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Submitted by: Margaret Robe Summitt
Email address: csummitt@gte.net
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Husband: Robert ROBE
Birthdate: 10 October 1822
Birthplace: Wills Township,Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 25 May 1909
Place of death: Brownsville,Linn County,Oregon
Father: Josiah ROBE
Mother: Jane Dunlap FRAME
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Marriage date: 18 July 1854
Marriage place: Creswell,Lane County,Oregon
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Wife: Eliza Ann WALKER
Birthdate: 4 Feb 1835
Birthplace: Murray County, Georgia
Death date: 14 April 1927
Place of death: Brownsville,Linn County,Oregon
Father: William WALKER
Mother: Mary "Polly" SHIELDS
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CHILDREN
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Child No. 1: William Walker ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 10 July 1855
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 21 Feb 1944
Place of death: Albany, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 2: Maria Jane ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 17 March 1858
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 5 Feb 1938
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Marriage date: 17 October 1879
Marriage place: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Elias Sumner MARSTERS
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Child No. 3: Mary Belle ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 20 April 1860
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 12 October 1867
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 4: Emma Annella ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 16 Dec 1861
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 7 Oct 1867
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 5: Ida Augusta ROBE
Sex:
Birthdate: 24 January 1865
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 19 October 1867
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 6: Robert ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 17 August 1867
Birthplace: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 20 January 1869
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 7: Hermon Linn ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1 December 1869
Birthplace: Warren Creek, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 28 February 1971
Place of death: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Marriage date: 25 August 1899
Marriage place: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Mary Estella KIRK
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Child No. 8: Charles Sharon ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 Feb 1872
Birthplace: Warren Creek, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 21 Nov 1875
Place of death: Warren Creek, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 9: Stella ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 6 Feb 1876
Birthplace: Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 13 Dec 1876
Place of death: Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 10: Elbert Scott ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 April 1880
Birthplace: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 15 October 1964
Place of death: Oregon
Marriage date: 9 Sept 1908
Marriage place: Linn County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Leila Caroline MARKS
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Birth: Robe family Bible (pub. 1895) belonging to Rev.
Robe; also Oregon Donation Land Claims
!Marriage: Robe family Bible; also Lane County Marriages vol. 1, 1852-
1859 (pub.
Cottage Grove Gen. Soc.) p. 4. Married by Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding at
Eliza Ann Walker's father's Donation Land Claim near Creswell. Rev Robe
was the first school superintendent in Lane Co. The Lane County
Historical Museum ms. collection has the papers of Pleasant Hill School
Dist. no. 1, 1853-; this was the first school district in Lane Co. and
perhaps there is info. about Rev. Robe  in these papers. See Lane County
Historian vol. 1 no. 1 (mentioned); vol. 15, no. 3; 3,6,; vol. 7: 28;
vol. 2:26; vol. 6, 21-24; vol. 8, 25; vol. 11, p. 45; portrait vol. 6, p.
22.
!Death: Robe family Bible; from Oregon Death Index at Ancestry.com:
Robe, Robt.  County: Linn.  Death date: 25 May 1909.  Certificate: 1431
!Burial: in Pioneer (Masonic) cemetery in Brownsville.
!Rev. Robe's Oregon Trail Diary (original), April-August 1851; Session
Minutes of Brownsville Presbyterian Church kept by Rev. Robe; 2 Letters,
1906, from Rev.  Robe to his sister Rebecca Robe Forsythe of Kimbolton,
Ohio; Biographical sketch in Portrait and Biographical Record of the
Willamette Valley, Oregon; Biographical sketch (ms.) of Rev. Robe by his
son Hermon Linn Robe; Biographical sketch in alumni directory of
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA. Don Hunter of Eugene
told me (May 1995) that in the Central Presbyterian Church in Eugene,
founded by Rev. Robe, they have his books, his worn and mended Bible, his
Greek-English lexicon and dictionary, and his meditations on the Lord's
Prayer. In 1995 they put together a booklet on the church's history. The
chapel part has two stained glass windows from the old church that was
remodeled in 1955. They celebrated the church's 140th anniversary in May
1995; in 2005 will be the 150th, with a banquet, etc. Rev. Bo Harris is
the current pastor.
Source: Cambridge Jeffersonian No. 48, Feb. 18, 1904, Page 3. Transcribed
from microfiche by Ricky L. Clark (rick_l_clark@cngp.cng.com) on July 27,
1999:
Rev. Robert Robe Honored
A copy of the Brownsville, Oregon Times gives us an account of the honor
conferred upon Rev. Robert Robe by the Brownsville, Oregon, Presbyterian
church, Dec. 30, ultimo, when he was made pastor emeritus for life.
He was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Octo. 10, 1822, and was graduated
by Washington, Pa., college in 1847, in the same class with Hon. James G.
Blaine. After a course of study in Allegheny Seminary he was licensed in
1849, ordained in 1850, and settled for a short time in Coshocton, O.  In
1851 he crossed the continent and located in Oregon. He did pioneer work
there for years, establish- ed churches, taught school and served as
pastor, living to see the small beginning of a presbytery with one church
develop into over one hundred churches. He was frequently a delegate to
the General Assembly and has occasionally visted his boyhood home during
the years.