Wade & Webb Family History

Thomas Clinton Robbins1832–1863

Autauga · Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery · Knoxville

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. 30 Jan 1832 Autauga, Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 15 Sep 1857 Temperance E. Ellis, at Tallapoosa, Alabama 6
  2. 11 Jan 1854 Sarah Jane Freeman, at Coosa, Alabama 5

Death and burial

  1. 1863 Burial: Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  2. 22 Mar 1863 Death: Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee 9

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Mary Martha Wilson 1801–1878
Marriage 1, 15 Sep 1857
Temperance E. Ellis 1836–1892
Children
William Oscar Robbins Sr 1858–1923
Ferdinance Robbins 1860–1862
Thomas Smith Robbins 1862–1930
Marriage 2, 11 Jan 1854
Sarah Jane Freeman 1832–1855
Children
Robbins 1855–1855

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Thomas Clinton Robbins
  2. Brother of Eliza Robbins
  3. William Walker Walden, son
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Thomas Clinton Robbins was born on 30 January 1832 in Autauga County, Alabama, a son of Solomon Robbins Sr. and Mary Martha Wilson, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date.1 His sister Kate Grayson, in a letter to a nephew printed in George E. Brewer's history of Coosa County in 1942, gives the same day and the same county.2 According to her letter, their father moved the family to Coosa County "among the Creek Indians," where he kept the first post office at Nixburg, then called Robbinsville; the printed letter gives the year of the move as 1882.3 Inference The year can only be 1832, since the letter has the next child, Sarah Adeline, born at Nixburg in June 1834, so Thomas was probably an infant when the family moved.3

The federal census of 1850 listed Thomas Robbins in the Coosa County household indexed under his mother, Mary Robbins.4 On 11 January 1854 he married Sarah Freeman in Coosa County; she died on 17 April 1855, and the tree records a child of theirs, unnamed, born and dead in 1855.5 On 15 September 1857 he married Tampa E. Ellis, whose name the marriage indexes also give as "Tamper"; the tree places this marriage in Tallapoosa County.6 The census of 1860 listed T. C. Robbins in Coosa County with T. E. Robbins in his household.7 The tree names three sons of the second marriage: William Oscar (1858–1923), Ferdinance (1860–1862) and Thomas Smith (1862–1930).8

The tree records, without a source, Civil War service in Virginia from 3 May 1862 and his death at Knoxville, Tennessee, on 22 March 1863, and places his burial in the Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery in Coosa County, where a Find a Grave memorial to Thomas Clinton Robbins is indexed.9 A sketch of the family by H. R. Robbins, printed in the same county history, names Thomas among four sons of Solomon Robbins's second marriage who "were killed or died in the late War Between the States, each one leaving widows and children."10 His son Thomas Smith Robbins's Alabama death record of 1930 gives the father's full name, Thomas Clinton Robbins.11

Documents

  1. 1942 History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch) George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942) · book

Places

  1. 1832Autauga
  2. 1850–1860Coosa
  3. 1857Tallapoosa
  4. 1863Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery
  5. 1863Knoxville

Timeline

  1. 30 Jan 1832BirthAutauga, Alabama
  2. 1850ResidenceCoosa, Alabama
  3. 11 Jan 1854Marriage, Sarah Jane FreemanCoosa, Alabama
  4. 15 Sep 1857Marriage, Temperance E. EllisTallapoosa, Alabama
  5. 1860ResidenceCoosa, Alabama
  6. 3 May 1862Civil+War+ServiceVirginia
  7. 1863BurialNixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  8. 22 Mar 1863DeathKnoxville, Knox, Tennessee

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: birth 30 Jan 1832, Autauga, Alabama, no source attached; parents Solomon Robbins Sr. and Mary Martha Wilson back to the text
  2. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): The next, Thomas Clinton, was born in Autaufga [sic] County, Ala., January 30th, 1832 back to the text
  3. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): In 1882 [sic, for 1832] he moved with his family to Coosa County among the Creek Indians … He kept the first P. O. ever established at Nixburg, although it was then called Robbinsville; The next was Sarah Adeline, who was born in Nixburg, Coosa County, Ala., June 10th, 1834 back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Thomas Robbins in entry for Mary Robbins, 1850. Record: Thomas Robbins in entry for Mary Robbins, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: residence 1850, Coosa back to the text
  5. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Thomas C. Robbins and Sarah Freeman, 11 Jan 1854. Record: Thomas C. Robbins and Sarah Freeman, 11 Jan 1854 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Thomas C. Robbins, 11 Jan 1854. Record: Thomas C. Robbins, 11 Jan 1854 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: marriage 11 Jan 1854, Coosa, Alabama; child Robbins, 1855–1855 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHJ8-W8T (their page): death 17 Apr 1855 back to the text
  6. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Thomas C Robbins and Tampa E Ellis, 15 Sep 1857. Record: Thomas C Robbins and Tampa E Ellis, 15 Sep 1857 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Thomas C Robbins and Tamper E Ellis, 15 Sep 1857. Record: Thomas C Robbins and Tamper E Ellis, 15 Sep 1857 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Thomas C. Robbins, 15 September 1857. Record: Thomas C. Robbins, 15 September 1857 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: marriage 15 Sep 1857, Tallapoosa, Alabama back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, T C Robbins, 1860. Record: T C Robbins, 1860 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, T E Robbins in entry for T C Robbins, 1860. Record: T E Robbins in entry for T C Robbins, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: residence 1860, Coosa back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: children of Thomas Clinton Robbins and Temperance E. Ellis back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94HZ-8HR: Civil War Service 3 May 1862, Virginia; death 22 Mar 1863, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee; burial 1863, Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery; no source attached "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Thomas Clinton Robbins. Record: Thomas Clinton Robbins, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  10. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): Those were Putnam, John, Thomas, and George, all of whom were killed or died in the late War Between the States, each one leaving widows and children (H. R. Robbins, p. 245) back to the text
  11. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Thomas Clinton Robbins in entry for Thomas Smith Robbins, 1930. Record: Thomas Clinton Robbins in entry for Thomas Smith Robbins, 1930 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Thomas Clinton Robbins (22)
  1. 1850Thomas Robbins, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 11 Jan 1854Thomas C. Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 1854Thomas C. Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 11 Jan 1854Thomas C. Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  7. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  8. 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  9. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  10. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  11. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  12. 15 Sep 1857Thomas C Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  13. 15 September 1857Thomas C. Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  14. 1860T C Robbins, "United States, Census, 1860"
  15. 1930Thomas Clinton Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  16. Alabama Civil War Muster Rolls 1861-1865
  17. Alabama Civil War Muster Rolls 1861-1865 #2
  18. Alabama Civil War Soldiers 1860-1865
  19. Civil War Soldiers 1860-1865
  20. Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records 1861-1865
  21. Thomas Clinton Robbins, "Find a Grave Index"
  22. 11 Jan 1854Sarah Freeman, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"