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Elizabeth Ann "Eliza" Bonner Robinson

19 Apr 1817 – 19 May 1897

Birth19 Apr 1817
Death19 May 1897
CemeteryRobinson Cemetery
Freestone County , Texas , USA
Added byMichael Edd Bonner on 20 Oct 2012
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Elizabeth Ann Bonner, daughter of William Bonner and Ann Lee Joel, was born 19 April 1817 in Abbeville County, SC. While her name was most likely Elizabeth, she was always known as Eliza. She married James Bonner Robinson on 19 July 1837; he was some 9 years her senior. Staunch members of the ARP Church, they first made their home in Abbeville Co., SC and later in Wilcox Co., AL. They migrated to Freestone County, Texas about 1854 and acquired several hundred acres of land just across Tehuacana from Eliza's father, William Bonner, and across the road from her brother, William Bonner, Jr.. It is said that the slaves working the plantation belonged to Eliza but were managed by James. The land was divided among their children before James Robinson's death. Eliza Ann Bonner and James Robinson were parents of 14 children: Mary Susannah Robinson (1839 Wilcox Co., AL - 1911 Navarro, Co., TX) married Robert Stuart Davidson; Ann Eliza Robinson (1840 Wilcox Co., AL - 1883 Navarro Co., TX) married Walker Young Davidson; Infant Son (1842 Wilcox Co., AL); Rebecca Jane Robinson (1843 Wilcox Co., AL – 1920 Freestone Co., TX) married Irvine Hale Bonner; William Wirt Bonner Robinson (1845 Wilcox Co., AL – 1913 Navarro Co., TX) married Mary S. Irvine; Margaret Joel Robinson (1847 Wilcox Co., AL – 1864 Freestone Co., TX); Martha Campbell Robinson (1849 Wilcox Co., AL – 1865 Freestone Co., TX); James Pressly Robinson (1851 Wilcox Co., AL – 1918 Freestone Co., TX) married Mary Fannie McCracken; Elizabeth Boggs Robinson (1852 Wilcox Co., AL – 1921 Freestone Co., TX) married John Laird Bonner; John Lee Robinson (1855 Freestone Co., TX – 1941 Freestone Co., TX) married Caroline Mae Grayson and Mrs. Sallie Compton; Samuel Robinson (1858-1859 Freestone Co., TX); Thomas Harvey Robinson (1860 Freestone Co., TX – 1920 Navarro Co., TX) married Mary Caroline Bonner and Ettie Foster Robinson; Sarah Hope "Sallie" Robinson (1860 Freestone Co., TX – 1835 Freestone Co., TX) married Oliver Young Bonner. Eliza Ann Bonner Robinson died at the home of her son on 18 March 1897. Fairfield Recorder newspaper - May 28, 1897 edition "To Die is Gain Mrs. Eliza A. Robinson [Elizabeth Ann Bonner] died at the residence of her son, T. H. Robinson [Thomas Harvey Robinson], in this county on the 19th inst. Though she had been a constant sufferer since January last the end came rather unexpectedly for some days past her general symptoms seemed somewhat rather improved and her friends hoped she might be definitely spared to them but alas! "what shadows we are; what shadows we pursue." "How often is man cut down at an hour which seems the very meridian of his existence." Mrs. Robinson had obtained her 81st year and was the relic of James [Bonner] Robinson who was well and prominently known in our country and to whom she was married in [July 19] 1837. But first they were both born in South Carolina coming to Texas from Alabama in 1852 to the place where they both died. Our deceased friend had strict religious training from early childhood and through her long life always exhibited the characteristic traits of a pure and modest woman commingled of those of the humble and trusting Christian. To the appeals of charity she never turned a deaf ear, but willingly and cheerfully contributed to the relief and neccessities of her less fortunate neighbors. In virtue of the Savior's atonements she will be ransomed from the power of the grave and shall be redeemed from death. Her body which is sown in a natural one will be raised a spiritual one. It is sown in corruption it will be raised in corruption for this corruption must put on incorruption and this mortal immortality. If the loved ones she has left behind will but be instructed by her Christian example, taught by her Christian precept and follow in her Christian footsteps there shall be "in that house not made with hands" a happy and blessed reuniting of the broken family; when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout-with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God - when the dead in Christ shall rise first. To her family her loss is great, but to her "death is gain" for the loved disciple of our Savior under the influence of divine inspiration tells us "blessed are the dead which die in the Lord henceforth; yea with the spirit that they may rest from their labors and their work to follow him". She has been laid to rest in the family cemetery beside the lover of her youth - her husband - and the father of her children. Her life has not ended in the grave, her influences will reach far into the coming years of those whose footsteps she strove to guide in the narrow path of duties and even unto the death they will feel that she merited the encomium bestowed by the wisest of men upon a good woman; "many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all" A Friend Winkler, Texas May 25, 1897

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