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From: Mary Jane Chambers <>
Subject: Re: ROBERTS-D Digest V04 #83
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 07:34:17 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <200407040800.i6480feu022720@lists5.rootsweb.com>


Hi, I am trying to use the Terraserver to find the Roberts/Anthony cemetery near Little Richmond, Surry County,NC. It is an overgrown field now with no street address or name. I have directions but the program doesn't seem to take "near US 268 and SR 1121. Any suggestions on how to narrow the search?
Thanks, M J

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ROBERTS-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 83

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#1 ROBERTS UK ["Bob Roberts" #2 Re: Neat mapping site... ["Bill McCray" #3 Re: [ROBERTS] Re: Neat mapping sit ["Bill McCray"
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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 23:03:44 +0930
From: "Bob Roberts"
To:
Subject: ROBERTS UK

Returning to List. My UK interest are.
ROBERTS, Kent. Otterden, Stalisfield, Westgate on Sea.
Hampshire. Aldershot.
Berkshire. Reading.
Middlesex. Staines.
Surrey. Englefield Green.

Bob Roberts. Adelaide, South Australia.

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:26:03 -0400
From: "Bill McCray"
To:
Subject: Re: Neat mapping site...

The Roberts Burying Ground where some of my ancestors were buried is in the
middle of a field on the back of a farm with no roads nearby. Having
located it, I have used Terraserver to show others where it is located. It
is, indeed, a useful site. Thanks for mentioning it.

Bill

On 30 Jun 2004 at 21:46, Michael H Thorne wrote:

> Hope I can explain this so it makes sense...
>
> I found an internet site to day that provides both maps and satelite
> images of virtually anywhere in the US and it's not at all hard to use
> (and it's FREE). The site is called TerraServer and here's the basic
> link to it:
>
> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
>
> Outside of the fun a lot of people will have with this, I was thinking it
> might have some usefulness in sharing links to views of the farms or houses
> or cemeteries or towns where our ancestors are or were. Just to give you an
> example, my father was born in 1921 and lived in a little town called
> Matfield Green, Kansas. The town is in a remote area of the Flint Hills in
> Kansas and boasts a current population of around 30 hardy old souls. If you
> click on the following link, you can all see the house my father grew up in.
>
> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=14&x=223&y=1320&z=14&w
> =1&ref=P|Matfield%20Green,%20Kansas,%20United%20States (this is the first
> view you get from space... but don't dispair)
>
> now, let me zoom in on his house (well, the immediate neighborhood
> anyway)
>
> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=3568&y=21131&z=14&;
> w=2
>
> In case you're wondering, it's the house you can see just about 1/2 inch
> above where it says 100M on the bottom edge of the photograph!
>
> Don't know if people will use this, but wanted to show everyone an easy way
> to share (just cut and paste the link) some different kind of information
> with everyone. Best of all, you don't have to go through airport screening
> now just to see the old home place.
>
> Mike Thorne
>
> Researching: Hart, Thorne, Hunter, Holton, Kearney, Roberts, Wright,
> Shunk, Painter, Logsdon, Clayton, McCreary and a few others as well.
>
>
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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 18:20:44 -0400
From: "Bill McCray"
To:
Subject: Re: [ROBERTS] Re: Neat mapping site...

On 3 Jul 2004 at 11:07, Frankie Brandt wrote:

> Where is The Roberts Burying Ground you mention? State, City/County, etc.
> Also which Roberts line is buried there? Thanks, Sue

I probably should have said. Thanks for prompting me.

The burying ground is in northwestern Franklin County, Kentucky, probably
less than a quarter-mile from Shelby County.

Patrick Henry Roberts was born 1756-8 with various birthplaces reported
(primarily Maryland and England). He generally went by Henry. He served
in the Revolutionary War (or Rebellion, depending on your viewpoint).
Nothing is known about his first marriage except that they had at least six
children:

William
Elizabeth, m. Jeremiah Williams
Thomas H.
Mary A., b. about 1787, m. Daniel Connell
Emanuel, m. Mary ?
John,

In June of 1810, he married Catherine Austin in Baltimore City, Maryland.
Catherine was born in 1790 in Maryland. Soon afterward he, Catherine, and
four of his children packed up and moved to Franklin County, Kentucky.
William moved to Wisconsin, and Elizabeth stayed in Maryland. When Henry
wrote his will, nothing was known of William, Elizabeth and her husband had
died, and nothing was known their children (if any).

Henry and Catherine had eight children:

Maria, b. 1814, m. Jesse Truman and later Thornton Porter
Caroline, b. 1816, m. John Armstrong and later a Young
Patrick Henry (II), b. abt 1820, m. Martha Ann Armstrong. (These are my
ancestors.)
Edmund A. W., b. Dec 1823, m. Mary Jane Thompson, Synthia A. Perkins, and
Nancy J. Fitemaster
Austin H., b. Jan 1825, m. Elizabeth Jane Pyles, Nancy Ann Eakins, and
Sarah J. Eakins
Alexander G., b. 1828, m. Louisa Wilmot
Catherine M., b. 1830, m. Charles G. Shay
Virginia F., b. abt 1833, m. William Perkins

Henry died in 1839. If you recognize any of these names as being in your
line, please contact me.

The burying ground is on land owned by Henry until his death. There are
headstones for Henry, his daughter Catherine, and two others at the burying
ground. The obituary for son Austin says that he was buried there. There
are many fieldstones set on edge, probably marking graves, but with no
discerable markings on them. There may be many headstones beneath the
ground, but we haven't tried yet to find them.

http://www.terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=-
85.0004799304565&cpy=38.2091488906852&res=8&provider_id=310&t=pan

Look at the image at the URL above. The image is centered on the burying
ground. The cemetery is in a field that is very light colored in the
image. The field is 4-5 times bigger N-S than E-W. The northern part of
the field is darker than the southern part. There is a big notch in the
western border of the field about 1/5 of the way up from the southern end
and a small dark spot is near the point of the notch. That spot is a pond.
Near the center of the field is a larger dark spot. The larger dark spot
is a grove of trees and the graves are among the trees.

Bill McCray
Lexington, Kentucky

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