Elam Cummings Robinson ^{2 3 4}

   Another name for Elam was Elam Omar Ribinson.⁵

  General Notes:

Elam was a chaplain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was captured and released from Rock Island Prison in Rock Island, Illinois in apparently poor health. He traveled back to West Virginia to bring his wife and family to Bryant, Illinois because he thought he had a better chance for success there. He died a few months later and Almyra returned to Buckhannon, West Virginia and had her third child just 5 weeks after her husband's death.
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From TATTERED UNIFORMS AND BRIGHT BAYONETS - WV CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS by Jack L. Dickinson, Elam C. Robinson was a SGT in Co. D, 20th Virginia Cavalry out of Lewis, Virginia. According to Noel Tenney at the UCHS, only one company mustered into the Confederate Army out of Upshur County. Everyone else signed up with the Union Army. He was a prisoner at Rock Island Prison in Illinois.

In a journal Elam writes of seeing his sister in Bryant, Illinois for the first time in 8 years. He stayed with her and preached in the area before going back to Buckhannon to get his family. He came back to Illinois in April, 1865 and died 6 months later probably from tuberculosis.

Elam C., 2nd SGT. Co. D. 20th Virginia Cavalry. Enlisted Weston, West Virginia 1 May 1863. Not stated if present at muster-in roll dated Aug 1863. Absent, PVT, 1 July 1863-1 Jan 1864, prisoner in Camp Chase. Captured Clarksburg, West Virginia, 28 Sep 1863, deserter. Confined at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Description: age 22, 5'5", fair complexion, light hair and gray eyes. Occupation farmer, residing in Upshur County, West Virginia. Had taken the oath of allegiance before enlisting in the Southern Army; sent to Wheeling, West Virginia. Confined at the Atheneum Prison, 9 Oct 1863. Description: age 22, 5'8", floid complexion, sandy hair, gray eyes. Transferred to Camp Chase 22 Oct 1863. Confined at Camp Chase, 23 Oct 1863, deserter, violated his parole. Absent 31 Dec 1863 to 31 Aug 1864 prisoner. Transferred to Rock Island, Illinois 22 Jan 1864. Confined at Rock Island Prison 24 Jan 1864. Desires to take the oath of allegiance and be loyal 18 Mar 1864. Took the oath of allegiance and was released 5 Aug 1864. Description: age 23, 5'7", fair complexion, light hair and gray eyes, a resident of Upshur County, West Virginia. Absent 1 Sep 1864-31 Oct 1864, POW.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He has alternate birth information of 1840. ⁵

• He was buried on 5 October 1865 in the Salem-Wilcoxen Cemetery in Bryant, IL.

Elam married Almyra Arminta Marple, daughter of John Weaver Marple and Ruth Reger, on 26 April 1860 in , Upshur County, WV.^{1 2 3} (Almyra Arminta Marple was born on 25 September 1840 in , Lewis County, VA ^{1 2 3 4 6 7} and died on 14 October 1885 in Laurel Lick Run, WV ^{2 3 4}.)