Roberts Roots & Branches

I have not updated this blog for quite some time, since I have been extremely busy.  I have been working diligently over at the Kemmerer City Cemetery in Kemmerer, Wyoming drawing up burial maps of the 99 miners killed in the Frontier Mine No. 1 accident.  I was able, with the great help of the cemetery office staff, Emily and Shannon, to get all but 5 graves located.  Those five coalminers are buried in the cemetery according to their death certificates, but the cemetery has no location.    After completing the map, I worked on short bio's for each coalminer as requested by the South Lincoln Historical Society.  That was a large project to narrow down important information about each miner.  Then, I drew out a walking trail through the cemetery for the easiest and most logical way to visit all of the graves. Finally, I was able to go to a Kemmerer City Council Meeting, a South Lincoln Historical Society Meeting, and a South Lincoln Historical Society Meeting tour of the mine area.

  I have been working to get ready for the 100 th anniversary of this coal mining disaster.  I will be marking every grave with a yellow flower (similar to my Memorial Day tradition), and I will be giving a guided tour through the cemetery following the flag ceremony and program.  For the last month, I have been working with the cemetery and drawing up a map of the burial plots of the miners who were killed.  I have also attended the Lincoln County Historical meetings, hiked up to the mine site with a group, been in discussions regarding the new memorial sign that is in the works, and attended a Kemmerer City Council meeting. There has been so much effort and work for this commemoration program, and I have to give a big shout out to Carol, the president of the Lincoln County Historical Society.  She has been amazing and wonderful to work with.  I will update more about the event and program, afterwards.

   It has been entirely too long since I posted!   I took December off to visit with family, but then 2023 did not start very well.  January and February 2023, I spent in bed with various illnesses, and the month of March was mostly recovering, healing, and trying to catch up on everything that needs to be done in regular life!   Today, I f-i-n-a-l-l-y got the last of everything caught up!  Yay!  August through October I spent doing miscellaneous genealogy while not a “project” I was still quite busy.    November 2022, I finished my grandmother’s book of genealogy, documents, and awards.    I was able to give these tribute books to family for Christmas.    They will be available in a couple of weeks.    November also brought several great finds, thanks to a Facebook post of a resource I was unaware of,    I was able to order 8 death certificates and one birth certificate.    This was a really great break through and I was so excited! December 2022 I spent with family and coaching grand