Elizabeth Robinson

1866-1942 · Kaukauna WI

Born 1866, Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Died 1942

Children include Joseph

Elizabeth Robinson, sometimes written Robertson, was born at Kaukauna, on the Fox River in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, on 10 October 1866. Her parents are given as James Robinson and Mary Bruslen.

About 1884, at seventeen or eighteen, she married Walter J. Terry, a young man from Warren, New Hampshire. They spent their whole married life at Kaukauna, and she raised a family of eleven children there. Their son Joseph was born in 1885 and Edward in May 1886. After them came William, Rachel Anna (1891), David, Enough (1895), Walter (1897), Julius (1900), Ezra (1902), Emma (1902) and Leona (1906).

She lost three of them. Enough died at two or three in 1898. Walter Jr. died on 7 November 1917, aged twenty. Leona, married to Joseph L. Kappell, died on 3 January 1932, at 25.

The censuses follow the household at Kaukauna from 1900 to 1940. Elizabeth died at Kaukauna on 28 October 1942, aged 76. She is buried in Kelso Cemetery there. Walter lived another sixteen years.

Children

Joseph F. Terry 1885-1956

Sources

United States census 1900, Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin; FamilySearch, United States Census, 1900

Find a Grave, memorials 112028147 and 112028896, Kelso Cemetery, Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin; photograph added by Jeanna Brotz, 2022

United States census 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940 and Wisconsin state census 1905, Kaukauna, Outagamie County; Wisconsin Births and Christenings 1826-1926 (Walter Terry and Elizabeth Robinson, parents of Eliza); Find a Grave memorial 112028896 (Elizabeth Robinson Terry, Kelso Cemetery)

Kaukauna Times, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, 9 November 1917, page 1; clipping from the Kaukauna Public Library added to Find a Grave memorial 112218933 by Jeanna Brotz

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Cite: Heirology, "Elizabeth Robinson (1866-1942)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/elizabeth-robinson-1866-1942-b135c8.