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.

 

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.