Miss Rebecca Robbins was the first white child born in Red River County. She was born at old Jonesboro the 5th day of April, 1825, on the south bank of Red River. At the time, this whole section was thought to be part of the territory of Arkansas, being classed then as Miller County. Miss Rebecca was educated at Weatherford Seminary in that district.

She was the eldest of three sisters, Lucindy J. and Elizabeth Reed Robbins being the two younger. She had two brothers, Joshua R. and John Richard Robbins.[*] The village of Robbinsville, a few miles southwest from Bagwell on the old Paris Road, was named for John Robbins. Mrs. Clement's sisters all married men of worth and her brothers all married fine women. All hold positions of distinction in their State. Col. John Robbins was from the State of Virginia, was of English extraction, and when quite a young man carried the mail from up in Missouri down to old Fort Towson in the Indian Territory, a distance of several hundred miles, making the trips on horseback.

Dr. Clement, after living in Red River County for eight years, moved west to Paris in what afterwards became Lamar County in 1850, where he lived the balance of his life. Dr. Clement was a man of small stature, being only five feet 10 inches in height and weighing only 140 pounds, had brown hair and light blue eyes. He was a man of great mental strength; a man exceedingly cautious in every business transaction of life.

[* Different lists of children on pp. 115 and 223]