Re: WILLIAM ROBINSON 1806-1865 TN>KY
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Re: WILLIAM ROBINSON 1806-1865 TN>KY
9/13/98
Your post contains some correct,but incomplete information and some totally wrong information.Rhea County Tennessee was formed in 1807.None of Jacob's children can be documented to have been in Rhea County before March, 1838.
Jacob Robinson had 11 children; John, James, Sarah, William, Samuel, Fielding, Mary, Catherine, Felix G., Elizabeth,and Jacob, Jr. Of these, four moved to Rhea Co., TN (Mary, Catherine, and Felix G. possibly as well).
William was documented in Rhea Co., TN for a short time and settled in Monroe Co., KY.
Jacob's son, John Robinson would have been 9 years old in 1808 and probably did not move to Williamson Co., TN. He married Hannah Mae Earnest in Greene Co., TN on Aug. 30, 1830.John first appears in Rhea Co., TN records in 1840, having bought a farm adjacent to his brother James Robinson, who preceded him in Rhea Co., TN records (1838).
Of John Robinson's children, Eliza Ruth, Brunetta A, and James A. are buried in the Robinson Family Cemetery on the family farm in Lorraine, TN.Benjamin Franklin, Samuel P.C., and Rufus M. are buried in Spring City Cemetery. Both cemeteries are in Rhea Co., TN.John Marion is buried in Bozeman, Montana, and Elbert E. is not known at this time, but it is known that he traveled to Bozeman with his brother John Marion. (ref. Journal of John Marion Robinson, 1865)
Jacob's son Samuel married Mary McPherson on 20 Oct. 1842 in Roane Co., TN (brother James and John's farms were close to the Rhea/Roane county line).Samuel settled in Washington, TN (now called "Old Washington" - also in Rhea Co., TN.
Sister Sarah married ? Pugh, a Union sympathizer.This union dissolved and Sarah apparently lived with or near brother Samuel.Both are buried in Locke Cemetery in Old Washington, TN.
As of this date, there is no proof of a connection between "this" Jacob Robinson and Col. Charles Robertson as implied in the Virginia Magazine reference.However, I would love to be proven wrong on this!