Shep's Place Family Tree

Sergeant, 148th Infantry, 37th Division.

James B. Robinson died at 6 o'clock last evening at the home of his parents, John S. and Jennie Shaw Robinson, 71 Garfield avenue. Though his death resulted from a heart ailment of long duration, this big, stalwart and popular man was a casualty of the World War.
When 19 years old Robinson enlisted in the military service of his country, becoming a member of Company F, organized here. As a member of Headquarters Company, 148th Infantry, 37th Division, the following year he was wounded and gassed in action in the historic Argonne. For three months he lay blinded in a hospital in France.

He Looked The Part.
In size and bearing, in endurance and fortitude, James Bell Robinson always seemed to this writer to typify the American soldier. To use a slang expression, "he had what it takes," and he looked the part.
James was in his 43rd years, having been born here Oct. 28, 1898.
As a boy he attended the local school and true to a family tradition, helped his father and grandfather in their painting and papering business.
After the war he became a patient at the Veterans Hospital near Huntington; later was employed as an investigator for the compensation department of the state government of Columbus. For a while he served as attendant at the Chillicothe Veterans Hopsital, but failing health a heart condition for which there appeared to be no relief incapacitated him and for the last two years he had been at the parental home. He seldom came up town and felt too bad to mingle much with old friends, though few, if any, complaints fell from his lips. For the last time he rode up street on Monday and was bedfast thereafter.
While employed at the State House, James married Della Scarberry of Pt. Pleasant. Later they were divorced but they remained fast friends. She married Frank Price, now at the point of death at their home in Pittsburgh.
Surviving besides the devoted parents are two younger brothers, Frank, who is associated with his father in business, and Donald, who operates a service station in Chillicothe.
James was a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Funeral services, under the auspices of the Legionnaires, will be conducted by Rev. Lewis Weber Gishler at the home at 2 o'clock Sunday. Interment will be made at Mound Hill by George J. Wetherholt & Sons.