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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Ann Roberts: Birth: 4 FEB 1849 in Ohio, USA. Death: 12 JAN 1851 in White Oak, Highland, Ohio, USA

  2. James Perry Roberts: Birth: 14 APR 1849 in Ohio, USA. Death: 5 APR 1903 in White Oak, Highland, Ohio, USA

  3. Aaron Eylar Roberts: Birth: 3 FEB 1852 in Ohio, USA. Death: 9 MAR 1919 in Highland, Ohio, USA

  4. America Belle Roberts: Birth: 27 OCT 1854 in Highland, Ohio, USA. Death: 7 OCT 1928 in Mowrystown, Highland, Ohio, USA

  5. Columbia E Roberts: Birth: 28 FEB 1858 in Ohio, USA. Death: 14 APR 1878 in Highland, Ohio, USA

  6. Ira Quincy Roberts: Birth: 22 OCT 1859 in White Oak, Highland, Ohio, USA. Death: 5 APR 1928 in Highland, Ohio, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Roberts Family Genealogy by Cora Fern Roberts Lance of 19 May 1970
2. Title:   LDS Ancestral File
3. Title:   State Centennial History of Ohio and Highland County
Author:   J W Klise
Publication:   Name: 1902;
4. Title:   1850 United States Federal Census
5. Title:   Cemetery Inscriptions of Highland County, Ohio
6. Title:   Death Records of Highland County, Ohio 1867-1908
7. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
8. Title:   1870 United States Federal Census
9. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census
10. Title:   Descendants of Thomas ROBERTS

Notes
a. Note:   From "Cemetery Inscriptions of Highand County, Ohio," page 534:
 Roberts Cemetery No. 2, White Oak Township - "There are four deeds to this cemetery, all dated June 5, 1882. In Original Book 60, page 192, Highland County Deed Records, William Roberts and Amelia his wife conveyed 'the following real estate being a burial ground' containing 3 poles to I.Q. Roberts. On page 193 is a similar deed to Aaron E. Roberts, and on page 194 a similar one to America B. Rhoten. In Original Book 70, page 199, William Roberts and Amelia his wife conveyed to James P. Roberts, Aaron E. Roberts, Ira Q. Roberts and America B. Rhoten 12 poles of land 'being a burying ground'."
  From "History of Highland County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days" (Klise 1902):
 "Ira Q. Roberts, a well-known farmer and business man of Mowrystown, is a great-grandson of Isaiah Roberts, a prominent pioneer of White Oak township, and former owner of the site of the town of Taylorsville. A notice of his career and family history is given ln the preceding sketch. His eldest son, James P. Roberts, was the father of William Roberts, born on the White Oak township farm in 1800, and William was the father of the subject of this sketch. William Roberts, after he had grown to manhood, married Amelia Gibler, a native of the same township, and bought a farm of two hundred acres where he prospered by reason of industry and good business judgment, enlarging his land possessions to something like nine hundred acres. He died at the age of sixty-three years, leaving his wife and five children: James P., of Concord ; Aaron E., of the same township ; America V., wife of C. W. Rhoten ; and Ira Q. Ira Q. was born Octolxsr 22, 1859, at the house where he now lives, was educated in the district school, and in early manhood was married to Josie Riley, a native of Brown county and daughter of Joseph and lx'ah Riley. Two children have been born to them: Cleo E., wife of Wilber Fender, of Concord township, and Overton G. Ira Q. Roberts is one of the enterprising and successful younger men of the Township…”



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