Sally Nelson Robins

Robins studied at the Eclectic Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of Virginia Biography - Sally Berkeley Nelson Robins Biography |url=https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Robins_Sally_Berkeley_Nelson |access-date=May 18, 2021 |website=www.lva.virginia.gov}} She was assistant librarian for the Virginia Historical Society and genealogical editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.{{Cite web |title=4 Jun 1893, Page 12 - The Times at Newspapers.com |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=11616127&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjgwODMwNTEzLCJpYXQiOjE2MjEzNTk0MzYsImV4cCI6MTYyMTQ0NTgzNn0.s2qi1yHKKlk02g1YMC5JXDZ9xcp9W6CRmYDpvo4nzM8 |access-date=May 18, 2021 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}} She was a member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.{{Cite book |last=Lindgren |first=James Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydxJEqRvQHYC&q=Sally+Nelson+Robins+suffragist&pg=PA70 |title=Preserving the Old Dominion: Historic Preservation and Virginia Traditionalism |date=1993 |publisher=University of Virginia Press |isbn=978-0-8139-1450-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Stanton |first1=Elizabeth Cady |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIoEAAAAYAAJ&q=Sally+Nelson+Robins+suffragist&pg=PA667 |title=History of Woman Suffrage |last2=Anthony |first2=Susan B. |last3=Gage |first3=Matilda Joslyn |date=1922 |publisher=Susan B. Anthony |language=en}}

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Robins died on February 4, 1925, in Richmond. She was buried at Ware Episcopal Church Cemetery.{{Cite web |title=Gravestones in the cemetery |url=http://warechurch.thediocese.net/Cemetery/Gravestones_in_the_Cemetery/ |accessdate=May 18, 2021 |publisher=Ware Episcopal Church}} Her correspondence is held at the New York Public Library.{{Cite web |title=Robins, Sally Nelson |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8c955b00-df7d-0135-99df-1375c2afd41b |access-date=May 18, 2021 |website=NYPL Digital Collections |language=en}}

Robins was born on March 18, 1855, in Gloucester County, Virginia. She was descended from Thomas Nelson. She married William Todd Robins in 1878; they had six children, including a son, Augustine Warner Robins.{{Cite book|last=Head|first=William P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5utyzXwyh1MC&q=Sally+Nelson+Robins&pg=PA11|title=Every Inch a Soldier: Augustine Warner Robins and the Building of U.S. Airpower|date=1995|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-0-89096-590-0|language=en}} They moved to Richmond.

• History of Gloucester County, Virginia, and its Families. 1893.{{Cite journal|date=1894|title=Review of History of Gloucester County, Virginia, and Its Families|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241785|journal=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography|volume=1|issue=4|pages=477–481|jstor=4241785|issn=0042-6636}}
• {{cite book |ref=none|last=Robins|first=S.N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymtXAAAAYAAJ|title=Scuffles|publisher=Alice Harriman Company|year=1912|series=American Fiction, 1774-1920}}
• {{cite book |ref=none | last=Robins | first=S.N. | title=A Man's Reach | publisher=J. B. Lippincott Company | series=American Fiction, 1774-1920 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GKAeAAAAMAAJ }}
• {{cite book |ref=none|last=Robins|first=S.N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJRLAAAAYAAJ|title=Love Stories of Famous Virginians|publisher=Dietz|year=1923|access-date=}}

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• https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009860108

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