Robinson Jones ¹¹⁰²⁴

   Cause of his death was shot by Sioux Indians.

   Another name for Robinson was Robert.

Augusta Chronicle
Augusta, Georgia
Thursday, September 4, 1862
p. 3

From the St. Paul Pioneer, August 20.
Indian Outbreak in Minnesota.
SEVERAL WHITE PERSONS MURDERED. -- TROOPS SENT
TO SUPRESS THE DISTURBANCES

The city was considerably excited yesterday and last evening by reports of murdered committed by the Indians in Meeker County, and at the Agency on the Mississippi river. We have diligently traced these reports, and give the following as the substance of everything that has come in a reliable form up to a late hour.

MURDERS IN MEEKER COUNTY.

The first news of the Indian raid was brought to the governor by Mr. George C. Whitcomb, who resides at Greenleaf, Meeker County, about thirty-five miles from Hutchinson. Mr. Whitcomb is the county treasurer, and well known as a gentleman of truth.

He states that about one o'clock on Sunday last, seven or eight Indians came to the house of Mr. Robinson Jones, in the town of Acton, thirty miles northwest of Forrest City. Mr. Jones soon discovered that their disposition was anything but friendly, and fearing for the safety of his family, he locked the doors of his house, and with his wife went to the house of Mr. Howard Baker, about a mile distant, and was followed by the Indians.

The Sioux, on arriving at the door of Mr. Baker's house, proposed to the inmates to go out a short distance, and shoot at a mark. An assent was given to the proposition, and the Indian led the way. When they were a short distance from the house, a signal was given, and the Indian turned and fired upon Mr. Robinson Jones, who was just outside the door. Howard Baker, Mrs. Jones, and Mr. Webster, who were inside the door, fell mortally wounded. The Indian who fired at Mr. Jones missed and fired again, the second shot taking effect. Mr. Baker told his wife, who was unhurt, to go down into the cellar with her child. She started to go, but when at the head of the stairs, she fell down and was insensible for some time. When she revived the Indians were gone. She got a pillow, and put under her husband's, who was still alive. He directed her to leave him, and go to a neighbor's, about a mile distant, and give the alarm, which she did. The people turned out, and went to Baker's house, and found four persons dead -- Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Howard Baker and Mr. Webster. The child of Mrs. Baker was found in the house, unhurt. It was an infant only 2 yrs. old.

When Mr. Jone's locked up his house to go to Mr. Baker's, he left a young girl, an adopted child, and the neighbors found, on going to the house, that the Indians had returned and murdered her.

Mr. Whitcomb, who gives us these particulars, was engaged raising a company for one of our new regiments, and was at Forest City. He sent men out to the scene of the murder, who returned and verified the statements we have given. The settlers were rushing to Forest City in great numbers, but nobody had seen any other bands of Indians then those who committed the murders, and it is not known that any others were in the neighborhood.

  Events

• He worked as a postmaster.

Robinson married Lucy Ann Thomas 14 October 1843 in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine.¹¹⁰²³ (Lucy Ann Thomas was born about 1823 in New Hampshire, died 16 April 1894 in Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine ^11026,11027 and was buried after 16 April 1894 in Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine at Brann-Cooper Cemetery ¹¹⁰²⁷.)