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| Phillip Roberts, III Headstone Wesberry High Hill Cemetery Richland County, Columbia, South Carolina Picture Courtesy: Jim Hepler |
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| Martha Jane Brown McRady Headstone Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery Pisgah Crossroads, Sumter, South Carolina Photo Credit: Remember Me-Findagrave.com Used with permission |
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| Matilda C. Martin Headstone Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina Photo Credit: Joy Steele-Findagrave.com Used with permission |
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| Gilbert Ernest Roberts, Sr. 1943 ©Cheri Hudson Passey |
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| Olympic Mill Village Columbia, South Carolina
University
of South Carolina South Caroliniana Library, Works Progress Administration
photograph collection: South Carolina places: 193u-194u., digital image , South
Carolina Digital Library (http://scmemory.org/) accessed 14 Nov. 2017, “Olympia Mill Village Street with Houses”, no.
wpapl820, citing Federal Writer’s Project (S.C.), [Columbia, S.C.: Olympia
Mill], South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.
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| Death Certificate of Edith Marie Roberts
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, “South Carolina, Death Records,
1821-1961” database,
Ancestry (http://ancestry.com accessed 19 Dec. 2016), entry for Edith Marie
Roberts, certificate number 15453 (1926).
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| Obituary for Edith Marie Roberts
“Funeral Services Held
for Roberts Child” The State (South
Carolina), 28 April 1926, p. 2, col. 2, digital images, Newsbank (http://www.newsbank.com: accessed 14 Nov. 2017)
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| Death Certificate
Willie Roberts
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, “South Carolina, Death Records,
1821-1961” database,
Ancestry (http://ancestry.com accessed 21 Dec. 2016), entry for Willie Theodore Roberts , certificate number 13317 (1928).
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| Obituary for Willie Roberts
“Infant's Funeral” The State (South Carolina), 05 July 1928, p. 2, col. 6, digital images, Newsbank (http://www.newsbank.com: accessed 13 Nov. 2017)
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| George and Hattie Roberts Family About 1907 |
"George Phillip's sons as well as Thomas Jefferson Robert's sons among others had happily nicknamed themselves the " Twelve Raggedy-Ass Boys" This was more of a club than what we would think of now as a modern street gang: however, the boys did get into trouble...from time to time. Like the time they set fire to a neighbors outhouse ( in those days the boys referred to it as a "crapper"). the neighbor saw them do it and chased them down, but they ran into Thomas Jefferson Robert's store and hid there. When the neighbor came into the store to confront Thomas Jefferson Roberts, the boys acted like little angels and convinced Thomas Jefferson that they did nothing wrong. Thomas then "escorted" the the irate neighbor out of his store. Thomas Jefferson's store was built on a small hill and the back half of it was on stilts. The boys would often meet underneath the store and it was there that my grandfather, Charles Franklin Roberts and his brother Walter Roberts were playing butcher. they had gotten a hold of one of Thomas Jefferson Robert's meat cleavers from the store and were using a stump to cut up branches, toys and whatever else they could find. Then Charles noticed something that looked better to "butcher" when Walter had his hand resting on the stump. With one swift whack, Charles lopped off one of Walter's fingers. How the boys explained that one I'll never know !"
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Four of the Roberts Brothers
Verdy,Walter,William and George
© Cheri Hudson Passey
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| Manning David Daughrity, Sr. Obituary Sumter Watchman (Sumter, SC) 23 January 1918 pg.5 |
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| George Phillip Roberts Family Richland County, South Carolina About 1907 |
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| 1900 US Federal Census Richland County, SC George Philip Roberts Family Ancestry.com image |
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| Headstone of Philip Roberts St. Westbury High Hill Cemetery Richland County, South Carolina |
