Barber County Kansas
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Last Sunday, June 16, the neighbors of Major Robinson and wife gathered at their home in Valley township to celebrate his 84th birthday, bringing baskets, pails and pans well filled. The ladies spread a table in the house for the older ones and the young folks had a table under the mulberry trees, then all partook of a dinner fit for the President.Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. M. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. J. Strohl, Mr. and Mrs. N. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Gardner and two children, Mr. and Mrs. C. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Moomau, Mr. and Mrs. Inslee, Grandma Dunham, Mrs. Emrick, Mrs. Johnson; Misses Josie French, Belinda Strohl, Tempie and Delight Strohl, Clara, Bessie and Emma Roessler, Goldie and Silvie Murray, Inez Moomau, Carrie Cox, Mary and Laura Inslee, Dottie, Blanche and Esther Johnson; Messrs. Clarence and Frank Strohl, Charley, Harry, Clark and Cliff Moomau, Robert Tilden, Bob Kite, John Ballard, Jim Brown, Charley and John Bird, Clyde Graves, John Dunham, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were married May 11th, 1843, and they have living 6 children, 29 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. The first of last December, their son, Frank, (twin to Perce) died in Wichita of disease contracted while in Cuba, as Capt. Capron's orderly, being the first death in the family for 42 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson came to Barber county from Illinois 17 years ago and settled on the farm they now live on. The hardships of frontier life have driven a great many away, but they with a few others have stayed, and now they enjoy getting together and talking over old times. Mrs. Robinson was 77 years old the 25th of last March.
They both do a great deal of work. He plowing the ground for truck patch and kaffir hay and is tending a small piece of corn, being out with his team most every day. While she milks and makes butter, raises chickens and sells eggs. Last year she sold 702 dozen eggs amounting to $68, and butter to the amount of $48, besides hoeing the garden and tending to fruit. Now if any other country can produce a better record we want to hear it.
Thanks to Ellen (Knowles) Bisson for finding, transcribing and contributing the above news article to this web site!
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