Sarah Jane Robison Saul born 26 Mar 1847 in Trumbull County Ohio, the daughter of Joseph Franklin C. Robison and Sarah Ramsdell Joseph and Sarah Robison had three children: Sarah, John and William. All three were born in Ohio and all grew to adulthood. By 1850 the family is shown on the census living in Grundy County Illinois. .Sarah (Ramsdell) Robison, Sarah Jane's mother, apparently died there, and her father remaried..A half-brother, Joseph, was born in Kankakee in 1862. Sara Jane recounted to her grand children that she saw Abraham Lincoln in his coffin when his funeral train stopped in Braidwood.(April 1865)
About 1867 the family moved to Union Point on the Mississippi River where Joseph operated a saw mill on Mud Creek. They traveled to Murphysboro, IL by train. Sarah Jane told her granddaughters, Minnie and Ina Saul that she was forced to leave her little dog behind because the conductor enforced a "no animals " rule. When she alighted in Murphysboro her little dog came racing down the track to meet her. Evidently a kind-hearted trainmans bent the rules. The story is told by the children of William and Sarah that they met in Murphysboro where "she was staying in the house of Tom Logan". We know from other sources that Tom Logan ran a hotel in Murphysboro during this period. We know also that William Saul became a naturalized citizen in Murphysboro on 20 Oct 1868. It is probable that the Robisons were enroute to a new home in Grand Tower and "Squire Billy" was in town for his naturalization on 20 October 1868 and they met at the Logan House Hotel. Seventeen days later they crossed the Mississippi River at Grandtower to the little town of Wittenburg, Missouri and were married by a Justice of the Peace.
The Saul's moved to Kincaid township, where William had been living with his Uncle John, and cleared land and opened a hill farm of their own where eight children were born. In later life they bought the farm, where William's Uncle John lived, and moved there. Son Joseph took over the hill farm. After William died in 1915 Sarah Jane lived on with married daughter Ann Downen until, at age 70, the 1917 flu epidemic killed Sara Jane and widowed her daughter Ann.
About 1867 the family moved to Union Point on the Mississippi River where Joseph operated a saw mill on Mud Creek. They traveled to Murphysboro, IL by train. Sarah Jane told her granddaughters, Minnie and Ina Saul that she was forced to leave her little dog behind because the conductor enforced a "no animals " rule. When she alighted in Murphysboro her little dog came racing down the track to meet her. Evidently a kind-hearted trainmans bent the rules. The story is told by the children of William and Sarah that they met in Murphysboro where "she was staying in the house of Tom Logan". We know from other sources that Tom Logan ran a hotel in Murphysboro during this period. We know also that William Saul became a naturalized citizen in Murphysboro on 20 Oct 1868. It is probable that the Robisons were enroute to a new home in Grand Tower and "Squire Billy" was in town for his naturalization on 20 October 1868 and they met at the Logan House Hotel. Seventeen days later they crossed the Mississippi River at Grandtower to the little town of Wittenburg, Missouri and were married by a Justice of the Peace.
The Saul's moved to Kincaid township, where William had been living with his Uncle John, and cleared land and opened a hill farm of their own where eight children were born. In later life they bought the farm, where William's Uncle John lived, and moved there. Son Joseph took over the hill farm. After William died in 1915 Sarah Jane lived on with married daughter Ann Downen until, at age 70, the 1917 flu epidemic killed Sara Jane and widowed her daughter Ann.
Sarah Jane Robison Saul born 26 Mar 1847 in Trumbull County Ohio, the daughter of Joseph Franklin C. Robison and Sarah Ramsdell Joseph and Sarah Robison had three children: Sarah, John and William. All three were born in Ohio and all grew to adulthood. By 1850 the family is shown on the census living in Grundy County Illinois. .Sarah (Ramsdell) Robison, Sarah Jane's mother, apparently died there, and her father remaried..A half-brother, Joseph, was born in Kankakee in 1862. Sara Jane recounted to her grand children that she saw Abraham Lincoln in his coffin when his funeral train stopped in Braidwood.(April 1865)
About 1867 the family moved to Union Point on the Mississippi River where Joseph operated a saw mill on Mud Creek. They traveled to Murphysboro, IL by train. Sarah Jane told her granddaughters, Minnie and Ina Saul that she was forced to leave her little dog behind because the conductor enforced a "no animals " rule. When she alighted in Murphysboro her little dog came racing down the track to meet her. Evidently a kind-hearted trainmans bent the rules. The story is told by the children of William and Sarah that they met in Murphysboro where "she was staying in the house of Tom Logan". We know from other sources that Tom Logan ran a hotel in Murphysboro during this period. We know also that William Saul became a naturalized citizen in Murphysboro on 20 Oct 1868. It is probable that the Robisons were enroute to a new home in Grand Tower and "Squire Billy" was in town for his naturalization on 20 October 1868 and they met at the Logan House Hotel. Seventeen days later they crossed the Mississippi River at Grandtower to the little town of Wittenburg, Missouri and were married by a Justice of the Peace.
The Saul's moved to Kincaid township, where William had been living with his Uncle John, and cleared land and opened a hill farm of their own where eight children were born. In later life they bought the farm, where William's Uncle John lived, and moved there. Son Joseph took over the hill farm. After William died in 1915 Sarah Jane lived on with married daughter Ann Downen until, at age 70, the 1917 flu epidemic killed Sara Jane and widowed her daughter Ann.
About 1867 the family moved to Union Point on the Mississippi River where Joseph operated a saw mill on Mud Creek. They traveled to Murphysboro, IL by train. Sarah Jane told her granddaughters, Minnie and Ina Saul that she was forced to leave her little dog behind because the conductor enforced a "no animals " rule. When she alighted in Murphysboro her little dog came racing down the track to meet her. Evidently a kind-hearted trainmans bent the rules. The story is told by the children of William and Sarah that they met in Murphysboro where "she was staying in the house of Tom Logan". We know from other sources that Tom Logan ran a hotel in Murphysboro during this period. We know also that William Saul became a naturalized citizen in Murphysboro on 20 Oct 1868. It is probable that the Robisons were enroute to a new home in Grand Tower and "Squire Billy" was in town for his naturalization on 20 October 1868 and they met at the Logan House Hotel. Seventeen days later they crossed the Mississippi River at Grandtower to the little town of Wittenburg, Missouri and were married by a Justice of the Peace.
The Saul's moved to Kincaid township, where William had been living with his Uncle John, and cleared land and opened a hill farm of their own where eight children were born. In later life they bought the farm, where William's Uncle John lived, and moved there. Son Joseph took over the hill farm. After William died in 1915 Sarah Jane lived on with married daughter Ann Downen until, at age 70, the 1917 flu epidemic killed Sara Jane and widowed her daughter Ann.
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