Benjamin Harrison Roberts 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 8 Aug 1890 - Huston, Missouri
    Christening: 
          Death: 11 Apr 1972 -  ( at age 81) 2
         Burial: in Corona, Lincoln Co., New Mexico
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Myrtle Ethel Weaver (11 May 1895 - 22 Nov 1989) 3 4 
       Marriage: 1911 3
       Children:
                1. Ferrill Bartlett Roberts (1914-1972)
                2. Kenneth Ray Roberts (1916-1925)
Notes
General:
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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Sources

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

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

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