Marriage Licenses 1886

--Paxton Record.  12 August 1886.

John and Elizabeth Woolsoncroft

--Ancestry.com

Roberts News

--Paxton Record.  20 May 1886.

Marriage Licenses

--Paxton Record.  20 May 1886.

News 1886

--Paxton Record.  6 May 1886.  Page 4.

Methodist Church Sunday School

Roberts Methodist Church Sunday School Group Picture

Children on the ground: Fern Murphy, Mary Francis Hawthorne, Florella Zahn, ? , Donald Tarvin, Arlene Tarvin, Marguerite Linn, Margaret Wright, Mable Zahn, Trellia Steinman, Rosene Hawthorne, ? , ? , ? , ? , Mae Squires, Glenn Squires, Maude Roberts, Herbert Roberts, Etta Talbot, Eleanor Talbot, Christine Zahn, Luetta Mae Zahn, Josephine Coultex, her baby, Ethel Baylor, Maude Baylor

Seated: Mrs. A. P. Baylor, Edith Baylor, Lottie Siran, Mrs. William Wilson, Turrie Harshbarger, her daughter, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Dan Boyle, Mrs. Arthur Swanick, Mrs. W. O. Sanders, Mrs. Marie Barnhardt, Mrs. Esther Brown, Mrs. Fred Kesting, Mrs. Adelaide Wakelin, Seba Francis Linn, ? , Mrs. Hoit, Mrs. Jim Hoogland, Mrs. Martin Mear, Mrs. Annie Gullett, Lucille Gullett, Mrs. Dietrick Zahn

Standing: ? , Anna Seng, Nellie Talbot, Lizzie Wright, Marie Seng, Jessie Wakelin, Cara Kesting, Eula Beighle, Mrs. G. S. Bryant, Ophelia Warnke Ebert, Matie Martin, Mrs. Henry McNeil, Mrs. Conrad Giese, Beth Baylor, Mrs. John Smith, Elsie Murphy, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. John Talbot, Mrs. Louisa Wright, Mrs. Christine Drexel, Mrs. Sarah Dolan, Mrs. Charles Bressie, ? , Mrs. J. P. Libby, Mrs. John Stonebraker, Mrs. Charles Stonebraker

Top Row: Bertha Squires, Nancy Kenward, A. P. Baylor, Reverend Fletcher DeClark, Henry Steinman, Pete Olson, Benard Wright, Walter Wakelin, Clarence Squires, Lena Zahn, Mrs. John Bunker, Mrs. Fletcher DeClark, Mrs. Jim Pettit, Mrs. Oscar Dueringer, Mrs. Henry Steinman.

--Posted by Jean Fox to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook page. 7 April 2021.

West View

 

--Posted by Jean Fox to the Roberts Illinois History Group Facebook Page.  April 2021.

James Roberts Bio

--Portrait & Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois.  Lake City Publishing Co.  Chicago.  1892.  Page 513-514.

James Roberts

--Portrait & Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois.  Lake City Publishing Co.  Chicago.  1892.  Page 512.

18 March 1886

--Paxton Record.  18 March 1886.

Leach Roaster and Baker Company in Paxton

                            

--Paxton Record.  30 April 1953.  Posted to the RIHG FB page by Jean Fox on 28 February 2021.

Identification Needed

Possible identification from Daniel Flora on the RIHG FB page.  The lady in white . . . Blanche May Charles wife of Henry Jacob Roeder.  --February 2021.

This was a postal card/photo addressed to Lena Zahn from "Ann."  Lena Roeder Zahn is a sister to Henry Jacob Roeder.

Robert Barber Chambers

 

--Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois. 1892.  Pages 667-668.

Leach Roaster & Baker Company

 

--Posted to Roberts Illinois History Group on Facebook by Jean Fox.  10 January 2012.

Newman Brown Wedding 1885

 --Paxton Record.  3 December 1885.

A Tin Wedding

--Paxton Record.  13 August 1885.

Roberts Hospital

1948.

http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/13788/rec/23

Roberts Hospital

1948.

http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll63/id/13933/rec/11

John Talbot

"John Talbot was born June 28, 1851, in Preston, England. The son of William Talbot and Mary Ogden. He came to America in 1860 as an orphan with his seven year old brother, Thomas. They probably settled first in Henry, Marshall County, Illinois. He came to the Roberts area, Ford County, Illinois about 1872. With Joseph Hurst and William Hurst vouching for John Talbot’s character, he became a citizen of the United States on October 16, 1876.

Mary Hurst was born in Malden, Bureau County, Illinois, November 19, 1857. She came to the Roberts area with her parents, Joseph Hurst and Harriet Harvey in 1858. John Talbot and Mary Hurst were married January 25, 1877 in Gibson City, Ford County, Illinois, by E. A. Hamilton, Minister of the M.E. Church. They started farming in 1877 on the Williams farm, Section 29, Lyman Twp., three miles southwest of Roberts. They stayed on that farm until they moved to Roberts in 1911. In 1895 John purchased a farm in Section 4, Lyman Twp., three miles north of Roberts. John died February 19, 1915. Mary died March 30, 1931. Both are buried in Lyman Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois.
Their children: Thomas, Joseph, Warren, Walter, Mary Helen, Elmer Ralph. "
--Submitted by James O. Talbot in his book "Flossie"

The History of Ford county, Vol II, Page 867 states that John Talbot was born June 28, 1851 one of two sons born to William and Mary Ogden Talbot. The other son, Thomas, was born in 1853. Also that Mary died when John was four years old. The boys were cared for by an aunt part of the time and put in an orphanage the rest of the time. No other records to date have been found. There have been some family records that state there was a half brother named Robert Talbot who may have lived in Indiana.
[Contributor: J Lossing]

--Find A Grave. James Lossing.  All of the above information.

http://lymantownshipcemetery.blogspot.com/2017/08/john-talbot.html

William Hahn

William Hahn's workshop in Roberts where he did his carpentry work.

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