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Mallie Robinson (McGriff) (1889 - 1968)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Georgia, United States
Death: May 21, 1968 (78)
Pasadina, Los Angeles County , California, United States of America (United States)
Place of Burial: 3888 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, 90601, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Washington McGriff and Edna McGriff
Wife of Jerry Robinson
Mother of Edgar Robinson; Frank Robinson; Mack Robinson; Willa Mae Walker and Jackie Robinson
Sister of Private; Elizabeth McGriff; Private; Private; Bud McGriff and 9 others
Half sister of Burton Thomas; Private and Maggie Young

Managed by: Karen Sue Showell
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About Mallie Robinson

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141606417/mallie-robinson

Note: Mallie's mother was Edna Sims (Washington McGriff's 2nd wife), not Lucy Sims (his first wife).

The seventh of fourteen children, Mallie had grown up on land owned by her parents and gone to school up to the sixth grade-no small feat for a black girl in rural Georgia. Born slaves, Wash and Edna McGriff had pressed education on their children; when Mallie was ten, she repaid her father by teaching him to read his beloved Bible. On Sunday, November 21, 1909, about three years after their first meeting, Mallie and Jerry Robinson were married. Jerry and Mallie would have 2 daughters and 3 sons, including Mack Robinson, Olympic Silver Medalist and Jackie Robinson, the first African American baseball player. After splitting up with her husband, she moved to Pasadena where she raised her 5 children by herself.

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Mallie Robinson's Timeline

1889
September 2, 1889
Georgia, United States
1910
September 26, 1910
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, USA
1912
May 22, 1912
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, USA
1914
July 18, 1914
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, USA
1916
March 8, 1916
Georgia, United States
1919
January 31, 1919
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, United States
1968
May 21, 1968
Age 78
Pasadina, Los Angeles County , California, United States of America (United States)
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Rose Hill Memorial Park, 3888 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, 90601, United States