His given name was usually written as Fountain.
His parents were John and Martha Patsy Stigall Hays Bobbitt. He was apparently married on December 5, 1872 to Miss Alice Bell Conn as shown in his marriage information below. In the 1880 Census it does not list a wife, it list him as divorced and his mother is living with him information below. He apparently married a second time in Lexington to Miss Lula Shropshire on February 5, 1887, information below. However the 1890 Census shows him as widowed living with his sister and a servant, also below He was a lawyer. He died in a hospital in Lexington, but his usual place of residence was Lincoln Co., KY.
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The Bourbon News, Paris, Kentucky, 09 Nov 1917, Fri • Page 5
NOTED MOUNTAIN ORATOR AND POLITICIAN DEAD. Hon. Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the "Cicero of the Mountains," lawyer, orator, scholar and legislator, died at the age of seventy-nine 'at the Eastern Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, Friday night, but the fact was not known locally until Monday night. Mr. Bobbitt represented Lincoln county, in the Legislature, was once a candidate for Congress from the old Eighth District, and was in great demand as a public speaker at every celebration or political gathering in this section of the State. He practiced in all the courts of this section, and because of his flowry oratory, was known as the "Cicero of the Mountains." Some time ago his mind began to weaken, and he was sent -o the Eastern Kentucky Hospital, at Lexington, where he remained until the end. He had no near living relatives, and the body was sent to his former home in Crab Orchard for burial.
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The Owensboro Messenger, Owensboro, Kentucky, 06 Nov 1917, Tue • Page 1
FOXTAINE FOX BOBBITT HAS PASSER AWAY Stanford, Ky., Nov. 5. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, who represented this county in the legislature and held several other offices, was buried at Crab Orchard Sunday, his death having occurred in the Lexington asylum, where he was taken in April. Mr. Bobbitt had probably the most remarkable memory of any man in the country, knowing by heart the first four books of the New Testament and being able to quote from memory many dozens of Chapters In the Old Testament. He was known all over Kentucky as the "Cicero of the Mountains." He was never married and outlived all of His Bood relatives.
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Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965
Name: Fountain Bobbitt
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 5 Dec 1872
Marriage Place: Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Spouse:
Alice Bell Conn
Film Number: 001904136
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1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Fontaine F. Babbitt
Age: 40
Birth Date: Abt 1840
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Dwelling Number: 24
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Divorced
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Name: Martha I. Babbitt
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Lawyer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fontaine F. Babbitt 40 Self (Head)
Martha I. Babbitt 74 Mother
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Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 11 Feb 1887, Fri • Page 2
Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the cranky member of the last Legislature from Lincoln, was married at Lexington last Saturday to Miss Lula Shropshire.
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1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Fountian F Bobbitt
Age: 55
Birth Date: May 1845
Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Home in 1900: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky
Sheet Number: 2
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 35
Family Number: 35
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Virginia, USA
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Occupation: Atty At Law
Months Not Employed: 0
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: F
Farm or House: F
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fountian I Bobbitt 55 Head
Katie Mc Calister77 Sister
Maggie Welch40 Servant
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Kentucky Advocate, Danville, Kentucky, 06 Jun 1917, Wed • Page 3
Sent to the Asylum. Hon. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, known all over the State as the "Cicero of the Mountains, was tried on a sanity writ before Judge James B. Bailey Saturday and declared of unsound mind. He was taken to the Lexington asylum that afternoon by Frank Brooks and Levi Bell, of Crab Orchard. . For some time Mr. Bobbitt had shown signs of mental decay, but of late it had been very apparent. He made his home with Mr. and Mrs. John Payne, of Crab Or chard, and they have had considerable trouble in keeping him there. Only a few days ago he started out Walking to Mt. Vernon, saying he was going there to court, where he had important business. He was found far out on the road, nearly exhausted from the walk. He Is eighty years old. Interior Journal.
His parents were John and Martha Patsy Stigall Hays Bobbitt. He was apparently married on December 5, 1872 to Miss Alice Bell Conn as shown in his marriage information below. In the 1880 Census it does not list a wife, it list him as divorced and his mother is living with him information below. He apparently married a second time in Lexington to Miss Lula Shropshire on February 5, 1887, information below. However the 1890 Census shows him as widowed living with his sister and a servant, also below He was a lawyer. He died in a hospital in Lexington, but his usual place of residence was Lincoln Co., KY.
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The Bourbon News, Paris, Kentucky, 09 Nov 1917, Fri • Page 5
NOTED MOUNTAIN ORATOR AND POLITICIAN DEAD. Hon. Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the "Cicero of the Mountains," lawyer, orator, scholar and legislator, died at the age of seventy-nine 'at the Eastern Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, Friday night, but the fact was not known locally until Monday night. Mr. Bobbitt represented Lincoln county, in the Legislature, was once a candidate for Congress from the old Eighth District, and was in great demand as a public speaker at every celebration or political gathering in this section of the State. He practiced in all the courts of this section, and because of his flowry oratory, was known as the "Cicero of the Mountains." Some time ago his mind began to weaken, and he was sent -o the Eastern Kentucky Hospital, at Lexington, where he remained until the end. He had no near living relatives, and the body was sent to his former home in Crab Orchard for burial.
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The Owensboro Messenger, Owensboro, Kentucky, 06 Nov 1917, Tue • Page 1
FOXTAINE FOX BOBBITT HAS PASSER AWAY Stanford, Ky., Nov. 5. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, who represented this county in the legislature and held several other offices, was buried at Crab Orchard Sunday, his death having occurred in the Lexington asylum, where he was taken in April. Mr. Bobbitt had probably the most remarkable memory of any man in the country, knowing by heart the first four books of the New Testament and being able to quote from memory many dozens of Chapters In the Old Testament. He was known all over Kentucky as the "Cicero of the Mountains." He was never married and outlived all of His Bood relatives.
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Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965
Name: Fountain Bobbitt
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 5 Dec 1872
Marriage Place: Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Spouse:
Alice Bell Conn
Film Number: 001904136
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1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Fontaine F. Babbitt
Age: 40
Birth Date: Abt 1840
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Dwelling Number: 24
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Divorced
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Name: Martha I. Babbitt
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Lawyer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fontaine F. Babbitt 40 Self (Head)
Martha I. Babbitt 74 Mother
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Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 11 Feb 1887, Fri • Page 2
Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the cranky member of the last Legislature from Lincoln, was married at Lexington last Saturday to Miss Lula Shropshire.
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1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Fountian F Bobbitt
Age: 55
Birth Date: May 1845
Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Home in 1900: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky
Sheet Number: 2
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 35
Family Number: 35
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Virginia, USA
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Occupation: Atty At Law
Months Not Employed: 0
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: F
Farm or House: F
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fountian I Bobbitt 55 Head
Katie Mc Calister77 Sister
Maggie Welch40 Servant
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Kentucky Advocate, Danville, Kentucky, 06 Jun 1917, Wed • Page 3
Sent to the Asylum. Hon. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, known all over the State as the "Cicero of the Mountains, was tried on a sanity writ before Judge James B. Bailey Saturday and declared of unsound mind. He was taken to the Lexington asylum that afternoon by Frank Brooks and Levi Bell, of Crab Orchard. . For some time Mr. Bobbitt had shown signs of mental decay, but of late it had been very apparent. He made his home with Mr. and Mrs. John Payne, of Crab Or chard, and they have had considerable trouble in keeping him there. Only a few days ago he started out Walking to Mt. Vernon, saying he was going there to court, where he had important business. He was found far out on the road, nearly exhausted from the walk. He Is eighty years old. Interior Journal.
His given name was usually written as Fountain.
His parents were John and Martha Patsy Stigall Hays Bobbitt. He was apparently married on December 5, 1872 to Miss Alice Bell Conn as shown in his marriage information below. In the 1880 Census it does not list a wife, it list him as divorced and his mother is living with him information below. He apparently married a second time in Lexington to Miss Lula Shropshire on February 5, 1887, information below. However the 1890 Census shows him as widowed living with his sister and a servant, also below He was a lawyer. He died in a hospital in Lexington, but his usual place of residence was Lincoln Co., KY.
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The Bourbon News, Paris, Kentucky, 09 Nov 1917, Fri • Page 5
NOTED MOUNTAIN ORATOR AND POLITICIAN DEAD. Hon. Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the "Cicero of the Mountains," lawyer, orator, scholar and legislator, died at the age of seventy-nine 'at the Eastern Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, Friday night, but the fact was not known locally until Monday night. Mr. Bobbitt represented Lincoln county, in the Legislature, was once a candidate for Congress from the old Eighth District, and was in great demand as a public speaker at every celebration or political gathering in this section of the State. He practiced in all the courts of this section, and because of his flowry oratory, was known as the "Cicero of the Mountains." Some time ago his mind began to weaken, and he was sent -o the Eastern Kentucky Hospital, at Lexington, where he remained until the end. He had no near living relatives, and the body was sent to his former home in Crab Orchard for burial.
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The Owensboro Messenger, Owensboro, Kentucky, 06 Nov 1917, Tue • Page 1
FOXTAINE FOX BOBBITT HAS PASSER AWAY Stanford, Ky., Nov. 5. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, who represented this county in the legislature and held several other offices, was buried at Crab Orchard Sunday, his death having occurred in the Lexington asylum, where he was taken in April. Mr. Bobbitt had probably the most remarkable memory of any man in the country, knowing by heart the first four books of the New Testament and being able to quote from memory many dozens of Chapters In the Old Testament. He was known all over Kentucky as the "Cicero of the Mountains." He was never married and outlived all of His Bood relatives.
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Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965
Name: Fountain Bobbitt
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 5 Dec 1872
Marriage Place: Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Spouse:
Alice Bell Conn
Film Number: 001904136
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1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Fontaine F. Babbitt
Age: 40
Birth Date: Abt 1840
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Dwelling Number: 24
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Divorced
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Name: Martha I. Babbitt
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Lawyer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fontaine F. Babbitt 40 Self (Head)
Martha I. Babbitt 74 Mother
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Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 11 Feb 1887, Fri • Page 2
Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the cranky member of the last Legislature from Lincoln, was married at Lexington last Saturday to Miss Lula Shropshire.
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1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Fountian F Bobbitt
Age: 55
Birth Date: May 1845
Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Home in 1900: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky
Sheet Number: 2
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 35
Family Number: 35
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Virginia, USA
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Occupation: Atty At Law
Months Not Employed: 0
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: F
Farm or House: F
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fountian I Bobbitt 55 Head
Katie Mc Calister77 Sister
Maggie Welch40 Servant
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Kentucky Advocate, Danville, Kentucky, 06 Jun 1917, Wed • Page 3
Sent to the Asylum. Hon. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, known all over the State as the "Cicero of the Mountains, was tried on a sanity writ before Judge James B. Bailey Saturday and declared of unsound mind. He was taken to the Lexington asylum that afternoon by Frank Brooks and Levi Bell, of Crab Orchard. . For some time Mr. Bobbitt had shown signs of mental decay, but of late it had been very apparent. He made his home with Mr. and Mrs. John Payne, of Crab Or chard, and they have had considerable trouble in keeping him there. Only a few days ago he started out Walking to Mt. Vernon, saying he was going there to court, where he had important business. He was found far out on the road, nearly exhausted from the walk. He Is eighty years old. Interior Journal.
His parents were John and Martha Patsy Stigall Hays Bobbitt. He was apparently married on December 5, 1872 to Miss Alice Bell Conn as shown in his marriage information below. In the 1880 Census it does not list a wife, it list him as divorced and his mother is living with him information below. He apparently married a second time in Lexington to Miss Lula Shropshire on February 5, 1887, information below. However the 1890 Census shows him as widowed living with his sister and a servant, also below He was a lawyer. He died in a hospital in Lexington, but his usual place of residence was Lincoln Co., KY.
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The Bourbon News, Paris, Kentucky, 09 Nov 1917, Fri • Page 5
NOTED MOUNTAIN ORATOR AND POLITICIAN DEAD. Hon. Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the "Cicero of the Mountains," lawyer, orator, scholar and legislator, died at the age of seventy-nine 'at the Eastern Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, Friday night, but the fact was not known locally until Monday night. Mr. Bobbitt represented Lincoln county, in the Legislature, was once a candidate for Congress from the old Eighth District, and was in great demand as a public speaker at every celebration or political gathering in this section of the State. He practiced in all the courts of this section, and because of his flowry oratory, was known as the "Cicero of the Mountains." Some time ago his mind began to weaken, and he was sent -o the Eastern Kentucky Hospital, at Lexington, where he remained until the end. He had no near living relatives, and the body was sent to his former home in Crab Orchard for burial.
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The Owensboro Messenger, Owensboro, Kentucky, 06 Nov 1917, Tue • Page 1
FOXTAINE FOX BOBBITT HAS PASSER AWAY Stanford, Ky., Nov. 5. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, who represented this county in the legislature and held several other offices, was buried at Crab Orchard Sunday, his death having occurred in the Lexington asylum, where he was taken in April. Mr. Bobbitt had probably the most remarkable memory of any man in the country, knowing by heart the first four books of the New Testament and being able to quote from memory many dozens of Chapters In the Old Testament. He was known all over Kentucky as the "Cicero of the Mountains." He was never married and outlived all of His Bood relatives.
~~
Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965
Name: Fountain Bobbitt
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 5 Dec 1872
Marriage Place: Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Spouse:
Alice Bell Conn
Film Number: 001904136
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1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Fontaine F. Babbitt
Age: 40
Birth Date: Abt 1840
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA
Dwelling Number: 24
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Divorced
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Name: Martha I. Babbitt
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Lawyer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fontaine F. Babbitt 40 Self (Head)
Martha I. Babbitt 74 Mother
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Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 11 Feb 1887, Fri • Page 2
Fountain Fox Bobbitt, the cranky member of the last Legislature from Lincoln, was married at Lexington last Saturday to Miss Lula Shropshire.
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1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Fountian F Bobbitt
Age: 55
Birth Date: May 1845
Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Home in 1900: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky
Sheet Number: 2
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 35
Family Number: 35
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Virginia, USA
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
Occupation: Atty At Law
Months Not Employed: 0
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: F
Farm or House: F
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Fountian I Bobbitt 55 Head
Katie Mc Calister77 Sister
Maggie Welch40 Servant
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Kentucky Advocate, Danville, Kentucky, 06 Jun 1917, Wed • Page 3
Sent to the Asylum. Hon. Fontaine Fox Bobbitt, known all over the State as the "Cicero of the Mountains, was tried on a sanity writ before Judge James B. Bailey Saturday and declared of unsound mind. He was taken to the Lexington asylum that afternoon by Frank Brooks and Levi Bell, of Crab Orchard. . For some time Mr. Bobbitt had shown signs of mental decay, but of late it had been very apparent. He made his home with Mr. and Mrs. John Payne, of Crab Or chard, and they have had considerable trouble in keeping him there. Only a few days ago he started out Walking to Mt. Vernon, saying he was going there to court, where he had important business. He was found far out on the road, nearly exhausted from the walk. He Is eighty years old. Interior Journal.
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