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Elizabeth "Betsy" Rohrer Robinson (1792-1881)

Elizabeth Rohrer Robinson was the matriarch of the Robinson Family of Hovey Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County in 1792, Betsy was the daughter of Frederick Rohrer, Junior (1767-1794) and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (about 1763-1806). After her mother’s death in Ohio, she, her brother Frederick Augustus Rohrer, and some of her four Marshall half-siblings were brought back to the area of present-day Parker by her Aunt Hovey (Mary Ann Truby Hovey) and reared in the home of her uncle, Dr. Simeon Hovey. She married Hovey’s nephew, Elisha Robinson (1791-1874), of Windham, Connecticut. They were the parents of ten children. She and her husband are buried in the Hovey-Robinson plot of the Parker Presbyterian Cemetery. This is the only photogrpah which we can certainly identify as one of the six children of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.

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