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Extract:
1] Isaac Robbins: Head of household - 35 yr old white male, married, Farmer - he and his parents born in North Carolina.
2] Kesiah Robbins: 29 yr old white female, married, Keeping House - She and her mother born in Indiana and her father in North Carolina.
3] Christopher C Robbins: 6 yr old white male, son, single - he and his mother born in Indiana, his father in North Carolina.
4] Oscar C Robbins: 4 yr old white male, son, single, he and his mother born in Indiana, his father in North Carolina.
5] William B Robbins: 1 yr old white male, son, single, he and his mother born in Indiana, his father in North Carolina 

1920 US Census, Population Schedule, Eden Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. SD 12, ED 121, page 8B, Dwelling & Family 185, Line 94, C C Robbins household. Census Date, 8 Feb 1920. Original Data: NARA, T625, roll 443, Image 554. www.ancestry.com, accessed 21 Apr 2018. Acc000772/Doc4741.pdf.

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1] C. C. Robbins: Head of household. Owned home with mortgage - 45 yr old white male, married, able to read, write and speak English - He and his mother born in Indiana, father in North Carolina - Occupation: Farmer on a general farm, Farm schedule 88, working on own account -
2] Ethel Robbins: 25 yr old white female, married, wife of head, able to read write and speak English, she and her parents born in Indiana - no occupation -
3] Keziah Robbins: Mother of head, 66 yr old white female, widowed, able to read, write and speak English - she and mother born in Indiana, father in North Carolina - No Occupation 

Extract:
Name: Christopher Columbus Robbins
Father: Isaac Robbins
Mother: Keziah Tomlinson
Birth Date: 6 Apr 1874
State: NC
Country: USA

Walt stated that the guitar belonged to Christopher Columbus Robbins ID0071 and not to Grandpa. He said that Grandpa told him that he played the violin and that Christopher played the guitar at barn dances in Westfield when they were younger. Walt also said that Myron got the guitar with the intention of learning to play it but he didn't think he had much success.

I am going to answer your letter very soon. In the mean time, here is a picture of Grandpa Robbins's guitar. I didn't know about the violin or guitar until buying dad's house and finding the guitar and the violin case. The case was hanging from the rafters in the basement but it was empty. Dad later told me sadly that one of the kids had torn it up. But, I still have it, it is lined with purple velvet. The guitar is just as I found it, one or two strings I think, and I keep it next to the fireplace in the family room. I had it hanging on my son's wall as decoration for years, that is what the red plastic tie hanging from the end is for, I just have never taken it back off. [Actually, the guitar had belonged to Christopher and the violin to Oscar]

Extract: Robbins, Christopher C Ethel B Lamb 10 July 1916

Following a protracted illness due principally to the infirmities of age, Mrs. Kiziah Robbins, widow of Isaac Robbins, died, Wednesday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Mollenkoff, two miles east of Fishers, with whom she had been living for the past four years. She was eighty years old.

The funeral will be held at the Chester Friends church, north of Westfield, at 11 o'clock, Friday morning. Rev. Jehu Reagan, of Hortonville, will have charge of the services and the interment will occur in the cemetery near the church. The family lived in the vicinity of Chester and Hortonville for many years and is well known in the northwestern part of the county. The husband died twenty-five years ago.

Mrs. Robbins is survived by two sons besides the daughter at whose home her death occurred. They are Oscar Robbins, five miles west of Cicero and Chisthopse [sic] Robbins, near Oaklandon. A brother, A. J. Tomlinson, of Cleveland, Tenn.; a sister, Mrs. Alva Kivett, of Frankfort, and a half-sister, Mrs. Alphia Carey, of the Chester Neighborhood also survive. 

Extract:
RITES HELD FOR C. ROBBINS, 72 Funeral services in charge of Rev. Lowell Wilson were held Monday at the mortuary of Evans, Godby & Trout for Christopher Robbins, 72, who passed away Saturday night at the Hamilton county hospital, where he had been a patient for a month. Interment occurred in Crownland cemetery. The only survivor is a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Mullenkoff of the Noblesville community. The deceased was born in Washington township and spent most of his life farming in the Hortonville community

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Extract: Christopher Robbins - Cemetery: 059 Sect: 18 Lot: A

Approx grave location: 40° 03' 10.35" N       86° 00' 00.73" W - No stone - Hamilton Co Home - Welfare Interment

Extract:  Stated that Christopher managed a park in Noblesville after he left the household of Oscar & Grace

Note: Christopher was a lodger in the Alvin Riley Household

Extract (Christopher):
Line 78
Address: 136 South 8th St.
7] Christopher C. Robbins - Lodger of Head - 65 yr old white male, Married [Crossed out] - Highest school grade: high School 1 year - Born Indiana - Residence, 1 Apr 1935: Same House - Occupation: None listed - Other Income: Yes

Extract:
1] Ethel B. Robbins: Head of household - 47 yr old white female, divorced - Highest school grade: 2 yrs. High School - Born Indiana - Residence, 1 Apr 1935: Same Place - Homemaker - No Occupation - Other Income: Yes

Rent home, not a farm - cost: $5.00 - South Main