Wade & Webb Family History

Mary Jane Robbins1825–1900

Autauga · Nixburg

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

Birth

  1. 27 Dec 1825 Autauga, Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 28 Feb 1844 Alexander McKay Smith, at Election Precinct 2 Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama 6
  2. 7 Jul 1844 Alexander McKay Smith, at Alabama, Coosa County 4, 6
  3. about 1845 Alexander McKay Smith, at Of,, Alabama
  4. 1846 Alexander McKay Smith, at , Autauga, Alabama
  5. about 1854 Alexander McKay Smith
  6. Date unknown Alexander McKay Smith

Death and burial

  1. 1900 Burial: Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  2. 17 Nov 1900 Death: Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama 10

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Mary Martha Wilson 1801–1878
Spouse, 28 Feb 1844
Alexander McKay Smith 1793–1871
Children
Laura Jeanett Smith 1850–1925
Alice Helen Smith 1855–1890
Anna Bell Smith 1868–1938
Mary Eliza Smith 1847–1919
Lauchlin McKay Smith 1852–1933
Archibald Duncan Smith 1845–1846
Libbie Stores Smith 1867–1932

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Mary Jane 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

Mary Jane Robbins was born on 27 December 1825 in Autauga County, Alabama, a daughter of Solomon Robbins Sr. and 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; the letter is a family recollection printed in a county history, a secondary source.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 7 July 1844 a "John Smith" married "Mary Robbins" in a record that the tree attaches to her marriage with Alexander McKay Smith, a widower born in 1793 whom the tree also calls John Alexander Smith.4 Kate Grayson's letter says simply that Mary Jane "married Alexander Smith," without a date.5 The tree gives five other dates for the same marriage, ranging from 28 February 1844 to "about 1854", none of them with a source.6 Inference The indexed record is the only evidence for the date, and Mary was living as Alexander Smith's wife by 1850, so 7 July 1844 is probably the right one.6 The federal censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 listed her in the household of Alexander Smith in Coosa County, in 1870 at Nixburg.7 The tree names seven children: Archibald Duncan (1845–1846), Mary Eliza (1847), Laura Jeanett (1850), Lauchlin McKay (1852), Alice Helen (1855), Libbie Stores (1867) and Anna Bell (1868).8

Widowed in August 1871, she was recorded as Mary J. Smith at Nixburg in 1880 and as Jane Smith in Precinct 2, Nixburg, in 1900.9 She died at Nixburg on 17 November 1900, according to the tree, and a Find a Grave memorial to Mary Jane Robbins Smith is indexed; her sister's letter leaves the date of her death blank.10 The Alabama death records of three of her children, Laura Janette Smith in 1925, Lauchlin McKay Smith in 1933 and Annie B. Hunter in 1938, name her as mother, the last as "Jane Robins".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. 1825–1846Autauga
  2. 1844–1860Coosa
  3. 1844–1900Coosa
  4. 1845Of
  5. 1870–1900Nixburg

Timeline

  1. 27 Dec 1825BirthAutauga, Alabama
  2. 28 Feb 1844Marriage, Alexander McKay SmithElection Precinct 2 Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  3. 7 Jul 1844Marriage, Alexander McKay SmithAlabama, Coosa County
  4. about 1845Marriage, Alexander McKay SmithOf,, Alabama
  5. 1846Marriage, Alexander McKay Smith, Autauga, Alabama
  6. 1850ResidenceCoosa county, Coosa, Alabama
  7. about 1854Marriage, Alexander McKay Smith
  8. 1860ResidenceSouthern Division, Coosa, Alabama
  9. 1870ResidenceNixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  10. 1880ResidenceNixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  11. 1900ResidencePrecinct 2 Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  12. 1900BurialNixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  13. 17 Nov 1900DeathNixburg, Coosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV: birth 27 Dec 1825, 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, Mary Jane, was born in Autauga County, December 27th, 1825 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 Smith and Mary Robbins, 07 Jul 1844. Record: John Smith and Mary Robbins, 07 Jul 1844 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Mary Robbins in entry for John Smith, 7 Jul 1844. Record: Mary Robbins in entry for John Smith, 7 Jul 1844 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ (their page): born 23 Apr 1793; also named John Alexander Smith; earlier marriages 1821 and 1831 back to the text
  5. 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: She married Alexander Smith back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV: marriage events: 28 Feb 1844, Election Precinct 2 Nixburg; 7 Jul 1844, Coosa County; about 1845; 1846, Autauga; about 1854; one undated "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John Smith and Mary Robbins, 07 Jul 1844. Record: 07 Jul 1844 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Mary Smith in entry for Alexander Smith, 1850. Record: Mary Smith in entry for Alexander Smith, 1850 back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Mary Smith in entry for Alexander Smith, 1850. Record: Mary Smith in entry for Alexander Smith, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Mary J Smith in entry for Alex Smith, 1860. Record: Mary J Smith in entry for Alex Smith, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Mary Smith in entry for Alex Smith, 1870. Record: Mary Smith in entry for Alex Smith, 1870 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV: residence 1850 Coosa county; 1860 Southern Division, Coosa; 1870 Nixburg back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV: children of Alexander McKay Smith and Mary Jane Robbins back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ (their page): death 29 Aug 1871 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Mary J. Smith, 1880. Record: Mary J. Smith, 1880 "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Jane Smith, 1900. Record: Jane Smith, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV: residence 1880, Nixburg; 1900, Precinct 2 Nixburg back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV: death 17 Nov 1900, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama; burial 1900, Nixburg "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Mary Jane Robbins Smith. Record: Mary Jane Robbins Smith, Find a Grave Index 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 ——. back to the text
  11. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Mary Jane Robbins in entry for Laura Janette Smith, 1925. Record: Mary Jane Robbins in entry for Laura Janette Smith, 1925 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Mary Jane Robbins in entry for Lauchlin McKay Smith, 1933. Record: Mary Jane Robbins in entry for Lauchlin McKay Smith, 1933 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Jane Robins in entry for Annie B Hunter, 1938. Record: Jane Robins in entry for Annie B Hunter, 1938 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Mary Jane Robbins (15)
  1. 1844Mary Robbins in entry for John Smith, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  2. 1844Mary Robbins in entry for John Smith, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  3. 07 Jul 1844Mary Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 7 Jul 1844Mary Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1850Mary Smith, "United States, Census, 1850"
  6. 1860Mary J Smith, "United States, Census, 1860"
  7. 1870Mary Smith, "United States, Census, 1870"
  8. 1880Mary J. Smith, "United States, Census, 1880"
  9. 1900Jane Smith, "United States, Census, 1900"
  10. 1925Mary Jane Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  11. 28 April 1933Mary Jane Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952"
  12. 1933Mary Jane Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  13. 1938Jane Robins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  14. Mary Jane Robbins Smith, "Find a Grave Index"
  15. 1850Mary Smith, "United States, Census, 1850"