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    1. [ARLONOKE] Re: Robinson/Roberson in Arkansas please help!!!!
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VV.2ADI/586.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello. No I am sorry I do not. I wish I knew more myself. I do know that a sister of my great grandfather's who had been a Bayne is buried with the family group under the last name of Robison out in the Lonoke Cemetery. When she died she left at least two sons, one of whom was called Andy who was about half grown that my great grandfather actually just took in and another one whose name I do not remember right now--perhaps William, who was the father of a man named Sam Buddy Robison, who was my great great aunt's grandchild. Sam's dad was running a store at what is called Bearskin Lake when he took some sort of fever and died. Sam's mother was an Eagle who later remarried (after Robison's death) to a Sullivan. The catch to all of this is that education was not what it is today, therefore whomever might be doing the census could and would spell it however they wanted. Thus all the confusion over Roberson/Robinson/Robison. But I do remember talking to Mrs. Applewhite and her spelling the name out for me. I do not think you live in this area of the country so you probably do not know that with the way the county lines were, etc, and lots of folks traveled back and forth to Little Rock on the train all the time, you may need to be looking in adjoining counties for marriage info, etc. No matter what the spelling of the name, the info is here in this central Arkansas area I do feel sure.

    09/18/2003 01:56:32