Susan Robertson was truly a daughter of the American Revolution.
Note: The names Robertson and Robinson were used interchangeably.
Susan Robinson was born in 1763 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, to Charles and Susannah Nichols Robertson. Her father moved the family to the Watauga Settlement where he became a prominent leader. of the Watauga Association. (See "The Lost State of Franklin" for more on Colonel Robertson.)
Colonel Robertson was well known. One of his friends was the legendary Daniel Boone. In 1775, Boone and a group of friends journeyed to the area that would become Boonesborough, Kentucky. Cherokees attacked the party, killing two members (Captain William Twitty, Find A Grave Memorial# 90164388) and almost killing Felix Walker, son of Colonel John Walker who was on the trip also. When Walker wrote his memoirs, he was most complimentary of the way Boone nursed him. Walker suffered for months. This convalescence would affect the course of American history five years after the Boonesborough trip.
Decades later, Congressman Felix Walker wrote his memoirs and recalled:
"Thinking it necessary to become a citizen of the world, in its utmost latitude, concluded to marry. Accordingly I was married to Susan Robinson, a beautiful girl of fifteen, on the 8th of January, 1778, daughter of Col. Chas. Robinson — where I had resided for 3 years past. In March ensuing, my wife and self paid a visit to my father in Rutherford, designed to spend the summer. On the 28th of June, my dear girl had a miscarriage which terminated her existence. She died on the 9th day of July, 1778, six months after our marriage.
"This was the most momentous and eventful year in which I lived, through the whole period of my life. I was so shocked and impressed with so unexpected an event, that my mind was almost lost. Absorbed in grief almost insupportable, I felt so deeply afflicted that I thought all my prospects of happiness were buried with the woman I loved...."
Note: The names Robertson and Robinson were used interchangeably.
Susan Robinson was born in 1763 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, to Charles and Susannah Nichols Robertson. Her father moved the family to the Watauga Settlement where he became a prominent leader. of the Watauga Association. (See "The Lost State of Franklin" for more on Colonel Robertson.)
Colonel Robertson was well known. One of his friends was the legendary Daniel Boone. In 1775, Boone and a group of friends journeyed to the area that would become Boonesborough, Kentucky. Cherokees attacked the party, killing two members (Captain William Twitty, Find A Grave Memorial# 90164388) and almost killing Felix Walker, son of Colonel John Walker who was on the trip also. When Walker wrote his memoirs, he was most complimentary of the way Boone nursed him. Walker suffered for months. This convalescence would affect the course of American history five years after the Boonesborough trip.
Decades later, Congressman Felix Walker wrote his memoirs and recalled:
"Thinking it necessary to become a citizen of the world, in its utmost latitude, concluded to marry. Accordingly I was married to Susan Robinson, a beautiful girl of fifteen, on the 8th of January, 1778, daughter of Col. Chas. Robinson — where I had resided for 3 years past. In March ensuing, my wife and self paid a visit to my father in Rutherford, designed to spend the summer. On the 28th of June, my dear girl had a miscarriage which terminated her existence. She died on the 9th day of July, 1778, six months after our marriage.
"This was the most momentous and eventful year in which I lived, through the whole period of my life. I was so shocked and impressed with so unexpected an event, that my mind was almost lost. Absorbed in grief almost insupportable, I felt so deeply afflicted that I thought all my prospects of happiness were buried with the woman I loved...."
Susan Robertson was truly a daughter of the American Revolution.
Note: The names Robertson and Robinson were used interchangeably.
Susan Robinson was born in 1763 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, to Charles and Susannah Nichols Robertson. Her father moved the family to the Watauga Settlement where he became a prominent leader. of the Watauga Association. (See "The Lost State of Franklin" for more on Colonel Robertson.)
Colonel Robertson was well known. One of his friends was the legendary Daniel Boone. In 1775, Boone and a group of friends journeyed to the area that would become Boonesborough, Kentucky. Cherokees attacked the party, killing two members (Captain William Twitty, Find A Grave Memorial# 90164388) and almost killing Felix Walker, son of Colonel John Walker who was on the trip also. When Walker wrote his memoirs, he was most complimentary of the way Boone nursed him. Walker suffered for months. This convalescence would affect the course of American history five years after the Boonesborough trip.
Decades later, Congressman Felix Walker wrote his memoirs and recalled:
"Thinking it necessary to become a citizen of the world, in its utmost latitude, concluded to marry. Accordingly I was married to Susan Robinson, a beautiful girl of fifteen, on the 8th of January, 1778, daughter of Col. Chas. Robinson — where I had resided for 3 years past. In March ensuing, my wife and self paid a visit to my father in Rutherford, designed to spend the summer. On the 28th of June, my dear girl had a miscarriage which terminated her existence. She died on the 9th day of July, 1778, six months after our marriage.
"This was the most momentous and eventful year in which I lived, through the whole period of my life. I was so shocked and impressed with so unexpected an event, that my mind was almost lost. Absorbed in grief almost insupportable, I felt so deeply afflicted that I thought all my prospects of happiness were buried with the woman I loved...."
Note: The names Robertson and Robinson were used interchangeably.
Susan Robinson was born in 1763 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, to Charles and Susannah Nichols Robertson. Her father moved the family to the Watauga Settlement where he became a prominent leader. of the Watauga Association. (See "The Lost State of Franklin" for more on Colonel Robertson.)
Colonel Robertson was well known. One of his friends was the legendary Daniel Boone. In 1775, Boone and a group of friends journeyed to the area that would become Boonesborough, Kentucky. Cherokees attacked the party, killing two members (Captain William Twitty, Find A Grave Memorial# 90164388) and almost killing Felix Walker, son of Colonel John Walker who was on the trip also. When Walker wrote his memoirs, he was most complimentary of the way Boone nursed him. Walker suffered for months. This convalescence would affect the course of American history five years after the Boonesborough trip.
Decades later, Congressman Felix Walker wrote his memoirs and recalled:
"Thinking it necessary to become a citizen of the world, in its utmost latitude, concluded to marry. Accordingly I was married to Susan Robinson, a beautiful girl of fifteen, on the 8th of January, 1778, daughter of Col. Chas. Robinson — where I had resided for 3 years past. In March ensuing, my wife and self paid a visit to my father in Rutherford, designed to spend the summer. On the 28th of June, my dear girl had a miscarriage which terminated her existence. She died on the 9th day of July, 1778, six months after our marriage.
"This was the most momentous and eventful year in which I lived, through the whole period of my life. I was so shocked and impressed with so unexpected an event, that my mind was almost lost. Absorbed in grief almost insupportable, I felt so deeply afflicted that I thought all my prospects of happiness were buried with the woman I loved...."
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