Benjamin Harrison Roberts and Myrtle Ethel Weaver

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Husband Benjamin Harrison Roberts ¹

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           Born: 8 Aug 1890 - Huston, Missouri
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Apr 1972 2
         Buried:  - Corona, Lincoln Co., New Mexico

       Marriage: 1911 3

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Wife Myrtle Ethel Weaver ^{3 4}

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           Born: 11 May 1895 - Armstrong Co., Texas
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Nov 1989 - San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas 5
         Buried:  - Stinnett Cem., Stinnett, Hutchinson Co., Texas

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         Father: John Green Weaver (1857-1932)
         Mother: Mary Jane McCurdy (1855-1942) 6

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   Other Spouse: Jacob Edward "Jake" Early (1884-1982) 7 - 26 Dec 1918 - Deming, Luna Co., New Mexico 8

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Children

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1 M Ferrill Bartlett Roberts ⁹

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           Born: 27 Jul 1914 - Deming, Luna Co., New Mexico
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Jun 1972 - Amarillo, Potter Co., Texas 10
         Buried:  - Sunset Cem., Stinnett, Hutchinson Co., Texas

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2 M Kenneth Ray Roberts ¹¹

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           Born: 10 Feb 1916 - Deming, Luna Co., New Mexico
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Sep 1925 - Colorado Springs, Colorado 12
         Buried:  - Fairview Cem., Fountain, El Paso Co., Colorado

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Harrison Roberts

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CENSUS:

In 1900 Benjaman H. Roberts (9, Aug 1890, Il Tn Il, At School) and his sister Della M. Roberts (4, May 1896, Il Tn Il) are living with their parents John and Friend Roberts and 6 siblings in Havana Ward 3, Mason Co., Illinois.

In 1910 Benjiman H. Roberts (19, Mo Unk Il, Machinist/Wheel Factory) and his sister Della M. Roberts (14, Mo Unk Il, None) are living in Havana Ward 2, Mason Co., Illinois with their widowed mother and 2 siblings.

<pre>1930 Lincoln Co., New Mexico, Corona Village, ED 14-14; Apr 25; sheet 2A
Ben H. Roberts 39 head S Il Tn Il owner/Store O$500
Dell M. " 33 sister S Il Tn Il owner/Store </pre>

<pre>1940 Lincoln Co., New Mexico, Corona, ED 14-18; Apr 9; sheet 4B
92
Benj Roberts 49 head S Mo Operator & part owner/Store R$50
Dell Moe " 43 sister S Il Bookeeper/Store </pre>

They lived in the same place April 1, 1935.

Corona is a very small town in a sparsely populated part of New Mexico. Benjamin and his sister were there in 1930. They probably lived the rest of their lives there. They are buried there.

MARRIAGE:

The Deming Headlight (Deming, New Mexico), Friday, 16 Jan 1914, pg 4:
Marriage Licenses
B. H. Roberts, Deming
Myrtle Ethel Weaver, Deming

CHILDREN:

Myrtle Weaver's first husband was Benjamin H. Roberts. On page 147 in The Early Families of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky with Allied Familes by Cleland Edward Early, Second Edition, 1996, the author says of Myrtle Weaver's second marriage with Jacob Early, "Five children were born of this marriage and two were adopted from Myrtle Early's previous marriage to Benjamin H. Roberts." Cleland Early is a half-brother of those two adopted children.

WORLD WAR I DRAFT CARD:

Precinct 5, Harper Co., Oklahoma; June 5, 1917
Benjamin H. Roberts
Home Address: Yelton, Oklahoma
Born: 8 Aug 1890 in Huston, Missouri
Occupation: Farmer in Harper Co., Oklahoma
Single, his mother is dependent on him for support
Signed: Benj. Harrison Roberts

NAME:

Benjamin Harrison was president of the United States from 1889 until 1893. Benjamin Harrison Roberts was born in 1890.

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General Notes: Wife - Myrtle Ethel Weaver

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UNBROKEN CIRCLE:

In the lineage chart on page 90 of Unbroken Circle Myrtle Ethel Weaver (1895-)married first Ben Roberts in 1911 and they had 2 children (Ferrill (1912-1972), Kenneth (1915-1922)), and then she married Jake Early and they had 5 children (Cleland (1919), J. Norvill (1921), Boma Jeanne (1926-1926), Ethellea Jane (1927), Thomas R. (1933))

1 Cleland Early, "The Early Familes of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky," 1996, pg 147.

2 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 38125026.

3 Mac McCurdy, "http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: mactex."

4 Cleland Early, "The Early Familes of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky," 1996, pg 144-47.

5 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 58557724.

6 Mary Jane Weaver, Unbroken Circle, 1985, pgs 1, 106.

7 Cleland Early, "The Early Familes of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky," 1996, pgs 143-47.

8 Cleland Early, "The Early Familes of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky," 1996, pg 144.

9 Cleland Early, "The Early Familes of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky," 1996, pgs 147-49.

10 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 32245591.

11 Cleland Early, "The Early Familes of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky," 1996, pg 149.

12 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 17082980.