OLDTIMERS
CAPT. THOMAS B. ROBINSON
ROBINSONVILLE, ANGOLA,
SUSSEX DELAWARE
Captain Thomas B.
Robinson, age 62 years, died early the morning of Tuesday,
February
21, 1905 at his home in
Angola, near Lewes. He had been ill only a few days with a cold
that developed into
pneumonia. His death was sad news to a host of friends in the
realm of
coastal shipping under
sail, of which the captain was engaged for many years.
His daughter , 23 year old
Anna , lay critically ill at his death and pass away in 1905
also.
The captain had retired
several years ago and returned to the home farm where he had done
much improvement and
modernized until it became the finest farm of Indian River
Hundred.
The farm included, he held
over a thousand acres of Indian River Hundred land around Angola
and Robinsonsville..
During the Civil War Thomas
Robinson served in the U. S. Navy.
Captain Robinson married
Lydia Burton the 15th of April 1868, and she died
February
1914 at age 69 and is
buried with the Captain in Conley’s Chapel church yard. They
had two
sons and two daughters,
son Joshua born 1870, son Thomas Burton, Jr. born 1876, daughter
Anna born November 2,
1872 and died at age 23 in 1905 soon after her father, and a
daughter
Elnora born 1879.
Thomas Robinson’s
father was Joshua, who lived 1805 to 1850, mother was Mary.
The captains wife, Lydia
Burton was born 28 September 1844, died 20 February 1914.
Her parents were Benjamin
and Catherine Marsh Burton. Her mother was from the family of
James and Margaret Rhodes
Marsh of Sussex county.
Abstract of Wilmington
Morning News, obituary, Tuesday 21 February 1905, by Harrison H.
January 13 2018.
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