Hardin-Carroll County OhArchives Biographies.....Roberts, John 1817 - 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com May 5, 2006, 2:41 am Author: Warner & Beers (1883) JOHN ROBERTS, deceased, was born in Ohio County, Va., in 1817. He was reared in Washington County, Penn., and emigrated to Carroll County, Ohio. He finally removed to this county, where he followed farming, and owned 160 acres of land on Section 29, Goshen Township. He was married, in 1839, December 18, to Ann Mahan, who was born in 1823, April 24, in Fayette County, Penn., and was the daughter of Lazareth and Elizabeth (Mahan) Roberts, of Irish parentage. This union was blessed with sixteen children, nine living, three boys and six girls, of whom there are four girls and one boy married. Mrs. Roberts is a member of the Church of the Disciples. In 1882, September 30, our subject died, deeply mourned by his family. Additional Comments: Goshen Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/roberts216gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb