He served with the Michigan 12th Regiment, Company C. His wife, Ann Disbrow and daughter Mary Ann filed for a widow's pension in 1879.
William Robinson died with consumption and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery by the G.A.R. Post of Three Oaks. A brother is also going, very rapidly, with the same disease, at the home of the late Wm. Robinson. The widow seems particularly unfortunate. She was but ten years old when her father, Zalmon A. Disbrow, entered the 12th Michigan as a musician, where he died in less than a year. She, or rather her mother - who is again married - made application for pension, the papers being placed in the hands of Fitzgerald. Not a penny has ever come to either of them, although assured by the agent they would receive several hundred dollars. And now Mrs. Robinson's husband is gone and she has only the kindness of the Post to remind her that she was the wife and daughter of dead soldiers. The husband served in an Ohio regiment and the father went from here, where Mrs. Robinson was born and has always lived. Zalmon A. Disbrow enlisted at Niles, Nov. 1st, 1861, and died at Pittsburg Landing in April, 1862, and his family has never so much has received his back pay. Should such things be?
A.
St. Joseph Traveler Herald; Saint Joseph, Michigan.
October 11, 1994; Page Three.
William Robinson died with consumption and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery by the G.A.R. Post of Three Oaks. A brother is also going, very rapidly, with the same disease, at the home of the late Wm. Robinson. The widow seems particularly unfortunate. She was but ten years old when her father, Zalmon A. Disbrow, entered the 12th Michigan as a musician, where he died in less than a year. She, or rather her mother - who is again married - made application for pension, the papers being placed in the hands of Fitzgerald. Not a penny has ever come to either of them, although assured by the agent they would receive several hundred dollars. And now Mrs. Robinson's husband is gone and she has only the kindness of the Post to remind her that she was the wife and daughter of dead soldiers. The husband served in an Ohio regiment and the father went from here, where Mrs. Robinson was born and has always lived. Zalmon A. Disbrow enlisted at Niles, Nov. 1st, 1861, and died at Pittsburg Landing in April, 1862, and his family has never so much has received his back pay. Should such things be?
A.
St. Joseph Traveler Herald; Saint Joseph, Michigan.
October 11, 1994; Page Three.
He served with the Michigan 12th Regiment, Company C. His wife, Ann Disbrow and daughter Mary Ann filed for a widow's pension in 1879.
William Robinson died with consumption and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery by the G.A.R. Post of Three Oaks. A brother is also going, very rapidly, with the same disease, at the home of the late Wm. Robinson. The widow seems particularly unfortunate. She was but ten years old when her father, Zalmon A. Disbrow, entered the 12th Michigan as a musician, where he died in less than a year. She, or rather her mother - who is again married - made application for pension, the papers being placed in the hands of Fitzgerald. Not a penny has ever come to either of them, although assured by the agent they would receive several hundred dollars. And now Mrs. Robinson's husband is gone and she has only the kindness of the Post to remind her that she was the wife and daughter of dead soldiers. The husband served in an Ohio regiment and the father went from here, where Mrs. Robinson was born and has always lived. Zalmon A. Disbrow enlisted at Niles, Nov. 1st, 1861, and died at Pittsburg Landing in April, 1862, and his family has never so much has received his back pay. Should such things be?
A.
St. Joseph Traveler Herald; Saint Joseph, Michigan.
October 11, 1994; Page Three.
William Robinson died with consumption and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery by the G.A.R. Post of Three Oaks. A brother is also going, very rapidly, with the same disease, at the home of the late Wm. Robinson. The widow seems particularly unfortunate. She was but ten years old when her father, Zalmon A. Disbrow, entered the 12th Michigan as a musician, where he died in less than a year. She, or rather her mother - who is again married - made application for pension, the papers being placed in the hands of Fitzgerald. Not a penny has ever come to either of them, although assured by the agent they would receive several hundred dollars. And now Mrs. Robinson's husband is gone and she has only the kindness of the Post to remind her that she was the wife and daughter of dead soldiers. The husband served in an Ohio regiment and the father went from here, where Mrs. Robinson was born and has always lived. Zalmon A. Disbrow enlisted at Niles, Nov. 1st, 1861, and died at Pittsburg Landing in April, 1862, and his family has never so much has received his back pay. Should such things be?
A.
St. Joseph Traveler Herald; Saint Joseph, Michigan.
October 11, 1994; Page Three.
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