James was born in 1826 in Indiana and a son of Samuel Robertson and Mary Wilburn James married Mary Blanchard on August 29, 1849 in Johnson County, Iowa.
1850 --- U. S. Federal Census, District #13, Wapello County, Iowa -- Dwelling Number: 154 - Line: 21 - Page: 411B - Microfilm Roll: 189 ----- James Robinson 24 (head - farmer) Indiana-- Mary 17 (wife) Indiana --- United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by Family Search. --- Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
1860 --- U. S. Federal Census, Polk Township, St. Clair County, Missouri -- Dwelling Number: 453 - Line: 26 - Page: 935 ----- James Robinson 27 (head - farmer) Indiana -- Mary 22 (wife) Indiana -- Samuel J. (son) Kansas -- Simeon P. 8 (son) Kansas -- James W. 4 (son) Kansas --- United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by Family Search. --- Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
James Robertson
BIRTH 1825
Indiana, USA
DEATH 29 Jun 1904 (aged 78–79)
Coon Rapids, Carroll County, Iowa, USA
BURIAL
Oak Hill Cemetery
Coon Rapids, Carroll County, Iowa, USA
MEMORIAL ID 213480760 · View Source
James Robertson married Mary Blanchard in 1852.
The obituary indicates he died at the home of his daughter Lura Willett east of Coon Rapids. This may have been in Greene County, Iowa or in Guthrie County, Iowa as well.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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