Where Our Roots Rest, Volumes I & II

 

Where Our Roots Rest, Volume I, is a comprehensive reference book containing the descriptions, photographs, and specific directions to the various Hugh & Margaret Roberts family members buried in the Rock Springs, Riverview, and Rest Haven cemeteries in Sweetwater County. 

Where Our Roots Rest, Volume II, contains the descriptions, photographs, and detailed directions to the various Hugh & Margaret Roberts family members buried in the South Lincoln Cemetery District, specifically the Kemmerer City Cemetery and Diamondville Cemetery in Kemmerer and Diamondville, Wyoming.

Where Our Roots Rest, Volumes I & II each book contains pedigree charts of the family members buried in each cemetery as well as family group sheets of all family members of the Hugh & Margaret Roberts family.  Individual pages are entitled with the family member’s names as well as their relationship traced back to Hugh & Margaret.  This allows the reader to understand the complicated and often confusing multi-generational family relationships. 

A sample of the individual page for each person in
"Where Our Roots Rest Volumes, I & II". 
Includes an individual section map and directions to each gravesite.   


These two reference books each contain a detailed history of each separate cemetery and the rules and regulations of the cemeteries.  Each cemetery has maps of the individual cemetery and section maps within the cemetery.  Section maps contain a listing of all family members buried in that specific section.  Following section maps are a table that contains information for each person buried in that section, including each person’s name, burial identification for that particular cemetery, their burial date, age, and GPS coordinates.  Each family member’s grave has a description of the headstone, his or her edited obituary, a photograph of the headstone, and directions to the grave.  There are numerous photographs and placement diagrams of family burial plots where applicable.   In addition, to photographs of the headstones, there are selected photographs of the family members mentioned.  At the end of each book is an inclusive and thorough index that includes every name mentioned in the book for easy searching.  Finally, there is a complete and thorough bibliography as well as a complete citation for every source.   

A sample of a section map.  
The section map contains directions to the section,
gravesites within that section ,
and a table with grave identification information,
burial dates, ages at death,
and GPS coordinates.

Where Our Roots Rest, Volume I, contains Margaret Roberts’ complete obituary printed the day of her death, and the follow up newspaper article seven days later describing the funeral and who attended the funeral.  The Jury’s Verdict and the full newspaper article about the coroner’s inquest regarding Samuel Caulton’s death are also included.  Volume I, includes a note and description about the original headstones for the Isaac Roberts family and how they received beautiful new headstones.  There are headstone placement tables and placement photographs for the Gunyan, Linden, Jacobson,   Hamilton, and the Isaac Roberts and Janet Howie families.  Included is a fascinating story about three photographs of the same headstone with three different inscriptions.  Volume I, is 162 pages full of valuable family information, relationships, maps, and history. 

Where Our Roots Rest, Volume II, contains “Register of Funerals” pages for John Richard Roberts, Selina Parker, Isaac Roberts, Thomas Roberts, Pearl Wornock, John Roberts, Alice Rufener, Jack R. Roberts, Llewellyn Roberts, and Gnell Roberts.  These “Registers of Funeral” sheets contain various identifying information, fees, and costs associated with the funeral and burial and payment history for the account.  There is a diagram of the burial locations, and photographs, of the John Richard Roberts family plot, which includes marked and unmarked gravesites.  There are headstone placement tables and placement photographs for the Dolar, Hunzie, Kulinsky, Marzeski/Czak and Llewellyn Roberts’s families.  Volume II is 134 pages of interesting family information, various maps, with local and family history.


Each black comb bound book has a clear quality report cover on the front and back with an attractive cover.  Pages within the book are printed on quality bright white 24-pound paper with toner cartridge ink. 

 

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