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Sampson Bobo - Need a curator please and thank you

Started by Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 on Monday, March 24, 2025
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Wikitree-er insists this is proof that Sampson Bobo, Sr.
is son of a Sampson, Sr and not Spencer Bobo, I

Court of Ordinary, Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1800-1807, p30.

"In the Court of Ordinary 24 Apr 1804
Ishued a citation to Sampson Bobo who claims the administration of Sampson Bobo Jr., his son, returnable on Saturday ensuing. The citation returned by Sampson Bobo who refuses to go forward in the administration.
In the court of ordinary 3 May 1804
Spencer Bobo and Hiram Bobo claimed the administration of Sampson Bobo Jr, game them a citation, returned on Friday after the publication."

Please see the document at
https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Bobo-49

He is my 6th cousin

He's my 6th great grandfather.

Is there a curator who can add the pic to this discussion and please assist with discerning which Sampson is mentioned?

Spartanburg County, SC Journal of the Court of Ordinary, 1800-1807 p30

www.wikitree.com/photo.php/7/7f/Bobo-49.jpg

There were several Sampsons.

Which child are you concerned with? (name, dates, spouse).

Always easier to go down a generation and then back up.

Are you sure the citation doesn't refer to this Sampson?

Sampson Bobo, Jr.

I looked at previous discussions and quickly at attached documents.

The "issue" you had before is, I think, repeating. What is the death date of the Sampson Bobo who married Sally Simpson, and what is the death date of his son Sampson Bobo, who you just added a child to? Who is Hiram Bobo who became co-admin of Sampson Jr's estate, after his father refused it?

Unfortunately, a lot of Maria's original references are now "off the air," and this single doc without context does not answer your question. So start fresh with the child and then the child. And what other researchers are saying.

You could query the Huguenot Society of South Carolina:
https://18854.rmwebopac.com/home/contact

https://huguenotsociety.org/
(I may listen to the podcasts)

Here's a recent blog for the Bobo family, starting with Gabriel:



(begin extracts)

https://struggleandprogress.com/category/the-bobo-family/

Historians of Gabriel Beaubeau II (1651-1720) say he traveled to England and then to the English Colony of Virginia. Extensive research on Gabriel can be found in the Blakenstein Genealogy (dead link), and in the Bobo Newsletter, which is well cited. Other family history blogs like the Bobo Branch by Lynn Yantis (https://sites.rootsweb.com/~gnut/bobo.html) has attempted to connect the family to their modern descendants. ...

Spencer and Jane’s last son, Sampson Bobo (1737-1805) married Sarah “Sally” Simpson (d. 1816) and by 1737 moved to Bute, North Carolina, then to Spartanburg, South Carolina by 1776. He purportedly served under Col. Brandon during the Revolutionary War. Sampson Bobo and Sally Bobo nee’ Simpson had 13 children, including Absolom H. Bobo Sr., the father of Andrew Jackson Bobo. Sampson Bobo died in 1806 in Spartanburg, leaving 10 enslaved people inventoried in his probate, and when his wife Sally Simpson-Bobo died in 1816, she had one enslaved person in her will.

“Last Will and Testament of Sally Bobo of Spartanburg District; rec. 26 Dec 1816; to son Burrel , $100; to son Absalom my colt; to son Cheney, one negro girl Marsey; to son Jeremiah, one negro Lynda; to son Simpson’s five children, vis. Polley, John, Nancy, Betsey & Salley, $500; my son William Wilder, my son Spencer Bobo, my son Baram; my son Absalom, my son Cheney, my son Hiram, my son Jeremiah, my son Willis, my dau. Lovina, my dau. Polley, my dau. Betsey, my dau. Nancies children Salley, Rachel and Samuel Simpson; sons Cheney and Hiram Executors, 20 January 1813.” Witnessed by A. Casey, M. Casey. Proven by Aaron Casey, 26 February 1816.”

“Chaney Bobo exr. of Sally Bobo decd came forward with the advancements to the legatees of Samson Bobo decd…to Wm. Wilder , George Roebuck, Spencer Bobo, Sampson Bobo Jr., Absalom Bobo Senior. Chaney Bobo, Matthew Patton, Barram Bobo, Absalom Bobo Junior., Anthony Foster, Hiram Bobo, Jeremiah Bobo, Willis Bobo & Burrel Bobo, there being fourteen legatees…31 October 1818″

... In some public family Bobo trees on Ancestry and WikiTree, Absolom Humphrey Bobo Sr. also known as “Ab” (1765 – 1831), son of Sampson Bobo and Sallie Simpson, is often misidentified. ...

Another source of insight is the pamphlet "Bobo Cousins by the Dozens," by Herbert M. Novell, Jr. and Jeanie Patterson Newell written in 1968 [http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/111871/8]. Much of Novell and Newell’s work informs the 2005 pamphlet The Bobo Family. The Descendants of Gabriel Bobo by Catherine Reuther. The lives of Bobos in South Carolina have also been detailed in the blog, The Forgotten South.

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I would think you can find Sally Simpson's will at FamilySearch or Ancestry?



Reminder that Jr.'s become Sr.'s, so you'll need another numbering / display name scheme to keep the repeating names separate.

Hope this helps.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49652167/spencer-bobo

Children of SPENCER BOBO and JANE are:

7. SAMPSON BOBO, SR., b. 1737, Caroline, Virginia; d. January 1806, Woodruff, Spartanburg, South Carolina. NOTE: Spencer had a son named Simpson and one named Sampson. It seems strange that he would name the son between these two Lewis Sampson, but then it is said that George Foreman named all his sons George.

It has been my opinion that this mentions Sampson Bobo, Jr.
I have been in a discussion and Wikitree spat with another descendant of Sampson Bobo, Sr. and her claim is she has been doing genealogy 40 years and is a DAR member.
A duplicate was recently merged there at my approval and she has come back insisting Spencer is not the father.
I had asked years ago for G2G to look at it but they have apparently chosen not to.
I trust the work we have done here on Geni and prefer this site because the only way to lock a profile at Wikitree is to get it project protected.

Thank you, Erica Howton

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