FAMILY
Pro Aris Et Focis
Avon Lake, OH
[UPDATE: November, 2008: Recent research indicates that Sophia Robinett is the fourth cousin, three times removed, of U.S. Senator and current Vice President-Elect, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.].
Sophia Robinett was born abt. 1827 in Wythe County, Virginia. She is the daughter of Samuel Robinett and Christina Lindamood. According to the Wythe County marriage records, Samuel Robinett and Christina Lindamood were married on August 23, 1823. They had three children: William, Reece and Sophia, all born between 1823 and 1832.
Samuel Robinett is the son of Michael Robinett and Mary McFarland. Christina Lindamood is the daughter of John & Elizabeth Lindamood. Sophia Robinett and William Cline Johnson were married on August 24, 1849 in Tazewell County, Virginia.
According to the dates contained within the Wythe County Court Order Book and the Will of her father, John Lindamood, Christina Lindamood Robinett died between June, 1829 and July, 1832. Her husband, Samuel Robinett, died before July 9, 1832:
From the Wythe County Court Order Book, 1832:
"July 9th, 1832: Andrew Lindamood was appointed guardian of Betsy Lindamood and also for William, Sophia and Reese Robinett, the last three being the orphans of Samuel Robinett under the age of 14."
Will of John Lindamood, Sr-1829
(as transcribed by Janie Dillon - USGenWeb)
Wythe Co, VA Courthouse, Will Book # 3, pp 374-375.
In the name of God, Amen. I, JOHN LINDAMOOD, SEN, of the County of Wythe
and State of Virginia, being weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind and
memory, and remembering it is appointed for all men to die, think proper to
make my last will.
First: I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid by
my executor herein after named, as soon as he conveniently can, after the
appraisement and sale of my personal property not otherwise disposed of.
Second: I give and bequeath to my son JOHN LINDAMOOD the lower part of
my old plantation being the same which I let him have by an agreement entered
into with him some time since upon his paying the notes and bonds yet due
given me as purchase money of the same. And that it may not be said that I
give him nothing, it is proper to remark that the price actually paid was
much below the real value of the land.
Third: I give and bequeath to my son ANDREW LINDAMOOD the upper part of
my old plantation and a new survey adjoining the said upper part of my old
plantation (by upper part of my old plantation I mean all the balance of the
tract not sold by agreement to my son John Lindamood) he complying with and
performing certain stipulations herein after mentioned.
Fourth: I give and bequeath to my son GEORGE LINDAMOOD the money and
debts I loaned him for the purpose of enabling him to purchase Phillip Knipp's
lands, his paying to my daughter ELIZABETH MOYERS ten dollars twelve months
after my decease.
Fifth: I give and bequeath to my daughter ELIZABETH MOYERS the use and
occupancy of the house and enclosed land being three or four acres where she
now lives with liberty to get fire wood, for the full term of three years
after my decease; also forty dollars in money to be paid her by my son Andrew
Lindamood, the half in twelve months, and the other half in two years after
my decease. Also ten dollars in money to be paid her by my son George
Lindamood in twelve months after my decease, also a small iron pot.
Sixth: I give and bequeath to my daughter MARY LINDAMOOD my bed and the
furniture for the same.
Seventh: I give and bequeath to my wife ELIZABETH her bed and furniture,
one oven, one cow, one sheep, one hog, one chest, and one coffee mill, one
saddle and bridle, and what money she has that came by her to be hers
absolutely; also the use of my Bon mare whilst she chooses to remain on the
place and she is to have the house and garden to her own use so long as she
remains on the place, and my son Andrew Lindamood is to furnish her with
pasture for the cow, and grain, and meat for her support, and fire wood cut
and at the door so long as she remains on the place. If my wife leaves the
place, my Bon mare is to be the property of my son Andrew Lindamood.
Eighth: I give and bequeath two hundred dollars to be equally divided
between my grandchildren now living to wit: the children of my daughter CATY
KNIPP, my daughter ELIZABETH MOYERS, my daughter CHRISTINA ROBINETT, and my
daughter MARY LINDAMOOD, to be paid to them by my son Andrew Lindamood, to
wit: the first payment to be made four years after my decease, and to be made
to those then of age, and then to the others as they severally attain the age
of twenty one years; and if any of the said children should die before they
attain the age of twenty one, their share of said two hundred dollars shall
be the property of my son Andrew Lindamood. I also give and bequeath unto my
said grandchildren above alluded to, all the proceeds of my personal estate
not otherwise disposed of that may be remaining after the payment of my just
debts and funeral charges.
Ninthly: And as I particularly desire my will shall stand and not be
misinterpreted, and as I have not mentioned some of my children in my will or
given them anything by it; it is not to be understood that I forgot them-but
I consider the advances I have heretofore made them as sufficient.
Lastly: I constitute and appoint John Umbarger junior, executor of this
my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills.
Witness my hand and seal, the 9th day of June 1829.
John Lindamood
Signed, sealed, and acknowledged by John Lindamood Sen as & for his last will
in presence of us who subscribe the same as witnesses thereto in his presence
& in presence of each other.
John Darter Matthias Darter
At a Court held for Wythe County on Monday, the 18th day of August 1829.
This is the last will and testament of John Lindamood Sen, decd, was presented
in Court and being proved by the oaths of John Darter and Matthias Darter the
subscribing witnesses thereto the same is ordered to be recorded. And on
the motion of John Umbarger, Jr, the executor named in the said will who
entered into bond with William Pruner, Leonard Umbarger, and John Umbarger,
Sr, his securities in the penalty of six hundred dollars conditioned as the
Law directs and having taken the oath required by law, probate of said will
is granted him in due form.
Teste: J. P. Matthews, CL
Avon Lake, OH