Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — O. P. Robinson Dead. [ARTICLE]

O. P. Robinson Dead.

Oliver P. Robinson, for many years a deputy sheriff in Jasper county, died at the Soldiers’ Home at Marion Wednesday morning, and was buried there yesterday, aged 68 years, 4 months and 22 days. He had resided in Jasper county since 1864. His sister, Mrs. Jennie Thompson, and brother, W. D. Robinson, and two neices, Mrs. Fred Phillips, of Rensselaer, and Mrs. H. F. Hayden, of Lowell, went to Marion 1 hursday to attend the funeral. Mr. Robinson was for many years a familiar figure about the court house, serving as deputy sheriff and court bailiff through many successive administrations. He served as a soldier during the list year of the rebellion. Some four years ago, he suffered a stroke of paralysis and later suffered two lighter strokes. He was taken to the Soldiers’ Home about two months ago and had been an invalid in the hospital there since that time. Mr. Robinson had never married.