This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lonestar357 Surnames: Robinson, Bishop,Litchfield,Fulford,Brent,Carter,Matthews,Rhodes Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.robinson/9637.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This narrative provides a better description of the movements of this Robinson family: WALLACE ROBINSON AND REBECCA BISHOP Wallace Robinson was born in North Carolina in 1781 and his wife, Rebecca Bishop, was born in 1790 in North Carolina, according to statements from Wallace Robinson and Rev. William Robinson and recorded in the federal records. Wallace and Rebecca were Baptist by faith and so recorded by their grandson, James Franklin Robinson. It was after the year 1809 that Wallace put the oxen to the wagon and began his southerly and westward journey that was to eventually land him and most of his family in Texas. Bidding his native state farewell, his first stop was Alabama. Here he remained approximately thirty years. His wife, Rebecca, was not permitted to complete the journey to the far west. She passed away between 1840 and 1848. In the year 1840, Wallace and Rebecca were living in Sumter County, Alabama, and three of their children were living at home. A son between the ages of fifteen and twenty, and two daughters, one between the ages of ten and fifteen and the other between fifteen and twenty. According to other federal records this indicates the daughters were Britiannia and Nancy. There are six known children and there may have been more. They are as follows: Jane, born 1805 in North Carolina and married Joseph Litchfield; William, born 11 January 1809 in North Carolina and married Julia Lucinda Fulford 16 April 1828 in Marengo County, Alabama, second marriage to Irena Isabel Brent 15 November 1846 in Hinds County, Mississippi; John B., who remained in Louisiana when the rest of the family moved to Rusk County, Texas in 1848; Benjamin F., married to Eran Carter; Britiannia, born 1819 in Alabama and married to Lewis Alexander Matthews 9 September 1850, in Rusk County, Texas; Nancy, born in 1828! in Alabama, married to Richard Rhodes. In the year 1840 Wallace Robinson owned two slaves, a female under ten years of age and a female between twenty-four and thirty-six years of age. Shortly after the year 1840 Wallace and his family and some of his married children and their families, accompanied by a number of slaves, and traveling in ox drawn wagons, started that long trek westward. They reached the western part of the state of Mississippi and called a halt and lived in that state until the last month of the year 1892. Rev. William Robinson states that his last two children, Julia Ann and William Harrison, by his first wife were born in Mississippi. In the last month of the year 1842, the families again put the oxen to the wagon and traveled on westward. It was in the northern part of Louisiana that they again put the slaves to tilling the soil. They remained here for about five years. In the year 1897 the west was still calling and they could resist no longer. All the families were on the move again except for John B. Robinson, who chase to remain in Louisiana where his descendants live to this day. Wallace Robinson and his family, except for his wife, and Rev, William Robinson and his eight children and his second wife, along with the other families, arrived in Rusk County, Texas in 1848. In 1850 in Rusk County, Texas Britiannia was living at home until her marriage 9 September 1850. She was enumerated 28 October 1850 and lived in Dwelling 991. Nancy lived in Dwelling 990. Wallace, who was enumerated as William Robinson, lived in dwelling 489. He gave his age as sixty-nine and born in North Carolina. It is evident that his wile had passed away because the census records state that he was married within the year. Due to the fact that he was enumerated under the name of William, I believe his name to be William Wallace Robinson. He was using his other given name, William, instead of Wallace, a thing that so many of the members of a family did from census year to census year. This record may be found in Sumter County, Alabama, 1840, page 38, and Rusk County, Texas, 1850, page 560, dwelling 489. A. F. OATES Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.