Wade & Webb Family History

William Peyton Robbins1830–1862

Autauga · Coosa · Maplewood Cemetery

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

Birth

  1. 18 Apr 1830 Autauga, Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 11 Dec 1855 Martha A Freeman, at Coosa, Alabama 4

Death and burial

  1. 7 Nov 1862 Death: place not recorded 6, 7
  2. Date unknown Burial: Maplewood Cemetery, Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Mary Martha Wilson 1801–1878
Spouse, 11 Dec 1855
Martha A Freeman 1835–1899
Children
Mary E. Robbins 1858–1859
William George B. Robbins 1861–1882

Line of descent Webb line

  1. William Peyton 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

William Peyton Robbins was born on 18 April 1830 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 county, though the printed year reads 1880.2 Inference The year can only be 1830, since the letter places him between a sister born in 1828 and a brother born in 1832.2 The federal census of 1850 listed William Robbins in the Coosa County household indexed under his mother, Mary Robbins.3

On 11 December 1855 he married Martha A. Freeman; the tree places the marriage in Coosa County, and Kate Grayson's letter also names his wife as Martha Freeman.4 The tree names two children, Mary E. (1858–1859) and William George B. (1861–1882).5

The tree records, without a source, his service in Company K of the 24th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate army and his death from disease on 7 November 1862.6 Kate Grayson's letter says that he "died November 17th, 1862, while in the Confederate service," ten days later than the tree's date.7 A sketch of the family by H. R. Robbins, in the same county history, says that the four sons of Solomon Robbins's second marriage, whom it names as "Putnam, John, Thomas, and George," were all "killed or died in the late War Between the States, each one leaving widows and children."8 Inference The sketch names no William, and Putnam may be a garbled form of Peyton, his middle name.8 He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery at Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tennessee, where his Find a Grave memorial names him "Sgt William Peyton Robbins".9 His widow later moved to Brazos County, Texas, and married James Walter White there in 1871.10

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. 1830Autauga
  2. 1850–1855Coosa
  3. undatedMaplewood Cemetery

Timeline

  1. 18 Apr 1830BirthAutauga, Alabama
  2. 1850ResidenceCoosa county, Coosa, Alabama
  3. 11 Dec 1855Marriage, Martha A FreemanCoosa, Alabama
  4. 7 Nov 1862Death

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: birth 18 Apr 1830, 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, Eliza, was born in Autauga County, September 30th, 1828 … The next was Wm. Peyton, who was born in Autauga County, April 18th, 1880 [sic, for 1830] … The next, Thomas Clinton, was born in Autaufga [sic] County, Ala., January 30th, 1832 back to the text
  3. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, William Robbins in entry for Mary Robbins, 1850. Record: William Robbins in entry for Mary Robbins, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: residence 1850, Coosa county back to the text
  4. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, William P. Robbins and Martha A. Freeman, 11 Dec 1855. Record: William P. Robbins and Martha A. Freeman, 11 Dec 1855 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, William P. Robbins, 11 Dec 1855. Record: William P. Robbins, 11 Dec 1855 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: marriage 11 Dec 1855, Coosa, Alabama 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 Martha Freeman back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: children Mary E. Robbins, 1858–1859, and William George B. Robbins, 1861–1882 back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: military service: Company K 24th Alabama Infantry CSA; Died of disease; death 7 Nov 1862; no source attached back to the text
  7. 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): Died November 17th, 1862, while in the Confederate service FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: death 7 Nov 1862 back to the text
  8. 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 result of their marriage was four sons and five daughters. 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
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZXX-BGX: burial Maplewood Cemetery, Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Sgt William Peyton Robbins. Record: Sgt William Peyton Robbins, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile G7TM-T8W (their page): residence 1870 and 1880, Brazos, Texas; marriage to James Walter White, 11 Aug 1871, Brazos back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to William Peyton Robbins (6)
  1. 1850William Robbins, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 11 Dec 1855William P. Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 11 Dec 1855William P. Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 1855William P. Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1855William P. Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  6. Sgt William Peyton Robbins, "Find a Grave Index"