Henry Clay Robinson

At a Glance

Henry married Burwell School student, Catharine McDiarmid .

Story

Henry Clay Robinson was the son of Eliza Pearce and Benjamin Robinson, who moved to Fayetteville, NC, USA in 1805 from Vermont. Henry Clay Robinson was the grandson of Anne McNeill and Angus McDiarmid, who emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1793.

In the United States Census of 1860 [1], Catharine and Henry Clay Robinson were listed with three children: Eliza Wright Robinson, Lucy Robinson, and Henry McDiarmid Robinson. By 1870 Catharine, presumably a widow, and her children lived with her parents.

She died in 1874, a few days after the death of her daughter, Eliza Wright Robinson. Catharine and Eliza Wright Robinson are buried at the Cross Creek Cemetery. Catharine's only son, Henry McDiarmid Robinson married Mary Faison Hilll on February 24, 1886, and left many decendents [2].

Biographical Data

Relatives

• Parents: Benjamin Robinson [2] and Eliza Pearce [2].
• Spouse: Catharine McDiarmid  (1836-1874) [2].
  Children:
  
  • one son, Henry McDiarmid Robinson (1860-1939) [2].
  • two daughters, Eliza Wright Robinson [2] and Lucy Robinson [2].
• Others: Anne McNeill (grandmother) [2], Angus McDiarmid (grandfather) [2] and Daniel McDiarmid (father-in-law) [2].

References

1. United States Census of 1860.
2. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).