There were 3 brothers--CHARLIE, JIM and BILLY.
The exact time is unknown except for being in the 1800's.
The boys split up to go their own way to start their own lives---seperately.
CHARLIE went to Mississippi
JIM's destiny was always a mystery
BILLY went to (or stayed in) Kentucky
When it was time to take a wife, BILLY went to North Carolina.
At a Cherokee Indian Reservation he married Kezzie and brought her to Eversole, Ky
(on the Kentucky River) to live and start their family.
to the
ROBINSON
Clan
Billy and Kezzie had 7 children
Nan
John
Charlie
Liz
Jim
Jane
Lillian
Nan and Jane had long, black hair they wore in a single braid down their back.
Liz married Press Ward, had 2 boys but one of them died.
She asked her dad, Billy, if she could bury her baby under the oak tree on his property.
He consented.
Liz went out all the time to sit under the tree by the baby's grave.
When she died, Billy buried her next to the baby.
This became the start of the Robinson Cemetery in Berea, KY.
Press would have to move off Billy's property at this time.
Instead, in order to remain on the property, he married Jane, Liz' sister.
Jane was dating someone else at this time but she agreed to marry Press
so she could raise Liz' baby, Clyde, the one that had survived.
When Jane died Press remarried and moved from Billy's property.
When Press died he was buried between Liz and Jane
in the Robinson Family Cemetery.
When Kezzie died of consumption, now known as TB, Billy married Rachel Rose.
They had 1 baby girl who died.
Rachel was crazy! She would go into "fits" and Billy had to lock her in the little house
behind his house (probably a shed-type) until she calmed down and got better.
This information was dictated to me by my mother,
granddaughter of Billy and Kezzie
and daughter of Charlie and Dora
October 1982
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