... Judge Robert Wash died at St. Louis, Mo., in November, 1856. The following obituary notice appeared in the St. Louis Ketvs shortly after his death:
DEATH OF JUDGE WASH.
St. Louis lost one of her best and most esteemed citizens on Sunday in the death of Judge Robert Wash. He was an able jurist and an upright man. He came to Missouri from Virginia while this State was a Territory, and has been one of its brightest ornaments until the day of his death.
Mrs. Wash and her three children were in Winchester, Ky., in 1860, boarding with Mrs. Moss.