More about Robert Sherman Robinson

Robert Sherman Robinson served in the Virginia Militia during the war of 1812. He was mustered in as a volunteer and served 119 days in 1814. He was one of 13 children. He married into the prominent Haymond family by taking Maxa as his wife in 1816. They lived in what was at the time "Virginia" but is now West Virginia, somewhere around Clarksburg.
Once he married Maxa, he took his new bride to Clay County, Illinois. In 1852, he exercised his Military Bounty (reward) to purchase 80 acres of land in Illinois. He was a farmer according to census records.
As Robert lay dying of cancer, Maxa was apparently in hysterics. He was supposed to have exclaimed "Maxa, be still and let me die in peace." He was remembered as being blunt and soft spoken. I still have not found an obituary for him. His will survives, and records that his debts be paid, and that Maxa have the house and it's contents until her death, which afterwards it passes to his sons.
After his death, Maxa was eligible for a widow's pension, which military wives can apply for to take care of them after their husbands pass. Maxa's pension was held up by the fact that she did not have proof of her marriage to Robert, and had to obtain a legal signature of a doctor stating that she was too frail to travel back to West Virginia to obtain the proof. She had to appear and have her neighbors (who were relatives) give testimony to their cohabitation. Her pension was approved for $8 per month.
The pension record is very cool, if not darned difficult to read due to the unusual script handwriting of the authorities who took Maxa's depositions. It has lots of interesting bits about Robert making other pension claims, as part of his over all file. One cool bit that I can make out reads:
"That after he enlisted in said service he (unknown word), with his Company to Richmond, Virginia, and from the latter place was cornered by (unknown word) to Norfolk, Virginia, and was stationed in and near said place during his period of service. That the only duty he performed was "Guard" duty and "Drilling". That he recieved a discharge and lost said discharge in moving from place to place. That he cannot remember the exact time and place.
That he, at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid or comfort, or pretended authority in hostility to the United States, and that he will support the Constitution of the United States, that he is not in reciept of a Pension under any previous Act..." So, that late rebellion, being that this part was taken in 1871, would have been the Civil War. Robert was made to swear that he did not give "enemies" (that would be the Confederates) comfort or aid in order to claim part of his pension.