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- OBITUARY - MR. DAVID E. ROBINSON, OF INVERNESS
Inverness, March 3, - David Robinson died on January 24, 1947, after a week's illness.
The funeral was held on Sunday, January 26, at his home and burial was made in the family lot in the Boutelle Cemetery. Rev. J. R. Wheeler officiated at the services. The hymns sung were "Abide With Me, " Nearer My God To Thee," and "Safe In The Arms of Jesus."
The house was filled to capacity by friends from the neighbourhood, Thetford Mines, Maple Grove, Lysander Falls and Kinnear's Mills.
The pall bearers were Messers. William Cruickshank, John Dempsey, Arthur Lowry, Benjamen Seale, Irvine Maxwell and William Learmouth.
At the grave, the Orange Order conducted its burial service in which over thirty members took part under the leadership of Clarke McVety, Arthur Lowry and Benjamin Seale.
David Eben Robinson was born on October12, 1874, a son of William Robinson and Isabelle Baxter. Both of his parents were from Ireland and Scotland respectively. His birthplace was on the Dublin Range, Inverness Township, on the farm now owned by Reid Carroll.
He lived practically all his life on the Dublin Range, with the exception of a few years, when he worked at Laconia, N.H., in the car shops and then for a sort time at North Attleboro, Mass., in the silver works.
He was married on October 21, 1903, at Lysander Falls, in the New Methodist Church there, to Martha Eleanor Edith Walker, and lived at the home place until they purchased the Boutelle Farm from Jack Leadbeater. Here he has resided for thirty-nine years. There is one son, Earl Walker Robinson, who now occupies the home farm. There is an adopted daughter, Edna George, Mrs. William Lunnie, who has been a member of the family from infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were members of the Lower Ireland Methodist (later the United) Church. Mr. Robinson became a member of the Orange Order, fifty-three years ago, in November 1893, and was associated with the Bracken Lodge, No. 659, on the Eighth Range of Inverness, and occupied various officers of the organization.
David Robinson was the youngest of twenty-one children of William Robinson who was married three times. There were nine children by the third marriage. Of the entire family of twenty-one only two sisters survive, Isabelle, Mrs. George Crosby and Myna, Mrs. Verne Ordway, both of Newtonville, Mass.
He is survived by his wife; a son; a foster daughter; and seven grandchildren, Muriel, Donald, Douglas, Geraldine, Gerald, Wayne and Eric Robinson.
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