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Elizabeth Roberts

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Name Elizabeth Roberts Nickname Eliza Birth 5 Feb 1877 England Gender Female Death 30 Nov 1934 Vermilion, Illinois Burial Sandusky Cemetery, Illinois Person ID I238 Yatesville History & Genealogy Last Modified 10 May 2022
Father William Roberts, b. 28 Jun 1839, England d. 18 Dec 1920, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 81 years)
Mother Emma Marie, b. 16 Apr 1838, England d. 14 May 1912, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 74 years)
Family ID F217 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Doc Hawes Blakeney, b. 8 May 1870, Vermilion, Illinois d. 11 Dec 1959, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 89 years)
Marriage 6 Jan 1895 Vermilion, Illinois Children 1. Val Blakeney, b. 18 Jul 1896, Vermilion, Illinois d. 14 Oct 1978, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 82 years)
2. Dewey Blakeney, b. 11 Feb 1897, Vermilion, Illinois d. 11 Apr 1979, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 82 years)
3. Shirley Blakeney, b. 25 Apr 1899, Vermilion, Illinois d. 19 Jan 1982, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 82 years)
4. Charles Blakeney, b. 29 Aug 1901, Vermilion, Illinois d. 23 Jan 1975, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 73 years)
5. America Emma Blakeney, b. 26 Oct 1903, Vermilion, Illinois d. 11 Sep 1989, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 85 years)
6. Doc Hawes Blakeney, b. 31 Mar 1907, Illinois d. 9 Jun 1997 (Age 90 years)
7. Katie H Blakeney, b. 20 May 1909, Vermilion, Illinois d. 10 Oct 1997 (Age 88 years)
8. Walter Richard Blakeney, b. 23 Apr 1911, Vermilion, Illinois d. 22 Oct 1999, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 88 years)
9. Robert Woodrow Blakeney, b. 28 May 1913, Vermilion, Illinois d. 5 Apr 1999, Cameron, Texas
(Age 85 years)
10. William H. Blakeney, b. 19 Mar 1916, Vermilion, Illinois d. 21 Jan 1980, Vermilion, Illinois
(Age 63 years)
Family ID F211 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Feb 2023
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Notes - This family lived a rather quiet, uneventful" farm life until World War I was declared. Val, the eldest, served, with the army in Europe as a truck driver. For months at a time no letters came and the mother was deeply grieved. Eventually, however, Val returned unharmed. Not many years later, in 1934, my grandmother Blakeney died rather suddenly. My grandfather, Dock, who is now eighty-one years old, owns a large farm east of Westville which is operated by my two uncles, Dewey and William. A part of this farm was originally owned by my great-grandfather Hugh.