Elisha Wm. Robertson, 1850-189

E.W. Robertson Operated the Piedmont Nurseries from his farm home just opposite this spot for almost all his adult life, cut short after an injury incurred in breaking a young horse. He was born, died, and was buried on the 230 A. place extending from present-day Hillsboro Baptist Church toward Brownsville. He and his wife, formerly Alberta Bertrand Rothwell, had eight children: Willie Anderson who left home to make a successful life in Gainesville, TX where he married Annie Long; Rev. Cosby Minor 2nd, a Baptist minister, whose wife was the former Rosebud Johnson of Louisa; Loula Temple who mar. Mr. Jack Apperson...Their three children lost both parents in the early 1920s; Rev. Elsha Warren, also a minister ordained at Hillsboro was his older brother...mar. Mabel Wiley, daughter of a former minister at Hillsboro; Josephine L. and Annis Fickly both died young; Archie Frank served in WW I, became a public school administer and had three children; Judson Hall Ph.D. in Chemistry, UVA 1920, was survived by five children. He died in 1962 on the eve of his retirement at Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville