Robbins, Elie Bradley^[1]

1856 - 1951  (95 years)

• Name	Robbins, Elie Bradley
  Born	07 Jan 1856	Belleville, Conecuh, Alabama
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Feb 1951	Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas, Texas   [2]
  Died	03 Feb 1951	Dallas, Dallas, Texas
  Person ID	I14951	McClure-Harris
  Last Modified	4 May 2005

  
  

  Family	Apperson, Mary Emma Lee,   b. 19 Feb 1865, Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, U.S.A. ,   d. Aug 1953, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.  (Age 88 years)
  Married	23 Dec 1884	, Wilmer, Texas
  Last Modified	3 May 2005
  Family ID	F5258	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Elie Bradley Robbins

  
  

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  1880 United States Census Elie B. ROBBINS1 Self S Male W 24 AL Working Farm GA AL Note 1ORIG DATA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Census Place Monterey, Butler, Alabama Family History Library Film 1254004 NA Film Number T9-0004 Page Number 395C

  
  

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  [S186] GEDCOM file imported on 14 Aug 2002., Shane Symes. [S683] The Dallas Morning News (Reliability: 3), 05 Feb 1957. ELI B. ROBBINS, DIES Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday for Eli Bradley Robbins, 95, former contractor and builder who built the first suspension bridge over the Trinity River. He died Saturday in a Dallas hospital. His home was at 4545 Gloster. The Rev. John Know Bowling will conduct services at Northridge Presbyterian Church, 6920 Bob-o-Links. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery. Robbins could vividly recall a Civil War incident when Union troops surrounded his father’s Alabama plantation. His father, a wounded Confederate soldier home on furlough at the time, walked out and introduced himself to the Union troop commander, using a Masonic fraternal handgrip when he shook the officer’s hand. Apparently a Mason himself, the Union officer ordered only the livestock and chickens confiscated, leaving the plantation relatively untouched. The next day the Robbins place was the only one in a wide area to have meat and other foods and household supplies left. These were shared with people from neighboring plantations. Eli Robbins was born in Bellville, Ala., and came to Texas many years ago. Long before moving to Dallas in 1913, he put up the first suspension bridge across the Trinity in Ellis County. He drilled Ellis County’s first artesian well, which supplied Ferris with water at that time. People from the surrounding territory hauled the water away from the well in barrels. Surviving Robbins are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Shiels, Dallas; four sons, W. B. Robbins, E. B. Robbins and Ed R. Robbins, all of Dallas, and T. C. Robbins, Larchmont, N. Y.; a sister, Miss Minnie Robbins of Alabama; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Louis Blaylock, Lloyd Blaylock, George Blaylock, Leland Apperson, Emory Apperson and George Spurgin.