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Rosalia Elvira Mosher Robbins
27 Sep 1849 – 19 Jul 1939
| Birth | 27 Sep 1849 |
| Death | 19 Jul 1939 |
| Cemetery | Oakwood Cemetery Austin , Mower County , Minnesota , USA |
| Added by | K. Pike on 16 Aug 2007 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20977304 |
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Born in NY. Came west with the rest of her family about 1854 and settled in Filmore, MN. She marries Calvin Hubbard Robbins in 1866. They have 5 kids together. She moves out to Los Angeles, California about 1914, a few years after her husband's death. She lives in CA with her married daughter, Gertrude Crandall's family until Gertrude's death in 1930. Rosalia moves back to Minnesota, but then in 1937, moves back out to Los Angeles to live with her other married daughter, Frances Schmitt, for the last two years of her life. She dies in 1939 at age 89. * * * Mrs. Calvin Hubbard Robbins (Rosalia Mosher) passed away on Wednesday, July 19, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Schmidt, 2277 Mandeville Canyon Road, Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Robbins was born on September 27, 1849, in Canton, New York, and came west with her parents when a small child. They soon settled in Fillmore, Fillmore county, Minnesota, where at the age of seventeen she was married to Dr. C. H. Robbins. In a few Years they moved to Wykoff, where Dr. Robbins practiced medicine for 29 years. They then moved to Spencer, Iowa, where they lived for three years and then came back to Minnesota, locating in Austin. A few years after the death of Dr. Robbins, Mrs. Robbins went to Los Angeles, Calif., to be with her daughter Gertrude (Mrs. W. G. Crandall). Here she lived for 16 years until the death of Mrs. Crandall in 1930. Then she came back to Minnesota to live with her daughter Fanny (Mrs. S.C. Schmidt) in Minneapolis. When Dr. Schmidt and family moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1937, Mrs. Robbins went with them. The funeral services were held on Friday, July 21, at the "Little Church of the Flowers" in Forest Lawn. The last rites were conducted by the Rev. E.E. Day of Whittier, Calif., an old friend of the family. The body was cremated and sent to Austin, Minn., to rest beside those of her husband and her daughter, Hortense. Mrs. Robbins was a member of the First Methodist Church in Austin and in Los Angeles. In Minneapolis she belonged to the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church. She is survived by two children, her daughter Mrs. S. C. Schmidt, and a son Eaton Robbins of Berkeley, Calif.; six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. (Obit in the Wykoff (MN) Enterprise, Aug. 3, 1939)
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- Hortense R. Robbins 1869–1922 FaG
- Francis Elyira "Fanny" Robbins Schmitt 1874–1943 FaG
- Gertrude Anstis Robbins Crandall 1876–1930 FaG
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