GENZ3ALOGICAL RECORDS

 TIE ROBIS3 F.IAILYe

JOT3PH ROBI:S, the founder of this family in Florida, and
in America, was a Spaniard, having been born in Madrid, Sep-
tember 15, 1817. He came to the United States in 1832, when
he was only fifteen years of age. He landed at the port of
St. Marys, Georgia, on his birthday, the 15th of September
of that year. In the vicinity of this town he lived for
several years.
 Joseph Robles was married in Georgia to Mary A. Gar-
rison, daughter of Michael Garrison. She was born in Ef-
fingham County, Georgia, in 1840. Soon after .he moved to
%Florida and settled at Fort White, in the lower end of Co-
lumbia County, where he was -living when the Seminole Indian
:ar of 1842 broke out. He volunteered for service in that
Iwar and served through it. He was :.rounded in the arm at
Fort Fanning, on the Suwannee river. Later in the forties
he moved to Hernando County, and in 1851 he came to Hills-
borough. In 1857 he homesteaded and settled upon the tract
:of land on the "Robles Pond," a lake which took its name
From him. It has now been drained and lies in the northern
part of the city of Tampa. It is fast being built over.
 The Robles homestead is now all included within the
'corporate limits of the city of Tampa. It embraced the
greater portion of the area lying between Michigan avenue
on the south, the Robles Pond on the north, Nebraska avenue
on the east and Florida avenue on the west. One of the sons
of the original homesteader, Judge i'rancis ":-. Robles, still
resides upon a portion of the tract, and other portions are
owned by two of his daughters, irs. Tanner and Mrs. Cuscaden.
 Joseph Robles died in Tampa at the home of his daugh-
 ter, Mrs. Fannie A. Cuscaden, on the 12th day of February,
 1907, in the ninetieth year of his age. He had lived for
 fifty years on the old homestead.
 There were born to Joseph and Mary A. (Garrison) Ro-
 bles ten children, seven sons and three daughters, and all
 are living and in vigorous health at this -rriting, save one,
 the eldest son, Michael F., who was a Confederate soldier
 and died a prisoner in Camp Chase hear the close of the War
 Between the States, after serving creditably through the
 conflict, he having enlisted near its beginning.
 The other children, in the order of their ages, are
 as follows:
 (2) John G., who married in succession three sisters,
 whose family name was Cowart. Their Christian names were
 Georgia, Jane and Julia. The first wife bore one son l-
 !lim .,l who lias Wlliams. They have two daugh-
 ters, Georgia and Lillas.