Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — KENNETH ROBINSON DEAD IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

KENNETH ROBINSON DEAD IN FRANCE

Mrs. B. F, Robinson, of 201 South Ist street, received a telegram late yesterday from the Adjutant General of the United States, notifying iher of the death of her Robinson, which occurred: December 12, in a hospital in France, resulting from pneumonia. Mrs. Robinson had not even heard that her son was ill and toe is prostrated by the sudden and shocking news of his death. Kenneth Robinson was only a lad when he enlisted in the Machine Gun Company which was recruited n lola by Capt. W. E. Payton soon after the outbreak of toe war, but little beyond 18 years of age. He was in Boston when the war began and he came all the way home to secure his mother’s consent to his enlistment. Having obtained this he promptly volunteered in the Machine Gun Company, although he was so young and his figure was so slight and (boyish that he had some difficulty in being mustered. Rut he was determined to get into the army and had his way, taking his training at Doniphan and doing his full duty as a soldier. Apparently he passed unscathed through the fierce hatties in which iris regiment was engaged, and it seems especially pathetic that he should fall victim of disease after the war is over. His mother will have the heartfelt sympathy of all heh friends in the great and irrepairable loss that has befallen her.. The above clipping is from an lola, Kansas,' paper, and was handed to us by Mrs. Clara Coen, who » stepmother of Mrs. B. F. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson’s name before her marriage was Ida Makeever. She was married to Frank Robinson, who will be remembered by many. He was a 'brother of Warren Robinson of this city. His death occurred some five or six years ago.