Orange County VT Archives Obituaries.....Robinson, Ben  June 2, 1910
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From 1910 Herald and News
June 2 OBITUARY of a Civil War Veteran Randolph Vermont

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


Additional Comments:
(Note: There is no information in regards to if Robinson married / had children
while in Vermont.)
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Transcribed by Harriet M Chase; posted by Jan J.


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