[Estill Ernest Thompson > Virginia Elizabeth Roberts > Roberts/Ray]
Elijah Roberts
BIRTH: 22 Jul 1850, Raus, Bedford, TN
DEATH: 11 Jan 1911, Raus, Bedford, Tennessee, United States
Margaret Ella Ray
BIRTH: 19 Jul 1854, Raus, Bedford, TN
DEATH: 15 October 1886
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| Elijah Roberts (1850-1911) |
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| Maggie Ella Ray (1854-1886) |
Thomas Lacy Roberts (1807-1884) and Priscilla Parker (1820-1897) were living in Raus, Bedford County farming after their marriage in 1835 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County. They farmed in Civil District 24, and their 7th of 12 children, Elijah, the person of interest, also born in Raus.
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| Civil District 24, as of 1878, Home of the Roberts and Rays. E. Roberts is listed along the Lynchburg Road, right where we expect it to be where Mom goes and sits on the grassy knoll at the Roberts Cemetery watching the sunset periodically. His farm is right down from E. Riddle, and across the road from S. Bobo, who has lots of land holdings in the county. Note other plots for J.C. Ray, E Ray, and J Ray, particularly where Highway 130 meets up with Bottle Hollow. |
Maggie Ella Ray was born in the same community on 19 Jul 1854, to General Marion Ray (1826-1898) and Eliza B Clark (1826-1870). GM Ray was a Commissary Agent for the Confederacy, and is buried in the Estill Family Cemetery in Winchester. In 1870, the Rays were farming in Bedford County District 24. They lived down the road from George W Ray (30, carpenter), Jason Ray (66, Minister of the Gospel b. South Carolina), and Crane (39, Physisican)
Elijah Roberts and Maggie Ella Ray would eventually have 5 children.
1900 Census: Elijah a widower, with three single sons.
1. Annie Priscilla (1877-1964)
2. John Everett (1879-1944)
3. Ernest Gould (1882-1964)
4. Virginia Elizabeth (1884-1956)
5. Jonathon J (1886-??)
The tragedy is that Maggie died in 1886 at the young age of 34, leaving her heart-broken husband a widower. Seeing that Jonathan J doesn't show up elsewhere in the records, we might suppose she died as a complication of childbirth, and that Jonathon died as well. In 1900, Elijah was listed on the 1900 census as such, with his three single children (Annie had married in 1897 to Charles Emory Byrom), and Everett, Ernest, and Jennie were home helping him work the farm.
By 1910 Census time, he was living with his son Everett (33) and his second wife Annie Roberts, who were married in 1908, but as of 1910 had no children. (Everett had married before, but his first wife Esther Shofner died in 1906. At the time of his death, Everett's record shows him as married to Annie Davis). Elijah didn't end up marrying again, and died at age 61 in Civil District 24. Everett owned his own farm, and had 74 animals on it. This is my Papa's (Estill Ernest Thompson) grandfather, whom he would have known and visited up to age 6.
By 1910 Census time, he was living with his son Everett (33) and his second wife Annie Roberts, who were married in 1908, but as of 1910 had no children. (Everett had married before, but his first wife Esther Shofner died in 1906. At the time of his death, Everett's record shows him as married to Annie Davis). Elijah didn't end up marrying again, and died at age 61 in Civil District 24. Everett owned his own farm, and had 74 animals on it. This is my Papa's (Estill Ernest Thompson) grandfather, whom he would have known and visited up to age 6.
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| Everett and Annie's farm was in Civil District 2. Elijah and his father before him (Thomas Lacy) farmed in District 24. |
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