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Note: !SOURCE(1): Personal knowledge of his daughter, Isabel Ruth DOCKERAY-348, his daughter. !SOURCE(2): Hand-written letter from above, Isabel, It enclosed a typed document concerning in the heading, Carrie S. Helmick amd James W. McRoberts. married by Justice of the Peace McGraw plus photocopies of family data Isabel had found in the Helmick Bible. !CITATION: Copy of the above Isabel's typed data: Feb. 20, 1996 Carrie S. Helmick B April 6, 1856 M. Urbana, Oh, Feb. 18, 1873 James W. McRoberts Justice of Peace McGraw D. Sept 23, 1879 Early 1920s, Dad and I went to see a Mrs. Miller who lived in a big white house just off N. Main (near Library). She told us about Carrie dying from one of those diseases like typhoid. She had been a high school graduate. Dad had been raised in a house on Main St. which was later torn down for a theater. I beleive the grandfather's tin shop was across the street. Dad had no middle initial. The father James remarried soon and I believe there were 3 or 4 boys and one girl (Irwin who sheriff and Louis). Dad and Frank lived with relatives as stepmother did not want them including Frank and Mary Vance. Finally, the grandfather took them in with his sister Minerva who was the first librarian of the Urbana Library. We gave a gold framed picture of her to the Library when Mother moved west when Aunty Eff died. Dad had to leave school around age 12 to support Grandfather. He worked in a shoe store, also a country school teacher. In spite of not too much formal education, Dad was a scholar. CITATION(2): Copy of the photocopies from the Helmick Bible: Register of births of the children of James W. McRoberts and Carrie M. McRoberts born in Urbana Ohio South Main St. No. 212. William McRoberts Born on the 18th day of April 1875 Frank Wilma McRoberts Born on the 2nd day of November 1877 W. W. Helmick, Grandfather William McRoberts was Married to Lulu Stafford at Urbana Ohio by Rev. R. M. Donaldson February 2, 1899 W. W. Helmick William McRobert died July 21, 1935 Delaware O. Lulu Stafford McRoberts Page 2. Elizabeth Stafford McRoberts was born May 20, 1908 at Delaware Ohio at 1:30 P.M. (Wednesday) Elizabeth S. McRoberts was married to Theodore H. Smith June 15, 1935 Delaware Ohio by Dr. C. S. Lee Isabel Ruth McRoberts was born July 17, 1910 at Delaware Ohio at 5 P. M. (Sunday) Isabel Ruth McRoberts was married in Columbus Ohio to James Carlton Dockeray, Sept 2, 1935\ by Dr. C. S. Lee. Theodore McRoberts Smith was born Feb. 19, 1941 in Cleveland O. at 3:30 P.M. Wednesday George Carlton Dockeray was born July 1, 1941 in Decaturn Ill at 6 A.M. Tuesday. (a hand-written note attached to this page: "The first 2 lines of the first two paragraphs was my fathers hadn writing (William McRoberts) The other parts were Mother's (Lulu Stafford McRoberts) and added after Dad died in 1935. Found in te Helmick Bible. Isabel McRoberts Dockeray 2/20/96" Page 3. Wm McRoberts was born in 1789 in Hottetourt County in the State of Virginia near Fincastle on the ninth day of June One Thousand seven hundred and eighty nine (1789) Wm McRoberts died Oct 17th 1860 age 71 y, 4 mo 8 days Botetourt W, part of Va. Memo made by Dad re his grandfather. His father was James McRoberts !WILL: Champaign County, Ohio. Probate Court. Will Book I, page 289: Sarah Ann Helmick d. Urbana 5 March 1879, Probated 13 April 1898. Heirs: William - husband William McROBERTS - grandson, Urbana Frank McROBERTS - grandson Earl HELMICK, grandson, Avondale, Al Will states: to my children - Mary E. HELMICK; Frank W. HELMICK; Cory M. HELMICK; and my sister, Menerva JAMESON. William MCROBERTS, executor Witnesses: L. H. Long Mary STEVENSON (now dec'd) Will signed: 4 March 1869 Ella D. HALL sworn 14 April 1898. She is mother of Earl D. HELMICK and his residence is unknown. Abstracted August 1995 by Mrs. Patricia STICKLEY, Corre- sponding Secretary, Champaign County, Ohio Genealogical Society, POB 680, Urbana OH 43078.
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