William "Bill" Lawrence Robbins 1863 - 1936

ROBBINS, COE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/21/2022 at 17:02:13

The Correctionville News
8 October 1936

William Lawrence Robbins was born January 31, 1863, at Kewanee, Illinois, and died at the home of his brother, Paul Robbins, near Correctionville, Iowa, September 22, 1936, at the age of 73 years, 7 months and 21 days.

His parents, Dustin H. and Martha Coe Robbins, came to Woodbury County with their family in September, 1866, when William was three years old. They made this pioneering trip in a covered wagon, drawn by an ox team, a common mode of travel in those days. Father Dustin had come out in the spring of 1866, seeking a location for a new home, returning later to bring out the family. Soon after their arrival they settled on a homestead north of Correctionville, and there William has spent all his life except a few years in Idaho and later a few years in Missouri, after which he returned to the old homestead, where he has made his home and where he has been known to his lifelong neighbors as a quiet, retiring, unobtrusive neighbor. Bill, as he was known, was a good reader and found much comfort, satisfaction and inspiration in perusing the ideas and thoughts of others.

There remain to mourn his departure four brothers and a sister, Clyde of Daniel, Wyoming, Frank of Long Prairie, Minnesota, Reuben, Paul and Henry and Mrs. S.H. Smithwick, all of near Correctionville. There are also 17 nieces and nephews.

The last rites were held under the direction of the Brink Funeral Home, at the Good Hope Church, which Bill had helped to build 48 years ago, and interment was in Good Hope Cemetery. Rev. L.J.U. Smay of the Evangelical Church preached the sermon, using as text, Psalms 96:10.