Chloe Caroline Robinson

     Chloe Caroline Robinson was born on 3 November 1782, in New Haven, CT, and was baptized in December 1782 in Center Church, New Haven, CT. Chloe Caroline Robinson was left an orphan and was reared by an uncle and aunt (Uncle Levi and Aunt Lydia Ives) in New Haven. Her young life was unhappy - she never liked to talk about it. She was very fine and smart (words of Mrs. Chloe Emma Lewis Turner - her granddaughter). Laura Frances Lewis Hammond says: "Grandmother Collier never talked much about her early childhood. She told me she jumped into the holes when they were dug to set out all those lovely elm trees on your beautiful green...[she had] no recollection of her Father and Mother. She added the name Caroline to her other name making it Chloe Caroline. So her initials were CCC" Chloe Emma Lewis Turner wrote: "These people [who reared her in New Haven] did not win her love and her young life was so unhappy...I have yet to see a finer woman or smarter woman than she. Everybody admired her who came in contact with her..." Aunt Lizzie (Elizabeth Robinson Collier) was born in Litchfield where the Collier family lived. They afterwards went to Steubenville Ohio, and Aunt Lizzie when a young lady visited there and I think finished her education there...CCC wanted to send Jane, but she would not leave her. My grandmother never went back." She must have known poverty for some years - taught school in Greensboro and got lots of moeny through good investments.¹ She married Thomas Green Collier, son of Thomas Collier and Elizabeth Stockwell, on Sunday, 10 March 1805 in Litchfield, CT. Chloe Caroline Robinson was a school teacher in Greensboro, North Carolina. Thomas died on 19 September 1810 in Savannah, Georgia, at age 26 leaving her a widow. Chloe Caroline Robinson appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census of Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia, in the household of Curtis Lewis and Jane Gardner Collier, her daughter and family.² In the census she reported a real estate value of $15,000 and a personal estate valued at $10,000 - and an occupation of cultivator of strawberries!² Chloe Caroline Robinson died on 21 January 1864 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, at age 81.