--Memorial from James Lossing. RIHG FB Post. April 20020.
--My photo.
--Newspaper article. Paxton Record. 11 January 1894. Page 2.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
1925 Basketball Team
Robert McNeil, son of Eli and Hattie (Arnold) McNeil, third in on left side.
Hoping someone can identify more players. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
--Email from S.M.M. From the McNeil Family Photo Collection. April 2020.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Roberts High School Juniors
Hoping someone can identify more of the class. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
--Email from S.M.M. From the McNeil Family Photo Collection. April 2020.
Do you recognize this home?
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page by Tim Theesfeld. April 2020.
"I think this was my Uncle and Aunt on the Woodruff side."
Should be in town in Roberts. Woodruff home. Do you recognize the home? Tim Theesfeld is trying to locate it. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
Should be in town in Roberts. Woodruff home. Do you recognize the home? Tim Theesfeld is trying to locate it. You can email me jandowell@hotmail.com
Daro Home
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page by Stan Daro. April 2020.
"The picture of the house is our house taken in the mid 1940's after Walt Daro bought the house."
Friday, April 24, 2020
More Homes
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page by Tim Theesfeld. April 2020.
The next photo includes at least three houses. These homes also are on the east side of North Main Street, just a little further to the north end of the street.
The next home would be the Pettit/Riddle/Estep home (below.)
The third home in the photo is what I remember as the home of Ida Tornowski (below.)
The next photo includes at least three houses. These homes also are on the east side of North Main Street, just a little further to the north end of the street.
The first house in the above photo and below, I remember as Jerry and Viola Shambrook's home. Jerry Shambrook notes that he bought the home from Earl Day in 1959.
The next home would be the Pettit/Riddle/Estep home (below.)
Homes
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. April 2020. By Tim Theesfeld.
In April 2020, Tim posted three photos of homes in Roberts to the RIHG Facebook Page.
The first photo was the home of his mother, Lila Norene Woodruff, and was taken in 1937.
This home current readers will remember as the Hamilton home (below.) It is located on the east side of North Main Street.
And right next door directly to the south were more Fosters. Unfortunately no older photo of that home, but we would know the home as the Roy and Dorothy Hafer place.
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson. April 2020.
In April 2020, Tim posted three photos of homes in Roberts to the RIHG Facebook Page.
The first photo was the home of his mother, Lila Norene Woodruff, and was taken in 1937.
The photo below was the home of Leda and Martha Foster and possibly their mother, Martha Jeanette Clark Foster, also located on the east side of North Main Street.
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson. April 2020.
This home is at 216 N. Main St. It is the home of the Foster sisters, Leda & Martha, and probably their mother, Martha Clark Foster, before them. The photos with gray & white paint are the two I took in 2007-8. I was told home was built by my GGF Parley J Foster. His sisters, Leda & Martha, lived there until they died.
I have previous posts about this home's history here https://robertsillinoisfordcounty.blogspot.com/2018/06/foster-home.html
Current readers know this as the home of Gene and Mary Schuler and their three children (below.)
And right next door directly to the south were more Fosters. Unfortunately no older photo of that home, but we would know the home as the Roy and Dorothy Hafer place.
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson. April 2020.
Photos of home next door to 216 N. Main. This is the other Foster home, usually the residence of Bela Foster & his wife Christina MacKay. They had no children. Said home was also built by Parley J Foster, brother of Bela. Photos taken 2007-8. Bela Foster wrote the newspaper columns about Roberts memories.
John Wm. Roberts Stone
--Posted by Dawn Roberts Janov to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. October 2016.
Mae Roberts Home
--Posted by Dawn Roberts Janov to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. April 2020.
Mae Roberts, my Grandmother’s house, 115 S. Main, Roberts. It was white when I was a child.
Notes: Current readers will remember this as the home of the Poplett family. John William Roberts grew up in this home.
--Posted by Dawn Roberts Janov to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. September 2019.
Can anyone recognize or identify these people? I only know my grandmother, Mae Roberts, far left, the gangly girl in the center is me, my cute sister, Marilynn is next to me.
From the summer of 1948. My sister age 6, and I aged ten, spent the summer in Roberts, Illinois, with my grandmother Mae Roberts at 115 S. Main Street. In 1936 my dad, John W. Roberts and mother Jewell Martin Roberts ran the creamery in Roberts. I loved to listen to their storys. My mother worked as a waitress at the Hicks Cafe at the Hicks gas station near Roberts. As a young man, my dad had an ice delivery service to many of the homeowners in Roberts. That’s when every kitchen had an ice box.
Notes: Identified on the RIH Facebook Page: William Poplett, striped shirt to the left and his wife Dorothy Poplett, dark hair in the middle of the photo in striped dress.
--Posted by Dawn Roberts Janov to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. September 2019.
From the summer of 1948. My sister age 6, and I aged ten, spent the summer in Roberts, Illinois, with my grandmother Mae Roberts at 115 S. Main Street. In 1936 my dad, John W. Roberts and mother Jewell Martin Roberts ran the creamery in Roberts. I loved to listen to their storys. My mother worked as a waitress at the Hicks Cafe at the Hicks gas station near Roberts. As a young man, my dad had an ice delivery service to many of the homeowners in Roberts. That’s when every kitchen had an ice box.
Notes: Identified on the RIH Facebook Page: William Poplett, striped shirt to the left and his wife Dorothy Poplett, dark hair in the middle of the photo in striped dress.
Foster Family Photos
--Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page. April 2020. By Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson.
Top Photo: Old photo of Martha Clark Foster & husband Eliab Foster. Eliab was first married to Jane Rebecca Clark in Wisconsin, and they had Robert, Nancy, & Arista. Nancy died when a baby. The two boys are in this photo. After Jane died, Eliab married her sister, Martha, and they had 13 children. Their oldest child is Martha Jane, who died at about 2.5 yrs old, probably about a year or so after this photo.
Bottom Photo: The other photo is of Parley John Foster’s family—he built the 2 Foster homes. Parley, Alice Anna Bingham Foster, daughter Fern Lucille, & son Dwayne Eliab (my GF).
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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