Son of Gaines Donoho and Elizabeth Brunt. Brother of Olivia Dunbar Donoho. He was a planter in the Church Hill community, Robert died only four years after marrying Julia Sophia Ruger of New York. They had one son, G Ruger Donoho. G Ruger Donoho was an American Impressionst painter. Biographies of G Ruger Donoho claim his father may have died in the Civil War. However, Robert Donoho's mortality record states he died of intemperance. His widow never remarried. She took her child to Washington DC after the War Between the States where he was educated before he moved to Paris for a decade.
Son of Gaines Donoho and Elizabeth Brunt. Brother of Olivia Dunbar Donoho. He was a planter in the Church Hill community, Robert died only four years after marrying Julia Sophia Ruger of New York. They had one son, G Ruger Donoho. G Ruger Donoho was an American Impressionst painter. Biographies of G Ruger Donoho claim his father may have died in the Civil War. However, Robert Donoho's mortality record states he died of intemperance. His widow never remarried. She took her child to Washington DC after the War Between the States where he was educated before he moved to Paris for a decade.
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