Samantha Fogle Robinson obit

SAMANTHA J. ROBINSON
PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY

Stricken With Apoplexy While
Singing at Meeting.

Special to the Herald.

PLEASANTVILLE, Dec. 8.—Mrs. Samantha J. Robinson, widow of the late P. N. Robinson of Pineville, died suddenly of apoplexy late this afternoon, surviving only a little more than two hours after she was stricken. No arrangements for the funeral had been made this evening.

Mrs. Robinson, since the death of her husband about two years ago, had made her home in this village, and today she was apparently enjoying good health. She went to the meeting of the W. M. A. of the United Brethren church, held at the home of Mrs. Charles Woodcock, and it was while she was singing a solo as a part of the program of the meeting that her friends noticed that she was ill. Her voice grew husky and she began to waver as she stood.

The ladies went to her assistance and she was carried to a couch, where she quickly became unconscious and passed away at 6:30 without speaking. Mrs. Robinson was well known in this vicinity and a more extended account of her life will be given in the Herald on Saturday. She leaves eight children, one of whom is Mrs. B. W. Bedford of Titusville. On account of her death the Epworth League meeting in the Methodist Episcopal church scheduled for Friday evening has been postponed.

Led An Active Life.
  The entire community was shocked yesterday when the news of the death of Mrs. S. J. Robinson became known, her death occurring while she was in attendance at the meeting of the W. M. A. at the home of Mrs. Charles Woodcock on Third street. Mrs. Robinson had been asked to sing and choosing as her selection “The Beautiful Gates Ajar,” she requested her daughter, Mrs. Mae Casler, to accompany her o nthe piano, joking about her having been asked to sing. She sang the first verse and chorus through, but during the singing of the second verse her voice faltered and she seemed to be singing with an effort. She bravely finished the chorus for the second time. Noticing that she staggered, Rev. W. P. Hanks came to her assistance and asked her if she wished to sit down. She replied in the negative and requested her daughter to go on with the hymn. It was with great effort that she finished the singing of the beautiful hymn and those present will have occasion to ever remember this hymn. She was assisted to a couch and although still conscious her friends noted that her condition was serious and the physician was immediatedly sent for. Her sickness came at about 4:30 and she lapsed into unconsciousness about 5 o’clock, death coming an hour and a half later, and being directly due to a stroke of apoplexy.
  Samantha Jane Fogle was born Dec. 28, 1850, a daughter of Henry and Hannah Fogle, pioneer settlers in Forest county. While she was still a young child her parents bought the large acreage in Forest county which has ever since been known as the Fogle farm. Here the deceased grew to young womanhood and on Dec. 25, 1867, she was united in marriage to Philip N. Robinson, a veteran of the Civil war. The young couple went to housekeeping at Pineville, buying a farm and building a large dwelling which made a commodious and hospitable roadhouse during the days of the Pithole and Triumph oil excitements. All their life was spent in this their first home and ten children were born to them, nine of whom survive. Mr. Robinson died in April of 1918 and a son, Harry, died just two weeks later, these being the first breaks in the large family circle in all these years. Mrs. Robinson became a member of the United Brethren church at Pineville about twenty-five years ago and was always a woman of great activity socially, always visiting the sick and offering a helping hand among the needy, and since her affiliation with the church had been a regular attendant at all its activities.
  About two years ago she moved from the old home at Pineville to rooms which she rented in the residence of Mrs. Rose House. Soon after her death her remains were removed from the Woodcock home to her own rooms. The surviving children are as follows: Mrs. Laverna Vail of Guys Mills, Mrs. Mae Casler, Mrs. Pearl Archer and Clyde Robinson, all of Pleasantville, Mrs. Grace Allison of Wesleyville, Mrs. Eva Bedford of Titusville, Blaine of Dewey, Okla., Ralph of DuBois, and Guy, who resides on the old homestead at Pineville. There are also twenty grandchildren and one great-grandchild, the little son of Rev. LeRoy Casler of Duke’s Center. She also has one brother, William Fogle of this village, now the sole survivor of his family.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday from the U. B. church, Rev. F. L. Barber of Jamestown, N. Y. and Rev. W. P. Hanks, the pastor, officiating.

LARGE NUMBER
AT FUNERAL OF
MRS. ROBINSON

Services Conducted at Pleasant-
ville U. B. Church Sunday Af-
ternoon—Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Stewart Give Schools $500.
MRS. PROPHETER IS HOSTESS

Special to the Herald.
PLEASANTVILLE, Dec. 12—Obsequies in memory of the late Mrs. Samantha J. Robinson were conducted Sunday afternoon. A private prayer service was held at 1:30 from the home, Rev. LeRoy McK. Casler of Duke’s Center, a grandson of the deceased, reading from the scriptures and offering prayer. Prayer was also made by Rev. W. P. Hanks and Mrs. D. C. House and Mrs. W. P. Hanks sang “Face to Face.” The remains were then taken to the U. B. Church, where, at 2 o’clock, public services were held, Rev. W. P. Hanks being assisted by Rev. LeRoy McK. Casler. Rev. F. L. Barber of Jamestown, former pastor of the church, was unable to come. After reading the 14th chapter of St. John, Rev. Casler offered prayer and then told of his childhood days with his grandmother, the help and inspiration she had been to him throughout the years, and paying her memory a loving and touching tribute. Rev. Hanks took for his text 2 Timothy 1:5, this verse following fitly upon the remarks made by Rev. Casler. A quartette from Titusville composed of the following ladies and gentlemen, S. P. Eckstrom, Mrs. J. J. Sharpe, D. R. Nelson and Mrs. E. R. Wingard, sang the following selections: “Lead Kindly Light,” “Sometime We’ll Understand,” and “Rest, Weary Pilgrim.” The floral offering was most profuse and beautiful, among the specially ordered being a set piece, “Gates Ajar,” from the children, also offerings from the W. C. T. U., the W. M. A. of the U. B. church, the Otterbein Guild, the Asbury class and the Queen Esther Circle of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Pleasantville baseball team, the I. O. O. F., Seneca Lodge, the Titusville Chapter of the Eastern Star, the Dewey Grange of Neiltown. The W. M. A. attended the funeral in a body and the Women’s Relief Corps of Titusville, of which the deceased was a member, was represented. Those from a distance attending were Dr. and Mrs. Walter Allison and daughter Arlene of Wesleyville, Ralph Robinson of DuBois, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Vail and son Ralph of Tryonville, Mrs. Nancy Bunting and daughter, Mrs. John Young and Ralph Bunting of Warren, Rev. LeRoy M. Casler of Duke’s Center. The interment was made in the family lot in Fairview cemetery, the following acting as pall bearers: Ralph and Clyde Robinson, sons of the deceased, Drs. Allison and Bedford, Amos Archer and E. L. Casler, sons-in-law of the deceased.