Robert Augustus Toombs (1810 - 1885)

Born 2 Jul 1810 in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Julianna (Dubose) Toombs — married 18 Nov 1830 in Wilkes County, Georgia

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1885 at age 75 in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, United States

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Preceded by Robert M. Charlton Preceded by Office established 1861

Robert Toombs US Senator (Class 2) from Georgia 1853—1861 1st Confederate States Secretary of State 1861

Succeeded by Vacant 1861 – 1871 Secession, Civil War & Reconstruction Succeeded by 2nd Secretary Robert M. T. Hunter

Biography

Robert Toombs is Notable.

A founding father and the first Secretary of State of the Confederacy (Confederate States of America). He feuded with President Jefferson Davis and left to join the Confederate Army. He became a Brigadier-General.

Was the 5th child of Robert Toombs and Catherine Huling

He married Julia Ann DuBois. They had 3 children.

Great-grandfather of noted pro-wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper

Slaves

Alonzo Fantroy Toombs^[1]

1840 -Toombs owned 6 slaves.

1850 -He owned 17 slaves.

1860 -He owned 16 slaves at his Wilkes County plantation, and an additional 32 slaves at his 3,800-acre plantation in Stewart County, Georgia on the Chattahoochee River.

Wesley John Gaines

Legacy

Toombs County and Toomsboro (Georgia) are both named after him. His house in Washington, Georgia, is a State Historic site and can be toured.

Sources

1. ↑ Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 1, Alabama, Aarons-Young(https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=389&st=text)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #9092
• Robert Toombs on Wikipedia
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Ancestry.com. Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
• Robert Augustus Toombs
• Original data: County Marriage Records, 1828–1978. The Georgia Archives, Morrow, Georgia.
• "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HR7J-XL3Z : 15 February 2020), Robt Toombs in entry for MM9.1.1/MVCS-181:, 1850.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZY6-MNJ : 9 November 2014), Robert Toombs, Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, United States; citing family 677, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKV6-6Y2M : 16 October 2019), R Toombs, 1860.
• United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZM4-FX4 : 30 December 2015), Robert Toombs, 1860.
• United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8PH-ZJC : 14 July 2016), Robert Toombs, Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 136, sheet 306D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0172; FHL microfilm 1,254,172.
• Obituary for Robert Toombs

• The Federal Writers' Project. Slave Narratives; A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington, District of Columbia : The Library of Congress, 1941 Vol. 1, Alabama, Aarons-Young (https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=389&st=text)