Wade & Webb Family History

Eliza Robbins1828–1853

Autauga · Coosa

Eliza Robbins, a daughter of Solomon Robbins Sr. of Coosa County, Alabama, married West D. Walden in December 1848. Their son, William Walker Walden, was born in 1850, and Eliza died in 1853, a month before her sister Martha Ann.

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

Birth

  1. 30 Sep 1828 Autauga, Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 5 Dec 1848 Westley D Walden, at Coosa, Alabama 3
  2. 7 Dec 1848 Westley D Walden, at Coosa, Alabama 3
  3. 17 Dec 1848 Westley D Walden, at Coosa, Alabama 3

Death and burial

  1. 2 Aug 1853 Death: Coosa, Alabama 8

Family

Parents
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Mary Martha Wilson 1801–1878
Spouse, 5 Dec 1848
Westley D Walden 1819–1863
Children
William Walker Walden 1850–1920

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Eliza Robbins
  2. William Walker Walden, son
  3. Lila Walden, daughter
  4. Hilda Webb, daughter
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Eliza Robbins was born on 30 September 1828 in Autauga County, Alabama, a daughter of Solomon Robbins Sr. and his second wife, Mary Martha Wilson, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date.1 By the mid-1830s the family had moved to Coosa County, where the tree places the births of her younger brothers and sisters at Nixburg from 1834 onward.2

She married West D. Walden in Coosa County in December 1848.3 The Alabama marriage indexes give the date as 17 December 1848, while the tree records three separate marriage events, on 5, 7 and 17 December.3 Inference The earlier dates may be those of a licence or a bond, but nothing attached to the tree says so, and 17 December is the date the indexed records support.3 Her husband, Westley D. Walden, had been born in Autauga County on 1 August 1819.4

The federal census of 1850 listed Eliza Walden in the household of Westley Walden in Coosa County, together with "Walker Walden", their infant son.5 William Walker Walden had been born on 16 March 1850 at Newbury, Coosa County, by the tree's account, and his Alabama death record of 1920 names his parents as W. D. Walden and Eliza Robbins.6 He is the only child the tree gives the couple.7

Eliza Walden died in Coosa County on 2 August 1853, according to the tree, which gives no source for the date and no place more exact than the county; it records no burial.8 Her elder sister, Martha Ann Mitchell, died in the same county a month later, on 6 September 1853.9 No death notice has been found: searches of the Chronicling America newspaper collection for Alabama between 1843 and 1854, under the names Eliza Robbins, Eliza Walden, Mrs Westley Walden and Mrs W D Walden, returned nothing, and the collection holds no Alabama newspaper for Coosa County in those years.10

The tree also gives her a residence in 1860, in the 2nd Subdivision of Coosa County, seven years after her death.11 Inference It is probably the 1860 census entry of her widower's household attached to her by mistake: the tree places Westley Walden and their son in the 2nd Subdivision that year.11

Westley Walden married again on 8 June 1855, to Elizabeth Moore, whose name the marriage index gives as Eliza Moore, and had three more children; the census of 1860 recorded W. D. Walden in Coosa County with Walker in his household.12 The tree, without a source, records him as captain of Company B of the 60th Alabama Infantry and gives his death at Marietta, Georgia, on 10 October 1863.13 Their son Walker married Emma Louise McKinney, a daughter of Eli Harris McKinney Sr. and Martha Holland Willingham, in Coosa County on 14 July 1875.14

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
  2. 1942 History of Coosa County: W. D. Walden, merchant, legislator and captain George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942) · book

Places

  1. 1828Autauga
  2. 1848–1860Coosa

Timeline

  1. 30 Sep 1828BirthAutauga, Alabama
  2. 5 Dec 1848Marriage, Westley D WaldenCoosa, Alabama
  3. 7 Dec 1848Marriage, Westley D WaldenCoosa, Alabama
  4. 17 Dec 1848Marriage, Westley D WaldenCoosa, Alabama
  5. 1850ResidenceCoosa, Alabama
  6. 2 Aug 1853DeathCoosa, Alabama
  7. 1860Residence2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama

Open questions

  • The tree has a residence in 1860 (2nd Subdivision, Coosa) seven years after her death in 1853: probably the 1860 census of the Walden household attached to her by mistake. For Matt to check in FamilySearch.
  • No newspaper covering Coosa County in 1853 is online; ADAH's newspaper database by county (Rockford, Wetumpka, Talladega microfilm) is the next step for a death notice.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Eliza Robbins", Alabama, 1853–1854no matches
  2. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Eliza Robbins", Alabama, 1847–1849no matches
  3. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Eliza Robbins", Alabama, 1843–1854no matches
  4. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Mrs Westley Walden", Alabama, 1848–1854no matches
  5. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Mrs W D Walden", Alabama, 1848–1854no matches
  6. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Eliza Walden", Alabama, 1848–1854no matches
  7. 2026-11-08Assessment: the six pilot searches with no matches (Eliza Robbins / Mrs Westley Walden / Mrs W D Walden / Eliza Walden, Alabama, 1843–1854)Negative results are expected: Chronicling America has no Alabama paper for Coosa County in 1843–1854 (the Montgomery Advertiser run there starts in 1885, and the Talladega and Wetumpka titles in the ADAH Civil War collection start in 1861), so a death notice for August 1853 cannot be found online here. ADAH's microfilm database by county is the next step. No match, no document record.
  8. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Eliza Robbins, b. 1828 ±3, d. 1853 ±3: 2 results; Eliza Walden, b. 1828 ±3, d. 1853 ±3: 0 resultsbest: [Elizabeth Robbins (31 Mar 1830 – 10 Aug 1852), West Charlton Cemetery, Saratoga County, New York](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101894298/elizabeth-robbins); score 0 (low, before review)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Eliza Robbins", Alabama469 pages; first: [Boggy Rangers, A Historical/ Genealogical Study of the Early Robbins Families of Texas, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/boggyrangershist0000euge?q=%22Eliza%20Robbins%22); [American women writers and the work of history, 1790-1860, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/americanwomenwri00baym?q=%22Eliza%20Robbins%22); [D. Appleton and Co.'s list of new works, and new editions of standard works in general, scientific, and miscellaneous literature : With a complete index, 1856, p. ](https://archive.org/details/dappletoncoslist00dapp?q=%22Eliza%20Robbins%22)
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Robbins", inside histcoosacobrew43 pages; first: [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 473](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n473/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 497](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n497/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 511](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n511/mode/1up?q=Robbins); 3 with the given name (Eliza)
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Robbins", inside memorialrecordof00tayl5 pages; first: [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 14](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n14/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 1001](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n1001/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 1008](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n1008/mode/1up?q=Robbins); 0 with the given name (Eliza)
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Robbins", inside northernalabamah00birm8 pages; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 505](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n505/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 770](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n770/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 770](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n770/mode/1up?q=Robbins); 0 with the given name (Eliza)
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Robbins", inside historyofalabama01owen11 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 251](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n251/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 373](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n373/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 373](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n373/mode/1up?q=Robbins); 0 with the given name (Eliza)
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Robbins", inside alabamaherhistor00brew5 pages; first: [Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872, 1872, p. 440](https://archive.org/details/alabamaherhistor00brew/page/n440/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872, 1872, p. 603](https://archive.org/details/alabamaherhistor00brew/page/n603/mode/1up?q=Robbins); [Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872, 1872, p. 605](https://archive.org/details/alabamaherhistor00brew/page/n605/mode/1up?q=Robbins); 0 with the given name (Eliza)
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Eliza Robbins", Alabama (469 pages)Not her: the New England textbook author Eliza Robbins (1786–1853), a Massachusetts Eliza Robbins (born 1786), a New York marriage of 1818, Boston charity lists.
  16. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Robbins" inside *History of Coosa County* (43 pages; pp. 245–254 read in full)Match (high): her sister Kate Grayson's letter gives "Eliza, was born in Autauga County, September 30th, 1828. Married W. D. Walden, a merchant of Nixburg … She was a member of the Methodist Protestant church, and died August 2nd, 1853." Dates agree with the tree to the day; parents Solomon Robbins and Mary Wilson; H. R. Robbins lists her among the daughters. [Robbins family record](../documents/1942-coosa-history-robbins-family.md). Also p. 233: W. D. Walden's "first wife was a daughter of Solomon Robbins" ([W. D. Walden record](../documents/1942-coosa-history-w-d-walden.md)).
  17. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Robbins" inside Brewer's *Alabama* (1872), *Memorial Record*, *Northern Alabama*, Owen vol. 1Not her: other Robbinses (Gaston A. Robbins of Dallas County, Charles W. Robbins of Brewton, Perry and Mobile officers); H. R. Robbins (her cousin) as Coosa legislator 1894–95.
  18. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 6 searchesOne match (Coosa history, Robbins family; record written).
  19. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Eliza Robbins"14 pages; first: [Eliza Robbins (Robbins Library), 1888-04-23, p. ](https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m613n443f); [Eliza Robbins (Robbins Library), 1879-06-03, p. ](https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5999nj618); [Eliza Robbins (Watertown Free Public Library), 1860-1885, p. ](https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68xj85f)
  20. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "Eliza Robbins" (14 items, the first 10 read)Not her: photographs of an Eliza Robbins of Arlington and Watertown, Massachusetts (1860–1893), and schoolbooks by the New England author Eliza Robbins (1786–1853). She was born in Autauga County, Alabama, in 1828 and died in Coosa in 1853. The other 4 items were not fetched (the search is not repeated).
  21. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 1 searchNo match.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX: birth 30 Sep 1828, Autauga, Alabama, no source attached; parents Solomon Robbins Sr. and Mary Martha Wilson back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LC7W-8JB (their page): born 10 Jun 1834, Nixburg, Coosa FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH3C-641 (their page): born 6 May 1836, Nixburg FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-H6V (their page): born 18 Mar 1839, Nixburg back to the text
  3. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, West D. Walden and Eliza Robbins, 17 Dec 1848. Record: West D. Walden and Eliza Robbins, 17 Dec 1848 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Eliza Robbins in entry for West D. Walden, 17 Dec 1848. Record: Eliza Robbins in entry for West D. Walden, 17 Dec 1848 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", database, FamilySearch, Eliza Robbins in entry for West D. Walden, 1848. Record: Eliza Robbins in entry for West D. Walden, 1848 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX: marriage events 5 Dec 1848, 7 Dec 1848 and 17 Dec 1848, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): birth 1 Aug 1819, Autauga, Alabama back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Eliza Walden in entry for Westley Walden, 1850. Record: Eliza Walden in entry for Westley Walden, 1850 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Walker Walden in entry for Westley Walden, 1850. Record: Walker Walden in entry for Westley Walden, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX: residence 1850, Coosa back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): birth 16 Mar 1850, Newbury, Coosa, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Eliza Robbins in entry for William Walker Walden, 1920. Record: Eliza Robbins in entry for William Walker Walden, 1920 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, W. D. Walden in entry for William Walker Walden, 1920. Record: W. D. Walden in entry for William Walker Walden, 1920 back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX: one child, William Walker Walden back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX: death 2 Aug 1853, Coosa, Alabama, no source attached; no burial event back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4NY-ZM3 (their page): death 6 Sep 1853, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  10. Research log, searches made: Chronicling America, Eliza Robbins, Eliza Walden, Mrs Westley Walden, Mrs W D Walden, Alabama, 1843–1854: no matches; no Coosa County paper online for those years back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LH37-HSX: residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa Research log, searches made: open question: the 1860 residence after her death back to the text
  12. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, West D. Walden and Eliza Moore, 08 Jun 1855. Record: West D. Walden and Eliza Moore, 08 Jun 1855 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): marriage to Elizabeth Moore, 8 Jun 1855; children Alabama, Laura and George Westley Walden "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, W D Walden, 1860. Record: W D Walden, 1860 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Walker Walden in entry for W D Walden, 1860. Record: Walker Walden in entry for W D Walden, 1860 back to the text
  13. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): military service 1862: Captain Company B 60th Alabama Infantry CSA; death 10 Oct 1863, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia "United States, Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865", FamilySearch, W.d. Walden, from 1861 to 1865. Record: W.d. Walden, United States Civil War Soldiers Index back to the text
  14. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875. Record: W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): marriage 14 Jul 1875, Coosa, Alabama, to Emma Louise McKinney FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5 (their page): daughter of Eli Harris McKinney Sr. and Martha Holland Willingham back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Eliza Robbins (6)
  1. 1848Eliza Robbins in entry for West D. Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  2. 17 Dec 1848Eliza Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 17 Dec 1848Eliza Robbins, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 1850Eliza Walden, "United States, Census, 1850"
  5. 1920Eliza Robbins, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  6. 17 Dec 1848Eliza Robbins, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"