Robert Wall

  General Notes:

The 1860 Federal Census for Stokes Co., NC, Danbury P. O., page 123A records Robert (44) and Penelope (43) Wall with their children Bettie (19), Lindsay (15), Samuel (13), William (10), Caroline (6), Duke (3), and Wesley (8/12). Robert is a farmer with real estate valued at $2,360 and a personal estate valued at $15,100 which includes 15 slaves. Nearby is his step mother, Elizabeth [Zeigler] Wall ... see general notes on her.

The 1870 Federal Census for Stokes Co., NC, Martin Lime Kiln P. O., page 219B, dated July 1, 1870 records Robert (54) and Penelope G. (48) Wall with their children William R. (20), Cornelia (16), Duke (13), John W. (10), and Emma (6). Robert is a farmer with real estate valued at $1,400 and a personal estate valued at $600. The war has truely devastated the family wealth.

The 1880 Federal Census for Snow Creek, Stokes Co., NC, Martin Lime Kiln P. O., page 377B, dated June 1, 1880 records Robert (64) and Penelope (61) Wall with their children D. W. (22), John W. (20), and Emma G. (16). Robert is a farmer.

Robert married Penelope. (Penelope was born circa 1817 in North Carolina and died after 1880 in Stokes Co., N.C..)