Heirology

Ancestors

Abraham Lincoln Robinson

1865-1952 · Kentucky
Born 1865, Kentucky
Died 1952
Children include Elizabeth

Abraham Lincoln Robinson was born on 24 June 1865 in Kentucky, ten weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, whose name he was given. His grave listing names his parents as Richard Price Robinson and Rebecca Elizabeth Thornsbury. Richard was still in the Union army that summer: he served in Company B of the 39th Kentucky Infantry, a Union regiment raised in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, from October 1862 until his discharge at Louisville in September 1865. Richard and Elizabeth Robinson were raised at Laynesville in Floyd County, Kentucky.

On 14 July 1884, in Floyd County, Kentucky, an Abraham L. Robinson, born about 1866, married Rosa Gibson. Abraham's wife Rosa was born on 11 December 1865; her grave listing calls her Rosa Howell. They came west to Arkansas and settled at Oark, in the Ozark hills of northern Johnson County. Their children included Ballard, born in 1891, Leoma in 1897, Arthur Harvey in 1904, Orville in 1907 and Delmar in 1910. A family tree compiled later adds an elder daughter, Elizabeth, called Lizzie, born in August 1885, who married James Riley Cowan of Oark in 1903.

His parents and several of his brothers and sisters went much farther west. In 1911 Richard and Elizabeth Robinson moved to Turlock, in California's San Joaquin Valley, where they died in 1926 and 1927. Abraham stayed at Oark.

Rosa died on 31 March 1951, aged 85. Abraham died on 11 May 1952, aged 86, and was buried beside her in Oark Cemetery. His stone is carved with the Masonic square and compasses.

Children

Elizabeth Robinson (1885-1954)

Sources

Geni profile: Lizzie (Robinson) Cowan (1885-1954)
Geni.com, profile of Lizzie (Robinson) Cowan, 1885-1954, wife of James Riley Cowan
Proves: Names Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Robinson, born August 1885 and died 8 March 1954, wife of James Riley 'Black Jim' Cowan, as the daughter of Abraham Lincoln Robinson and Rose Howell Robinson. It gives her birth as 27 August 1885 at Lanesville, Kentucky, where her gravestone memorial gives 25 August.
Grave memorial of Abraham Lincoln Robinson, Oark Cemetery
Find a Grave, memorial 23082674, Abraham Lincoln Robinson (24 Jun 1865, Kentucky - 11 May 1952), Oark Cemetery, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas
Proves: Abraham Lincoln Robinson, born in Kentucky in 1865 and husband of Rosa Howell Robinson, lived and was buried in Johnson County, Arkansas, the county where Elizabeth's son was born in 1914. Elizabeth is not among the five children linked on the memorial, and her parentage rests on the Geni profile together with the family's naming pattern.
Find a Grave, memorial 23082674, Oark Cemetery, Oark, Johnson County, Arkansas, photograph added by Tony Bell, 29 February 2012.
Find a Grave memorials 23082674 (Abraham Lincoln Robinson), 23082754 (Rosa Howell Robinson), 55788291 (Richard Price Robinson, with his death notice from the Stockton Record, 29 March 1927, and the Floyd County Times clipping of 28 January 1965) and 55788282 (Rebecca Elizabeth Thornsbury Robinson); Geni profile of Lizzie (Robinson) Cowan. Kentucky County Marriages 1786-1965, Floyd County, Abraham L. Robinson and Rosa Gibson, 14 July 1884 (FamilySearch arks 61903/1:1:Q2DD-YD8G and 61903/1:1:Q28H-W8XP).

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