Orick A Robbins

ORICK ROBBINS:

Because Grandma lived so far away from Cape Cod, she didn't know her grandfather very well, in fact only met him several times. Her grandparents (Robbins) came to Vermont to visit several times. They would travel by train. Grammar went to Cape Cod once, later on when she was married, but only her grandmother was living then, and she was quite old. Grammar seems to remember them living in Plymouth.

One thing Uncle Carl remembers vividly about his Grandfather, is him telling Carl "I never be afraid to work - a man will rust out before he'll wear out." He also remembers him saying "can the chowder" for "keep quiet".

He would love to tell them, as kids, about how he fishes in the ocean and digs clams. Lie told Carl about the fog one time it was too foggy to fish so he was going to shingle his roof. He shingled half of his neighbor's roof before realizing he had gotten off his own roof -- that's how thick the fog was.

Grammar remembers he was very sick on his visit to Vermont. "He had arthritis or something" and had to be taken home to Mass. on a stretcher. He died in Mass. soon after his visit. "Carl and Lawrence were very young at the time."

Source: FAMILY RECOLLECTIONS OF ANNA SHUFELT AND LOUIS CARL JENSEN By Edward C. Stalling, Jr.