Mrs. Louise Heaton quoted by John Stuart Butler -
"When James Monroe Bobo died, Eudora married the second time George Washington Armistead. They lived here in Clarksdale, MS. He came here from Panola County, MS. James Bobo and Eudora had one child, James, who died at age 8 years old and a daughter, Louise Eleanor Bobo, was my grandmother. When James died, Eudora with child Louisa Eleanor came up to the plantation in the vicinity of Lyon (my grandmother gave land for a town with the specification that the park never be used for anything but a park and otherwise to go back to the estate). Eudora married Mr. Armistead, and her father, James Killebrew, whose wife was Eleanor Barry, left in his will a section of land of the plantation to her and her husband G. W. Armistead. More I could tell of hearsay, but anyway, he and wife sold for $40,000 cash or in gold and made moneybags for himself and children and went first to Panola County, MS and then to Arkansas. At present I do not seem to recall the place, but anyway, oil was found there first, and my mother, who was visiting them (She was the only one who got along with Grandpa Armistead) said that she could not wash her hair. Later big oil wells and if the old man had stayed there, he would have been RICH - but sold out and went to Galveston - and then worked upwards in Texas and LOST ALL. He had or they had children. I think Peter Fontaine was the one they called Uncle Fount and he came here as a guest of my late grandmother Bobo for about a year. I do remember such a person. And if he is your wife's grandfather, I have a nice picture of Fount Armistead as a young man, I shall be glad to send her. it was made in Austin and I am asking for several copies to send to others. Also see one of Bill Russell. I remember him too.
I do not know about George Washington Armistead as to what happened to him - but his wife, Eudora, died in Arkansas and was brought here on a night of April 1895 and my father and a negro met the night train and buried her in the Bobo Cemetery in Clarksdale on what was the old Bobo place, back of the lovely old Bobo home started in 1856 and completed on 1857. The tombstone reads:
Eudora B. Armistead
wife of
George W. Armistead
born
Nov 30 1829
died
21 April 1895.
Lately these tombstones have all been repaired. The City, who became owners of the old home (too bad it was gotten out of the family) mad about that too, the city tore it down. The Bobo family owned a part of an acre including the cemetery, and when the City wanted to run a walkway between the two schools, the Bobo heirs had to give permission for such, and it was stipulated that they must keep the cemetery in good condition. The called me down to check with them as I am the OLDEST of the group left."
More About Eudora R. Killebrew:
Date born 2: 30 Nov 1828, MS60,61
Burial: Unknown, Clarksdale, Coahoma, MS