mostly likely died after 1850 in Kemper Co., MS.

Edna married 1st Elbert Gage, and they are on the 1850 Kemper Co., MS census immediately under her parents. After Elbert's 1858 Freestone Co., TX death, Edna married 2nd John Greer Bobbitt ca. 1859 in Kemper Co., MS. Some of her children by Elbert Gage were enumerated with the surname Bobbitt on the 1860 Kemper Co., MS census:

Peter C. Gage, born ca. 1848 AL
Alonzo Elbert "Lonzo" Gage, born Dec 1851 AL
Lucinda Gage, born ca. 1854 MS
Emma A. A. Gage, born ca. 1856 MS

After her mother's death Emma Gage was still living with her step-father, John Greer Bobbitt in Houston Co. in 1870.

John Greer Bobbitt's grandson, James J. Bobbitt married Dolly Gage, daughter of Alonzo Elbert "Lonzo" Gage and Mary Crenshaw.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 8 2023, 18:13:23 UTC

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Edna Bobbitt's Timeline

1816
1816
Georgia, USA
1820
1820
Age 4
Wilkes, Georgia, United States
1835
June 20, 1835
Marengo County, Alabama, USA
1848
1848
Alabama, USA
1855
December 17, 1855
Texas, United States of America
1869
1869
Age 53
Houston County, Texas, USA
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Augusta, Houston County, Texas, United States of America