Sgt. Adoniram Robinson

Sgt. Adoniram Robinson

L Co. 12th Mo. Cav.

K Co. 85th Ill. Vol. Inf.

Three Years Service

   Mustered In Aug. 27, 1862
   Home of record listed as Havana.
   Discharged Feb. 3, 1863, reason not listed.

Known actions;
Perryville, Ky.           Oct. 8, 1862
Chickamauga, Ga.   Sept. 18, 1863

Post war;
   Moved to Elgin in 1884.
   Printer working for the Daily News.
   Joined GAR Veteran's Post #49 July 7, 1885.
   Member of the First Methodist Church.

   Obit; Dec. 29, 1910 issue of The Elgin Daily News.
   Adoniram Robinson, for many years a printer on the Daily news, died at 6:20 o'clock last evening at the home of his daughter, mrs. R.J. Brush, 815 Washburn street.  Death was due to concussion of the brain, caused by an injury to his head which he sustained in a fall on Oct. 21, when he suffered a slight stroke of apoplexy.
   Robinson, who has been retired for a number of years, was at his sister's home when he was stricken.  He had just started to go up stairs and in falling struck his head against a door jamb.  Since being injured he had been only semi-conscious.
   Adoniram Robinson was born Oct. 27, 1835 in Ohio.  He spent his boyhood in his native state, where he was married 53 years ago to Miss Margaret J. Oxley, who died three years ago.  He served with an Ohio regiment during the Civil war, being honorably discharged.  After returning from the war he lived in Ohio for a time, before going to Browning, Mo., from where he came to Elgin twenty-six years ago.
   Religiously Mr. Robinson had been a devoted member of the First Methodist church of this city.  Socially he belonged to Veteran post No. 49, G.A.R., which organization will attend his funeral in a body.
   Besides his daughter with whom he lived, mr. Robinson is survived by four daughters and two sons.  They are:  William of Chicago, Mrs. Belle Carter of Browning, Mo., Mrs. Emma Switzer of Elgin, Mrs. Henry Caughey, Harvey, Ill., Robert of Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Jennie Fitzpatrick of Bailey, Ill.  Three half sisters and a brother, Joseph live in Missouri.
   The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. R.J. Brush, 815 Washburn street.  Interment at Bluff City cemetery.

   Buried at Bluff City Cemetery.

Bluff City Cemetery records show him in K Co. 85th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Obit lists him in an Ohio Regiment.

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.