Wood & Torbert Families

William Thomas Robinson

b. circa 1830, d. 1905

William Thomas Robinson was born circa 1830 in Alabama.
He married Mary Yoakum, daughter of Henderson King Yoakum and Eveline Cannon, on 19 March 1857 in Walker County, Texas, with A. Davis, MG, ME Church, officiating.
William Thomas Robinson and Mary Yoakum appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Also in the household are children Hellen (age 2) and Justina (1), not yet recorded, as well as merchant M. M. Singletary and clerks George Hearhake and R. A. Hundon.
He was a merchant, according to the 1860 census.
On Thursday, 29 January 1863, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Sent Bob to Huntsville with $350 to Wmr T Robinson to pay money borrowed by Campbell Wood, $150 of Lt Woodall & George Grant $200 in Virginia."
William Thomas Robinson became a widower at the 1867 death of his wife Mary Yoakum.
He married Mary (?) in April 1870.
William Thomas Robinson and Mary (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Also in the household are William's children Eula (age 7) and Henderson (5), not yet recorded, and also Robert Wynne (17), likely the orphaned son of Robert and Elizabeth Appling Wynne.
He was a retired merchant, according to the 1870 census.
William Thomas Robinson died in 1905.
He was interred.