Obits Edwin G. S. and Alice Ann Vanduzer Robbins

 --Paxton Daily Record.  2 September 1905.  Page 2.

--Paxton Record.  2 July 1931.

McNeil Yaw Connection

While organizing my family files today, I found this small note.  Looks like Grandma Mildred Arnold's handwriting. 
Merlene McNeil married Donald Coulom. So Don's mother was a Yaw, her father being a Yaw of Onarga. 
Interesting as the Robbins line also ties in with the Yaws.  I believe Benjamin and Cynthia Robbin's daughter, Cynthia, married Henry Yaw.  They are buried in the Onarga Cemetery.
More Research.

Artesia Township 1904 and the Robbins Family

 

Edwin G. S. Robbins, R. S. Perkinson, Henry Veatch, C. W. Sprague, J. E. Day.  All familiar names in the Robbins research.

--Ancestry.com.  1904 Artesia Township, Iroquois County, Illinois.

Lake Shore School

I got these images last week from cousin Gene Arnold.  The Lake Shore School was located northwest of Roberts, and four of my Grandpa, Ernest Arnold's, brothers are listed on the student page. 

Did you know?

Did you know that Grandma Arnold had two brothers?  Edwin Elliot Robbins and Wilbur Dwight Robbins.

Edwin died when he was five years old of pneumonia at this home near Thawville, Illinois.  He was the third oldest child of Halsey and Stella (Day) Robbins. 

Edwin Elliot Robbins. (I am not completely sure of the spelling of his middle name.  I see it sometimes with one "t" and sometimes with two.)

From L to R.  Edwin, Grandma Mildred, Mary Alice "Aunt Alice" and Grandma holding her brother Wilbur. 

 

 

Edwin is buried in Ridgeland Township Cemetery near Thawville, Illinois.  He died March 25, 1915.  They have spelled his name incorrectly in the first obit posted here.

Wilbur Dwight Robbins is the fourth oldest in the family.  He too is buried in Ridgeland Township Cemetery.  Wilbur was born October 7, 1913, and died July 15, 1979 at the Veteran's Home in Quincy, Illinois.  Wilbur was a veteran of WW II.  Someone has handwritten in the family records his cause of death as "chocking."
He never married and corresponded by mail regularly with Grandma Arnold.  I have a lot of his letters to her.  I need to find his occupation and where he lived prior to the veteran's home.  I'll check with Mom. 

Wilbur Dwight Robbins. 

Ridgeland Cemetery, Thawville, Iroquois Co., Illinois.

Robbins Day Line

Halsey Robbins and Stella Day.  The parents of my maternal grandmother, Mildred (Robbins) Arnold. 

Arnold Family Reunion

--Paxton Record.  28 June 1956.

She was his nurse . . .

--Paxton Record.  4 March 1915.

The Farm with Glen and Frances Arnold

My dad, Glen Arnold and his only sibling, Frances (Arnold) Stephens at the farm they both grew up on.  Both are deceased.  Dad was born in 1933; so I would guess photos are from the early to mid 1930s to early 1940s.  The location is also the farm where their father and his siblings lived, northwest of Roberts, Illinois, in Lyman Township, Ford County.
I recognize some of the out buildings.  Frances is standing in front of the "cob shed."  This building was actually the home of my great-great grandparents, Carl and Tena Zwig.  It was moved to this location from the end of the north lane at the farm.  I was in the building when it was the cob shed.  I recall old wallpaper, junk and darkness, that's about it.  All the buildings are gone now.  But I was so happy to find these photos.  I am always looking for photos of the farm house. 
The bottom photo is the home, but it looks nothing as I remembered.  Gray asphalt siding was added, a basement, and a front porch over the years, and possibly a second story. 

 

 

Amos Silas Arnold

I was just going through some photos and found this wonderful image.  This is Amos, the first child of Johnson and Beckie (Zwig) Arnold.  Little guy only lived six months.  I can't believe I have this.  The photo was taken in 1887 in Chatsworth.  The handwriting on the back looks like Mildred (Robbins) Arnold's script.