Ohio Family Group Sheet for the Josiah ROBE Family

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Husband: Josiah ROBE
Birthdate: 1768
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: 26 Aug 1845
Place of death: Wills Township,Guernsey County, Ohio
Father: William ROBE, Sr.
Mother: Sarah (BLAIR?)

Marriage date: 25 April 1805
Marriage place: Monongalia County,Va/WVa

Wife: Jane Dunlap FRAME
Birthdate: 1785
Birthplace: Springhill Township,Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Death date: 22 May 1873
Place of death: Old Washington,Guernsey County, Ohio
Father: David Downard FRAME
Mother: Jane THOMPSON

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Sarah ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 13 Feb 1806
Birthplace: Monongalia County,Va/WVa
Death date: 19 July 1885
Place of death: Guernsey County,Ohio
Marriage date: 12 Sep 1827
Marriage place: Guernsey County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Alexander LAUGHLIN

Child No. 2: David Frame ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 Sep 1807
Birthplace: Monongalia County, Va/WVa
Death date: 1 Sep 1884
Place of death: Guernsey County, Ohio
Marriage date: 29 May 1829
Marriage place: Guernsey County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Mary CALDWELL

Child No. 3: (unknown) ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1809
Birthplace: Monongalia County, Va/WVa or Belmont County, Ohio
Death date: 1809
Place of death: Monongalia County,Va/WVa or Belmont County, Ohio
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 4: Jane Thompson ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 9 August 1811
Birthplace: Guernsey County, Ohio
Death date: 25 May 1887
Place of death: Guernsey County,Ohio
Marriage date: 5 May 1836
Marriage place: Guernsey County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Thomas Wilson LAUGHLIN

Child No. 5: William ROBE
Sex:
Birthdate: 17 May 1814
Birthplace: Wills Township, Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 14 Feb 1880
Place of death: Guernsey County, Ohio
Marriage date: 3 January 1837
Marriage place: Ohio
Spouse's name: Mary COOK

Child No. 6: Susannah ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 30 Jan 1817
Birthplace: Wills Township,Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 14 Feb 1856
Place of death: Ohio
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 7: Rebecca Jane ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 6 March 1819
Birthplace: Wills Township,Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 2 January 1907
Place of death: Ohio
Marriage date: 17 Aug 1843
Marriage place: Guernsey County,Ohio
Spouse's name: Robert Hazlitt FORSYTHE

Child No. 8: Robert ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 10 October 1822
Birthplace: Wills Township,Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 25 May 1909
Place of death: Brownsville,Linn County,Oregon
Marriage date: 18 July 1854
Marriage place: Creswell,Lane County,Oregon
Spouse's name: Eliza Ann WALKER

Child No. 9: Maria ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 30 Nov 1825
Birthplace: Wills Township,Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 15 Oct 1906
Place of death: Brownsville,Linn County,Oregon
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Documentation:
* Birth: birthdate calculated from age on grave marker in McQuade Cemetery, Wills Township.
* Marriage: Emma Eliza Laughlin genealogy. Do not have marriage record.
* "David and Josiah Robe each agreed to name his eldest son for the other, and they kept the agreement," writes Emma. Josiah's eldest son is indeed named David. But David named his eldest son William, unless by his first wife he had a son who died in childhood. Josiah in 1825 Guernsey Co., OH tax list page 5. No William. There is a David Robb, and a Benjamin Rose, and a William Robinson.
* Ohio 1830 Census, Wills Township, Guernsey County:
William Robe, one male under 5 (Thomas Hannah Robe), one male aged 30-40 (William). One female under 5 (Sarah Robe), one female age 15-20 (who is this?), one female aged 20-30 (Jane Hannah Robe).
Josian Robb, one male age 5-10 (Robert, age 8), one male age 15-20 (William, age 16), one male age 20-30 (David Frame Robe age 23), one male age 60-70 (Josiah, age 62). One female under 5 (Maria, age 4), one female age 5-10 (Rebecca, age 10), one female age 10-15 (Susanna, age 12), one female age 15-20 (Jane Thompson Robe, age 19), one female age 40-50 (Jane Dunlap Frame Robe, age 45).
* Death: Will of Josiah Robe, Guernsey Co., OH 1841, proven 1845. "Be it remembered that at the October term Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-five of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Guernsey...John Laughlin one of the subscribing witnesses appeared in open court...Which will is in the words and figures following; to wit--
November 20th, 1841. This is my last will and testament, and in the first place I recommend my sole to God who gave it and my body to deasant buriel. And secondly I allow all my just debts to be paid, and thirdly I will and bequeath to my loving wife Jane Robe one thousand dollars part in that Property Bought of Thomas Cochran and the balance to be paid in money the property to be at her disposal at her death. I also bequeath to my loving wife one fourth part of my vandue money live stock and household furniture and fourthly I bequeath to my two daughters Sary and Jane Laughlin Fifty dollars each, and fifthly I bequeath to my son David one hundred dollars to be paid out of the second payment of my land, and Sixthly I bequeath to my son William one Bible, and seventhly I bequeath to my daughter Susanna six hundred dollars and one forth part of my vandue money live stock and household furniture, and Eighthly to my two daughters Rebecca and Mariah three hundred and fifty dollars each, and each of them one forth part of my vandue money live stock and household furniture, and Ninthly I bequeath to my son Robert nine hundred dollars in money and one lot of land containing forty acars, it being the Northwest quarter of the northern quarter of section seven, township No. three of range No. 3 military in Zanesville land district, and Tenthly I appoint Alexander Laughlin and William Robe my executors in this my last will and Disanulling all former wills. Given under my hand and seal the day and year above written. Josiah (his X mark) Robe. In preasants of us John Laughlin David (his X mark) McConkey. Copied by hand from the will book at the Cambridge, OH courthouse by Emma E. Laughlin.
* Land grant to Josiah Robe of Guernsey Co., OH dated 00 00 0000 by President James Madison for the NE quarter of Township #3, Range 3, Section 7. This land was sold by him to Guernsey County in 1841 for $2500 for use as a County Home and Poor Farm. The original building is gone but the County Home is today (1997) in the same location.
284. MADISON, JAMES. Also signed by JAMES MONROE as Secretary of State. Partly-Printed Document Signed as President, one page, oblong folio, Washington, D.C., December 23, 1811. A land grant issued to Josiah Robe, "...for the North East Quarter of Section...of the unappropriated Lands in the Military District of the Lands directed to be sold at Zanesville by the act of Congress, entitled 'An act providing for the sale of the Lands of the United States in the Territory north-west of Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river'..." The document bears some brown stains at the center fold and perimeter well away from the two strong signatures. The paper wafer seal is entirely present. Overall a fine and impressive document bearing the signatures of two important early presidents. (1500/2000) Offered for sale by Pacific Book Auction Galleries Sale 87 Autographs & Manuscripts Thurs 26 Oct 1995 1PM
* 1820 Ohio Census Index lists Robb, Joshua [sic] p. 180A, Wills Twp., Guernsey Co. Males: 210010 Females 3001001 total: 9.
* Sarah Robe's family history in the Currey-Barker-Baldwin Genealogy states: "I will now speak of Josiah he lived in Guernsey Co. Ohio. He was an excellent good man. Raised a family of good children. His son Robert is a Presbyterian minister in Oregon. Josiah died in the year 1845."