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Bob & Elizabeth Baskin and children

My great-great grandparents...Robert McKinley (Bob) Baskin & Rebecca "Elizabeth" (Gimlin) Baskin with their large brood of children. Bob was born 1855 in Harmony, Johnson County, Arkansas, and died 1937 at age 81 in the same location. Elizabeth was born 1860 in Forsythe, Taney County, Missouri, the same year the Civil War began. When she was around 6 years old her family fled Missouri after bushwhackers raided and burned their home and murdered her two oldest brothers. They settled in the mountains of northwest Arkansas. She died 1946 at age 86 in Ozone, Johnson County, Arkansas. Bob also suffered from the Civil War strife. When he was a boy of about 10 he and his father found one of his great-grandpas hanging dead from a tree in the woods, the victim of bushwhackers. Bob & Elizabeth were married 1879 in Johnson County, Arkansas and were the parents of 14 children, born between 1880 and 1903. Son Ollie died at age 3, and daughters Chloe & Roxie both died at age 28. But, the other 11 children lived long and productive lives. On August 9, 1880, when Elizabeth was 7 months pregnant with their 1st child, a tornado hit their home and knocked it off it's foundation. According to daughter Tugie, one of Robert's favorite expressions was "put the glimntry on it", which meant he wished to do an extra special job of finishing up something he was working on. If he wanted the children to slow down he would yell "Don't be so rampasscrugus." And, if something was done right, Robert said it was "percumsquirt".

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