MISC RECORDS for Roberts Family in Muhlenberg Co., KY Submitted by Ed Roberts Date: 5 May 1999 ******************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. MUHLENBERG COUNTY, KY Created 1799 from Christian & Logan Counties County Seat: Greenville 42345 MARRIAGES JACKSON Roberts to Nancy Hill, 21 March 1852 JOHN Roberts to Nancy Cox, March 1806 JOHN B.C. Roberts to Sally Fitzgerald, 9 July 1820 LUETTA Roberts to C.P. Dexter, 4 Feb 1874 MARY Roberts to Benjamin Scott, 12 Dec 1837 (also listed in Warren Co.) REBECCA M. Roberts to John Russell Frey, 1871 SARAH JANE Roberts to I.S. Hackcock, 30 Nov 1862 TIMOTHY HOBSON Roberts to Mary Matilda Page, 15 Oct 1918, at Dunsmor DEEDS BAYLOR B. ROBERTS, 1853 (s/o Lina, Jos, Benj, John of Spots) A History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1913, pg 392 About the year 1850 DOCTOR ROBERTS appeared on the scene. He built a few substantial log cabins for his employees and erected for his own use a house on the hill that divides the two sides. His residence is still standing. Doctor Roberts owned a number of slaves among whom was one named Carter, who in all probability was as black as coal, for ever to this day the expression "black as Carter" is used by many of the people living near Mud River Mine, few of whom know the origin of the phrase or give it any more thought than they do the whereabouts of that Carter who seems to have had an abundance of oats. Up to the arrival of Doctor Roberts all the coal that was mined had been taken away in wagons. He was the first to ship it in barges down Mud River.