Robert Newman WOOLLETT1

1850 - about 1916

Life History

1850	Born in Chicago, Illinois.
12th Jan 1870	Married Hannah Adelle MCCUMBER in Methodist/Episcopal Church, Fond Du Lac, WI
1874	Birth of son Robert N. WOOLLETT in Minneapolis, Minn.
1876	Birth of daughter Lyda WOOLLETT in Minneapolis
1878	Birth of daughter Louise WOOLLETT
1882	Birth of son Leroy A. WOOLLETT in La Crosse. WI
17th Sep 1885	Birth of daughter Florence Adelle WOOLLETT in Minneapolis, Minn
1887	Birth of daughter Eva D. WOOLLETT in Minneapolis, Minn
10th Sep 1887	Death of daughter Eva D. WOOLLETT in Minneapolis, Minn
1890	Death of son Robert N. WOOLLETT in Minneapolis, Minn.
11th Jun 1890	Birth of son Donald Elberan WOOLLETT in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
about 1916	Died in Tampico, Mexico?

Robert Woollett was born in Chicago, Illinois, married Hannah McCumber in Fond du Lac, WI, then moved to Minneapolis where he was a trunk maker in Minneapolis, Minn. (R. N. Woollett, Trunkmaker) until the Depression of 1893. He took his family south to Mexico (along with brother - A.E. Woollett) to the Mazatlan Peninsula to grow vanilla beans. There was a frost that year, very rare, which ruined the crop. He then moved family to Tampico, Mexico where he set up a ship's chandlery, which was later owned and run by his sons Don and Roy. He died in Tampico probably about 1917.

Marriage took place at Methodist/Episcopal Church, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Record shows his parents as Charles and MaryAnn, rather than John and Marie, as per his brother George Woollett's death certificate.