Roberts Roots & Branches

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Stretched out at the IOOF hall at Kemmerer were the dead.  They were laid out in two rows, their bodies covered only by a sheet.  In another room the miners were being stripped of their work clothes and the bodies washed and a third row of the dead was being added to  as fast as the workers could accomplish their awful task. (Click here to view the blog page where this photograph is.) Within a short time all roads and paths from town to the mine were filled with wives, children, and friends of the imprisoned men. (Click here to view the blog page where this photograph is.) I finally found the two photographs I was looking for about the Frontier Mine No. 1 disaster.  Go check them out at the above links.

Kemmerer Camera, 21 December 1907 Kemmerer Camera, 14 December 1921   Kemmerer Republican, 22 December 1916   Kemmerer Camera, December 1920  

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.                                                                                                      - Samuel Butler

I have completed the a short biography for Margaret Roberts Roberts(2). You can click here to view. Also completed a short biography for Samuel Caulton(5), second husband of Margaret(2) You can view it by clicking here I am still looking to add a photograph to this post, but I cannot find the picture.  I will post when I find it and add it to the site. I am looking for feedback.  If you see something incorrect, or that you know about that I did not write, please contact me.  It is easy to change and add information--that is why I am blogging instead of printing!!! Also, if you notice I have added some pages to the blog.  You can view them by clicking on the tab under the header of the blog.  I believe that this will be easier than scrolling through the whole blog for things.

Can't seem to find Margaret Roberts in the 1910 census living in Rock Springs, Wyoming? Look at how Ancestry.com has transcribed this family: Margherito Cohlton 73 [Margherite Coblton] G Marry Jons 38 [I Marry Jons] [Marry G. Jons] G Thomas Jons 17 [Thomas G. Jons] note: names in brackets are a second attempt at getting the transcription correct. The correct names are: Margaret Colton 73, Mary E. Jones 38, Thomas G. Jones 17 Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming; Roll: T624_1746; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 0120; Image: 570; FHL Number: 1375759.

The following are updates that have been added to the various blogs: Hugh(1) & Margaret(2):  Transcribed census records (finished).  Click here John Richard Roberts(8) & Selina Parker(162): Added a history of John Richard click here Added a history of Selina Parker click here   Added a page of transcribed census records for the John Richard Roberts family Click here Added Kemmerer Coal Company Records of accidents for Roberts surname.  Click here Frontier Mine No. 1:  Added page "Compensation Paid to Miners" click here

picture from here "Look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors.  All of them are alive in this moment.  Each is present in your body.  You are the continuation of each of these people."   ---Thich Nhat Hahn