Samuel Asbury Mcrobie
1839 - 1899
by Richard R. Wilt
Samuel Asbury Mcrobie was born in Allegany County, Maryland
on September 7, 1830, the eldest child of John Mcrobie and
Margaret Murphy Mcrobie. He was listed in the household of
his father in the US 1950 taken on August 20, 1850 in Allegany County, Maryland.
US Census August 20 1850 Allegany County, Maryland
John Mcrobie age 35 birth CA 1815 Virginia
Margt Mcrobie age 34 wife
Saml Mcrobie age 10 son
Wm H Mcrobie age 8 son
John Mcrobie age 6 son
Henry Mcrobie age 5 son
Francis Mcrobie age 4 aon
Martha Mcrobie age 3 daughter
Hugh Mcrobie age 2/3
Samuel married Sarah Elizabeth Weimer on January 7, 1860 in Oakland, Maryland and they are listed in the census of 1870 with five in the household.
US Census 1970 District 15, Oakland, Allegany County, Maryland.
S. Asbury Mccrobie age 31 working at Castels Mill
Sarah Mccrobie age 39 Keeping house
John W. Mccrobie age 8 son
Joseph Mccrobie age 5 son
Simon Weimer age 19 stepson Works at Mill
Sarah being 9 years older than Samuel came into the marriage with a 9 year old son.
I have always wondering who was the father of her son, Simon Sylverter Weimer who was born May 13, 1851.
Sarah was found listed in the census of 1850 in the household of Peter C. Meyers , possibly as a domestic.
The story in the family said that when she became pragnant she moved out of her family home into another family not in her hometown.
US Census Elklick Township Somerset County, Pennsylvania on November 1, 1850.
Peter C. Meyers age 32 M Farmer Head of household
Elizabeth Meyers age 22 F. wife
Samuel Meyers age 6 M
Mary Meyers age 6 F
Sarah Weimer age 19
It appears that in November of 1850 Sarah was pragnant with Simon being born in May the following year.
It appears that Samuel accepted Sarah's son since he was reared in the Mcrobie household but was not adopted by Samuel.
Sarah daughter of George and Barbara (Klingaman) Weimer was not
listed with the Weimer family in the 1850 census. This seems to support the family story of her moving out of her family home due to her pregnancy.
Within a year of the wedding of Samuel and Sarah the Civil War began On April 12, 1861 and Samuel being only 22 years old joined the West Virginia Volunteers 6th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry and THE following is the history of the 6th Regiment West Virginia Infantry.
Film Number: M507 roll 8
Notes: Plaque Number:
UNION WEST VIRGINIA VOLUNTEERS
6th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry
Overview:
Organized at Grafton, Mannington, Cairo, Parkersburg and Wheeling, W. Va., August 13 to December 26, 1861 and attached to Railroad District, West Virginia, to March, 1862. Railroad District, Mountain Department, to July, 1862.
Railroad and District, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to September, 1862.
Railroad District, West Virginia, to January, 1863. Clarksburg, W. Va.,
8th Army Corps, to March, 1863. 6th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps,
to June, 1863. Wilkinson's Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. of West Virginia,
to December, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia, to April, 1864.
Kelly's Command, Reserve Division, West Virginia, to April, 1865. 1st Brigade,
1st Infantry Division, West Virginia, to June, 1865.
Regiment organized for railroad guard duty and served on line of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by detachments, at various points west of Sleepy Hollow
entire term. Raid from Fairmont to Valley River and Bootheville April 12, 1862
(Co. "A"). Skirmish at Valley River April 12 (Co. "A"). Skirmish at Big Bend June 7.
Skirmish at Weston August 31 (2 Cos.).
Skirmish at Weston September 3 (Detachment)
Skirmish at Standing Stone September 28. Capture of St. George November 9 (Co. "B")
Skirmish at Johnstown April 18, 1863 (Detachment).
Skirmish at Rowlesburg April 23. Rowlesburg and Portland April 26. Oakland, Md.,
April 26 (1 Co.).
Skirmish at Bridgeport April 29 (Detachment). Fairmont
April 29 (Detachment). Bridgeport April 30. Sutton August 26 (Cos. "G" and "I").
Ball's Mills and on Elk River August 27 (Detachment).
Bulltown, Braxton County,
October 13, 1863 (Detachment). Bulltown May 3, 1864 (Detachment). South Branch Bridge
July 4 (Detachment). Patterson's Creek Bridge July 4 (Detachment). Back Creek Bridge
July 27 (Detachment). Cumberland, Md., August 1 (1 Co.). New Creek ugust 4 (2 Cos.).
Bulltown August 20 (Detachment). Sutton August 24 (Detachment). Nutter Hill
August 27 (Detachment). New Creek November 28 (Detachment).
Mustered out June 10, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 8 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers
and 167 Enlisted men by disease. Total 177.
There is a story or rumor that has been passed down in the family of an episode that happened sometime during Samuel's service during the war.
Samuel was stationed in Preston County, West Virgina in a unit working on and protecting the B & O railroad from the
Confederate forces. He had obtained time off and came to Oakland, Maryland to visit his family. While he was in Oakland he was walking down the street, in uniform and met a Confederate soldier also in uniform. They met directly in from of Offutt General store and an argument was started which escalated into a fight. In the process of fighting Samuel grabbed an axe handle, also known as a poleaxe to defend himself and struck the Confederate soldier and sadly resulted in the death of the Confederate. Knowing that Oakland was well within Confederate territory he fled and returned to his unit in Preston County, West Virginia. When the Sheriff of Westernport, Oakland being under the juridiction of Westernport Sheriff, was notified of the death, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Samuel A. McCroby. A deputy was sent with the warrant to Preston County, West Virginia with the intent of arresting Samuel and return him to Westernport to stand trial for murder. When the warrant was presented to the Commander of 6th Regiment Company O, the commander refused to surrender Samuel to the deputy from Westernport with the statement "killing Rebs was what a Union Soldier was supposed to do", so Samuel remained with his unit until he was release at the end of the war.
Since the Union was the victor when Samuel left the army and returned to Oakland the warrant was never served.
The next record found for Samuel was the US Census of 1880.
US Census 1880 Sang Run Dist on 17 and 18 July 1880
Samuel Mcrobie W M age 30 Head of household Farmer
Sarah Mcrobie W F age 49 Wife Keeping house
John Mcrobie W M age 18 son Laborer
Joseph Mcrobie W M age 14 son At home
Barbara Mcrobie W F age 9 daughter at home
Living next door was Simon Weimer.
Simon Weimer W M age 30 Laborer
Mary Weimer W F age 23 wife Keeping house
Silas Weimer W M age 7 son at home
Fenas Weimer W M age 5 son at home
Samuel seems to have obtain a small farm near McHenry which after 1925 was under the waters of Deep Creek Lake on a branch of the Youghiogheny River a tributary of the Monongalia River where Samuel died in 1999.
Obituary of Samuel Asbury:
Samuel McCrobie died at his home near McHenry, January 2nd, 1899
Samuel a. McCrobie aged 59 years. Mr. McCrobie's death was caused
by dropsy with which discease he suffered for a long time. He was
a member of Co. O, 64th West Va. Vol. Inf during the war of the Rebellion, inwhich company he enlisted as a private on Dec 11, 1861 and served until Dec 19, 1864 at which time he was mustered out of service.
He was a brother of Hamton McCrobie of Oakland. His funeral occured
yesterday, the remains being interred at the cemetery at Thayer Church Thayerville,
After the funeral services, which were conducted at McHenry.
May he rest in peace
Samuel's farm was left to his children, his son Joseph Mcrobie and his daughter Barbara Ellen Mcrobie Wilt but appears that neither lived on the farm. In 1915 there was a eight hundred dollar
morgage on the farm and the bank forclosed on the farm. Between
1915 and 1925 the bank deeded the farm to the Youghiogheny Hydo Electric Company so an electric prducing dam and lake could be built to produce electricity. Electricty is still being prduced by the lake but Deep Creek Lade is used primarily for recreation.
Samuel, along with my grandmother, Barbara Mcrobie Wilt and her husband John H. Wilt and several other Mcrobie, and Wilt family members are buried in the Deep Creek Cemertery previously Thayerville Cemetery which overlooks Deep Creek Lake Recreational area of the lake.
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