The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-08
Capt. Hugh Robinson.

This valued and esteemed citizen Of
Abbeville County, who lived near the
Anderson County line, died last Saturday
morning about two o'clock, after d pain
full illness for more than o week from
pneumonia. About three years ago he
received a shock of paralysis, and for
several days 1t was thoughtful t he would
dies but he recovered his consciousness,
and became able to 90 about over his
farm and work his garden, In which he
took great delight, until pneumonia set
in. He had lived to a fipe age being in
the seventy.eighth. yssr OF bis age, at the
time ofhfs death, In his death the County
Of Abbeville has lost one OF her most
valuable citizens, the Church o strong
support and his family n ~irrepafable
loss. For want OF data 1t will be impos-
sible to give anything like q perfect
sketch of his life. He was born near
Ghentsville, about three miles below
Honea Path His Mther having died
while he was comparatively young, he
was thrown upon his own resources.
Having inherited q wealth of energy and
ixedness of purpose, which characterized
him through his long and useful life, he
soon mastered the t~udimentary branches,
then taught In the country schools, and
his business qualifications, combined
with absolute honesty soon made him
prominent in his section. Strong practi
cal ommon sense was manifest in all of
his conversations and he had q high ap-
probation Of his duty as a citizen. He
was a man OF great modesty and irmness
of character, and no one delighted more
to welcome and entertain his guests and
friends than he. It was q real pleasure
to him to do 30 and 1t was done without
osten.ation He married the first time
Mary Clinkscsles, sister ofthe late Reubin
CliEkscaleS. and settled near Level Land
about 1910, where he engaged in farming
and merchandising, and oon won the
confidence Of the community, by his
purity of life, which he maintained to it's
close.
Before the war, he was honored by
his fellow-citiEen by his election to the
Office OF captain of a Company Of Volun-
teers under the old MALTA laws. When
the war broke out, although past the age
in which men were called upon to enlist,
he offered his services to his country, and
| organized q company, many Of whom
were his neighbor boys, who unanimous
ly elected him Captain Of Co. 1T" 10th
Regiment, S. G. V. After the campaign
around Corinth, Miss, being broken
down by the fatigue of camp life, and
over the age required, he resigned his
| command and returned home to hte
! family and farm that stood 30 much in
need of his service. But when the South
ern cause had begun to be In desperate
straits, and the further call for troops was
made, he shouldered his gun and Joined
Keitt's Cavalry, with which he remained
until Johnston's surrender. when, like
others, he returned to find his property
swept away by the results of the war,
Without fretuing or complaining, be
devoted his energies to his farm, and, al
together he had thousands of dollars
owing to him, of which he never realized
q cent, yet he met each and every obliga'
ton of his own, at the same time support
ting and educating his large family o.
young children. For upward of fifty
yesrs he was q member OF the Little
River Baptist Church, and was one o.
its deacons. He was always at his post o.
duty, identified with all Of 1t work o.
mission and Christian benevolsnce, anG
was a constant and liberal supporter of the
gospel.
His 6rst wife, having died, some years
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married the second time. Mary J.. Gala,
ham. By these two marriages, he was
the father of twenty-four chrildren, O.
whom four by his first wife and twelve
by the last, in all sixteen children, anG
his last wife, survive him ; DR.. John A
Robinson being the oldest of his frs
children, and two of his sons by the las
marriage, Robert L. Robinson and w. f
Robinson. are citizens Of the city Of An
ierson. He was a kind, patient and af
f%sctionate father and husband, o friend Il
the poor and needy. an upright, Christian
citizen in the full sense Of the term
While strong in his belief and convictions
as Q Baptist, ne was charitable toward
others, and conceded to every mar the
right he claimed for himself, to think anG
act according to his connections. Never
~intolerant and abusive toward any one.
A few weeks before he took his bed, ht
went to n Of his neighbors, who Is {
mechanic, selected the lumber, and in
structed him how TO make his coffin
Having put his house in order, "like one
who wraps the drspery Of his couct
around him and lies down to sweet
Dreams" be sleeps until the morn of the
resurrection.
The funeral services took.place at Little
River church on Sunday, in the presenc;
Of q large assembly OF neighbors, friends
and relatives, being conducted by Rev.
NJ. MCGEE. The services were solemn and
impressive. The preacher took for his
text the words: "Know ye not that
prince and q great man has this day fall
en- in Israel" II Samuel 3 3S.
One of the most touching scenes wa
when several Of his old servants wers
permitted to take q last look at his re-.
mains, and no higher tribute could have
been paid to his kindness to the poor
than the affection still cherished by his
old servants, to whom, in the days O.
slavery, he was always kind and consid'
crate. His SONS bore the coffin to the
grave, where 1t was taken in charge b.
the old soldiers and comraGe-in.arme
who, in silence, lowered it to its last rest
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