TX Family Groupsheet: Family of Benjamin Wesley Robison Contributor: Barbara Tynes Claiborne mailto: *********************************************** Copyright by submitter. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** HUSBAND: Benjamin Wesley ROBISON Birthdate: 3-18-1839 Birth place: Chambers County, Alabama Death date: 1-12-1929 Death place: Milam County, Texas Burial place: Rice Community Cemetary Father: Nipper Adams Robison Mother: Permelia Burns WIFE: Nancy Lucinda PRESCOTT Birthdate: 1-18-1846 Birth place: Coffee County, Alabama Death date: 5-18-1933 Death place: Milam County, Texas Burial place: Rice Community Cemetary Father: William Daniel Prescott Mother: Harriet Elizabeth Richbourg Marriage date: 4-5- 1866 Marriage place: Elba, Alabama CHILD: Hugh Andrew Francis Monroe Robison Birthdate: 1-10-1867 Birth place: Coffee County, Alabama Death date: 10-17-1939 Death place: Wheeler, Texas CHILD: Daniel Nipper Robison Birthdate: 2-3-1868 Birth place: Milam County, Texas Death date: 11-12-1948 Death place: Hedley, Texas CHILD: Oyd Leander Robison Birthdate: 10-15-1897 Birth place: Milam County, Texas Death date: 12-24-1928 Death place: Santa Cruz, California CHILD: Dorsey Lee Kinard Robison Birthdate: 6-10-1876 Birth place: Milam County, Texas Death date: 6-29-1950 Death place: Huntington, Arkansas CHILD: Harriet Ann Robison Birthdate: 9-10-1878 Birth place: Milam County, Texas Death date: 11-16-1941 Death place: Rice Community Cemetary, Milam County, TX CHILD: Perry Benjamin Hale Robison Birthdate: 3-10-1883 Birth place: Milam County, Texas Death date: 10-15- 1960 Death place: Memphis, Texas CHILD: Calvin Parnell Robison Birthdate: 3-8- 1889 Birth place: Milam County, Texas Death date: 1-9-1955 Death place: Cameron, Texas SOURCES: Family bibles, cemetary records, "History of Prescotts", (in my parent's possession, I have copies of pertinent pages and from which notes below were made), family photos and personal knowledge. Perry Robison was my gr.grandfather and I knew him. NOTES: During the Civil War, Benjamin Wesley Robison was one of Forest's Raiders, a member of the 53rd Cavalry, and served under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forest until he was discharged at Augusta, Georgia May 4, 1865. After the War, Benjamin and Nancy Ann traveled by wagon to the farm of Mr. Crow on the Trinity River, where he made a crop and then sold his gold watch to buy a wagon and team of oxen. They drove "Duke" and "Charlie" from Kaufman County to Milam County, where they bought land from Mrs. William Rice. The geographical center of Milam County was established in Benjamin's farm. He became a Mason and at the time of his death he was the oldest member of lodge.