This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson, Coil, Johnson, Byerly Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3cDBAIB/977.1251.1 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 989 - 990. TOWN OF FENNIMORE JOHN ROBINSON, Jr., farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Fennimore; son of John Robinson, Sr. (deceased), one of the earliest settlers of Grant Co., who was born in Manchester, England, in 1809, and came to the United States when a young man. He resided on Long Island for some time, where he was married to Catharine Coil. They came to Galena, Ill., about 1836, and soon after went to what is now Iowa Co., Wis., making him one of the early pioneers of the State. He came to what is now the town of Wingville, Grant Co., about 1840, where he rented a farm for two or three years. He then settled in the town of Fennimore, where he resided till his death, which occurred in 1872. He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion; enlisted, in 1861, in the 7th W. V. I., and was discharged the following year for disability. His death resulted from the bite of a rattlesnake. He had five children, who grew to maturity - George, born in 1839, enlisted in the 20th W. V. I., and died near Springfield, Mo., du! ring the war, of typhoid fever; Mary, now Mrs. Even E. Johnson; Frank, John and Agnes. John was born in the town of Fennimore, Dec. 25, 1845, and married Mariette Byerly. They have three children - Ann Etta, Bertha and Pearl. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]