Benton Co., AR - Biographies - James Alexander Robinson

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James Alexander Robinson was born in McNary County. Tenn., December 23, 
1829, and is a son of John Brown and Jane McKissick (Dickson) 
Robinson, and grandson of John Robinson. The latter was of Scotch 
descent, and was a resident of South Carolina. He served in the 
Revolutionary War, enlisting in the army at the age of seventeen 
years; he served until its close and died in Benton County, Ark., in 
1842. His wife's name was Abigail Moore. John Brown Robinson was born 
in Mecklenburg County, N. C., September 14, 1801, and his wife was 
born in Middle Tennessee in 1805, and died in McNary County in 1835. 
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a daughter of Ezekiel 
Dickson, who was a farmer, and came from North Carolina to Tennessee. 
He served in the War of 1812, and was with Jackson at the battle of 
New Orleans. His death occurred in Benton County, Ark., about 1858, 
whither he had come in 1836. James Alexander Robinson was reared in 
Benton County, and educated in the common schools. At the age of 
twenty-one years he was married to Sarah Jane Yell, who was born in 
Tennessee on June 16, 1829, and immediately settled down to farming in 
Benton County. To them were born two children, only one of who is 
living, Brown Yell, who lives with his father. Mr. Robinson owns a 
good farm of 325 acres, with 150 under cultivation. He is a Master 
Mason, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South. In 1862 he enlisted in the Sixteenth Arkansas Regiment, 
Confederate States Army, and received his discharge at Baldwin, Miss., 
in 1863. He was in a number of engagements, but was neither wounded 
nor captured.