Robinson Family Website - About US

About Us ( here is the begginings of a brief family history)

 

 

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OURSTORY..

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 Robinsons

 

 

 

Version 1.1 circa 2006 

 

This is an incomplete family history of the Robinsons, Broadys, Peters and Kilbreaths. 

Four families with a conjunctive history: related by blood sweat, time and mutual ancestors. 

This history is Ourstory a growing document filled with the need to correct and preserve Ourstory and keep the old traditions alive both oral and written.  Please help us preserve our legacy.

 

Your input, your corrections and your ideas are encouraged.

                                                            Chapter One

The original text  by Anice Donna Broady Walker

Edited by Clinton Walker 

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IN THE BEGINNING -

 

     Christian Robinson was born in the year of 1830, in Augusta county of Virginia.

 

She married Josh Robinson when she was about 18 years of age.  They were blessed with one son, Matthew  Robinson. 

Matthew was born in the year of 1849.

    

   

 

 

Rev. Mathew Robinson 1849 - 1922

 

 Josh and Christian  both were slaves as this was during that period of history before and during the American Civil War (The War 1861 - 1865).  When the war ended, Matthew Robinson was 16 years of age.

          The slave owners were the Warwicks, Jacob and Elen.  These people were farmers and used their slaves as farmhands.   We are told that the Warwick's treated their slaves with compassion and would often teach them how to correctly perform certain tasks.  

         I was told that when the war ended, the Yankee soldiers from the North came to this farm and tried to take the animals away.  Young Matt Robinson tried to fight them to keep them from taking the horses because the Warwick had given him a horse for his very own. After the signing of  The Emancipation Proclamation, Josh and Christian continue to work for the Warwicks,

  

     When Matthew was about two or three year old, his father, Josh Robinson was either sold or given to another slave owner.  Because of this, he was raised by his mother and Step-father, Anthony Peters. 

 

     Anthony Peters was born in l816.  He was very good to Matt and treated him as his own son.   Matt's mother never let him forget his real father and always reminded him that he was the "Spitting Image" of his father Josh Robinson.

  

     Christian and Anthony Peters had eight children, four sons and four daughters.  The daughters names were  Julia (married John  Rogers), Mary Ellen (married Pleasant Martin), Scelina (married David Calloway) and Annie (married Walter  Dandridge)  The sons were James,  Andrew, Thomas and Joseph.

 This information was furnished to me by Fay Peters Davis.

Faye Peters Davis 1903 - 1994

 Anthony Peters father's name was Peter Peters and he had many children but she only knew of Ruben and her grandfather Anthony

 

     Christian Robinson -Peters and Anthony taught their children to love and respect each other  and because of their Christian up-bringing this was a very loving and caring family.

 

     When Matthew became a young man, he began to preach the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus The Christ in the Baptist churches of the nearby cities and counties.  He was known as a Circuit minister   While  on one of these trips, when he was preaching a revival service one of the members of the congregation came up to him after the service was over and asked him if he had relatives living in that town. Rev Matthew Robinson answered  that he was not aware of any relatives  there.  The member then asked him if he would go with him to visit a sick member of the Congregation.  Grandpa said certainly he would go.

 

         They went to visit this man and when grandpa saw him, he knew at once that this man was his father, Josh Robinson.  He said that his mother was right, because he was the "Spitting Image” of his father     Matt stayed on in this town after the revival was over to be with his father. A few days later, his father died and Matt was able to preach his father's funeral.

 

     He told his mother later that he believed that the Lord had sent him to that town so that he could see and spend the last days of his father's life with him.

 

     When Matthew Robinson was 31 years of age, he married Martha Kilbreth. 

The year was 1880 and Martha was eighteen year old,

Martha was born in 1862, the daughter of George and Sarah Turner Kilbreth .  This family lived in Rockbridge County of Virginia.

 

     Matt took his bride back to Staunton, Virginia to live.  The house that they lived in had been used during the Civil War as a home for nurses.  This home had a large barn and Apple Orchard and was a home that their children and grandchildren loved.

 Martha Kilbreath Robinson 1862 - 1943

 

   

 This family was blessed with ten children, five sons and five daughters. 

Their names and date of birth are as following:

 Alice was the was the first born in l881. She was the only child Martha and Matt were unable to raise to adulthood. She died when she was just a baby. 

Ernest was second to be born in l882,  he was sick and lived most of his life in a hospital in Petersburg, Va, He entered the hospital in l926 and was there until his death

 

JamesWilliam Robinson was born in  l885,

Christian Ann Robinson Broady was born in 1887,

                                    EffieRobinson Kincaide was born in  1889,

Emmitt - l891

 

 Matthew Thomas Robinson entered life March 26, 1893 and departed life Sept. 27th 1961

 

 Mary Elizabeth Robinson Black was born Jan. 16th  l895 and left this life Nov.30th 1961

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                              Rachel Robinson Price was born in  l897 and past in 1939

 

 

 

 

 

 

and Joseph Storem Robinson was the last and he was born in 1900 and past in 1949

 

     Matthew and Martha Robinson taught their children by precepts and examples.  To live clean and moral lives.   To put God first and to live the Biblical meaning of "Love thy Neighbor".

 

     Education was very important in this family, and they all strive to obtain a higher or college education. Three of their daughter  Christian, Mary  and Rachel became school teachers

 

 

      

 

Ourstory continues