Alzayda Robinson
Alzayda Robinson (maiden name: Willey) was born around 1807 in Rhode Island to Aaron C. Willey. She married Samuel P. Robinson on January 24, 1824, and they had at least eight children: Hannah, born around 1826; William, born around 1830; Edwin, born around 1835; Alida, born around 1839; Rebecca, born around 1842; Alvin, born around 1843; Samuel, born around 1845; and Charles, born around 1846. They lived in Brooklyn, New York, until the 1850s, when they moved to Stanford, New York.
Her husband worked as a merchant and farmer, and by 1860, they owned 10,000 of real estate and $1,500 of personal property. She apparently disapproved of President Abraham Lincoln and blamed him for starting the Civil War. Her son William reported that she hoped the “first ball [of the war] will kill Abe Lincoln.” Her husband died in Newark, New Jersey, on June 1, 1868. By 1870, she was living in her son Samuel’s household in Newark, and she owned $300 of personal property. She died in Newark on July 19, 1887.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3705) | Robinson, Alzayda ~ Willey, Alzayda | 1807 | 1887-07-19 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (8697) [recipient] ~ William R. Robinson to Alzayda Robinson, 10 January 1865
People - Records: 3
- (3199) Robinson, Samuel is the [child of] (3705) Robinson, Alzayda
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, available from Ancestry.com; New Jersey Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, available from Ancestry.com; William R. Robinson to Samuel P. Robinson, 28 April 1861, DL1449.002, Nau Collection.
