Let Me Introduce You; Hugh Thomas Roberts(12)
Hugh Thomas Roberts(12) was born 1 November 1867 in Staffordshire, England, to Hugh(1) and Margaret(2) Roberts. Hugh was christened in May 1870 in Northwood. In 1881 the age of 14, he was employed as a potter’s assistant working in the Staffordshire Potteries. When Hugh was 18 years old, he immigrated with the Hugh and Margaret Roberts family to the United States arriving in June 1886 and then settling in Pennsylvania, where Hugh began work as a coalminer. After his father’s death, Margaret and the remaining Roberts family then moved to Almy, Wyoming to work in the coalmines for a couple of years, eventually leaving and moving to Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Around 1894 Hugh moved with his
sister, Sarah Ann(11) and her husband Joseph Jones(19) , to Oskaloosa, Iowa
where he would eventually marry Esther Clough(203). At their marriage, Hugh was 31 years old and
Esther was 23 years old. Three years after their marriage, the couple
had their only child, Harold(239).
Eventually, Hugh, Esther, and Harold moved to Des Moines, where Hugh
continued to work as a coalminer.
Esther died in January 1946 in Des
Moines, when she was 69 years old. At
age 84, Hugh died in 1952 in Ohio and is buried in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
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