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Note: ! He married a cousin , Ruth Stovall Hairston Wilson . Robert lived at Berry Hill. He commanded a company in Scott's Army in the invasion of Canada. He served one term in the Virginia Legislature, before moving to Lowndes County Mississippi without his wife . Robert was a fairly wealthy man, having stock in various companies and owning several companies involved in various endeavors. While in Mississippi he supposedly had a child by his colored house maid. After he died it was discovered that he had several wills naming various people as heirs to his estate. The final outcome , after all the court poceedings, was that the estate went to his younger brother Masrshall Hairston . There are records detailing all of these events about Robert in Mississippi .
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