Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of L Robinson

Archer, Benjamin (b. ABT 1759, d. 1833)

Note: BIOGRAPHY: Notestines of Oxford, Kansas, by Gene R. Alley, 1978.
"Nancy Hatfield (born about 1823 in Ohio) was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Archer) Hatfield, who came to Allen County in 1825. They came there from Dayton, Ohio as part of a group that included Elizabeth's father, Benjamin Archer, his wife and other family members. The Archers were originally from Philadelphia. Thomas was born in 1791 and died in Allen County in 1863. Elizabeth was born in 1794 and died in Allen County in 1857. They were both buried in the Hatfield Cemetery there.

BIOGRAPHY: A Sense of Place in Centerville and Washington Township, (Montgomery Co., OH), by The Centerville Historical Society, pub. 1977 & 1985 by Landfall Press, Inc., Dayton, Ohio;
p 8-9, ..."In February 1796, two months before the first settlement in Dayton, Aaron Nutt, Benjamin Robbins and Benjamin Archer arrived...These men were brother-in-law and veterans of the Revolutionary War, with war bounties to pay for land in the Territory. Aaron Nutt was married to Benjamin Archer's sister Mary...These three men came originally from New Jersey by way of Kentucky...
"After surveying the land..." [the men drew straws, with Robbins getting first choice, Archer 2nd, and Nutt 3rd] "Archer selected 480 acres of land northeast of Centerville...
"Benjamin Archer apparently arrived with his family the following year to claim his land adjacent to the present Alexandersville-Bellbrook Road, for his name is listed on the 1798 tax list for the county. Archer came originally from Mansfield, New Jersey in Burlington County, by way of Philadelphia and Kentucky.
He had been a judge in Philadelphia, and he was quickly appointed an Associate Judge for Montgomery County...
"As Associate Judge, Archer took part in the first court held in the county on July 27, 1803...
"Benjamin Archer operated the first "store" in the township out of a log cabin on his farm. The cabin, no longer standing... He had merchandise hauled up from Cincinnati... In the spring of 1827, several years after Archer left the township" [a box of hats was found in his cabin loft, part of an ill-advised shipment] "...
"Archer, according to newspaper accounts, also was a brick building contractor... Benjamin Archer won the contract [on the first Montgomery County Courthouse in Dayton] by bidding $4,776...
"Benjamin Archer was active in his church's affairs. From the Baptist Church of Sugar Creek records, we learn that he was a "Deacon on Trial" in 1880, and was appointed a deacon in 1801. Archer also held the position of church treasurer, and was authorized to arrange the purchase of land from Aaron Nutt for the first Baptist Church of sugar Creek in 1802. In 1812, along with two other members, he was appointed to draft a bill for incorporating the church.
"Archer was elected a trustee of the township each year from 1812 to 1819, and again in 1822 and 1823. It is assumed that he did not choose to run during the intervening two years."
"After such a broad range of activities within the township and the county, and after exerting a very real influence upon the area in which he lived and served with distinction, Benjamin Archer chose to move his family and his children's families to Washington Township in Allen County, Indiana in 1824. Why he left Ohio we do not know, although there is some evidence that he and his son David failed to meet their financial obligations, they were subject to court lawsuits. In Indiana, where land was much cheaper at that time, Archer continued the same wide variety of interests until his death in 1833. But all traces of Benjamin Archer's home and "store" in Washington Twonship have completely disappeared."
p 100, "The Archers, father and son [Benjamin and David], were the subject of two court cases involving their land in this area. In 1815, suit was brought against Benjamin Archer for allowing his son, David, to finish paying for the land in debt and his creditors felt that he had put his land into David's hands so that they could not lay claim to Benjamin Archer's assests.
"Again in 1824, David K. Este, an assignee of one of the creditors, brought suit against Benjamin and David Archer, and tahe Court of Common Pleas ordered the Sheriff to sell the 423 acres then belonging to the Archers at public auction. This was accomplished in 1825, and Este from Cincinnati was the highest bidder.
"It was at this time that the Archers left this area for Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where land was opening up and was still $2 an acre at the government land office."

RESIDENCES:
birth - Mansfield, Burlington, New Jersey; Philadelphia
Kentucky
1798-1824 Washington, Montgomery, Ohio
1824-1833 (death) Washington, Allen, Indiana

OCCUPATIONS:
Judge
Brick Contractor
Store owner (general merchandise)

NOTES:
That this Benjamin had children John, Benjamin, and David is not proven, but is based on the obituary of David L ARCHER, 4 Jun 1897; "grandfather was Benjamin Archer, emigrant who had children John, Benjamin, and David"; Newspaper obituary listing for Allen Co, Indiana; http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/genealogy.html.

SOURCE: Wes Archer, prcomp@newsguy.com, Oct 1998; Benjamin Archer, b Abt 1759, Mansfield Twp, Burlington, New Jersey; d 1833, Ft. Wayne, IN; m Anna.

BIOGRAPHY:
An account entitled "The First Settlers" from the book A SENSE OF PLACE

"The Washington township area, like all of Ohio at the end of the eighteenth century, was a vast green forest inhabited by wild animals and occasional roaming bands of Indians. Surveys made by Whipple and Barber in 1802 and by Israel Ludlow in 1803 described the township as covered with an almost unbroken, undisturbed forest from creek bed to highest point, with a thick undergrowth of spice bushes.

Two parties of surveyors left Cincinnati on September 21, 1795, to survey lands between the Great and little Miami rivers for John Cleaves Symmes. In February 1796, two months before the first settlement of Dayton, Aaron Nutt, Benjamin Robbins, and Benjamin Archer arrived at the high point of land between the two rivers where Centerville now stands. They first moved just southeast of Centerville, but the threat of Indians nearby caused them to move hastily to a more favorable retreat some miles away.

These men were brothers-in-law and veterans of the Revolutionary War, with war bounties to pay for land in the Territory. Aaron Nutt married Benjamin Archer's sister Mary. Benjamin Robbins had married Aaron Nutt's sister Bathsheba. The three men came originally from new Jersey by way of Kentucky. The three, on the advice of Daniel Boone, who sang the praises of the fertile land north of the Ohio River, left for that area to make their new homes.
After surveying the land the three men decided to make this area their new home, and drew lots for the first choice. Robbins, with the lucky first choice, chose 160 acres, Archer then selected 480 acres. Aaron Nutt with the third choice selected a half section. The men having completed their survey work and selected their home sites, mounted their horses and returned to Kentucky.
Robbins returned first with his family from Cincinnati. They arrived April 6, 1797. They were 10 days on the road making their way through the thick undergrowth, and cutting a wagon road as they came. Benjamin Archer apparently arrived the following year with his family. Archer came originally from Mansfield, New Jersey, in Burlington County, by way of Philadelphia and Kentucky. He had been a judge in Philadelphia and was quickly appointed an Associate Judge for Montgomery County. According to reports the entire male population of Montgomery County gathered to celebrate this court opening and the installation of law and order in the County.

Benjamin Archer also operated the first "store" in the township in a log cabin on his farm. He had merchandise hauled from Cincinnati, paying a certain price per hundredweight. Because local teamsters were paid according to the weight hauled, there was much rivalry among them for the heaviest load. One particularly snowy winter he sent several sleds on the long drive after merchandise he had purchased. One unfortunate teamster succeeded in hauling back only one box of hats weighing just 30 lbs. In the spring of 1827, several years after Archer had left the township, a quantity of old, dusty hats were found in the loft of the Archer cabin, reputedly a part of this ill-advised shipment.

To continue the story of the three surveyors who founded Centerville, Aaron Nutt and his family drove their wagons to their new farm site in 1799, arriving on April 1. Benjamin Robbins kindly offered to store their belongings until his brother-in-law could build a cabin, but Aaron refused to unload until he could place his household items in their own new home. He went as far as Franklin, Ohio for sufficient help; and with the aid of six gallons of Kentucky whiskey, he secured enough men to cut logs, hew out clapboards and build the cabin in one day. The family slept under its own roof the first night .
Archer, according to newspaper accounts, also was a brick contractor. Advertisements appeared in Cincinnati and Lexington newspapers during June 1805, inviting bids for building of the first Montgomery County Courthouse in Dayton. Archer won the contract for $4,776. This two story, brick building-42 feet by 38 feet-was occupied in the winter of 1807, although it was not fully completed until 1815 when a cupola was added, and a bell was hung that year.

Benjamin Archer was active in church affairs. From the Baptist Church of Sugar Creek records, we learn he was "Deacon on Trial" in 1800, and was appointed a deacon in 1801. Archer also held position of church treasurer, and was authorized to arrange the purchase of land from Aaron Nutt for the first Baptist Church of Sugar Creek in 1802. In 1812, along with two other members, he was appointed to draft a bill for incorporating the church.
Archer was elected a trustee of the township each year from 1812 to 1819, and again in 1822 and 1823. It is assumed that he chose not to run those intervening two years. After such a broad range of service within the township and the county, and after exacting a very real influence upon the area in which he lived and served with distinction, Benjamin Archer chose to move his family and his children's families to Washington Township in Allen County, Indiana in 1824.

Why he left Ohio we do not know, although there is some evidence that him and his son David carried heavy mortgages on their lands, and they failed to meet their financial obligations, they were subject to court lawsuits. In Indiana, where land was much cheaper then, Archer continued the same wide varieties of interests until his death in 1833. But all traces of Benjamin Archer's home and "store" in Washington Township have completely disappeared."

BIOGRAPHY: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio; 1882; 977.172 H2h pt.2; Washington Township p 3-;
Washington Township was one of the first settled points in the county, for, in February, 1796, two months before a settlement had been made at Dayton, we find a company of men from Kentucky, among whom were Aaron Nutt, Benjamin Robbins and Benjamin Archer, surveying near the present site of Centerville. The first camp struck by these adventurous civil engineers was on the farm now owned by William Weller, just on the outskirts of town. However, they only remained a short time in this place, for, upon the discovery of "Indian signs," the camp was hastily vacated, and they removed two miles to the northeast and took up a position on the farm now owned by Samuel Weller. Here they found a secure retreat, just south of the old Pardington buildings, in a ravine, and here they remained in undisputed possession until they had completed their survey. How long this was we cannot say, but they certainly did not hasten the completion of their work for lack of meat, as a large turkey roost was discovered on what is now the farm of Alonzo Montgomery, and the party hunter had an easy time of it, except perhaps, carrying in the feathered denizens of the forest. After the survery had been completed, the play was laid down in the woods, and these primitive surveyors proceeded to draw cuts for first choice of land. Benjamin Robbins was the first lucky man, and influenced by the springs discovered, immediately selected the half section of land which lay on the west of Centerville, and which embraced the lands now onwed by Benjamin Davis, Mason Allen and others. Aaron Nutt, to whom fate ordained the last choice, always maintained that "Benny had made a poor choce," as better springs were afterward discovered on his own lands. Benjamin Archer, who had second choice, selected the half section northeast of Centerville, and Aaron Nutt took the same amound of land directly east of town.
"After the selection of lands, they mounted their horses and returned to their families in Kentucky, well pleased with the country which they were soon to make their home. They say of the fertility of the soil at this time "that while surveying they found wild rye up to their horses' sides."
"...It is probable that Benjamin Archer, the last of the three surveyors, came out about the same time [as Aaron Nutt, two years later], but it is not definitely known. There are some points in the history of Mr. Archer, or Judge Archer, as he was always called, worthy of note, and, as he did not remain permanently in the settlement, we will give them here.
"A native of New Jersey, he removed to Philadelphis, where he was created Judge of one of the courts. From that city, he removed to Kentucky, and from there to Washington Township. Here he remained until 1824, and was one of the leading men in the community, at one time being Associate Judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. From this State, he went to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he seems to have been satisfied to give up his travels and permanently locate. Judge Archer was distinctively a progressive man, for, besides his pioneer work in this State, we find him engaged in laudable enterprises wherever he was located. It is generally conceded that he made his first brick and built the first brick house in Fort Wayne, where he died in 1830..."

BIOGRAPHY:
Excerpts from volumes I and II of :
Valley of the Upper Maumee
A historical account of Allen County and the
city of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. "The story of it's
progress from savagery to civilization"
Published in 1889 by BRANT & FULLER
in Madison ,Wisconsin

Volume I
P. 192 Valley of the Upper Maumee
Mention is made that Benjamin Archer built a two story brick residence in Ft. Wayne.
P. 204 Valley of the Upper Maumee
In 1835 the first steam saw-mill in northern Indiana was built by Benjamin Archer and his sons, on the land of David Archer, on the St. Joseph River, two and a half miles north of the present city limits. David Archer and his son John went to Dayton, Ohio for the boiler, and the other machinery, and it was hauled through the woods to the site of the mill from that distant point, the boiler being drawn by six yoke of oxen, and the rest of the machinery by horses.

The magnitude of this operation and its extreme tediousness, can hardly be imagined by ones in this day of "fast freights." When the machine caravan reached Shane's prairie, bad roads were encountered, and young Archer was compelled to return home for another team of oxen before the journey could be completed.

Unfortunately the mill was soon afterward destroyed by fire, and enterprise in that direction received a decided check in the upper Maumee valley. The next steam saw-mill was that of Rudy Rudisill, on the St. Joseph River, erected in 1841.

P. 209 Annals of the Townships

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP--The next township after Wayne and Adams in order of settlement was Washington. Immediately following the beginning of the sale of lands, Reinhard Cripe, a Pennsylvania-German, settled on Spy Run with his family.

The real beginning at the settlement and improvement of the township was made by the Archer family, which consisted of Benjamin Archer and wife, then past middle life, their three sons, David, John S., Benjamin Jr., a daughter Susan and her husband Alexander Ballard, their daughter Elizabeth, who was the wife of Thomas Hatfield, also one of the party, and the daughter Sarah, with her husband, Edward Campbell, a French Canadian.

Andrew J. Moore was also a member of the party, and Andrew Pettit, who in 1828 married the daughter of David Archer. Thomas Hatfield had visited the township in the spring and entered land, and in November 1825 accompanied by the Archers, who had removed from Philadelphia to Dayton, they set out, and traveled thither by the Wayne Trail, through boundless forest, camping out by the way during nights, which were made musical by the howling of wolves and shrieking of wildcats.

Benjamin Archer was well-to-do for those days, and his sons being grown men, were given tracts which he purchased to improve. David settled on the St. Joseph, two and a half miles from the fort; John S. was given a quarter section near the site of the Catholic ophan asylum; and Benjamin Jr. went three miles to the northwest, upon land recently owned by Alexander McKinley. Mrs. Ballard was given a tract just east of the Wells reserve, but she and her husband, who worked as a brickmaker in the village, did not go upon it until 1830. The heirs of Thomas Hatfield who was for many years a Justice of the Peace, and a Minister of the Gospel, still retain the land the parents settled upon at that time. Near the same locality lay the lands allotted to the Campbells. All of the family were stalwart and healthful, and they have subdued hundreds of acres of forests and changed the somber hue of green to the golden gleam of ripening grain on the landscape..

In the year of his settlement Benjamin Archer established a brick kiln on section 35 were his sons, principally John S., engaged in making bricks, supplying the demand in town until 1830. In this family occurred the first birth, of David Jr., son of David and Anna Archer born January 1, 1827, and the first marriage, of Franklin Sunderland to Rebecca Archer in 1828.

Volume II
P. 35 The Canal Era

The Archer family is one conspicuous in the history of the early settlement and mention is made of their achievements under the head of Washington township and elsewhere. Benjamin Archer, the progenitor of the family in Allen county, though an elderly man when he came here, was full of energy, and his usefulness was recognized by the people in his election to the associate judgeship upon the organization of the county.

He found time however, to manage his brick yard in Washington township, and an his family made the brick for and erected the first brick buildings in Fort Wayne, one upon the first lot west of Morgan & Beach's hardware, the other now owned and occupied by John Schweiers. They also furnished the brick and built the first courthouse, and then the first Masonic temple on the site now occupied by Sol Bash & Co. They also aided in the construction of the feeder division of the canal and the feeder dam.

Judge Archer was of Scotch-Irish descent, of the Protestant faith, a Whig in politics, of intellectual and moral sturdiness, and many mourned his death when he died at Fort Wayne in 1833. The Masons, to which he belonged, buried him in the grave yard where the county jail now stands. His remains and those of his wife, who was a native of the Carolinas, and some of his grandchildren were afterward removed to the Broadway cemetery, but now nothing remains to mark their resting place.

Of the few now living who attended that funeral is Peter Kiser, and another, Judge Archer's son-in-law, Edward Campbell, who lives at Albion, Noble county and is now about ninety years of age. Judge Archer left three sons, David, John S. and Benjamin Jr., and three daughters, Susan, Elizabeth, and Sarah.

John S. was a brother-in-law of the Hon. Hugh Hanna, and left one son James Wesley M. Archer, who married Catherine King, of a family which recently left a valuable estate in the center of the city. They had three sons and one daughter now the wife of C. E. Archer. Benjamin Archer Jr., married a Miss Petit. David the eldest son married Anna Chrisenbury, a native of Kentucky, and his eldest son, Samuel, married Matilda Whiteside.

These were the parents of John H. Archer, now a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne.
The Whiteside family were notable in the early
days, the family came from Ireland to Virginia before the war of the Revolution, during which the grandfather of Matilda Whiteside made clothing for Washington's men and received a great quantity of continental money in return, which he afterward burned as worthless!

P. 255 Municipal and Federal

The incorporation of Fort Wayne as a town, dates from September 3, 1829, when an
election was held and it was certified to the board of county commissioners, by William N. Hood, president of the meeting, and John P. Hedges, clerk, at a majority of two-thirds of the persons present favored the plan.

Accordingly, on the 14th of the same month, at the house of Abner Gerard, esq., the first town election was held, which Benjamin Archer, president of said election, and John P. Hedges, clerk, certified as resulting in the choice of Hugh Hanna, John S. Archer, William G. Ewing, Lewis G. Thompson and John P. Hedges, as trustees for one year.

The town government differed little from that of other young places. The town funds were meager; of public buildings none warranting the name. The streets were not improved and were of the muddy and impassable character of the ordinary county road. The needs of the thrifty town soon outgrew the usefulness of the this primitive method of government and the subject of a city charter and the corporate powers it should contain were matters of frequent and earnest discussion.

P. 447 Bench and Bar
The seventh term of the court was held at the residence of Benjamin Archer, commencing on the 12th day of May, 1828, associate judges, Hood and Cushman, presiding, the president judge being absent. At that term Charles H. Test was sworn as prosecuting attorney for the term. The prosecutor for the circuit being absent.

NOTES: I had marriage 1 Jun 1784, place unknown. IGI had 14 Jun 1784 in Burlington Co., NJ.

Note: RESIDENCES: lived in Clearlake, Northern California (source: Pat).

OCCUPATION: Plasterer.

Birth and death info came from Donna.
Back of family photo of parents and 3 oldest sons says "Guy died in Lake Co. in 1974 of heart trouble".

Note: DEATH: Died of during an influenza epidemic during WWWI.

BIRTH: info came from Donna.

Note: CLARK AND VIRGINIA ROBINSON
from the book In the Shadow of the Butte, A History of Oelrichs and Surrounding Area, copyright 1984, Oelrichs Historical Society, Oelrichs, South Dakota, printed by State Publishing Company Peirre, S.D., page 575
"Clark Benion Robinson was born in Booz, Wisconsin January 1, 1869, the son of J. S. (Samuel) and Mary Ann Robinson. Other children in the family were Thomas, Grant, Roy and Lucy. While still a small child, his parents moved to Nebraska. There were still some Indians in the area at that time, and they lived in a sod house."
"Clark was the first of three brothers to come to the Oelrichs area. In the year 1907 or 1908, he moved to a homestead seven miles southwest of the town. Later his brothers, Tom and Grant, came to the area."
"Clark married Virginia Ward, who had one son, Vincent, by another marriage. She was born May 5, 1877 near Charlotte, North Carolina. Their son, Dale was born June 20, 1917. They farmed and ranched in the area until Clark passed away April 6, 1952 at the age of 83."
"Virginia lived with her son Vincent, who never married, until her death December 21, 1965 at the age of 88."
"Both Dale and Vince still live in the Oelrichs area."

!INFO SOURCES:
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar District, Boone Co., NE.
Age 11 in 1880. Single. At home. Attending school.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 6, LN 39.

Note: ULYSSES GRANT AND LENA MAY ROBINSON
by Hazel E. Robinson Owens
from the book: In the Shadow of the Butte, A History of Oelrichs and Surrounding Area, copyright 1984, Oelrighs Historical Society, Oelrighs, South Dakota, Copyright 1984, printed by State Publishing Company Pierre, S.D., page 589.
"This story is about my parents, Ulysses Grand Robinson and Lena May Wright Robinson. My father was born on January 3, 1864 at Booz, Wisconsin, the son of J. S. (Samuel) and Mary Ann Robinson. Mother was born September 19, 1878 at Warrensburg, Missouri, the daughter of Nelson E. Wright and Anne Marie Graves Wright."
"At age 12, my father accidentlly shot off the first finger of one hand. Many of his young years were spent hunting and trapping, and he told me stories about spending cold winters trapping in Idaho. He liked athletics, and was a good skater and fast runner. He learned the carpentry trade, and was a conscientious workman."
"My parents were married in May, 1901 in Kansas City, Missouri. They made their first home in Elgin, Nebraska and their three children were born in Elgin, as follows: Hazel Evelyn, born February 15, 1903; Earl Benton, born July 15, 1905; Ruth Elizabeth, born July 25, 1908."
"They joined the local Protestant church (I think it was Presbyterian) and were active members. My father was at first a partner in a department store, but he left the store and worked at his carpentry trade. He built us a nice home in Elgin, but in 1910 the family moved to Belgrade, partly because Fathr built us a huse there, also. He worked at his trade for $2.00 a day, and it was a long day."
"In 1913 we sold out, loaded our furniture in a railroad car and moved to Grannis, Arkansas, where Mother's folks lived. We bought a truck farm and raised radishes, cantaloupes, and berries for the Kansas City market. We were all active in the Union Church. Father was superintendent, Mother taught a boys' class and sang solos at the services."
"While we lived in Arkansas, Mother got word of the death of her grandmother, Mary Ann Redmon Wright, in Molalla, Oregon on September 3, 1913. She would have been 90 on November 19. In Great-grandmother's obituary, she is described as a 'Trail-Blazer', a vigorous, active woman, who pioneered in seven states.' Mother knew her well because Mother went out there to stay with them and go to shcool, after her father's death when she was eight years old, which left her mother widowed with three children and no means of support.
Mother stayed two years, but she went back again when she was 18. At that time she climbed Mt. Hood, and becamed engaged to a man who when down with the battleship Maine when it was sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898, during the Spanish-American war."
"Truck farming in Arkansas was not very profitable, so in 1917 my parents decided we would move to Oelrichs, South Dakota, where two of father's borthers were already established as farmers and cattle raisers. We bought a farm 13 miles southeast of Oelrichs, where Father build a house, a barn, sheds and henhouse. They sold cream, eggs, and raised wheat and corn. During the early years, farming was done with horses."
"It was hard work, and the winters were often cold and snowy, and the summers were often hot and dry, sometimes with destructive hailstorms. Father's heart began to fail, and he died October 11, 1928, at Oelrichs and is buried in the Oelrichs Cementery."
"Earl was 23 years old, and he took over management of the farm. Mother usually boarded the shcool teacher, as we lived within walking distance of the one-room shcoolhouse. One of the teachers was Ethel Gorsuch from Fairburn. Earl and Ethel were married in 1930."
"Mother then decided to go to Arkansas and live with her mother. She lived in Grannis about two years, then came to Chicago in 1933 to live with me, her daughter Hazel. Both Mother and Father had become members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church while living in South Dakota. So she joined the Adventist Church in Chicago and attended regularly."
"Mother's last years were spent in Kansas City with her daughter, Ruth. She had her own apartment and was comfortable there, but she had some health problems. On July 1, 1958, she fell and broke her hip, from which accident she was unable to recover. She died on July 24, 1958 and was buried in the same city she was married in some 57 years before. Ruth died of cancer in 1974 and is buried beside her."
"I have fondest memories of my parents. They were honest, hard working, deeply religious, had no bad habits. They loved their children, sacrificed for them, and tried to bring them up in the way they should go. God rest their souls!"

!INFO SOURCES:
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar District, Boone Co., NE.
Age 16 in 1880. Single. At home. Attending school.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 6, LN 37.

Obituary of mother in 1896: Grant lives in Kansas.
Obituary of fater in 1905: Grant lives in Elgin, NE.

Note: NOTES:
Donna did not list this individual.
The back of a family photograph of Roy with parents and siblings says "Roy Robinson married Clara and they produced Robert and Ruth".

Obituary of mother in 1896 lists Roy as the youngest, and living in Boone Co, NE.
Obituary of father in 1905 lists son Roy, living in Elgin, NE.

Note: !INFO SOURCES:
1880 CENSUS: Address; Cedar District, Boone Co., NE.
Age 8 in 1880. Single. At home. Attending school.
Enumerated with parents.
Roll T779 #37, VOL 1, ED 126, SH 6, LN 40.
LAST UPDATE: 28 Mar 1994.

Spouse Mr. Patchen, from obituaries of parents; living in Fullerton, NE.

NOTES:
Marianne only had this individual's name. Got the birth year and place from Donna.

Note: Died of Cancer

Note: OELRICHS
by Hazel Robinson, October 30, 1919

I used to live on discontent
My life was one long sorrow;
I cared not what the day might bring,
I longed not for the morrow.

I traveled North and South and East
And seen all kinds of weather
I've slept on beds of prickly straw
Chewed beef as tough as leather.

I'd lived in style at fine hotels
And cursed those beastly waiters,
Who charged me double for my grub
From bean soup to "pertaters".

I'd lost all faith in human friends,
Alike seemed worst and best;
But "afore" committing suicide
I thought I'd travel west.

I crossed the Mississippi broad
To wander all around
And after months of searching
My Eden had not found.

And then I came to Oelrichs just
Beneath the grim Black Hills
"Ah, here is Paradise!" I cried
"A cure for all live's ills."

The people there were all true blue
Extended friendly hands
Told tales of hidden riches in
The fertile prairie lands.

They looked so hale and hearty,
So happy and carefree
That I decided Oelrichs was
The only place for me.

I live no more on discontent,
No more do waiters trouble;
I've got a wife to cook my meals,
Who never charges double.

Note: EARL AND ETHEL ROBINSON
from the book: In the Shadow of the Butte, A History of Oelrichs Surrounding Area, copyright 1984, Oelrichs Historical Society, Oelrichs, South Dakota, printed by State Publishing Company Peirre, S.D., page 577
"Earl and I were married in Rapid City, South Dakota on april 18, 1930. Our honeymoon was just over the weekend in the Black Hills, as I was teaching in Elm Springs, South Dakota, and had to be back on Monday. Very few friends and relatives were at our wedding as we had told few of our plans."
"Earl was born at Elgin, Nebraska, July 15, 1905, and moved to Oelrichs with his family, the Grant Robinsons, in 1917. He attended school at the Pettegrew and Davidson shcools, completing the eighth grade at the Davidson School with Esther Dryden as his teacher. He was planning to go to high school in Oelrichs and had arranged for a place to stay and work, but his father got a contract for a carpenter job, so Earl remained at home to do the work. He continued to farm with his father. After his father's death in 1928, Earl and his mother remained at the farm."
"The summer after our wedding, we lived with Earl's mother. In November she went to Arkansas and then came back in July."
"Those first married years were difficutl, and we lived mostly on ham and eggs and what few things the cream and eggs would purchase."
"Our children are: Barbara, born in May 1931; William (Bill) born in 1934; and Tom, born in 1943."
"Earl continued to farm the home place and I taught school for a total of 24 1/2 years, mostly around Oelrichs, Oral and Smithwick. I always loved teaching and taught many wonderful young people in that vicinity."
"Barbara lives alone in Camarillo, California, and has two children. Bill is a medical doctor at Yakima, Washington, and has three children. Tom is at Ontario, Oregon, and has five children."
"After Earl had a heart attack in 1971, we sold the farm in 1975 and moved to Hot Springs, South Dakota. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in 1981. We love Hot Springs and have wonderful neighbors--just as we did at Oelrichs."

Note: CENSUS:
1880 Census; Elk Fork, Pettis, Missouri
Source: FHL Film 1254708 National Archives Film T9-0708 Page 48A
Enumerated with parents;
Lena May WRIGHT Dau F S W 2 MO
Fa: WI Mo: KY.

Note: CENSUS:
1880 Census; Elk Fork, Pettis, Missouri
Source: FHL Film 1254708 National Archives Film T9-0708 Page 48A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
N. E. WRIGHT Self M M W 26 WI
Occ: Blacksmith Fa: NY Mo: OH
Annie M. WRIGHT Wife F M W 19 KY
Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA Mo: KY
Lena May WRIGHT Dau F S W 2 MO
Fa: WI Mo: KY
George GALYAN Other M S W 19 IN
Occ: Apprentice Blacksmith Fa: NC Mo: TN.

Note: CENSUS:
1880 Census; Elk Fork, Pettis, Missouri
Source: FHL Film 1254708 National Archives Film T9-0708 Page 48A
Enumerated with spouse and daughter;
Annie M. WRIGHT Wife F M W 19 KY
Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA Mo: KY.

Note: !BIRTH-CHRISTENING: Catholic Church, St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana, baptisims 1857-1893, copied by LDS Church, film #1888199, item 3-11; item 3, p 9, line 24 from top/8 from bottom;
Mariae, born 19 Sep 1863, christened 11 Oct 1863, parents Mathia Jochem and Helena Rosenbach of Germany, of parish St. Mariae, Godparents Joannis Schneider and Maria Orr(Ott) of Germany, of parish St. Mariae, performed by Vicar Gerogius Heinez.

!CONFIRMATION: Catholic Church, St. Ambrose, Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana, Church records, 1837-1857, copied by LDS Church, film #1888162, item 19;
2 Jun 1875 #36 Maria Anna Jochum.

CENSUS:
1880 Census, Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana; FHL Film 1254291 National Archives Film T9-0291 Page 38C; listed under mother, Ellen Yochum, and 5 siblings;
Mary YOCHUM Dau Female Single White age 16 b IN
Fa: PRUSSIA Mo: PRUSSIA.

RESIDENCES:
1863-1875 Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana
Chicago, IL
-1947 California

SOURCES:
From Patricia Glenn Yochem: Mary YOCHEM daughter of Mathias YOCHEM; remembers her from personal contact, m Will Twomey, children Edgar, Clint, & Monica who died at age 55. Mary Yochem's funeral was at the San Gabriel Mission (an old Spanish mission) in California. Patricia had wanted to attend, but couldn't as her son Ed was just a baby (Ed was born Apr 1947). So we think Mary died in 1947/1948. She was Catholic, and Patricia remembers she had deep black eyes; looked more Italian than German, was small, about 5'2".
From descendant Robert Thomas Seslar (E-mail moose98003@yahoo.com) and his spouse "Sally" Tomson (E-mail tomsons@foxinternet.net) from his family history; 4/98; Mary YOCHEM m Will TOOMEY, children Monica and Edgar.

RESIDENCES:
Chicago and Los Angeles, CA.

Note: CENSUS:
1900 Census; Wayne, Allen, IN; 4 Jun 1900; ED 47, pg 269A, sh 3; ln 29-31;
Enumerated with parents;
James E., son, M, b Dec 1899, age 5/12, b IN, fa IN, mo IN.

Note: CENSUS:
1900 Census; Wayne, Allen, IN; 4 Jun 1900; ED 47, pg 269A, sh 3; ln 29-31;
Enumerated with husband and son James E.
SMEAD, Rose D., wife, F, b July 1871, age 29, m 16, 4 children, 3 living, b IN, fa IN, mo IN.

Note: DEATH: In obituary, described as a "Trail-Blazer", a vigorous, active woman, who pioneered in seven states.

Note: Listed amongst the Leyden Separitists who stayed in Leyden while the MayFlower sailed. Compiled from research by a Leyden scholar, Henry Martyn Dexter in 1905. http://users.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html
CARPENTER, Alexander (children Anna, Alice, Juliana, Priscill, John)

Note: !BIRTH-CHRISTENING: Catholic Church, St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana, baptisims 1857-1893, copied by LDS Church, film #1888199, item 3-11; item 3, p 6, line 8 from the bottom;
Mariae Catherinae, born 29 Dec 1861, christened 12 Jan 1862, parents Mathia Jochum and Helena Rosenbach of Germany, of parish St. Mariae, Godparents Antonius Hein and Catarina Baul of Germany, of parish St. Mariae, performed by Vicar Gerogius Heinez.

!CONFIRMATION: Catholic Church, St. Ambrose, Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana, Church records, 1837-1857, copied by LDS Church, film #1888162, item 19;
Jun 1875 #48 Jochum, Catharina Maria.

!CENSUS:
1880 Census, Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana; FHL Film 1254291 National Archives Film T9-0291 Page 38C; listed under mother, Ellen Yochum, and 5 siblings;
Katie YOCHUM Dau Female Single White age 18 b IN
Fa: PRUSSIA Mo: PRUSSIA.
Also have the below 1880 Census entry. Brother Jacob was also listed both in IN and Kendall Co., IL.
1880 Census, Kendall Co, Illinois; Film #1254219, Enum Dist 103, p 5, line 2; enumerated with Rollins M Wheeler and his family;
Katie Yokum, white female, age 18, servant, single, domestic servant, born in Indiana, father and mother born in Germany.

RESIDENCES:
1861-1875 Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana
1880 Kendall Co, Illinois

SOURCE:
From Patricia Glenn Yochem, Kate YOCHEM, daughter of Mathias and Helena; from personal contact.
From descendant Robert Thomas Seslar (E-mail moose98003@yahoo.com) and his spouse "Sally" Tomson (E-mail tomsons@foxinternet.net) from his family history; 4/98; Catherine YOCHEM, b bef 1864, m Ed LONGLINE.

Note: BIRTH: p 65, Johann Conrad, b 25 Aug 1758, c 27 Aug 1758, parents Johann Cranester and Maria Barbara; film 1432987, item 5, page 68, Lower Bermudian Lutheran Church, Latimore Twp., Adams Co., PA, Parish Records, vol. 1, 1745-1871.

COMMUNION: Conrad Chronister of John, age 19, on Easter 1777 by Jacob Goering; Lutheran Church Records of the Lower Bermudian Congregation, p 45 in Adams Co. Church Records of the 18th Century, 974.842 K2.