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Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: July 12, 1937
Name: Charles S. Robbins
Post Office: Medford, Oklahoma
Residence: 6 miles west; 3 north of Medford
Date of Birth: March 2, 1871
Place of Birth: Illinois
Father: S. A. Robbins
Place of Birth: New Hampshire
Information on father: 
Mother: Ellen Cage
Place of Birth: Massachusetts
Information on mother: 
Field Worker: Naomi L. Carringer
Interview # 8026

Charles Robbins was born March 2, 1871, in Illinois, and made the race into the Cherokee Strip when it was opened, September 16, 1893, but did not get a claim. However, he came back later and found a claim that a man had staked but never filed on. He looked the man up and bought the place from him, giving him $250.00 for it.

Mr. Robbins taught school that Winter and in the Spring he built a house, half dugout and half frame.

He was married the following Christmas and came to stay on his claim in January. He and his wife brought with them a cow, two dozen chickens, a hog and a team of horses.

The first Summer Mr. Robbins went to Kansas and worked in the harvest fields.

Mr Robbins said it was a hard struggle the first years in this new country and to make it they went without a lot of things. Mr. Robbins still lives on his farm.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Lola Crane coolbreze@cybertrails.com   November 2001.