Re: Murder of David Roberts
ROBERTS
Posted By: Robert Christiansen (email) In Response To: Re: Murder of David Roberts (Todd Roberts)
Date: 5/1/2012 at 00:26:16
Wow! Thanks for all this information. We now know that Jonathan Jones the son of Ewing Green Jones and Jonathan Jones the husband of Sarah Ella Reel are the same. (I didn't make this call before because of differences in the childrens' names between the 1870 and 1880 censuses.)
The Roberts home place was in Section 5 of Hazel Dell Township, six or seven miles northeast of Crescent, Iowa.
David Roberts and Mary Phillips and six of their seven children, William, David, Mary, Margaret, Samuel and Harriet, are buried in the Grange Cemetery in 28 of Boomer Township, about three miles northeast of the Roberts home place.
Rosa Belle Roberts and her second husband, Hans Mates, are buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery in Council Bluffs.
Sarah Ellen (Wilding) Roberts Goodwin, the widow of David Roberts Jr., was from the Crescent area. She and her second husband, Francis F. "Frank" Goodwin, are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Missouri Valley.
I don't believe the Mormon Immigration Database would ordinarily contain information about where in Wales the Roberts family originated. You might call a LDS Family History Center to see if they have ideas of possible other sources. E.g., "did the Mormon missionaries in Europe send back lists of whom they had converted?"
Many apostate Mormons settled in northwestern Pottawattamie County. Some went to Utah and backtrailed, more dropped out along the way. Many joined the RLDS branch of Mormonism, which still has a church in Crescent. The Roberts belonged to this stream.
A second immigrant stream into northwestern Pottawattamie County and Harrison County to the north came from Indiana in the 1850s, especially from Putnam County. Many of the Indiana immigrants belonged to the Primitive Baptist Church in Loveland, which is closed but was still standing as of a year ago.
Loveland and Honey Creek are very small towns in Rockford Township, north of Crescent Township.
To avoid future confusion you should know that a second Roberts family, early LDS members from London via Canada, lived in Boomer Township about six miles northeast of your Roberts. They belonged to the Boomer RLDS congregation. I haven't noticed your Roberts family on the partial RLDS congregant rosters that Barbara Bernauer has put on the internet.
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