Bonus: Thomas Lacy Roberts (Parents of husband, couple 14)

[Mom's maternal grandfather's maternal Great-Grandparents]
[Estill Ernest Thompson > Virginia Elizabeth Roberts > Elijah Roberts> TL Roberts and Priscilla Parker]

 Thomas Lacy Roberts
Birth: 28 December 1807, Stones River, Rutherford, Tennessee
Death: 10 August 1884, Raus, Bedford, Tennessee

 Priscilla Parker
Birth: 31 August 1820, Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee
Death: 23 July 1897, Bedford, Tennessee

Thomas Lacy Roberts (1807-1884) and Priscilla Parker (1820-1897) were both born and raised in Rutherford/Bedford County, Tennessee.   Keep in mind that Bedford County was only formed in 1807 as Rutherford County was split.  Thomas's parents moved to Raus, Bedford County to farm (originally from Virginia).  The Parkers also ended up in Bedford county by the 1830s.  Thomas and Priscilla were married in 1835 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County.  The name Lacy comes from Priscilla's mother's maiden name.

Possibly Thomas Lacy Roberts (1807-1884) Tintype

The Roberts Farm is a Tennessee Century Farm.

The below was provided by the Middle Tennessee State University - Murfreesboro, Tennessee: 

Changing priorities in agricultural production, from corn cultivation in the early 1800s to dairy farming at the turn of the century to cattle production today, characterize the history of the Roberts Farm. Established by Thomas Roberts of Virginia on land located ten miles southeast of Shelbyville, the Roberts Farm dates to 1811. Thomas and his wife Betsy Lacy began farming with 117 acres and they purchased 114 additional acres in 1819. Similar to many early Middle Tennessee farmers, they produced corn, hay and cattle. Thomas and Betsy's only son, Thomas Lacy Roberts, was the second generation owner. He married Priscilla Parker and they raised eleven children. Together the family operated a 400 acres farm, which yielded corn, hay, cattle and timber. In fact, the crops produced at the Roberts Farm would change during the third generation ownership of Columbus Daniel and Fannie Ferguson Roberts. But when the founders' great grandson Claude D. Roberts assumed ownership of the property during the twentieth century, he added dairy cattle to the farm's products and also operated a grist mill in the Raus community. In 1969, Claude and his wife Pauline's only child, Winston D. Roberts, inherited 104 acres of original family land. Winston and his daughters, Carol and Dorothy, presently manage a farm which specializes in cattle and hay production.

Thomas and Priscilla farmed in Civil District 24 ($10,000 in land in 1870 farming with 7 kids..  Compared to the Thompsons, quite a bit larger estate. Plus the value of the $2300 household).  Of their 12 children, Elijah (the 7th child) is my ancestor, who was born in Raus.

Thomas: (1880: Retired Farmer)

Priscilla: (1880: At home)

1. Elizabeth (1863-1852)

2. Susanah (1838-1932)

3. Jonathan J (1840-1893)

4. Mathew Lacy (1842-1913)  (1880: Lumber Dealer)

5. Thomas Allen (1845-??)

6. Epps J (1847-1931) (1880: "Prof of Litrature" and wife Caddie B. "Adjt Teacher")

7. Elijah (1850-1911)

8. Mary Ann (1853-1909)

9. Richard (1855-1870)

10. Columbus Daniel (1856-1895) (1880: Farmer)

11. Martha Letitia (1858-1940)

12. Sallie Priscilla (1863-1946) (1880: At home)

There's a really neat story about rediscovering the Roberts farm and Roberts family cemetery, excerpted from a Journal entry of Linda Shanklin Jackson.