Lowndes County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Robinson, John William ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 12, 2009, 3:53 pm Cemetery: Mt. Gilead Cemetery Name: John William Robinson Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/photos/tombstones/mtgilead/robinson1267nph.jpg Image file size: 89.6 Kb John Wm Robinson Co H 3 ALA Inf CSA Additional Comments: John William Robinson, son of Cornelius Robinson and Martha Owen DeJarnette, was born July 19, 1843 in Autauga County, Alabama. He died from typhoid fever on November 4, 1884. He married first Mary Lafayette May, daughter of Asa Thomas May and Mary Caroline Bostwick. She was born June 2, 1849 and died from childbed fever on January 10, 1883. Their daughter, Francis Kathleen Robinson Garrett, remembered well burying her parents in this cemetery though no marker can be found for Mary Lafayette May Robinson. John had married 2nd to Mary's sister, Selina McClarey May Kelly Bryant, on June 21, 1884 with John's death that November. It is thought that this was a marriage of convenience to care for John and Mary's five surviving children and Selena's daughter, Lucy May Bryant. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/photos/tombstones/mtgilead/robinson1267nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb