Obituary of Isaiah ROBINSON; Fort Atkinson, WI

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Surnames:  ROBINSON, WASHBURN, TAYLOR, WILCOX
BORCHARDT

OBIT, ISAIAH ROBINSON-FORT ATKINSON, WI

ROBINSON-At his home in this city.  Saturday morning, Jan 7, 1905,
at 8 o'clock a.m., Isaiah Robinson, aged 65 years of paralysis.

The deceased was born in Swampton, Vt. May 21, 1839.  He came to
Wisconsin prior to the civil war and when the latter commenced he
enlisted in the 4th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving
three years, being discharged on account of sickness.

On June 22nd, 1864 he was marriedto Miss Emily Washburn of
Fayettsville, NY and lived for several years at Whitewater, later
removing to Springvale, Iowa, and thence to this city.  For the past
twenty-two years the family has resided here.  Mr. Robinson was a
wood-turner by trade and for many years was employed by the N.W.
Mfg. Co. here.  For a number of years he resided just outside the city
Limits on the Whitewater road.

He leaves a wife and five children, Mrs. Leila Taylor, Joliet, Ill., Chas.
Robinson, Oneida, Iowa, Frank of this city, Mrs. Mary Wilcox who
resides at the homestead, Mrs. Eva Borchardt of Jefferson.

The funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Monday afternoon, at the
residence on South Street, conducted by Rev. John Reynolds, of the
M.E. church. The bearers were the two sons, Chas.  and Frank and the
two sons-in-law, John Wilcox and Emil Borchardt.  The remains were
laid to rest in Lake View Cemetery.

The deceased was a man thoroughly devoted to his family and
possessed a character of rugged honesty and uprightness.  In the last
years of his life he was afflicted with paralysis and his last hours were
filled with pain.