Compiler:
Thorold Erskine (Tod) Roberts, 3G Grandson of Michael Brown Roberts, Sr. ()
LINKS
Wise County (TX) Historical Record of
Willis Perry Roberts News article on twin brothers Perry and
Jasper Roberts celebrating their 86th birthday in 1936 |
Excerpt from
Wise County (Texas) History W. P. Roberts of Bridgeport,
better known to Wise County people as Perry Roberts, is another of those
sterling, industrious citizens who came to Wise County at an early time with
practically nothing to start with, but who, by hard work and frugality has
surrounded himself with comforts and plenty, reared a respectable family, and
forced his way into the good esteem of all who know him. He was born in
Randolph County Alabama, July 21, 1851. At twenty years of age he came with
his father to Johnson County, Texas, locating near Alvarado. Then in 1879 Mr.
Roberts moved to Cooke County and stayed two years, after which he came to
Wise on November 26, 1881, settling on Osteen Branch, north of Paradise,
where he lived until 1884. After this date, MR. Roberts' home was in Pleasant
Valley Community, about five miles southwest of Bridgeport, where he
accumulated considerable property and came to be a substantial citizen. In
later years, off and on, Mr. Roberts had been a successful merchant at
Bridgeport, and resides there now, conducting a popular grocery store. Mr. Roberts has been twice
married, first to Miss Cynthia Ann McDonald in Johnson County in 1873, then
in 1893, following her death, to Jeanette Fullingim, daughter of Archer
Fullingim, a pioneer citizen of Wise County. Mr. Roberts came into Decatur
the day after the old courthouse in the center of the square burned, which
was November 26, 1881, a fact that has been instrumental in establishing the
exact date of the burning of this building for the purposes of this record.
(page 377, Wise County History) |