Robbins Family Arrives in Illinois

Edwin Dwight Robbins and Louisa (Bishop) Robbins arrived in the Town of Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois, sometime prior to June of 1870. The family appears in the 1850 and 1860 Federal Census in Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and in the Census of 1870 at Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois.  They have five children total: 

Cynthia Jane Robbins m. Henry Yaw

Edwin Gustave Sheltusky Robbins m. Alice Ann VanDuzer

Anna Louise Robbins m. Augustus Theobold Drom

Emma E. Robbins never married

Helen Patience Robbins m. Walter B. Hanson

1850 Census Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin (Below)

Edwin, Louisa, Cynthia J., Edwin G., and Ann L.  Their two youngest children are not born yet.  Emma and Helen.

1860 Census, Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin (Below)

Edwin, Louisa, Edwin G., Anna L., Emma and Ellen. Edwin G. S. is 21, living at home and farming with his father. Cynthia Jane does not appear in the 1860 Census with the family.  She has married Henry Yaw, and they are residing in Michigan. Emma and Helen/Ellen now appear in the 1860 count. 

1860 Census, Township of Galien, Berrien County, Michigan (Below)

Henry Yaw, Cynthia Jane Robbins, Edwin Dwight Yaw, Emma Jane Yaw.

1870 Census, Town of Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois (Below)

Edwin, Louisa, Emma and Helen. Edwin G. S., and Anna Louise have also moved from the family home.

1870 Census, Township of Artesia, Iroquois County, Illinois (Below)

Edwin G. S., Alice Ann, Lillian, Fred, Edith. 

Artesia Township 1884

Louise D. Bishop Robbins

Cousin, Steve Mitchell, shared this photo of my great, great, great grandmother, Louise Bishop, on Ancestry in 2017.  I had never seen this photo prior.  Grandma Arnold would have loved seeing this.  She did a lot of research on the Bishop line with many handwritten letters among cousins discussing their family histories. 

Louise/Louisa was born 26 December 1814, in Madison County, New York.  She married Edwin Dwight Robbins in New York.  Louise died 2 August 1886, and is buried in the Onarga Cemetery, Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois.  

In the 1860 Federal Census, Louisa and Edwin are listed in Salem, Wisconsin.  But by the 1870 census they are living in Artesia Township in Illinois with their two youngest children, Emma and Helen.  Edwin and Louise had five children:

1. Cynthia Jane "Jane"

2. Edwin Gustave Sheltusky **Our line**

3. Anna Louise 

4. Emma E

5. Helen Patience "Nellie"

For some unknown reason Edwin Robbins is buried in Florida and not with his wife in Onarga. I have not found his grave site.  Louise is buried with her daughter, Emma Robbins.  I have visited their graves many times.  Note on the headstone their middle initials are given.  I don't know their middle names.   

Their graves are located in Block 3. Lot 45.