Wade & Webb Family History

Martha Ann Robbins1823–1853

Autauga · Coosa

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

Birth

  1. 16 Feb 1823 Autauga, Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 1 Nov 1841 Jonathan Horace Mitchell, at Benton, Alabama 4

Death and burial

  1. 6 Sep 1853 Death: Coosa, Alabama 7

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Mary Martha Wilson 1801–1878
Spouse, 1 Nov 1841
Jonathan Horace Mitchell 1811–1891
Children
Margaret Demaries Mitchell 1851–1917
James McGrady Mitchell 1852–1884

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Martha Ann Robbins
  2. Sister of Eliza Robbins
  3. William Walker Walden, son
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Martha Ann Robbins was born on 16 February 1823 in Autauga County, Alabama, the eldest child of Solomon Robbins Sr. and his second wife, Mary Martha Wilson, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date.1 Her 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 date and county; her parents had married on 27 May 1822, and she was the first child the letter lists after the two of her father's first marriage, Elizabeth and Solomon Jr.2 The letter is a family recollection printed in a county history, a secondary source, but its dates for her agree with the tree's to the day.2 According to the letter, her father moved the family to Coosa County in 1832 (the printed text reads "1882"), where he kept the first post office at Nixburg.3

On 1 November 1841 she married Jonathan H. Mitchell, indexed as "Johnathan"; the tree places the marriage in Benton County, Alabama, and her sister's letter calls her husband "Rev. J. H. Mitchell."4 The federal census of 1850 listed Martha Ann Mitchell in her husband's household in Coosa County.5 The tree names two children, Margaret Demaries Mitchell (born 1851) and James McGrady Mitchell (1852).6

She died on 6 September 1853, in Coosa County by the tree's account, a month after her sister Eliza Walden, who died on 2 August 1853; the tree attaches no source to either death, but Kate Grayson's letter gives the same two dates.7 Her widower married Margarett Freeman in February 1854 and later moved to Brazos County, Texas.8

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. 1823Autauga
  2. 1841Benton
  3. 1850–1853Coosa

Timeline

  1. 16 Feb 1823BirthAutauga, Alabama
  2. 1 Nov 1841Marriage, Jonathan Horace MitchellBenton, Alabama
  3. 1850ResidenceCoosa, Alabama
  4. 6 Sep 1853DeathCoosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4NY-ZM3: birth 16 Feb 1823, Autauga, Alabama, no source attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KT3X-L4D (their page): children of 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: marired [sic] to his last wife, Mary Wilson, May 27th, 1822 … Elizabeth … Solomon Robbins, Jr. … The next child, Martha Ann … She was born in Autauga County, Ala., February 16th, 1823 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, Jonathan H Mitchell and Martha Ann Robbins, 01 Nov 1841. Record: Jonathan H Mitchell and Martha Ann Robbins, 01 Nov 1841 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Johnathan H. Mitchell and Martha Ann Robbins, 01 Nov 1841. Record: Johnathan H. Mitchell and Martha Ann Robbins, 01 Nov 1841 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4NY-ZM3: marriage 1 Nov 1841, Benton, 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): Martha Ann, was married to Rev. J. H. Mitchell back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Martha Ann Mitchell in entry for Jonathan Mitchell, 1850. Record: Martha Ann Mitchell in entry for Jonathan Mitchell, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4NY-ZM3: residence 1850, Coosa back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4NY-ZM3: children Margaret Demaries Mitchell, 1851, and James McGrady Mitchell, 1852 back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4NY-ZM3: death 6 Sep 1853, Coosa, no source attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX (their page): death 2 Aug 1853, Coosa 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): Martha Ann … died September 6th, 1853; Eliza … died August 2nd, 1853 back to the text
  8. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Johnathan H. Mitchell and Margarett Freeman, 18 Feb 1854. Record: Johnathan H. Mitchell and Margarett Freeman, 18 Feb 1854 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LRFH-RNJ (their page): residence 1870 and 1880, Brazos, Texas back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Martha Ann Robbins (8)
  1. 1841Martha Ann Robbins in entry for Johnathan H. Mitchell, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  2. 1841Martha Ann Robbins in entry for Johnathan H. Mitchell, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  3. 01 Nov 1841Martha Ann Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 01 Nov 1841Martha Ann Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 01 Nov 1841Martha Ann Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 1 Nov 1841Martha Ann Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  7. 1850Martha Ann Mitchell, "United States, Census, 1850"
  8. 01 Nov 1841Johnathan H Mitchell, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"