> >Happy Holidays, List. In hopes that there is someone new out there, I am >sending my brickwall along again. Would be a lovely Christmas gift if >someone had info about my Roberson family. Thanks for all the help all of >you have already given me. Stay well and safe. >> >>Here's my mystery family. I hope someone out there will recognize the >>names and write to me. Several kind people have already sent helpful info >>which I appreciate very much, but I have been unable to find my >>Robinson/Roberson and Bonner families. >> >>William Robinson/Roberson (family uses both spellings) >> born ca 1790, died 1870. He moved from S. Carolina to settle in the >>southwest part of Lowndes County. May have lived in Farmersville. May be >>buried in Mt. Willing, Al., cemetery. >> Spouse Elizabeth BONNER born ca 1793, died 1875. >> >>Son Tye Robinson/Roberson was born in 1816 and died in 1842. "Tye" is >>probably a nickname. >> Spouse Mary (Polly) Sills, born 1820, died 1879. Polly is the daughter >>of Clement and Elizabeth Thorton Sills. The Sills lived in Wilcox County. >>After Tye's early death, Polly married Isaac Ingram and had several more >>children. >> >>Polly and Tye's only child was my grandfather Alfred Bennett Roberson who >>married first Martha Elizabeth Canterbury, the daughter of Redding and >>Drucilla Cochron Canterberry. Redding and Drucilla lived in Lowndes >>County. Alfred Bennett is not listed with Polly and Isaac in the 1850 >>census when he would have been eleven years old. He's not with his Sills >>grandparents. >> >At one time, Alfred Bennett and Martha Elizabeth lived in Pineapple, >Wilcox County. Alfred was captured during the Civil War. When he was >released in Tennessee, he and his close friend John Thorton walked home to >southern Alabama, almost starving to death. Shortly after he returned, >Martha Elizabeth died, leaving two small sons. Alfred Bennett then >married Mary Alice Wright, daughter of John and Eliza Solomon Wright who >lived in Old Texas. The couple lived in Pineapple and then moved to >Excel, Alabama, where they had ten children. >> >>I will be very grateful for any information about these people. Freda >>Roberson Noble >>tnoble@mcn.org > >Researching Roberson/Robinson, Wright, Sills, Solomon, Ingram, Thorton, >Regan, Sims, Boles. >> > > Freda and Ted Noble tnoble@mcn.org