Cornelia was born in NY state to Samuel and Lament Spring, the oldest of 11 children. Sometime between 1833 and 1837, the Spring family moved to DeKalb, DeKalb, IL. On Sept 2, 1938, she married Lyman R. Barber, in DeKalb. Her sister Mary Spring married Lyman’s brother, Clark Levi Barber. Cornelia and Lyman had 8 children : Amy Adelia (1841-1855), Olive A. (1842-1923, m. William Barrett), Levi Clark (1844-1897, m. Martha ?), Eli Newman (1845-1867, m. Mary ?), Uriah B. (1849-1870, m. Mary ?), Damion D. (1850-1850), Manley D. (1852-1928, m. Sara Jane Love), and George F. (1853-1915, m. Laura Alice Cheney, became famous architect). Her husband Lyman passed away in DeKalb on Dec. 18, 1853, a few months after their last child was born.
In 1954 or 1955, Cornelia travelled to Marmaton, Bourbon Co., Kansas, in a covered wagon with her 6 living children (Olive and the 5 boys) with her brother-in-law Wanton Barber and his wife, who already had established a home there. They were among the very first settlers in that area (part of the influx of “free-staters” in favor of abolition). At the time of the trip, her eldest Olive was 11-13 and vividly remembered the trip to her children years later. Manley was a toddler but wrote of the arrival in a journal when he grew up, and the youngest George was a baby.
Sometime in the next decade, Cornelia remarried to Sampson Robinson, in Marmaton. Marmaton was a growing town in those years, and another early family was the Barrett family (another widow, Edith, and her 3 children). Edith’s son William married Olive Barber.
Cornelia Spring Barber Robinson passed away July 24, 1867. A memoir from her granddaughter Alice Barber Whitmore (daughter of Manley Barber, entitled “My DeKalb Chronicle”) notes that Cornelia was buried at Jacksonville, “about 40 miles distant” from Marmaton. It is not clear if Cornelia and Sampson had moved there. Olive and William Barrett took in and raised Olive’s brothers to adulthood. Cornelia’s children variously farmed in Marmaton or moved back to DeKalb, many going back and forth, some later moving elsewhere in the country (George settled in Knoxville, TN eventually).
In 1954 or 1955, Cornelia travelled to Marmaton, Bourbon Co., Kansas, in a covered wagon with her 6 living children (Olive and the 5 boys) with her brother-in-law Wanton Barber and his wife, who already had established a home there. They were among the very first settlers in that area (part of the influx of “free-staters” in favor of abolition). At the time of the trip, her eldest Olive was 11-13 and vividly remembered the trip to her children years later. Manley was a toddler but wrote of the arrival in a journal when he grew up, and the youngest George was a baby.
Sometime in the next decade, Cornelia remarried to Sampson Robinson, in Marmaton. Marmaton was a growing town in those years, and another early family was the Barrett family (another widow, Edith, and her 3 children). Edith’s son William married Olive Barber.
Cornelia Spring Barber Robinson passed away July 24, 1867. A memoir from her granddaughter Alice Barber Whitmore (daughter of Manley Barber, entitled “My DeKalb Chronicle”) notes that Cornelia was buried at Jacksonville, “about 40 miles distant” from Marmaton. It is not clear if Cornelia and Sampson had moved there. Olive and William Barrett took in and raised Olive’s brothers to adulthood. Cornelia’s children variously farmed in Marmaton or moved back to DeKalb, many going back and forth, some later moving elsewhere in the country (George settled in Knoxville, TN eventually).
Cornelia was born in NY state to Samuel and Lament Spring, the oldest of 11 children. Sometime between 1833 and 1837, the Spring family moved to DeKalb, DeKalb, IL. On Sept 2, 1938, she married Lyman R. Barber, in DeKalb. Her sister Mary Spring married Lyman’s brother, Clark Levi Barber. Cornelia and Lyman had 8 children : Amy Adelia (1841-1855), Olive A. (1842-1923, m. William Barrett), Levi Clark (1844-1897, m. Martha ?), Eli Newman (1845-1867, m. Mary ?), Uriah B. (1849-1870, m. Mary ?), Damion D. (1850-1850), Manley D. (1852-1928, m. Sara Jane Love), and George F. (1853-1915, m. Laura Alice Cheney, became famous architect). Her husband Lyman passed away in DeKalb on Dec. 18, 1853, a few months after their last child was born.
In 1954 or 1955, Cornelia travelled to Marmaton, Bourbon Co., Kansas, in a covered wagon with her 6 living children (Olive and the 5 boys) with her brother-in-law Wanton Barber and his wife, who already had established a home there. They were among the very first settlers in that area (part of the influx of “free-staters” in favor of abolition). At the time of the trip, her eldest Olive was 11-13 and vividly remembered the trip to her children years later. Manley was a toddler but wrote of the arrival in a journal when he grew up, and the youngest George was a baby.
Sometime in the next decade, Cornelia remarried to Sampson Robinson, in Marmaton. Marmaton was a growing town in those years, and another early family was the Barrett family (another widow, Edith, and her 3 children). Edith’s son William married Olive Barber.
Cornelia Spring Barber Robinson passed away July 24, 1867. A memoir from her granddaughter Alice Barber Whitmore (daughter of Manley Barber, entitled “My DeKalb Chronicle”) notes that Cornelia was buried at Jacksonville, “about 40 miles distant” from Marmaton. It is not clear if Cornelia and Sampson had moved there. Olive and William Barrett took in and raised Olive’s brothers to adulthood. Cornelia’s children variously farmed in Marmaton or moved back to DeKalb, many going back and forth, some later moving elsewhere in the country (George settled in Knoxville, TN eventually).
In 1954 or 1955, Cornelia travelled to Marmaton, Bourbon Co., Kansas, in a covered wagon with her 6 living children (Olive and the 5 boys) with her brother-in-law Wanton Barber and his wife, who already had established a home there. They were among the very first settlers in that area (part of the influx of “free-staters” in favor of abolition). At the time of the trip, her eldest Olive was 11-13 and vividly remembered the trip to her children years later. Manley was a toddler but wrote of the arrival in a journal when he grew up, and the youngest George was a baby.
Sometime in the next decade, Cornelia remarried to Sampson Robinson, in Marmaton. Marmaton was a growing town in those years, and another early family was the Barrett family (another widow, Edith, and her 3 children). Edith’s son William married Olive Barber.
Cornelia Spring Barber Robinson passed away July 24, 1867. A memoir from her granddaughter Alice Barber Whitmore (daughter of Manley Barber, entitled “My DeKalb Chronicle”) notes that Cornelia was buried at Jacksonville, “about 40 miles distant” from Marmaton. It is not clear if Cornelia and Sampson had moved there. Olive and William Barrett took in and raised Olive’s brothers to adulthood. Cornelia’s children variously farmed in Marmaton or moved back to DeKalb, many going back and forth, some later moving elsewhere in the country (George settled in Knoxville, TN eventually).
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