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- Pleasant Emanuel Robertson, 1814
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~morrgary/families/morrison/wp_morr_gen5.h tml#288
vii. Pleasant Emanuel Robertson, born April 30, 1814 in Anderson County, Tennessee; died November 20, 1873 in Monroe County, Indiana;
married Mary McCoy June 26, 1834 in Monroe County, Indiana; born April 21, 1808 in Tennessee; died November 15, 1873 in Monroe County, Indiana.
Pleasant appears to be yet another child named after one of Winnie's siblings. Gene Robertson, a direct descendant of Pleasant, confirms Pleasant as a son of Stephen and Winnie and also confirms his birth date as April 30, 1814 and his birth location as Anderson County, Tennessee. Applying this to Fred's Robertson narrative, this would likely place Pleasant as the last child born in Anderson County before the family moved to Campbell County. When Stephen's family moved from Tennessee in 1828 Pleasant would have been just 14 years old. As the family began settlement in Brown County, Indiana circa 1835 Pleasant would have been 21 years old and among the Robertsons recognized as an early settler. "Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana: Historical and Biographical" by Charles Blanchard;F. A. Battey & Co., Chicago; 1884 states on page 735 in the Jackson Township, Brown County section "At the first meeting of the County Board, in 1836, a district was established on the 'Jackson's Licks & Martinsville road,' to extend from the Licks northward to Bear Creek, and William Davidson was appointed Superintendent, and the following 'hands' living along or near the road were ordered to report to him for work: ... Robert Robertson, Shadrach Robertson, Pleasant Robertson, ... Michael Fleener, Aaron Fleener ..."
Pleasant married Mary McCoy in 1834 in neighboring Monroe County and their first child, William A., was born in Monroe County on November 4, 1834. But it appears from the above quote they spent some of the first couple of years of married life in Brown County. By early 1837 (delivery of federal certificate August 2, 1838) Pleasant had patented 40 acres of land in the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 9 of Range 1-E Township 9-N (Monroe County, Benton Township). On May 10, 1848 a federal patent certificate was issued to Pleasant for the adjacent 40 acres to the west of the first purchase (SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 9). On December 1, 1849 a federal patent certificate was issued to Pleasant Roberson for the adjacent 40 acres to the east of the first purchase (SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 10). The last federal patent certificate shown for Pleasant Robertson was issued January 3, 1855 for the 40 acres of the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 10.
Pleasant and Mary spent the rest of their lives in Benton Township, birthing 9 children in the process. They are buried in Unionville Cemetery in Benton Township.
rorkkadded this on 7 Mar 2010Short bio of Pleasant Emanuel Robertson, 1814
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