Virginia Catherine (Stevens) Robenstine (1903 - 1969)

Born 23 Feb 1903 in Portage County, Ohio, United States

Died 3 Jun 1969 at age 66 in Ravenna Township, Portage, Ohio, United States

Biography

Virginia, daughter of James W. Stevens and Florence D. Trott, was born 23 February 1903 in Portage County, Ohio.^[1] In 1910 her parents James W. (age 39, painter) and Florence D. Stevens (33, mother of two, both living) owned a home at 443 Carthage Avenue in Franklin Township, Portage County, where they lived with Virginia C. (7), her brother Marvin F. (12), Virginia's widowed grandmother Virginia Trott (67, mother of eight, five living), and a boarder named Sarah C. Ginther (16).^[2]

In 1920 her father James W. (age 49) was the Portage County sheriff and rented quarters for himself and his family at the county jail in Ravenna Township.^[3] Sharing quarters with Sheriff Stevens were Florence D. (45, county jail matron), Marvin F. (21, civil engineer) and Virginia C. Stevens (16), and her widowed grandmother Virginia Trott (79), and five prisoners Daniel Sherer (46, b. New Jersey, house painter), Anda Codinsky (31, b. Austria), Anna Kopchak (29, b. Austria), Kattie Kopchak (three months), and Jack Raible (25, German-born truck driver).^[3]

Before 1930, Virginia married Forrest D. Robenstine,^[4] son of Perry Robenstine and Sadie June Cole^[5] They do not appear to have had any children.

After their marriage, Forrest D. (age 28, city water works worker) and Virginia K. Robenstine (27, file clerk in surgery office) lived with her parents James W. (58, railroad watchman) and Florence D. Stevens (51) in Franklin township, Portage County in 1930.^[6] The couples stayed together during their move to Kent, Franklin Township in 1940, when the household was composed of James W. (age 70, retired) and Florence Stevens (63), plus Forrest D. (37, repairer for city waterworks) and Virginia K. Robenstine (37).^[7]

Virginia died 3 June 1969 in Ravenna Township^[1][8] and was buried in Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent.^[9]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Virginia Robenstine, Jun 1969; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 16 December 2018), Virginia C Stevens in household of James W Stevens, Franklin, Portage, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 95, sheet 3A, family 52, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1224; FHL microfilm 1,375,237.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 16 December 2018), Virginia C Stevens in household of James W Stevens, Ravenna Ward 3, Portage, Ohio, United States; citing ED 110, sheet 1A, line 4, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1428; FHL microfilm 1,821,428.
4. ↑ No marriage record has been located; however, they married between 1920-1930.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Forrest Robenstine, Feb 1983; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 16 December 2018), Forrest D Robenstien] in household of James W Stevens, Franklin, Portage, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 5B, line 94, family 123, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1862; FHL microfilm 2,341,596.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch (15 March 2018), Forrest D Robenstine in household of James W Stevens, Ward 1, Kent City, Franklin Township, Portage, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-9, sheet 7A, line 2, family 141, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3130.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007, database, FamilySearch (8 December 2014), Virginia C Robenstine, 3 Jun 1969; from "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-2007," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2010); citing vol. 19716, certificate number 047363, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus; Ohio Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, Columbus.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} ‘‘Find A Grave’’, database and images (accessed 16 December 2018), memorial page for Virginia C Stevens Robenstine (23 Feb 1903–3 Jun 1969), Find A Grave: Memorial #132575293, citing Standing Rock Cemetery, Kent, Portage County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Janice (contributor 47845710).