James H. Roberts Sr.

Birth Date

c1809

Death Date

c1875

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Regina A. Crowder Roberts in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on October 26, 1846. Father of Nancy E. Roberts, Naomi J. Elizabeth "Betty" Roberts, Melissa Roberts, Henry Roberts, and James Roberts. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Princeton in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Employed J. W. Roberts as a farmhand in Princeton in 1860. Justice of the peace in Caldwell County in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 284A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 95.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 226A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Caldwell County Administration Bonds, 1863-1878, p. 275.

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