"Now it was on the 15th day July, 1903 that the eleventh child was born in the Robertson Family who lived in the little blue house down by the rail road track and they named the little girl Grace Leota. Another child to the family was almost an annual event. It simply ment putting in another extra leaf in a dinning table which already took up half of the room. Mother was a good cook and there was nearly always plenty to eat altho some times the variety was limited and as I write this, I wonder how mother and dad ever did so well as they did. It took a lot of food and a lot of cooking to feed so many children.
"But we slid over on the bench behind the table and Grace crowded in. When she was three years old, she had infantile paralysis which left her with one leg effected. After leaving school, she became interested in shoe making as a job and worked in factories at Pontiac, Illinois and South Bend, Indiana.
"On May the [8]th 1930, she was with a group of young folks returning from a party, when control of the car was lost and it crashed injuring and killing several of the occupants.
"Grace was killed almost instantly and was given every possible care by her sister Lena and husband, who lived in South Bend. She was 26 years, 9 months, and 23 days old and was brought to Le Roy and interred in Oak Grove Cemetery."
Grace was never married.
"Now it was on the 15th day July, 1903 that the eleventh child was born in the Robertson Family who lived in the little blue house down by the rail road track and they named the little girl Grace Leota. Another child to the family was almost an annual event. It simply ment putting in another extra leaf in a dinning table which already took up half of the room. Mother was a good cook and there was nearly always plenty to eat altho some times the variety was limited and as I write this, I wonder how mother and dad ever did so well as they did. It took a lot of food and a lot of cooking to feed so many children.
"But we slid over on the bench behind the table and Grace crowded in. When she was three years old, she had infantile paralysis which left her with one leg effected. After leaving school, she became interested in shoe making as a job and worked in factories at Pontiac, Illinois and South Bend, Indiana.
"On May the [8]th 1930, she was with a group of young folks returning from a party, when control of the car was lost and it crashed injuring and killing several of the occupants.
"Grace was killed almost instantly and was given every possible care by her sister Lena and husband, who lived in South Bend. She was 26 years, 9 months, and 23 days old and was brought to Le Roy and interred in Oak Grove Cemetery."
Grace was never married.
Family Members
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George Rolen Robertson
1888–1889
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Pearl Etta Robertson Eckels
1889–1986
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William Jesse Robertson
1891–1971
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Dora Alma Robertson Eckels
1893–1971
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Lena May Robertson Phillips
1895–1988
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Mary Elizabeth Robertson Hamilton
1896–1975
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Bessie Edith "Mildred" Robertson Phelps
1898–1941
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Ada Elsie Robertson Meredith
1900–1979
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Leon Ulysses "Lee" Robertson
1906–1993
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Leona Violet Robertson Baldwin
1908–1986
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Henry Allen Robertson
1909–1952
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Lois Faye Robertson
1911–2004
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