Mrs. E. (Rebecca)Robbins

Jan. 1922

© Western Star, Coldwater, KS

Submitted by: Alice Jacobson

Mrs. E. (Rebecca)Robbins

Rebecca A. McKirahan was united in marriage to Ephraim R. Robbins December 15, 1887, Jeffersonville, Illinois and moved to Kansas shortly after the the opening of the Cherokee Strip. She came with her family to Oklahoma and settled on the homestead southwest of Jet where she resided until the call came to the heavenly home. She was well acquainted by experience with all the hardships of the pioneers of this country.

She was the mother of three children, John Robbins and Bessie Robbins of Jet, and Samuel Leo Robbins who preceded her in death. She was also the step mother to eleven other children and the cares incident to a home were hers. Through it all she moved a patient and forbearing spirit. She leaves an aged husband, a son, a daughter, 4 step sons, 3 step daughters, a sister and numerous other relatives and a large circle of friends to mourn her departure.

Mrs. Robbins was always religiously inclined and was converted in young womanhood. After moving Oklahoma she united with the Friends church and continued a member until a little less than a year ago when she united with the Mennonite church in Jet. Her greatest ambition was that her children should be earnest Christians and that the church should prosper.

Funeral services were conducted at the Mennonite church in Jet, Oklahoma, by Rev. Wm. Lamberty of Friday afternoon. Scripture text used, “She hath done what she could,” Mat. 12:8.

A large concourse of relatives and neighbors paid their last tribute to the deceased at this time, interment in Timberlake cemetery. Relatives present from a distance were: Mrs. S. J. Witters and daughter from Weeping Water, Nebraska; Mrs. Levi Robbins and Mr. James Handy and wife of Coldwater, Kansas, and Fred Seely and wife of Enid.

Sister Robbins had always expressed a desire that everything should be in white at her funeral as an emblem of purity, and this request was carried as far as possible, even the Heavenly Father blanketed the earth with a beautiful snow.

The rose that is sweetest and fairest;

is the bud that is killed by the frost;

And the love that is dearest and rarest

Is the true friend we have just lost-

Mrs. Rebecca Robbins

By Mrs. N. J. Robertson, a friend