Wade & Webb Family History

John Wells Robbins1824–1863

Autauga · Tyler · New Iberia · Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery

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

Birth

  1. 2 Jul 1824 Autauga, Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 28 Jan 1847 Frances Elizabeth Weaver, at Benton, Alabama 4
  2. 28 Jan 1847 Frances Elizabeth Weaver, at Coosa, Alabama 4

Death and burial

  1. 20 Jul 1863 Death: New Iberia, Iberia, Louisiana 7
  2. Date unknown Burial: Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Mary Martha Wilson 1801–1878
Spouse, 28 Jan 1847
Frances Elizabeth Weaver 1826–1914
Children
Alice Eliza Robbins 1859–1938
Josephine Henrietta Robbins 1861–1960
Martha Robbins 1855–1932
Telula Texana Robbins 1857–1892
Sarah Ann Robbins 1848–1870
Laura Virginia Robbins 1847–1902
John J. Robbins 1854–1894
Susan Cornelia "Nealie" Robbins 1861–1906
Nancy Catherine Robbins 1852–1913
Mary Jane Robbins 1850–1905

Line of descent Webb line

  1. John Wells 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

John Wells Robbins was born on 2 July 1824 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 younger sister Kate Grayson, in a letter about the family printed in George E. Brewer's "History of Coosa County, Alabama" (1942), gives the same county but a different day, 29 July 1824.2 The letter is a recollection set down long afterwards and printed in a county history, a secondary source, and neither date rests on a record made at the time.2 According to the letter, his father moved the family from Autauga to Coosa County in 1832 (the printed text reads "1882") and kept the first post office at Nixburg.3

On 28 January 1847 he married Frances Weaver, indexed as "John W. Robins and Francis Wever"; the tree gives the place both as Benton and as Coosa County, Alabama, and his sister's letter also names his wife as Frances Weaver.4 He is the first of his family found in Texas: the federal census of 1850 recorded John W. Robbins in Smith County, Texas, with Frances in his household, and the census of 1860 found "J W Robins" and his family near Tyler, in the same county.5 The tree names ten children born between 1847 and 1861, among them Laura Virginia, Mary Jane, Martha, Josephine Henrietta and Susan Cornelia.6

He died on 20 July 1863 at New Iberia, Louisiana, according to the tree, which records him as a Confederate soldier with his unit unknown and gives no source for either fact.7 Kate Grayson's letter gives the date as 30 July 1863 and says only that he died "while in the Confederate service," without a place.8 A second family account printed in the same history, a sketch by H. R. Robbins, says of the four sons of Solomon Robbins's second marriage, Putnam, John, Thomas and George, that all "were killed or died in the late War Between the States, each one leaving widows and children."9 The tree places his burial in the Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery in Coosa County, Alabama, where a Find a Grave memorial to John Wells Robins is indexed.10 Inference Since he died in Louisiana while his family lived in Texas, the Nixburg memorial may commemorate him rather than mark his grave; the index entry alone cannot settle this.10 The Texas death records of his daughters Mattie Robbins, on 14 July 1932, and Josie Ray Farrier, on 15 October 1960, name him as their father.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. 1824Autauga
  2. 1847Benton
  3. 1847Coosa
  4. 1850Smith
  5. 1860Tyler
  6. 1863New Iberia
  7. undatedNixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery

Timeline

  1. 2 Jul 1824BirthAutauga, Alabama
  2. 28 Jan 1847Marriage, Frances Elizabeth WeaverBenton, Alabama
  3. 28 Jan 1847Marriage, Frances Elizabeth WeaverCoosa, Alabama
  4. 1850ResidenceSmith county, part of, Smith, Texas
  5. 1860Residence: CensusTyler, Smith, Texas
  6. 20 Jul 1863DeathNew Iberia, Iberia, Louisiana

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4KK-6HV: birth 2 Jul 1824, 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): Kate Grayson's letter, pp. 248–254: The next was John Wells, who was born in Autauga County, Ala., July 29th, 1824 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): Kate Grayson's letter: In 1882 [sic, for 1832] he moved with his family to Coosa County … He kept the first P. O. ever established at Nixburg back to the text
  4. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John W. Robins and Francis Wever, 28 Jan 1847. Record: John W. Robins and Francis Wever, 28 Jan 1847 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John Wells Robbins and Frances Weaver, 28 Jan 1847. Record: John Wells Robbins and Frances Weaver, 28 Jan 1847 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4KK-6HV: marriage 28 Jan 1847, Benton, Alabama, and 28 Jan 1847, 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): He married Frances Weaver back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, John W Robbins, 1850. Record: John W Robbins, 1850 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Frances Robbins in entry for John W Robbins, 1850. Record: Frances Robbins in entry for John W Robbins, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, J W Robins, 1860. Record: J W Robins, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4KK-6HV: residence 1850, Smith County, Texas; residence 1860, Tyler, Smith, Texas back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4KK-6HV: ten children of John Wells Robbins and Frances Elizabeth Weaver, 1847–1861 back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4KK-6HV: death 20 Jul 1863, New Iberia, Iberia, Louisiana; military service: Confederate Soldier Unit?; no source attached 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): Kate Grayson's letter: died July 30th, 1863, while in the Confederate service back to the text
  9. 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): H. R. Robbins's sketch, p. 245: 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 back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4KK-6HV: burial Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, John Wells Robins. Record: John Wells Robins, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  11. "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, John Robbins in entry for Mattie Robbins, 14 Jul 1932. Record: John Robbins in entry for Mattie Robbins, 14 Jul 1932 "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, Robbins in entry for Josie Ray Farrier, 15 October 1960. Record: Robbins in entry for Josie Ray Farrier, 15 October 1960 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to John Wells Robbins (14)
  1. 28 Jan 1847John W. Robins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  2. 28 Jan 1847John W. Robins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  3. 1847John W. Robins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 1847John W. Robins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 28 Jan 1847John Wells Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 28 Jan 1847John Wells Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  7. 1850John W Robbins, "United States, Census, 1850"
  8. 1860J W Robins, "United States, Census, 1860"
  9. 1932John Robbins in entry for Mattie Robbins, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  10. 14 Jul 1932John Robbins, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  11. 15 October 1960Robbins, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  12. Alabama Texas and Virginia Confederate Pensions 1884-1958
  13. John Wells Robins, "Find a Grave Index"
  14. 28 Jan 1847John Wells Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"