_Andreas DEEG ________+
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_Johan Frederich DEEG ________|
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_Johann Georg FRIEDERICH _
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_Hans Noah FREDERICK _|
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| |_Margaretha BOSCH ________+
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|--Veronica FREDERICK
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|_Margaretha BECKER ___|
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|_Elinor LOCKWOOD ____|
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|_Ann DELAY __________|
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_William MORGAN _____
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_Michael ROBISON ____+
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_William ROBISON ____|
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| |_Margaret MCGUMMERY _
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|--Joseph B. ROBISON
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|_Sarah ROSEBERRY ____|
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Profile of Joseph Robison by John Gessner, 1999.
Joseph Robison on this page means the Joseph Robison of 1777-1841 who was the father of our Edward, the father of John who married Mary Baker, and the father of others.
No one in my family was able to tell me about our Edward (1818-1863) before 1838 when he married Arminda Cole. No one could tell me about his parents or identify his brothers and sister, if any. Edward declared in both the 1850 and 1860 census that he had been born in Pennsylvania in 1818.
About 1990 it became clear that Edward was the son of a Joseph who had been in Milton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio from 1831 to 1839.
Where were Edward and Joseph in 1818? In order to get an answer we made a list of all Josephs (Robison, Robinson, Robeson, etc.) in the 1820 census for Ohio and Pennsylvania. By checking the numerous listings by ages, location and other factors, the search narrowed down to two Josephs, both of whom were in Perry County, PA. One of these was in Saville Township; the other was in Toboyne Township. Checking further we found both in the same locations for 1810 and 1800.
By this time we had established that William of 1735-1810 and his wife, Sarah, of Perry County had a son, Joseph. We concluded that this was the Joseph who lived in Saville Township.
Further confusion came into the picture when it turned out that the Joseph of Toboyne Township had parents named William and Sarah. This William came from Dauphin County and was a part of the early Robinsons covered by Engle. This Sarah was Sarah Caldwell who died in 1785.
Checking further we come up with more facts that make the choice of Joseph of Saville as the father of Edward more conclusive. These were:
1. The Joseph of Toboyne was in the 1830 census fo Toboyne. The Joseph of Saville was gone. We know that Joseph, the father of Edward, was in Green Township, Columbiana County, OH for the 1830 census.
2. In the 1820 census Joseph of Toboyne was listed as in agriculture, while Joseph of Saville was not. Our Joseph did not farm - he was a weaver.
3. The descendants of Joseph of Toboyne claim that their Joseph moved to Huntington County, PA after 1830 and died there.
Jumping now to 1872 we must address the problem of Joseph, the father of Edward, being born in Ireland. The problem is clearly stated in the obituary of Joseph's wife, Elizabeth Hamell Robinson. This obituary appeared in the "Meigs County Telegraph", Pomeroy, OH dated October 7, 1872. It reads as follows:
Death of the Oldest Person in Rutland, Ohio
The funeral obsequies of the oldest person in Rutland Township, were attended to on Saturday last. Her name before marriage was Elizabeth Hamell. She was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1777, and consequently, was in the ninety-sixth year of her age. She was married to Mr. Joseph Robison, a native of Ireland, and a weaver by trade. He came to Philadelphia when about 21 years of age, and in this city they were married. They subsequently moved to Maryland, then to Columbiana County, Ohio, where they remained fifteen years. While here Mrs. Robison made a profession of her faith in Christ, and united with the church, in Green, now Anglaize County, and has ever since maintained the Christian profession.
In 1839 the family removed to Rutland Township, and, in 1841, Mr. Robison died in the sixty-fourth year of his age. Mrs. Robison remained a widow for thirty-one years, and has lived the most of the time with her son, Mr. Silas Robison, where she died. She had a family of ten children, all of whom are living except four. One son, Rev. Joseph Robison, has, for some years, been a minister of the gospel. At one time she and seven of her sisters were widows; but they are now all dead, Mrs. Robison being the last one. She has, however, one brother living in Salem, Columbiana County (Ohio).
She retained her mental faculties remarkably well to the last; but, for five or six years, she has been unable to labor, and, for the last five or six weeks of her life was confined to her bed. In addition to the infirmities of age, she had for some time been afflicted with a cancer upon her hand; but she bore her sufferings with Christian patience.
Religious services were conducted by Rev. Selah H. Barrett, after which she was interred upon the premises of her soil. On the morning of her burial, the remains of her husband, in accordance with her request, were removed from their long resting place, about half a mile distant, and buried with her in the same grave. The scene was solemn and impressive. The coffin in which he had been buried, was made of walnut and was in a good state of preservation, but nothing remained of the corpse except bones, which laid in their natural form except for the skull. This was not found in the original position, having, as is supposed, floated away upon the entrance of water into the coffin.
So what is the problem about Perry County? The problem is solved if the printed obituary is correct.
It is my position that the obituary is wrong; that our ancesters lived a lie, and that Joseph and Elizabeth left Perry County, PA; changed their name from Robinson to Robison, and concealed their history, all because of debt.
In order to show the factual basis for this position it is necessary to go into some detail.
From the obituary, it would appear that Joseph and Elizabeth's children were born in Maryland or in Ohio.
To illustrate where the children said they were born we will make a chart, showing the children's names and birth places as declared in the census returns 1850 on:
Name 1850 1860 1870 1880
William ? dead dead dead
Sarah PA PA ? ?
Daniel MD MD ? PA
John PA PA MD PA
Joseph Jr. MD ? PA dead
Mary Ann MD OH MD dead
Thomas dead dead dead dead
Edward PA PA dead dead
Silas PA PA PA PA
Harriett Ann OH dead dead dead
Elizabeth ? ? ? ?
The chart proves only that there was a lot of confusion. If anything it disputes the idea that Joseph and Elizabeth were early in Maryland.
To further disprove the obituary we go now to the 1830 Tax Duplicate for Saville Township, Perry County, PA. There are twelve Robinson-Robison entries on this list including:
Joseph Robison - absent with Kochenderfer as tenant - 400 acres - value 400.00
Alexander Robison - Weaver - 80.00 value.
The Kochenderfer family obtained ownership of this 400 acres in a tax sale and later built substantial buildings on it. This is northwest one mile from Ickesburg.
The Alexander is from the Robisons north of the mountain and who apparently took over Joseph's trade. In 1839 this same man, then over seventy years of age, appeared in Milton and looked after the real estate until Edward reappeared in 1843.
In the 1832 partition action involving Williams' heirs it is stated that Joseph's interest in William's farm had been sold on execution for debt. The sheriff sold it to Thomas McKinzie - this was a brother of George Robison's wife. The partition action says Joseph "is not in Perry County", yet when Michael Robison files his account he shows he paid Joseph his share. Then we have these two publications:
The Perry Forrester - Thursday, July 10, 1828: Will be exposed to sale by public outcry, at the court house in Bloomfield, on Monday the 4th day of August next, at ten O'clock a.m. the following real estate to wit: A tract of land situated in Saville Township, containing about 400 acres, be the same more or less, bounded by lands of Thomas Drumgold, James Rine, James Duffield, Samuel Hench and the Tuscarora Mountain, about 70 acres of which are cleared, three acres of meadow, having a small apple orchard and other fruit trees, with a log dwelling house and other out houses thereon erected - seized and taken in execution as the property of Joseph ROBISON.
The Perry Forrester - Thursday, April 8, 1830: By virtue of a warrant from under the hands & seal of Office of the Commissioners of Perry County, and to me directed, will be exposed to sale by public vendue (an auction sale), on Monday the 14th day of June, 1830, at the court house in Bloomfield, and continue by adjournment, from time to time, until the following tracts of unseated land (a tax category of persons being taxed who owned land but did not live on the particular parcel), situate in Perry County, are sold... to defray the arrearages of the County and Road Tax due thereon, and costs. J. Wilson, Treasurer.
400 Acres Joseph ROBISON, owner Taxes - $1.06
There are also entries in the Sheriff's Docket, Perry County, PA dated January 1, 1829 and July 16, 1829 relating to the sale of lands of Joseph Robison of Saville Township.
You must remember that in this period of history (1820-1830), there was no bankruptcy. Likewise creditors could take the clothes off your back and take the food off your table.
Silas Robison, the youngest son of Joseph and Elizabeth declared that he had been born in 1822 in Fayette County, PA, at a location west of Uniontown and just off the National Road, now U.S. 40.
From all of this it is easy to speculate that our Joseph was in Saville Township, Perry County, PA for the 1820 census; that about 1820 Joseph and his family left because of debt; that they left their real estate with Kochenderfer; that Joseph and his family went south on to Maryland, and once there they went west on the National Road.
No doubt they were in Ohio by 1823. They do not appear on any tax lists probably because they had nothing. In the 1850 census Harriett Ann declared that she was 33 years old and born in Ohio. This would mean being born in Ohio in 1817; this is not likely. She tried to make herself older, but it is quite possible that she ws born in or near East Fairfield, Columbiana County, OH in 1823. East Fairfield suggests itself as Sarah's husband came from there and there were members of the Cook family there.
By 1825 Joseph and his family had moved to Green Township, Columbiana County, OH. This location became Mahoning county in 1845; the center of the township where our people lived is now called Greenford. We know they were there in 1825 because Joseph was on the personal property tax list for 1826 with two cattle and one horse. Listing day was the first of the year.
They lived on the "school lands" and owned no real estate. Sarah Robison, Joseph's oldest daughter, married William Bradfield of East Fairfield on October 5, 1826. Shortly following this, John Robison married Mary Baker on October 18, 1827. William Robison, the oldest son, married Rebecca Cook about the same time.
The 1830 census for Green Township shows theree households - next to each other. They were:
William Robinson 1 male 20-30
1 female 20-30
John Robinson 1 male under 5
1 male 5-10
1 male 20-30
1 male 30-40 (Daniel)
1 female 20-30
Joseph Robinson 1 male 10-15
1 male 15-20
1 male 50-60
1 female 5-10
1 female 15-20
1 female 50-60
In 1830 William Robison, the oldest son, took a deed for a small lot at the northeast corner of the square in Greenford. It was too small to have held all three families; perhaps it was a trade location for Joseph. In 1831 William and Rebecca deeded the lot to others.
Why the move to Greenford? The obvious answer is the Cook family. There were Cooks in East Fairfield; and Jacob and Elizabeth Cook, together with Lewis Baker, owned most of the center of Green Township.
In 1831 the Joseph Robison clan all moved to Milton Township, Trumbull County, OH. This was a movement to the northwest of about seventeen miles. William Robison, apparently as agent or cover man for his father held the titles to two farms totaling 1818 acres.
In addition to the Robison households, Jacob and Elizabeth Cook and their large family came along. Although the titles were kept in William's name, the land was divided for taxes as follows:
William Robison 58 acres
Joseph Robison 20 acres
John Robison 42 acres
Jacob Cook 61 acres
The personal property tax lists show the following prior to 1838:
Joseph Robinson 2 cows
Joseph Robison, Jr. 2 cows
John Robinson 2 cows
William Robinson 1 cow
In Milton two more marriages occurred to complicate the picture. On November 26, 1832, Mary Ann Robison, the second oldest daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, married Jacob Cook, a brother of Rebecca Cook Robison, William's wife. This Jacob and his sister, Rebecca, were the children of Joel Cook who was a brother of the Jacob Cook who came from Green to Milton. Joseph Robison, Jr. married Nancy Cook, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Cook on November 18, 1834. (Note: according to Jane Fletcher Fiske's book, Nancy Cook was daughter of Thomas Cook and Elizabeth White. John Gessner had already passed away when I found this excellent Cook resource - David Warren Robison, August, 2002). To this then add the statement from Jean Robison of Coffeyville, Kansas that she has a document indicating that Mary Baker, wife of John Robison, was a niece of the Jacob Cook who had been in Green.
Why the move to Milton? The answer is employment. About 1830, the construction of the Ohio-Pennsylvania canal started. John Cole, a brother of Arminda Cole, the wife of our Edward, declared that he had cut stone with the Robisons on the canal from Akron on east. It appears that William, Joseph Jr. and Edward all worked as stone masons, while John, Thomas and the others did other work. John, William, and Joseph Jr. bought other parcels in Newton Falls to be closer to the work.
There was another reason for the move and that was the presence of John Noland in Milton. The Nolands had been neighbors in Perry County, PA. There was a connection with John Noland that we cannot define today. When Thomas Robison died in 1838 he was buried with the Nolands in the Vaughn Cemetery in Milton.
In about 1838 the canal work halted. The State of Ohio had run out of money. This caused the break up of the joint housing venture. William and Rebecca, she signing by mark, sold off the 188 acres in 1838 and 1839. The twenty acres where old Joseph and Elizabeth lived were sold to Jacob Harroff of Austintown who did not file the deed.
Alexander Robinson and his wife, Mary Moy Robison, now appear in Milton - they occupy the twenty acre parcel; are there for the 1840 census; and stay there until Edward returned there about 1841. (Alex. and wife, Mary Moy are not our kin folk.)
By 1839 Joseph, Elizabeth, and all the children are gone. To illustrate this we use the following chart to show where they lived:
Name 1840 Location
Joseph & Elizabeth Meigs County, OH
William & Rebecca Meigs County, OH
Sarah East Fairfield
Daniel Meigs County, OH
John & Mary Greenford, OH
Joseph Jr. & Nancy Meigs County, OH
Mary Ann & Jacob Cook Meigs County, OH
Thomas dead - buried in Milton
Edward missing until 1841
Silas Meigs County, OH
Harriett Ann Indiana
Elizabeth Meigs County, OH
Jacob & Elizabeth Cook Greenford, OH
So now we have most of the family in Meigs County, OH. This is an area along the Ohio River in the southern part of the state. Why there? The Robinson families of central Columbiana County headed by Jonah and Keziah moved at the same time, settling in northern Gallia County some five miles from the new location for Joseph and Elizabeth; there were already Cooks there. The western part of Meigs County is hilly, wooded, and has numerous runs or streams. It is not a rich area today. It is a part of Appalachia.
It is now time to quote in full the autobiography of Silas Robinson written for the newspaper on December 26, 1898:
Langsville, O., Dec. 26, 1898.
Ed. Leader: - Being interested in the letters that are appearing in the Log Cabin department, I send you herewith my mite to help swell the general contribution.
I was born at Chestnut Ridge, Cecil County, PA., Oct. 30, 1821. When I was about five years old my parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Robinson, removed to Columbiana County, Ohio, stopping on school land only a mile from Green Village and five miles from Salem, one of the somewhat noted towns of the state.
My parents remained in Columbiana County for seven years, but my father having purchased a piece of land in Trumbull County, Ohio, we removed to this state, the land he purchased being in Milton Township, a distance of 10 miles from Youngstown.
In the year 1838 I saw a man named McKisson, hung for killing his brother's wife with an ax, the out growth of jealousy. Jacob Cook lived within about three miles of the scene of this bloody tragedy.
On the 12th of March, with the snow knee deep, we left Trumbull County, stopping about three weeks at the home of my brother-in-law, William Bradfield, who lived near East Fairfield, Columbiana County. We went from there to Wellsville on the Ohio about the middle of April, a distance of about 18 miles, and took one of the line boats in the dusk of the evening, landing at Sheffield, then consisting of only two or three buildings, about three o'clock next day.
My father and brother-in-law, Mr. Bradfield, had been down the fall before and bought half section of land at $2.50 an acre the purchase having been made of the Putnams of Marietta.
We put up for the night at Langsville with the father of Benjamin Lang, and the next day uncle Johnny McVey hauled our household goods out from Sheffield to a cabin of Josiah Maloon's place. Here we stayed a few days until my father put up a small shanty in which to live. This shanty stood near where I now live. I have never moved but once, and that was from the log cabin into the house I now occupy. My father lived only a few years after moving here, and died, I think in 1842. My mother lived 31 years and a day longer than my father, and was 95 years of age when she departed this life.
When I came here it was wilderness from my place to the old Woods or Giles Mill, there being not even a footpath between the two places. William Longstreth came there, I think, the same year we came to Meigs County. I remember well when Mr. Longstreth came. His son Maurice was, at that time, quite a little boy. Robert Folden lived then on Parker Run, or came soon after. Uncle Sammy McKnight and John Craig lived on what is now Robert M. Davis homestead. The Davises came to this county after we got here. I think that William Anderson was the only one living in what is known as the Grass Run region, his place of abode being what is now known as the Ellison Anderson estate.
IN THE DEXTER NEIGHBORHOOD
When we came here lived Alex Vonschriltz and Isaac Woods. John Nelson, the father of William Nelson, lived where William now lives. Isaac Woods lived on the place on Dexter Creek, now owned by G. M. Wiseman.
My brothers, William and Joseph left Newton Falls in Trumbull County about the same time we did and got here the same day. My brother William bought the land just below Dexter, now owned by M. L. Vale, which consisted of 90 acres. He put up a cabin on the little eminence between the bridge and cut. "Uncle Billy", as he was familiarly called, sold this land to Jacob Cook, who lived for a time on the place and then sold out to William Longstreth. My brother, William, died on land now owned by Homer Hilla and in a house formerly occupied by John Robison.
Richard Amos came soon after and settled, I think, on Parker's Run, while his brother Tom settled on Grass Run. About this time Dr. Ellison Brown took up his abode on Grass Run. John Smith, wife and Uncle Erastus Waterman came to Leading Creek, and then Jack and Uncle Billy Saxton as did also Dr. John Hugg and others.
THE BRALEY MILL
In this neighborhood lived Amos, the father of Hattwell, Ruel and Amos Braley, the Stevenses and others. The mill was put up, I think, a year or two after we came here. It was built by Ansel Braley. Both sawing and grinding were done, and for years it did splendid work.
RAFTING
In the spring for six successive years, I took a raft from this mill down to the mouth of the creek and then down the Ohio River to Cincinnati. I went out usually on the March Rise, but sometimes had to wait for the necessary water in April or May.
My raft consisted of stuff sawed out by the Braley brothers at the mill, the principle part of which was scantling 4 inches square, out of which was made bed posts. I usually took two rafts out at a time, some 12 to 15 thousand feet. I had four mill dams to run - Langsville, Smith's, Bingham's and Skinner's. At one time I took about 24,000 feet of pine lumber, and inch and a quarter thick.
I didn't usually have much trouble in getting out of Leading Creek. It took about three days and two nights to float down to Cincinatti. I got about $9 a thousand for bedstead stuff and about $13 for yellow pine.
I had a pretty rough experience one night in floating, down about Portsmouth. It was foggy - I couldn't see anything and I couldn't land. Occasionally the raft would rake against the bank brush and then I would drift out into the river again. I endeavored to keep my bearings by throwing coal in the direction I supposed the bank to be. In this uncertain way I drifted in the fog all night and couldn't see a thing till 8 or 9 o'clock next day. My rafting was done in the 40's and 50's.
I have jumped many a time with John Smith, the father of the editor of the Leader. He was one of the most active men and as quick as a cat. I could beat him in a standing jump, but he was too much for me in a run.
My wife's name is Chloe Percy. My son, Rodney, died at the age of 18 years, 6 months and 14 days.
This is all for the time. I should like to hear from others of this neighborhood.
SILAS ROBINSON
By the time Joseph had arrived in Meigs County he apparently decided that it was now safe for him to own property. He owned about 100 acres when he died in 1841.
Joseph left a Will and we quote from it for this record:
WILL
"In the name of the Benevolent Father of all, I Joseph Robison of Rutland Township, Meigs County, Ohio do make and publish this my last will and testament.
Item the 1st. Believing that my dissolution is drawing nigh I give and bequeath my spirit to the God who gave it, and my Body to the Earth that nourished it.
Item 2. I give and devise to my beloved wife, my bay mare and one cow and all the household furniture which may be at my death, during her natural life, then at her death the mare to my son Silas Robison if said mare is then living.
Item 3. I give and devise to my son Silas Robison the Farm on which we now reside, situate in Rutland Township, Meigs County, OH, and all my Farming Utensils, and one roan colt, and one young calf. He, the said Silas my son to pay all of my just debts and to furnish his mother, Elizabeth Robison with a comfortable residence and sufficient support during her natural life; and also to maintain and support my son Daniel Robison during his natural life, and furthermore the said Silas, to give to my daughter Elizabeth Robison fifty dollars when she marries or within two years from this time.
Item 4th. I give and devise to my daughter Elizabeth Robison one grown yearling heifer.
Item 5. Names William Robison and Joseph Robison, Jr. as Executors with full powers.
Dated July 20, 1841
Witnesses signed/ Joseph Robison
William Lidlie
John W. Bradley
The Inventory of the Estate was not filed until June of 1842. It does not show much wealth - about $150.00 in personal property including looms, reels and weaver's stuff.
Joseph and Elizabeth are buried in the Robinson Cemetery - located on the farm owned by Silas and now maintained by Rutland Township. The cemetery is an acre or two of steep hill, mowed and containing many markers. Silas and his family are there too. The cemetery is on the east side of the road from Langsville to Dexter.
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John Gessner to Dave Robison 3 may 1998
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Photo of Joseph Robison Sr.'s grave in the Robison Cemetery, Meigs County, Ohio
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Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island
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