Elizabeth Jane Sloan, wife of William Elias Robins

Eliza Jane was born August 16, 1848 near Tilton in Murray County, Georgia. Her parents were Archibald Sloan and Jane Ann Baker. Eliza Jane died August 6, 1929 in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

The following is an excerpt from Eliza's obituary written/copied(?) by her daughter Maggie after her death in 1929: “… August 22, 1869 Eliza Jane Sloan was married to William Elias Robins, a Confederate soldier, who had stacked his arms with the remnant of General Lee’s army at Appomattox Court House and walked with bleeding feet back to Georgia to help in the reconstruction of his native state. Mrs. Robins went into the Methodist Episcopal Church South with her husband who had been reared in that faith, and these two traveled life’s pathway together until death called him forty years later.

Two years after their marriage they moved to Knoxville, Arkansas, where all of their children were born except the eldest. Leila, who was born in their Georgia home. This move to Arkansas was frought with danger. Part of the trip was made by train but the last hundred miles had to be made behind an ox-team over swollen streams and uncharted roads through forests with a six month old baby to shield from the hardships of the journey….”