Robert Dale Robinson, a native of Liberty who can trace his DeKalb County heritage back to Adam Dale, arguably the first settler in the area, seemed an unlikely candidate to end up owning an Indiana grocery store, but his path eventually brought him back to a home a few hundred yards from the house where he was born. "The house I was born in (which still stands on Robinson Road) was built before the Civil War. I was always told that two Confederate soldiers hid out in the loft of the house when the Union troops came through Liberty.