Sunday, April 29, 2018

Homes 1940


--The Roberts Herald.  14 February 1940.  Page 1.

Sturmcroft Acres

 
 
 

--The Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  1 February 1956.  Page 8.

Shambrook 50 Years

 
--The Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  3 April 1984.  Page 18.

Shambrook 50 Years


-- Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  4 March 1967.  Page 10.

Grant Brown


Grant Brown died last Sunday evening. He suffered untold agonies for three or four days. He had his hand crushed in a sheller which was the beginning of the awful ending. Grant has been a model of industry. He has built a reputation equal to any in the vicinity. He was always busy, never idling away the golden moments. The funeral services were held in the M. E. church, of this place. Rev. Coolidge preaching the sermon. The M.W.A Camp took charge of the remains and laid them to rest in the Roberts cemetery. About eighty Woodmen marched in solemn procession from the church to the grave. He, the youngest in the order, was summoned first take up his abode with the innumerable hosts of heaven.

--Paxton Record.  22 June 1899.

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Luhman B. Wilcox



--History of Ford County, Illinois: From its Earliest Settlement to 1908. By Gardner, Ernest Arthur. Published 1908. Pages 564-568.

Warren O. Sanders

 
 
--History of Ford County, Illinois: From its Earliest Settlement to 1908. By Gardner, Ernest Arthur. Published 1908. Pages 555-556.

Christopher Anderson

 
 

--History of Ford County, Illinois: From its Earliest Settlement to 1908. By Gardner, Ernest Arthur. Published 1908. Pages 521-524.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Roberts Brick and Tile Works


--Paxton Record.  28 August 1884.

Rice & Lyman


--Paxton Record.  20 October 1881.

L. E. Bressie


--Paxton Record.  29 January 1885.

20 December 1877

 
 
--Paxton Record.  20 December 1877.

Roberts Circulating Library


Sunday, April 08, 2018

Farmers bringing in their corn.

 
--Paxton Record.  13 December 1877.

Roberts Rakings

 
--Paxton Record.  20 September 1877.