Roberts Roots & Branches

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Riverview Cemetery, Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming September 11, 2013

early 1886:             Roberts family begins to arrive in Pennsylvania 1888:                      Family documented still living in Pennsylvania 1889:                      Family documented still living in Pennsylvania mid 1890:               Family documented in Almy, Wyoming (This is an example of how a timeline can be used as a valuable research tool.)

The website The Pennsylvania General Assembly gives a summary of the coal industry in the state of Pennsylvania:   "Anthracite coal was the main fuel used to smelt iron until the 1880s, when the manufacture of coke from bituminous coal was developed to a degree that it replaced anthracite. Coke was used both to smelt iron and to make steel from iron. But production of anthracite continued to increase because it was used for heating and other purposes. The bituminous and coke industries were responsible for the late 19th century industrial growth of western Pennsylvania; the iron ore deposits there would not alone have merited such growth. World War I caused two years (1917-1918) of the largest production of both types of coal the state has ever seen. In the 1920s a new coke-making process produced valuable by-products, making the old beehive coke ovens obsolete. The new coke plants were built, in many cases, outside of Pennsylvania. A declining market for coal in th

. . .automobile service station opened  in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in1913. source: http://www.50states.com/facts/penn.htm#.UgQCI6ywVJk

 Mrs. Isaac Roberts is Janet Howie Roberts(16) Jim is James H. Roberts(24) Source:  Wyoming Newspapers Project, Rock Springs Rocket,1 November 1918, page 1.

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