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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

kind of fellow that if he didn’t like, he had nothing to do with you; on the other hand, he would do
whatever it took to help you, without any question. I believe that if 1 had somehow gotten off in
Washington State and had a calamity and couldn’t get back to Florida, 1 really believe that all I would
have had to do was pick up the phone and call Leamon Robinson and he would have been there to assist
me. That’s just the kind of fellow he was. Leamon passed away about 12 or 15 years ago, and is buried
about a mile and half south of where I was raised in Mt. Tabor Cemetery, and of all of the people 1 have
been associated with in this life time, there is not one that I would rank above Leamon Robinson.

In Leamon’s younger days, although in general he was a law abiding citizen, he saw nothing wrong at
all with delivering moonshine from the still to wherever the shine was being sold at, and he took a 1940
Ford, and look the back seat out of it, and installed a Lincoln engine and a Lincoln transmission in it,
and that car would run every bit of a 150 miles an hour. Leamon knew how to keep it tuned up and how
to get the most out of it, and being raised around Lake City he knew every road and pig trail, and there
were several occasions when the police or law enforcement officers tried to catch him, but they never
did. He knew how to out run them, first of all, and he knew so much about the local roads and ways to
get from one place to another, that he was able to lose them pretty easily. He finally quit that and started
leading a more law abiding life.

There is another interesting tale that they tell about Leamon. In his younger days Leamon loved to go to
Jacksonville and watch the wrestling matches. He himself was not a muscular type fellow, but he was a
big man, and very wiry. He did not have a lot of bulging muscles, but Leamon was tough, and as strong
as an ox.

It is told on him that one night he was at a wrestling match in Jacksonville and one of his friends had
arranged to get him his seat right by the ring side, and he was sitting there and one of the wrestlers,
when he would return to his corner between rounds, would stick his feet over almost right under
Leamon’s nose, in an apparent attempt to just aggravate him. Leamon asked him to please move his feet,
and not just stick them in his face. At the end of the next round the wrestler returned to his corner, and
again stuck his feet right over into Leamon’s face, where upon it has been told by people who were
there, that Leamon jumped up and leaped over the ropes into the ring and just beat the literal hell out of
the wrestler. He was banned after that from ever attending the wrestling matches again, and 1 guess
Leamon lived out the rest of his life watching wrestling on TV. He was a guy I would not have wanted
to get mad at me enough that I would have to fight him, because Leamon Robinson was one tough
strong dude.

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