Roberts Roots & Branches

Rock Springs Rocket Thursday 30 June 1932 Cowboy Ropes Rattle Snake Lander, Wyo., June 30—(AP)—Cowboys usually toss their ropes to catch a calf but John Adams of near Lander has gone the buckaroos one better.   He snared a rattlesnake with his. It happened one day last week on Onion Flats, alone the Lander-Rawlins road.   Adams saw a huge rattler about to strike and he snapped a rope around it.   The reptile had 13 rattlers. (note:   no relation but thought this was an interesting article to share!)

Our Roberts family arrived to the United States of America!

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A mortcloth, or pall, is a funeral cloth used to cover a coffin in the funeral ceremony or the deceased prior to burial.   The deceased’s family usually rented a mortcloth from the local church and after each use, the fabric was washed and readied for use again.   The word comes from the Latin word “pallium” meaning cloak. The Mortcloth case of 1792 begins:   “ For many centuries, and probably up to the 20th, the Church of Scotland was the sole supplier of mortcloths.   As the name would suggest, they were cloths used to cover the dead prior to burial, and after use, were washed ready for rehire. The Church hired these for a few pence, or in some cases loaned out these cloths, until the time of the funeral. The revenue raised by this service, typically around £40 pa, was distributed to the poor of the parish at frequent intervals.”   In the late 1780’s a local Society of Colliers decided to purchase and rent out their own mortcloths preventing the loc...

Old cemeteries, veiled in mists, Attract the genealogists, Whose aim is to document Relationships and each event. Ancestors lie in ancient graves, Some marked by frieze and architraves, While other plots are empty, bare Of stones to indicate who’s there. At times, a line of epitaph Evokes a somewhat rueful laugh. You can’t erase a granite slab; Some dates are wrong.   And that is sad, For those who travel far to trace Their roots depend on such a place. “Oh, woe is me!” they cry, “Forsooth! Will someone please provide the truth?” Haught, Alberta Y., Everton’s Genealogical Helper, July- August, 2001, page 27.

From the Kemmerer Camera, 8 April 1914, Wyoming Newspaper Project, online.

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