Pendleton-Scott County KyArchives Biographies.....Roberts, William H. June 4 1839 - unknown
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Author:  Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878
William H. Roberts, Clerk of the Circuit, Chancery, and Criminal Courts of 
Pendleton County, was born June 4, 1839, in Scott County Kentucky. He is the 
oldest of six children of William B. Roberts and Elizabeth F. (Payne) Roberts. 
His father was a native of the District of Columbia, and a prominent physician 
of Falmouth, Kentucky. His mother was a daughter of Thomas Payne, a leading 
farmer of Warren County. The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and 
was educated, mainly, in the private schools of the county. He also spent part 
of one year in Transylvania University at Lexington. After the war was fairly 
inaugurated, in the Fall of 1862, he joined the First Missouri Battery of 
Confederate Light Artillery, under Captain Samuel T. Ruffner; served till the 
end, and was mustered out in 1865 at Baton Rouge. He was engaged in the 
battles of Bentonville, Pine Bluff, Fort Pleasant, or Saline River, in the Red 
River campaign, and numerous smaller engagements and skirmishes in Missouri,
Arkansas, and Louisiana. At the close of the war he returned home and began
teaching school in Pendleton County, and was thus engaged until the Winter
of 1867. In this year, he was elected Clerk of the Circuit, Chancery, and
Criminal Courts. In 1874, he was re-elected to the same office, and has
since served as Clerk to all these courts. He is a Democrat in politics.
Mr. Roberts has been twice married; first, May 14, 1871, to Miss Mary B.
Edwards, a native of Jessamine County, and daughter of G. W. Edwards, a
merchant of Falmouth. She died in 1872. October 5, 1875, he was married to
Miss Martha Hall, daughter of Squire Hall, a farmer of Pendleton County, by
whom twin daughters, Jessie and Emma, were born, on the 24th of July 1876.
He is a member of the Baptist Church, and one of the most exemplary,
useful, and valuable citizens of the county.


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