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Generation: 1
| 1. | Ruth B. Roberts was born 3 Dec 1889, Vigo, Indiana, USA (daughter of Joseph Roberts and Lucy Emily Estell); died 30 Jan 1960, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 2 Feb 1960, Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1752
- Birth: 1890, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1900, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1910, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1920, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Notes:
Died:
Stewart Lawn Cemetery
Ruth married Robert V. Pettiford 12 Jul 1918, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Robert (son of Arthur Pettiford and Henrietta Stewart) was born 11 Apr 1897, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 6 Sep 1974, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 20 Sep 1974, Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
Ruth married James Stewart 2 Aug 1913, Vigo, Indiana, USA. James (son of Dixon Stewart, Jr and Samantha Stewart) was born 9 Dec 1886, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 22 Sep 1942; was buried , Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Joseph Roberts was born 1837, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA (son of Kinchen Roberts and Nancy Chavis). Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1361
- Residence: 1850, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1880, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1900, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Joseph married Lucy Emily Estell 25 Apr 1861, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Lucy (daughter of Abraham Estell and Selina Jane Poston) was born 5 Mar 1844, Illinois, USA; died 4 Apr 1914, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Lucy Emily Estell was born 5 Mar 1844, Illinois, USA (daughter of Abraham Estell and Selina Jane Poston); died 4 Apr 1914, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 1360
- Residence: 1850, Darwin, Clark, Illinois, USA
- Residence: 1880, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1900, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1910, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Children:
- James Albert Roberts was born 6 Sep 1863, Burnett, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 24 Aug 1913, Burnett, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Stewart Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Richard T. Roberts was born 1864, Indiana, USA; died 21 Sep 1913, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Anna J. Roberts was born 1866, Indiana, USA; died 1933, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Sarah C. Roberts was born 1870, Indiana, USA.
- Mary Mamye Roberts was born Jul 1874, Indiana, USA; died 1953; was buried , Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Joseph T. Roberts was born 1877, Indiana, USA.
- Leslie Roberts was born 5 Dec 1882, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 28 Jan 1931, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Lora Ervin Roberts was born 4 Dec 1883, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Susan Eva Roberts was born 28 Sep 1888, Indiana, USA.
- 1. Ruth B. Roberts was born 3 Dec 1889, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 30 Jan 1960, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 2 Feb 1960, Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
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Generation: 3
| 4. |  Kinchen Roberts was born Abt 1785, Virginia, USA (son of Ishmael Roberts and Silvia); died 30 Jun 1870, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Colored
- Reference Number: 1722
- Residence: 1810, Chatham, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1830, Orange, Indiana, USA
- Civil1: 1 Oct 1835, Vigo, Indiana, USA; 40 acres
- Civil1: 20 Mar 1837, Vigo, Indiana, USA; 40 acres
- Residence: 1840, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1850, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 65
- Residence: 1860, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 86
- Probate: 9 Jul 1870, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Notes:
Kinchen2, born say 1784, head of a Chatham County household of 6 "other free" in 1810 [NC:195]. On 15 August 1821 he purchased 154 acres in Chatham County on the south side of Cape Fear River near the Ferry Road and Drake's land for $430 and sold this land seven years later on 25 December 1828 for $200. On 3 April 1829 he sold the 150 acres on Bush Creek which he received as one of the heirs of (his father?) Ishmael Roberts [DB X:320; AB:134, 186]. He was head of a Lost Creek Township, Vigo County, Indiana, household in 1850. He was a sixty-five-year-old, born in Virginia, with $3,000 estate, living with Nancy, fifty-eight years old, born in North Carolina [Household no. 202].
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The buying power of a $3,000 in 1850, would be equal to over $500,000 in value in 2012. The property value of 200+ acres in 2012, would be close to $1, 000,000. Kinchen was affluent in North Carolina, before coming to Lost Creek, and even more so after settling here. The Roberts family resided on Indian Reservation property in Robeson County, North Carolina, and are counted as Indian, on the Lumbee Tribal rolls. Being affluent, the Roberts family were also slave OWNERS, while residing in North Carolina.
Kinchen married Nancy Chavis. Nancy was born Abt 1792, Virginia, USA; died 7 Feb 1866, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 5. | Nancy Chavis was born Abt 1792, Virginia, USA; died 7 Feb 1866, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Colored
- Reference Number: 1725
- Residence: 1850, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 58
- Residence: 1860, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 87
Children:
- Lucinda Roberts was born 1809, Wake, North Carolina, USA; died Dec 1885, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Banister Roberts was born Abt 1811; died 13 Aug 1832, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Redden Roberts was born Abt 1825, North Carolina, USA; died 14 Dec 1883, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- 2. Joseph Roberts was born 1837, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Jane Roberts was born Abt 1812, North Carolina, USA.
- Hezekiah Roberts was born 1812, North Carolina, USA; died 14 Feb 1902, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Benjamin Roberts was born 1815, North Carolina, USA.
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| 7. |  Selina Jane Poston was born Abt 1825, North Carolina, USA (daughter of Daniel Poston and Lucy Jackson); died 19 May 1905. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 987
- Residence: 1850, Darwin, Clark, Illinois, USA; Age: 25
- Residence: 1880, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Children:
- 3. Lucy Emily Estell was born 5 Mar 1844, Illinois, USA; died 4 Apr 1914, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- James D Estell was born 1848, Illinois, USA; died 20 Sep 1899, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
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Generation: 4
| 8. | Ishmael Roberts was born 1750, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (son of Margaret Roberts); died 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Ethnicity: Native American
- Tribe: Lumbee
- Reference Number: 1723
- Residence: 1765, Lincoln, North Carolina, USA
- _MILT: Between 7 Jun 1777 and Jun 1778; Colonel Abraham Shepherd's Company at Head Quarters Valley Forge - Revolutionary War
- Residence: 1780, North Carolina, USA; Dobbs County
- Residence: 1782, North Carolina, USA; Dobbs County Early Tsx List,
- Residence: 1790, Robeson, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1800, Robeson, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1810, Chatham, North Carolina, USA
- Probate: 12 Jul 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA
Notes:
ROBERDS/ROBERTS In what may have been the first act of violence by a
Lumbee Indian in current Robeson County, James Roberts shot James
McCullam five times 29 Jan. 1754, in S1. Martin's Parish, Bladen County.
The murder came to court I Feb. 1754 (Secretary of State, Committee of
Claims, Coroner's Inquests, 1738-1775, SS 316, N.C. Archives). Reuben
Roberts of Bladen sold two tracts of 310 acres north and northeast of
Drowning Creek to Thomas Owen 6 July 1773 (Deed Book B, 29-30). He
lived near Soloman James and Richard Smith. Ishmael Roberts, probably
Lumbee, was living on Saddletree Swamp near Jacob Blount, Phillip Blount,
Robert Willis, John Baggett and Thomas Ivey before 12 July 1788 (Deed
Book A, 282-283). He bought 185 additional acres from Lewis Jenkins 15
Oct. 1790 east of Saddletree Swamp (B, 166-168). He appears on Saddletree
Swamp in the 1790 census. Ishmael patented 100 acres east of Raft Swamp
adjacent to fellow Lumbee Thomas Jackson, Lewis and Edward Jenkins 26
Nov. 1789 (B, 314, H, 109-110). Two Roberts families, Sampson and
Etheldred, age 55-100, and both Mulatoe were in the 1830 census of
Robeson. Several families named Roberts, all listed as mulatto, appear near
each other in the 1850 census close to the Lumbee families of Hammonds,
Revels, Briant, Jacobs and Chavis. All six families were listed as mulatoe.
Roberts was listed as an Indian name in Lumberton e township in the 1870
census of Robeson. The name was self-identified as Indian in the 1900
Census of Robeson. One family was listed in the 1900 Indian Census
Schedule in Robeson County. Lucy Roberts Harris, daughter of White Troy
Roberts Jr. of Lumberton, came from an affluent family. Her brother, Larry
Roberts, was a longtime police chief in Pembroke. Roberts was listed as
Indian in the 1930 census of Pembroke Township. Death records show the
Indian name of Roberts in 1916 in Lumberton and Pembroke townships.
They were related to the Oxendine and Smith families. See Native Visions,
Lumberton, N.C., August, 2005, for Lumberton family of Roberts. Cited at
Deep Branch Cemetery and New Bethel Methodist Church cemetery,
Fairmont, by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred Grounds, 2007, a listing of 162
Lumbee cemeteries of Robeson County.
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Ishmael1 Roberts, born say 1755, was head of a Robeson County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50], 15 in 1800 [NC:415], and 14 in Chatham County in 1810 [NC:195]. He received pay for Revolutionary War service from 3 June 1777 to 3 June 1778 as a private in Colonel Abraham Shepherd's Company. Colonel Shepherd gave him a certificate which stated that he was furloughed at Head Quarters Valley Forge to come home with me who was Inlisted in my Regement for the Term of three years - and Returned Home with me [NCGSJ XV:105]. He entered 100 acres in Robeson County on the north side of Saddle Tree Swamp on 5 September 1787, 100 acres on the north side of Five Mile Branch and 100 acres on the east side of Raft Swamp on 14 February 1788, and 100 acres on the west side of Five Mile Branch on 22 January 1793 [Pruitt, Land Entries: Robeson County, I:7, 13, 70]. He sold land by deed proved in Robeson County on 5 January 1801 and purchased land by deed proved in Robeson County on 6 July 1803 [Minutes I:130, 256]. On 18 February 1804 he purchased two tracts of land in Chatham County, one of 250 acres on Bear and Bush Creeks for $450, a second of 100 acres on the waters of the Cape Fear River for $150, and he purchased a further 57 acres on Bush Creek for 75 pounds on 9 January 1805 [DB N:456, 437; M:641]. The sheriff sold 260 acres of this land on 12 February 1808 for a debt of about 16 pounds [DB P:118]. However, Ishmael repurchased this same 260 acre tract for about 17 pounds on 14 August 1811. And he purchased 102 acres on Little Lick Creek on 10 April 1818 [DB S:26; V:131]. On 8 and 12 February 1825 he sold (signing) most of his land to his sons: Richard, James, and Aaron [DB AB:166, 221; AA:275]. By his 12 July 1826 Chatham County will, he left his land on the west side of Bush Creek to his wife Silvey and then to his grandson Ishmael, oldest son of Zachariah. He also left one dollar to a list of persons, no relationship stated (who were identified as his children in his May 1829 Estate Papers), and he willed that his land where John Archie (Archer, his son-in-law) was living was to be sold and divided among his wife and a second list of persons (which included members of the first list), no relationship stated, and left $20 for the schooling of his grandson Thomas Roberts [CR 022.801.16]. When the will was offered for probate in the Tuesday, May 1827 session of the Chatham County court, the jury ruled that it was his will as regards his personal property but not as regards his real estate [Minutes 1822-27, n.p.]. A committee was appointed to settle the problem, and their report was recorded in the Monday, May 1828 session [Minutes 1828-33]. His estate papers listed seventeen persons and called them his children, but at least two of them, Ishmael and Elias, were probably his grandchildren [North Carolina Archives Estate Papers, Chatham County].
Ishmael married Silvia. was born Abt 1760, Orange, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 9. | Silvia was born Abt 1760, Orange, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- Zachariah Roberts was born 1782.
- 4. Kinchen Roberts was born Abt 1785, Virginia, USA; died 30 Jun 1870, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Mary Polly Roberts was born Abt 1790, North Carolina, USA; died 25 Jul 1876, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 1876, Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Jonathan Roberts was born 1784, North Carolina, USA.
- Elizabeth Roberts was born 1788; died , USA.
- Benjamin F. Roberts was born 1792, North Carolina, USA; died 5 Jul 1880, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Elias Roberts was born 1793, North Carolina, USA; died 31 Jul 1866, Orange, Indiana, USA.
- Aaron Roberts was born Abt 1794, North Carolina, USA; died , Washington, Owen, Indiana, USA.
- Margaret Roberts was born Bef 1800, Robeson, North Carolina, USA.
- Pardon Boin "Bowen" Roberts was born 1800, North Carolina, USA.
- James Roberts was born 1800, North Carolina, USA.
- Richard Roberts was born 1802, North Carolina, USA; died Yes, date unknown.
- Delphy Roberts was born Abt 1807, North Carolina, USA.
- Ethelred Roberts was born Abt 1780, North Carolina, USA; died , Orange, Indiana, USA.
- Lewis Roberts died , USA.
- Rebecca Roberts died , USA.
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| 14. | Daniel Poston was born Abt 1795, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1607
- Residence: 1830, Richmond, North Carolina, USA
Daniel married Lucy Jackson. Lucy was born 1801, North Carolina, USA; died 25 Feb 1877, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 1877, Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 15. | Lucy Jackson was born 1801, North Carolina, USA; died 25 Feb 1877, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 1877, Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1608
- Birth: Abt 1800, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1850, Darwin, Clark, Illinois, USA; Age: 50
- Residence: 1860, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age in 1860: 60
Children:
- 7. Selina Jane Poston was born Abt 1825, North Carolina, USA; died 19 May 1905.
- Sarah Poston was born Abt 1828, North Carolina, USA.
- Thomas A Poston was born Abt 1833, North Carolina, USA; died 26 Dec 1895, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried Dec 1895, Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Marion Poston was born 16 Mar 1837, Illinois, USA; died 24 Dec 1907, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Robert Picket Poston was born Abt 1837, North Carolina, USA; died 10 Apr 1878, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Mary Poston was born Abt 1842, Illinois, USA.
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