Wade & Webb Family History

Elizabeth Robbins1814–1881

Brunswick · Equality

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

Birth

  1. 20 Mar 1814 Brunswick, North Carolina 1

Marriages

  1. 3 Mar 1836 Robert Lumpkin Martin, at Benton, Alabama 5

Death and burial

  1. 19 Oct 1881 Death: Coosa, Alabama 9
  2. Date unknown Burial: Equality, Coosa, Alabama

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Spouse, 3 Mar 1836
Robert Lumpkin Martin 1813–1870
Children
Braxton Beauregard Martin 1860–1950
John Kirk Martin 1841–1861
Mahala Ann Martin 1845–1894
Mollie Martin 1856–?
Martha Caroline Martin 1839–1915
Susan Elizabeth Martin 1837–1864
Elizabeth Euphinia Martin 1847–1931
Sara Adaline Martin 1853–1854
Laura Virginia Martin 1849–1917
Henry Martin 1862–?
Celia Parthenia Martin 1843–1875
Mary Jane Martin 1838–1917
Soloman Smith Martin Sr. 1855–1934
Darius Sherwood Martin 1851–1933

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Elizabeth Robbins
  2. Half-sister of Eliza Robbins
  3. William Walker Walden, son
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Elizabeth Robbins was born on 20 March 1814 in Brunswick County, North Carolina, the eldest child of Solomon Robbins Sr. and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Sellers, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for her birth.1 Her half-sister Kate Grayson, in a letter to a nephew printed in George E. Brewer's history of Coosa County, Alabama, in 1942, gives the same date and county and lists her first among their father's children.2 According to the letter, Solomon came to Alabama about 1816 "with a wife and babe" and settled in Montgomery County, near Judkins Ferry on the Tallapoosa River, where his second child, Solomon Jr., was born; the family then moved to Autauga County, where Elizabeth's mother died.3 Inference The "babe" was probably Elizabeth, his only child born before the move.3 A second family sketch in the same history, by H. R. Robbins, calls the two children of the first marriage "Betsy and Solomon, Jr."4 Inference Betsy is a common form of Elizabeth, so the separate Betsy Robbins, born about 1817, whom the tree gives the same parents, is probably Elizabeth herself.4

On 3 March 1836 she married Robert L. Martin, whose surname the Alabama marriage indexes spell "Martain"; the tree places the marriage in Benton County, Alabama.5 Kate Grayson gives him the title Esquire, abbreviated in her letter, which was then commonly given to a justice of the peace.6 The federal census of 1860 listed Elizabeth Martin in the household of R. L. Martin in Coosa County, and the tree names fourteen children born to the couple between 1837 and 1862.7 Her husband died on 28 July 1870, and the censuses of 1870 and 1880 indexed her under her own name, as "E Martin" and "Elisabeth Martin", in Election Precinct 1, Brooksville, Coosa County.8

She died in Coosa County on 19 October 1881, a date the tree gives without a source, and her burial at Equality, Coosa County, is matched by a Find a Grave memorial to Elizabeth Robbins Martin.9 Long afterwards, the Alabama death records of four of her children named her as their mother: Martha Caroline Harris in 1915, Darius Sherwood Martin in 1933, Solomon Smith Martin in 1934 and Braxton B. Martin in 1950.10

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. 1814Brunswick
  2. 1836Benton
  3. 1860–1881Coosa
  4. 1870–1880Coosa
  5. undatedEquality

Timeline

  1. 20 Mar 1814BirthBrunswick, North Carolina
  2. 3 Mar 1836Marriage, Robert Lumpkin MartinBenton, Alabama
  3. 1860ResidenceCoosa, Alabama
  4. 1870ResidenceElection Precinct 1 Brooksville, Coosa, Alabama
  5. 1880ResidenceElection Precinct 1 Brooksville, Coosa, Alabama
  6. 19 Oct 1881DeathCoosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGMS-18R: birth 20 Mar 1814, Brunswick, North Carolina, no source attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GKFS-RSF (their page): children of Solomon Robbins Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Sellers 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 names and ages of my father's children are as follows: Elizabeth was born in Brunswick County, N. C., March 20th, 1814 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): With a wife and babe he came to Alabama about the year 1816, settled in Montgomery County, near Judkins Ferry on the Tallapoosa River. While living there his second child, Solomon, Jr., was born … he moved from there to Autauga County … There his wife died back to the text
  4. 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): Solomon, the oldest son, married a Miss Sellers who bore two children (Betsy and Solomon, Jr.), and died (H. R. Robbins, p. 245) FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GM74-LHC (their page): Betsy Robbins, born about 1817, Alabama back to the text
  5. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Robert L. Martain and Elizabeth Robbins, 03 Mar 1836. Record: Robert L. Martain and Elizabeth Robbins, 03 Mar 1836 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Robert L. Martain, 3 Mar 1836. Record: Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Robert L. Martain, 3 Mar 1836 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGMS-18R: marriage 3 Mar 1836, Benton, Alabama back to the text
  6. 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): Married Esqr. R. L. Martin back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Martin in entry for R L Martin, 1860. Record: Elizabeth Martin in entry for R L Martin, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGMS-18R: residence 1860, Coosa; fourteen children, 1837–1862 back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LCJ4-2KP (their page): death 28 Jul 1870, Coosa "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, E Martin, 1870. Record: E Martin, 1870 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Elisabeth Martin, 1880. Record: Elisabeth Martin, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGMS-18R: residence 1870 and 1880, Election Precinct 1 Brooksville, Coosa back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGMS-18R: death 19 Oct 1881, Coosa, no source attached; burial Equality, Coosa "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Robbins Martin, 1881. Record: Elizabeth Robbins Martin, 1881, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  10. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Martin in entry for Martha Caroline Harris, 1915. Record: Elizabeth Martin in entry for Martha Caroline Harris, 1915 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Darius Sherwood Martin, 1933. Record: Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Darius Sherwood Martin, 1933 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Solomon Smith Martin, 1934. Record: Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Solomon Smith Martin, 1934 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Braxton B. Martin, 1950. Record: Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Braxton B. Martin, 1950 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Elizabeth Robbins (15)
  1. 1836Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Robert L. Martain, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  2. 1836Elizabeth Robbins in entry for Robert L. Martain, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  3. 03 Mar 1836Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 03 Mar 1836Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 03 Mar 1836Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 3 Mar 1836Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  7. 1860Elizabeth Martin, "United States, Census, 1860"
  8. 1870E Martin, "United States, Census, 1870"
  9. 1880Elisabeth Martin, "United States, Census, 1880"
  10. 1881Elizabeth Robbins Martin, "Find a Grave Index"
  11. 1915Elizabeth Martin, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  12. 1933Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  13. 1934Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  14. 1950Elizabeth Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  15. 03 Mar 1836Robert L Martain, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"