Elizabeth Roberts

1877 - 1934  (57 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Roberts
  Nickname	Eliza
  Born	5 Feb 1877	England
  Gender	Female
  Died	30 Nov 1934	Vermilion, Illinois
  Buried	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	Dock Hawes Blakeney,   b. 8 May 1870, Vermilion, Illinois ,   d. 11 Dec 1959, Vermilion, Illinois  (Age 89 years)
  Married	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. D.Hawes Blakeney,   b. Abt 1907, Illinois   7. Katie H. Blakeney,   b. Abt 1909, Vermilion, Illinois   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)
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2022
  Family ID	F211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.