Let Me Introduce You; Mary Elizabeth Roberts(14)

          Mary Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of Hugh(1) and Margaret(2) Roberts was born 27 July 1872 in Staffordshire, England.

          When Mary Elizabeth was 13 years old, she immigration with her family to the United States where the family settled in Pennsylvania.  After Mary’s father died, the family moved to Almy, Wyoming and then they settled in Rock Springs, Wyoming. 

          Mary Elizabeth married William D. Jones(20) in Evanston, Wyoming.  The date is unknown and the place of the marriage is from family records.  No official documents have been located at this time to prove the date or place of the marriage.

          Mary Elizabeth and William had two children, Hugh Jones(22) who died as a baby in October 1891.  Two years later the couple had a second son, Thomas Jones(23) born in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Eventually, the couple divorced.

          In 1912, Mary Elizabeth traveled to her sister, Sarah Ann’s(11) home in Des Moines, Iowa where she spent 3 weeks. 

          Mary Elizabeth’s second marriage was to Henry W. Walter on 2 May 1914 in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Mary Elizabeth was 41 years old and Henry was 36 years old.  Henry was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania; the same town the Roberts family lived in Pennsylvania when they first arrived in the United States. 

          Henry worked in the coalmines as a hoist operator and the family lived on Bridger Avenue.  Henry was ill before he died in 1944 in Rock Springs, Wyoming and five years later, Mary Elizabeth died.  They are buried in the Rock Springs City Cemetery. 

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