Oregon Family Group Sheet for the Rev. Robert ROBE Family


Husband: Rev. Robert ROBE
Birthdate: 10 October 1822
Birthplace: Wills Township,Guernsey County,Ohio
Death date: 25 May 1909
Place of death: Brownsville,Linn County,Oregon
Father: Josiah ROBE
Mother: Jane Dunlap FRAME

Marriage date: 18 July 1854
Marriage place: Creswell,Lane County,Oregon

Wife: Eliza Ann WALKER
Birthdate: 4 Feb 1835
Birthplace: Murray County, Georgia
Death date: 14 April 1927
Place of death: Brownsville,Linn County,Oregon
Father: William WALKER
Mother: Mary "Polly" SHIELDS

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: William Walker ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 10 July 1855
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 21 Feb 1944
Place of death: Albany, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 2: Maria Jane ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 17 March 1858
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 5 Feb 1938
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Marriage date: 17 October 1879
Marriage place: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Elias Sumner MARSTERS

Child No. 3: Mary Belle ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 20 April 1860
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 12 October 1867
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 4: Emma Annella ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 16 Dec 1861
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 7 Oct 1867
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 5: Ida Augusta ROBE
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Birthdate: 24 January 1865
Birthplace: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Death date: 19 October 1867
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 6: Robert ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 17 August 1867
Birthplace: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 20 January 1869
Place of death: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 7: Hermon Linn ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1 December 1869
Birthplace: Warren Creek, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 28 February 1971
Place of death: Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
Marriage date: 25 August 1899
Marriage place: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Mary Estella KIRK

Child No. 8: Charles Sharon ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 Feb 1872
Birthplace: Warren Creek, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 21 Nov 1875
Place of death: Warren Creek, Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 9: Stella ROBE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 6 Feb 1876
Birthplace: Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 13 Dec 1876
Place of death: Linn County, Oregon
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Child No. 10: Elbert Scott ROBE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 April 1880
Birthplace: Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Death date: 15 October 1964
Place of death: Oregon
Marriage date: 9 Sept 1908
Marriage place: Linn County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Leila Caroline MARKS

Documentation:
!Birth: Robe family Bible (pub. 1895) belonging to Rev. Robe; also Oregon Donation Land Claims
!Marriage: Robe family Bible;
!also Lane County Marriages vol. 1, 1852- 1859 (pub. Cottage Grove Gen. Soc.) p. 4. Married by Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding at Eliza Ann Walker's father's Donation Land Claim near Creswell.
!Rev Robe was the first school superintendent in Lane Co.
!The Lane County Historical Museum ms. collection has the papers of Pleasant Hill School Dist. no. 1, 1853-; this was the first school district in Lane Co. and perhaps there is info. about Rev. Robe in these papers.
!See Lane County Historian vol. 1 no. 1 (mentioned); vol. 15, no. 3; 3,6,; vol. 7: 28; vol. 2:26; vol. 6, 21-24; vol. 8, 25; vol. 11, p. 45; portrait vol. 6, p. 22.
!Death: Robe family Bible; from Oregon Death Index at Ancestry.com: Robe, Robt. County: Linn. Death date: 25 May 1909. Certificate: 1431
!Burial: in Pioneer (Masonic) cemetery in Brownsville.
!Rev. Robe's Oregon Trail Diary (original), April-August 1851;
!Session Minutes of Brownsville Presbyterian Church kept by Rev. Robe;
!2 Letters, 1906, from Rev. Robe to his sister Rebecca Robe Forsythe of Kimbolton, Ohio;
!Biographical sketch in Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon;
!Biographical sketch (ms.) of Rev. Robe by his son Hermon Linn Robe;
!Biographical sketch in alumni directory of Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA.
!Don Hunter of Eugene told me (May 1995) that in the Central Presbyterian Church in Eugene, founded by Rev. Robe, they have his books, his worn and mended Bible, his Greek- English lexicon and dictionary, and his meditations on the Lord's Prayer. In 1995 they put together a booklet on the church's history. The chapel part has two stained glass windows from the old church that was remodeled in 1955. They celebrated the church's 140th anniversary in May 1995; in 2005 will be the 150th, with a banquet, etc. Rev. Bo Harris is the current pastor.
!Source: Cambridge Jeffersonian No. 48, Feb. 18, 1904, Page 3. Transcribed from microfiche by Ricky L. Clark (rick_l_clark@cngp.cng.com) on July 27, 1999:
Rev. Robert Robe Honored
A copy of the Brownsville, Oregon Times gives us an account of the honor conferred upon Rev. Robert Robe by the Brownsville, Oregon, Presbyterian church, Dec. 30, ultimo, when he was made pastor emeritus for life. He was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Octo. 10, 1822, and was graduated by Washington, Pa., college in 1847, in the same class with Hon. James G. Blaine. After a course of study in Allegheny Seminary he was licensed in 1849, ordained in 1850, and settled for a short time in Coshocton, O. In 1851 he crossed the continent and located in Oregon. He did pioneer work there for years, establish- ed churches, taught school and served as pastor, living to see the small beginning of a presbytery with one church develop into over one hundred churches. He was frequently a delegate to the General Assembly and has occasionally visted his boyhood home during the years.
 


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