Grand Prairie Seminary Photo

Four girls who attended the Grand Prairie Seminary in Onarga in 1898:  Murba Greenlees, Thawville; Lottie Roberts (name or town?); Ina Koon, Roberts; Mattie Paddock, Thawville.

--Posted in Facebook by Old Courthouse Museum - Watseka.  11 July 2024.

Squires Family Photos

Philip and Sarah Jane (Ridge) Squires & Family

--Ancestry 2024.

Thank you Barbie Brutlag Dicks

Warnke, Repp, Tornowski

Standing: Ophelia Warnke, Minnie Repp, Martha Warnke

Sitting: Lillie Repp, Emilie Tornowski Warnke Repp

Repp Children: Johnny, August, Minnie, Lillie

Children of John and Emilie Repp

Tornowski Sisters

Emilie Repp, Marie Ritter, Emma Ortlepp

Repp. Four Generations.

Emilia Tornowski Warnke Repp, Martha Warnke Kietzman, Millie Kietzman Roberts, Ruby Roberts Huizenga

John (Johann) and Wilhemine (Kuehn) Tornowski

Married 4 February 1849 in Germany

With their nieces Gustie & Emma Ritter

Louis and Ernestine Kietzman Family

John, Louis, Minnie, Emma, Theodore

Tornowski

Emma and Martha

Repp

John Christ Repp and Emilia Augusta Tornowski

--All Photos from Barbie Brutlag Dicks.

Ebert Photos

Above Photo:  Reuben Samuel Ebert

Above Photo:  Amelia Sophia Ebert

Above Photo:  Mary Amelia Ebert

Above Photo:  Charles William Ebert

Above Photo:  Samuel Robert & Theophelia E. Warnke 

Above Photo:  Samuel Ebert Family

Back row: Charles, Sam, Frank, Reuben, Homer 

Front row: Mary, Amelia, Samuel, Ida, Ophelia, Laura

--All Photos from Barbie Brutlag Dicks.  Ancestry.com

Will & Mary Hahn

 --Photo and Identification from Mary Martin. 2020.  Ancestry.

More Hahn Family

William Hahn, son of Gotlieb, first Hahn born in the states. Photo likely taken late 1890's to early 1900's.

--Photo and Info from Mary Martin. 2020.  Ancestry. 

--Below Notes added by Carol Jane Iskowich.  Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook page.  2020.

"Gottlieb Hahn was my great, great grandfather. His son Conrad (brother to Wm. pictured) was my great grandfather. Next came Mable Hahn my grandmother who married James Trimble my grandfather. The Hahns came from Germany and prospered in agriculture in Illinois. The state honored Gottlieb with master farmer award in 1880-90s. Not many Hahn descendants are left in Ford county today, as all 9 children moved out of the area except my grandparents . . . "

Hahn Family and Info from Ancestry.com

Mary Ellen Keene labeled this picture: Uncle Will Hahn, Aunt Mary, Marchey, Elmer, Clyde.

--Photo and Info from Mary Martin. 2020.  Ancestry.

Kenward

Samuel & Olive Foster Kenward

--Jean Fox.  Posted to the RIHG Facebook page.  April 2020.

Roberts Women

A photo from my great grandmother's photo album. This would be a photo of some of the earliest Roberts women. I can Identify two ladies. Back, 3rd lady from the left is Patience Westbrook Hallam (sister to Nancy Kenward). Front, 4th lady from the left is Nancy Westbrook Kenward (wife of John Caleb Kenward - my two great grandfather).

--Jean Fox Photo.  Added to the RIHG Facebook page in April 2020.

That’s the Foster house at 216 N Main! Martha Jeanette Clark Foster is seated in middle of front row. Her house. 

--Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson added the above comment to the post. 

Linn Children

Seba Frances "Frances", Arnold, and Marguerite. Children of Frank and Seba "Arnold" Linn.

Waldschmidt Brothers

Possibly Waldschmidt brothers. Henry Waldschmidt is rear right, Henry married Sarah (Sadie) Wakelin.

--Photo and identification from James Lossing.  Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page.  May 2020.

Ramer

Oscar and Annie Waldschmidt Ramer.  Annie is the daughter of Daniel and Katherina Roeder Waldschmidt.

 

--Photo and identification from James Lossing.  Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page.  May 2020.

Wesley Waldschmidt

Wesley Waldschmidt. He was born in Roberts in 1904, and not long after his parents, Henry and Sadie Waldschmidt, moved to California. I remember being told that he was a big baby and to pull him out the Dr. used forceps in his ears which destroyed his hearing.

--Photo and identification from James Lossing.  Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page.  May 2020.

Tornowski

Back row left to right:  Edna Johanna, William, Henry Otto, August John, Gottlieb.
Front row left to right:  Ernest Tornowski Sr., Emma, Ernest Jr., Herman Rudolph, Emma Shultz Tornowski

--Photo and identification from Donald Tornowski.  Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page.  May 2020.

Squires

Clarence and Mae Wakeline Squires.

--James Lossing Photo.  RIHG FB post April 2020.

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.

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).

M. E. Church Photos

--Photos from Daniel Ernst.  Email March 2020.

Wakelin

Addie Hurst Wakelin and my grandmother, Della.  Della was born in 1892.

--Photo and info from James Lossing.  Email.  October 2019.

Grace Wakelin & Her Bicycle

Grace was the only child of William Wakelin and Emma Mahannah.  She was born Jan 28 1876 in Chatsworth, and married Robert Loren Reinhardt, son of Frederick and Wilhelmine Mueller in Roberts, Dec 25 1895.  She was a nurse with Dr. Colteaux They later moved to California, Robert died of tuberculosis.  She became a policewoman, and she married a policeman, Ralph Powell.

--Photo and info from James Lossing.  Email.  October 2019.