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ROBINSON (ROBERTSON), WILLIAM M, Companies E & C, pvt,
enlisted for 1 year in Paducah, KY at age 26 while a
refugee living in Granville, IL. He was 5'11" tall, fair
complexion, blue/hazel eyes, dark/amber hair, a farmer,
born in Carroll Co, TN. He was in several skirmishes but
no battles. Mostly he served as a scout. Sick in the
hospital at Paducah about two weeks, he did not receive a
discharge but mustered out through Nashville, TN on
8/14/65, a few days after most of the regiment. Robinson
returned to Carroll Co, TN on a freight car. Once home he
farmed and served as a local preacher for the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. He married Nancy Victory Barnes.
In 1889 he joined the GAR and listed his residence as
Frawley, TN. In 1890 Robinson still lived near the Frawley
PO and reported "evil resulting from pneumonia and fever
settling in legs." He applied for a pension,
#761,144/583,262, the same year. Sometime in the early
1900s, while living in Buena Vista, TN, Robinson filled out
a Civil War Questionnaire. He listed his parents as Thomas
F Robinson and "Susaner" Smothers, daughter of Jacob and
Nancy Smothers. He is buried in the Palestine Cemetery in
Benton Co, TN and has a military marker with no dates.6
Sources:
- 1850 United States Federal Census District 18, Carroll, Tennessee; Roll: M432_873; Page: 154B
- Civil War Service Record
- Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958
- Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 18, Carroll, Tennessee; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0134
- THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley
