Our Family's Journey Through Time
| Title | Died - Robinson | |
| Author | Lucy (Moore) Robinson | |
| Citation Type | artifact:newspaper clipping:by subject | |
| Jurisdiction (state) | Bret Rumsey | |
| Series | 1122 E. Bajor St., Gilbert, Arizona | |
| Certificate Type & No. | 2018 | |
| Date of item (just the year) | undated clipping from unidentified newspaper | |
| Source ID | S473 | |
| Text | DIED ROBINSON.— May 13th 1888, after many months of pain and great suffering at her late residence in West Point, Va, Mrs. Lucy Heaberd Robinson, aged 68 years. The death of this lady demands more than its simple announcement, not only because of her own record as a Christian woman and worker in the Lord's vineyard — upon which alone she could well stand before the world — but because of her descent from some of Virginia's most noted sires on both sides of her parentage. She was descended in a direct line from Speaker Robinson through her mother (a Miss Nelson, of Malvern Hill); and from Governor Spotswood through Kate Spotswood and the Moores, on her father's side. She was also related to Gen. Heaberd Smallwood, of Maryland, through the Liepers — Old Dr. Lieper — once well known to Richmond people — being her great uncle (hence her middle name Heaberd). Mrs. Robinson was born at Chelsea, not far from West Point, on the Mattaponi river, one of the oldest of the colonial plantations, whose first owner and resident was Austin Moore, father of Bernard Moore (husband of Kate Spotswood), November 26th, 1819, where she she lived, with the exception of a few years at school in Fredericksburg, until 1867. In 1839 she was married to Mr. Benjamin N. Robinson (a distant cousin). As wife and mother she was faithful to all duty, and when widowed and impoverished through the war and other providential causes, bravely met the new responsibilities and trials of her situation. Being prevented by circumstances over which she had no control from active service of her Lord until about ten years before her death, and having been confirmed at that time in the Methodist church at West Point, the only church building in the then town of four hundred inhabitants, she at once began to co-operate most ergetically with the half dozen Episcopalians there in their efforts to build up the church of their love, and to her efforts and prayers and unwavering faith, in a large measure, is due the present state and healthy growth of our little church. A neat church building, rectory, and sixty-five communicants, a work accomplished in spite of much local prejudice and opposition, and in which she had to labor encumbered by her own domestic cares and straitened circumstances. But though she suffered much in affliction and bodily pain, her dear Lord permitted her much fruit, and at last to "bring in her golden sheaves" to His "garner." She was well fitted for life's battle, and the work she did so faithfully for her church. Firm in her convictions of principle and duty, honest and just in her dealings with others, whether friend or opponent, good or bad, modest as to her own claims, satisfied with the approval of her own conscience before her Lord. Her motto in regard to her exalted lineage and blood was "noblesse oblige" — and her idea of maintaining its honor was by doing her duty to God and her neighbor, and keeping herself unspotted from the world" No wonder her children should not only "rise up to call her blessed," but prove themselves worthy of such a mother, as we think they truly have. Heart-broken though they be, and all her devoted friends with them, at the sad bereavement, they do not "sorrow as those without hope," but can rejoice that her work done on earth, she is called to "enter into the joy of her Lord." and profit by her example and the good name, which is rather to be chosen than great riches, which she has left as their heritage. | |
| Linked to (3) | Lucy Heaberd Moore Benjamin Needler Robinson Family: Benjamin Needler Robinson / Lucy Heaberd Moore | |
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