From "Kith and Kin: A Portrait of a Southern Family," p. 200:
"Adeline E. Lawton (1810-1865). daughter of Alexander James Lawton and Martha Mosse, married her cousin, Joseph Thomas Robert (1807-1852?) [sic., correct death date 1884]. A Yale graduate, he also studied medicine, and later became a minister. Adeline and Joseph moved to Ohio and later to Iowa (see Miller, "Family Circle," 259-62). Adeline's brother, Alexander Robert, handled business matters in Savannah for her through his law office, and did the same for other family members far removed from Savannah."

Adeline Elizabeth Lawton was born to a Black Swamp, South Carolina family near the town of Robertville, named for the family of her husband, Joseph Thomas Robert. Joseph was listed as a planter and Baptist preacher in the 1850 census. By 1860 he had moved his family to Burlington, Iowa, where he was a professor of mathematics, and president of Burlington University in 1870. Adeline's father and brother were Confederate officers, and the fact that Joseph and Adeline went over to the Union was a source of chagrin to her family. During the 1850's and possibly during some of the Civil War the couple spent time Ohio, and Adeline died and was buried in a First Baptist Church of Dayton plot. A couple of their children continued in Dayton or married into Dayton families. Their son, Henry Martyn Robert, went to West Point and was an Army Engineer and Union officer in the Civil War and named a general at his retirement. Henry married Helen Thresher from the First Baptist Church of Dayton, and would later write "Robert's Rules of Order." Another son, James, would remain in Dayton and he and Henry would work together on a levee project known as "Roberts Fill," and Roberts Drive was in that place and named after them. As a widower, Rev. Dr. Joseph returned to the South with his single daughter, Martha Amanda Robert, and became the first President of Augusta Institute, founded to educate Black ministers. That school would later become Morehouse College in Atlanta. Joseph died in Atlanta and was buried there, and Martha was executrix of his estate. Martha would return to Dayton where she died and was buried next to her mother in Woodland Cemetery.