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| Husband: RIX ROBINSON Birth Date: Oct 1789 Birth Place: Richmond MA Death date: 19 Jan 1875 Death Place: Ada MI Burial Place: 1875 Old Ada Cemetery, Ada MI Father: Edward Robinson (1763-1836) Mother: Eunice Rix (1765-1834) Other Spouses: Sippy-Quay (River Woman) (1817-1875) | Wife: MIS-SO-QUOT-O-QUAY (Flying Cloud Woman) Birth Date: abt 1800 Birth Place: Death Date: 1848 Death Place: Ottawa County MI Burial Place: Old Ada Cemetery, Ada MI Father: Mother: |
| Marriage Date: 1821 | Marriage Place: Mackinac Island, MI |
| Child No. 1: JOHN RIX ROBINSON Sex: M Birth Date: 1826 Birth Place: Duck Lake MI Death Date: 13 Jan 1897 Death Place: Isabella County MI Burial Place: 1897 Salt Creek Cemetery, Shephard MI Marriage Date: 15 Mar 1848 Marriage Place: Granville OH Spouse's Name: WITHEY, LUCY A. | |
| Documentation:SOURCES: Averill Museum; Census; Ada Historical Society;Political Graveyard =============================================================== NOTES: The township traces its history to 1821, when Rix Robinsonobtained a French-Canadian trading post at the junction of the Grand andThornapple Rivers. Land north of the Grand River was not open for whitesettlers to purchase land in until the 1836 Treaty of Washington. Early fur trader for American Fur Co., State Senator, turneddown offer to run for governor of Michigan in 1850 because his wife wasan Indian princess and refused to associate with the white people in Lansing. The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: RRobinson, Rix (1789-1875)— also known as "Wabesha" — of Michigan. Born in 1789. Circuit judge inMichigan, 1844; member of Michigan state senate, ...politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson7.html |
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