This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holman, Manney, Robinson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3cDBAIB/8032 Message Board Post: From June 2, 1910 Herald and News, Randolph Vermont: OBITUARY of a Civil War Veteran   Ben Robinson, died aged 58, was born in North Carolina into a slave family. At age ten he was found by some Vermont Civil War Soldiers, working as a slave, cultivating a cornfield. He left the field and went with CO C 9th VT Reg. He was in the "service" of John Manney of Middlebury, Vermont and then Lt. William Holman CO G. who brought him home to Braintree, Vermont. Holman had guardianship of Robinson, sent him to school and at age 21 gave him $ 200.00 to set out a life for himself. He work for many years as watchman in the mills in Randolph. Lastly, he worked at Emerson's Mill. At some point in his life he went with John Manney to Washington D.C. with other Veterans in search of some information of Robinson's father, to no avail. (He, as a slave had taken his owner's name when a child.) Robinson's funeral was at the Methodist Church in Randolph, with the U. S. Grant Post # 96 Honor Guard. He is buried in South View Cemetery, Randolph, Vermont. (There is not any information in regards to if Robinson married / had children while in Vermont.) ____ Transcribed by, Harriet M Chase Posted with permission, Jan Jordan