MISC RECORDS for Roberts Family in Pendleton Co., KY 1839-1941 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. PENDLETON COUNTY, KY Created 1799 from Bracken & Campbell Counties County Seat: Falmouth 41040 MARRIAGES FLOYD CHARLES s/o Raymond Roberts to Ora Marie Barnett, 21 Apr 1923, Falmouth WILLIAM H. s/o Dr. William Billingsley Roberts to Mary B. d/o G.W. Edwards, 14 May 1871 WILLIAM H. s/o Dr. William Billingsley Roberts to Martha d/o Squire Hall, 5 oct 1875 BIRTHS EMMA d/o William H. & Martha (Hall) Roberts, 24 July 1876 FLOYD CHARLES s/o Raymond & Anna Laura (Wilson) Roberts, 29 March 1905, Falmouth JESSE s/o William H. & Martha (Hall) Roberts, 24 July 1876 JUDY ANN d/o Floyd Charles & Ora Marie (Barnett) Roberts 21 March 1941, Falmouth The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky, 1878, page 242 ROBERTS, WILLIAM BILLINGSLEY, M.D., the only child of WILLIAM ROBERTS and SUSAN (CLOUD) ROBERTS, was born, in 1814, in the District of Columbia. His father was a trader and farmer in Montgomery County, Maryland, and died there, about 1832. His mother was the widow of Abner Cloud, and daughter of SAMPSON FRAMMEL, of Montgomery County, Maryland. The subject of this sketch was raised on the farm, and acquired a fair education in the private schools of the county. Before arriving at age, he had spent some time in reading medicine. In 1832, he came to Kentucky, and three years afterwards he began the manufacture of rope and bagging at Lexington. For two years he continued in this business, still, at his leisure, reading medicine, with a view to ultimately entering the medical profession. In 1837, he went to farming in Fayette County, at which he engaged, chiefly, for eleven or twelve years. In 1848, he entered the medical department of Transylvania University, at Lexington, and, for the next two years, attended lectures, and studied under the direction of Dr. E. J. Lewis. In 1850, he entered upon his profession at Independence, Kenton County, where he remained, in active and successful practice, for eight years. In 1858, he located near Falmouth, in Pendleton County. In 1861, after the war had been fairly inaugurated, he went to Missouri, and enlisted as a private in the Confederate army, and served 18 months; participating in the battles of Pea Ridge, Lexington, and many lesser engagements; and, although enlisting as a private, he spent a great part of his time of service as a physician and surgeon. In 1863, he went to Texas, where he practiced his profession at Saline, until the fall of 1865, when he returned to Kentucky, and located at Falmouth, where he has since resided, and established a large and valuable medical practice. He has never sought political preferment in any way, being wholly devoted to his profession, yet, for three years, he served as Justice of the Peace, in Kenton, County. Politically, he is a Democrat, having voted for every Democratic Presidential candidate, beginning with Martin Van Buren, up to the present time, and voted for J.C. Breckinridge, at the election preceding the war. For many years, he was Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in Pendleton County. He was raised in the Presbyterian Church, and his predilections, religiously, are in that direction. He is a man of decided and marked traits of character; of exceptional personal and professional habits; of known integrity, and great energy and industry. Dr. Roberts was married, in 1839, to Elizabeth Payne, daughter of Thos. Payne, a farmer of Woodford County, Kentucky. They have seven children. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky, 1878, page 211 ROBERTS, WILLIAM H., Clerk of the Circuit, Chancery, and Criminal Courts of Pendleton County, was born June 5, 1839, in Scott County, Kentucky. He is the oldest of the 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 in 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 of 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 daughtr of G. W. Edwards, a merchant of Falmouth. She died in 1872. October 5, 1873, he was married to Miss MARTHA HILL, 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.