Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Roberts, Francis C., 1903 

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    NEVER AT BREAKFAST 
           _____ 

Had Gotten Out of the Breakfast Habit During the War. 
    (Special to The Times-Dispatch.) 

  SUFFOLK, VA., May 16.- Francis Columbus Roberts, a well known resident of 
Isle of Wight county, died yesterday at his home, in Windsor, aged sixty-five* 
years.

  He was a Confederate veteran.  He is survived by four daughters and two 
sons - Mrs. B. F. Carr, Mrs. Walter Neblett, Mrs. Ben. P. Gay, Mrs. George J. 
Britt, Rev. J. W. Roberts and Ambrose K. Roberts.  Mr. Roberts was one of 
seven brothers, only two of whom survive him - S. J. and B. C. Roberts.  He 
was an uncle of Treasurer Roberts, of Isle of Wight county, and of Professor 
J. W. Roberts of Suffolk.

  Mr. Roberts came to Suffolk occasionally, where he had many friends.  A 
remarkable thing about his diet was that Mr. Roberts had not eaten breakfast 
for more than thirty years.  Mr. Roberts used to say he got out of the habit 
of breakfast eating about the first of the war.  He never suffered 
inconvenience from his abstemiousness, but on the contrary enjoyed splendid 
health.  Physically he was large and robust in appearance. 


Francis Columbus ROBERTS, farmer & businessman, Confederate veteran, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 15 May 1903, at home, Windsor, age circa 63*, 
interred in Windsor Cemetery (Sect. J*), 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," May 17, 1903, Sect. 2, p. 6, col. 3 

Additional information: 

*Cemetery list has typo on birth year. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #26: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

*Find A Grave Memorial # 14768430 gives b. 18 Jun 1840. 

*The 1900 Census gives b. Jun 1840. 
   (Isle of Wight Co., Windsor Dist., sheet 16B #65) 

All seven brothers served in the Isle of Wight Grays - Co. D, 16th Va. Inf. 
   Their photograph appears in King's "Historical Notes." 

In 1877 Francis was an original trustee of the Windsor Christian Church, 
   and he was secretary of a peanut factory chartered in 1890.

King, Helen Haverty, et al. 
"Historical Notes on Isle of Wight County, Virginia" 
(Isle of Wight: Board of Supervisors, 1993) 
pp. 184-86, 327, 368, 548 


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