Drommond Accidental Death

--Photo from Find A Grave.  Steven Baker.

--Paxton Record.  14 April 1881.

--Paxton Record.  28 April 1881.

*Research.  Need to uncover top of this stone to see child's name.

Harriet (Hurst) Dillon

Born 1874.  Daughter of Joseph Hurst and Harriet (Harvey) Hurst.  Died 16 May 1965.  Aged 90-91.
She married Harvey G. Dillon on Dec. 28, 1897, in Ford Co., Illinois.
They had two children:  Oliver Harvey Dillon and Genevieve Dillon.
Buried:  Lyman Township Cemetery.  (There is not stone for this burial.)

--Photo from James Lossing on FAG.  Info also from FAG.

RESEARCH OBIT. NONE ON NEWSPAPERS.COM.  TRY PAXTON RECORD.

???

???? Might not even be Roberts.

--Photo from James Lossing.  FAG Friend.  July 2018.

Research.

Wakelin Home????

Maybe the home of Thomas and Sarah (Whorrall) Wakelin.

--Photo from James Lossing.  FAG Friend.  July 2018.

Research.

Bertie Lyman Obit

--Paxton Record.  28 November 1878.

The little son of Sheriff Lyman, Bertie, was buried in the Roberts Cemetery on Sunday last.  The services at the grave were conducted by Rev. Abbott, of Roberts, in a very impressive manner.  The grief stricken parents have the deepest sympathy of friends in this their second bereavement. 

Research:  Need a better photo of Bertie's stone.

Foster Home

This was noted on the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook page by Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson (June 2018):

"This is Martha Jeanette Clark Foster's home . . . eventually unmarried daughters, Leda and Martha Foster lived here.  These three are the women in the photo.  Several of Martha Foster's children continued to live in her home with her.  After my GGF's divorce, he lived with his mother, as did one of his older brothers.  Martha Jeanette Clark Foster died in 1908.  She gave birth to 13 children, but the last 4 died at birth or as a toddler.  Eliab was first married to Martha's older sister, Jane Rebecca Clark, and they had three children, whom Martha raised along with her own.  Leda died in 1950, & Martha died in 1934, and my GGF died in 1942.  I would imagine the home changed ownership around 1950."

Also posted to the same page from Alyesha H. Leroy (June 2018):

"That is the Martha Jeanette Clark Foster home, as my cousin Susan Kathleen Foster Nelson said.  That addition to the back held a kitchen with a coal/wood burning cook stove.  There was no running water, not even a pump, when my mother visited there in the 1920's. The other room held a loom, which my mother believed her aunts used to weave rugs.

I think this is the Gene and Mary Schuler home on North Street.  More research needed.

Livery Stable

I have not read much about the "Livery Stable" found on this 1884 map of Roberts.  I guess it would behind where Ronnie Shambrook lived facing the alley?? More research needed.

Looking for a cemetery.

1884 & 1990 PLATS

 

RED MARKINGS.

This burial referenced in the Historical Atlas of Ford County Illinois:
 "The first death was Mrs. Henry Dennis, who was buried on the A. M. Peck farm, Section 4."
So Mrs. Henry Dennis is the burial under the pine trees on 115 north of the Flessner home site?  Correct? "The first death in Lyman Township."

BLUE MARKINGS.

I still believe there is another cemetery. Located on section 2 on what was the J. T. Forbes farm.

--Roberts Herald. 31 October 1923.
"The first cemetery in Lyman Township was on the Forbes farm. Now the Charles Dietterle farm. Quite a number of early settlers were buried there."