WILLIAM H. ROBERTS, was born near Jonesboro, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1817, where he remained until 1832, when he came with his parents to Menard county, Illinois, and settled near Old Franklin, he remained here until twenty-one years of age, when he went to Iowa; one year after returned home and April 6, 1840, married Miss Jane Seymour. The fruits of this marriage is eight children; after his marriage Mr. Roberts bought a farm of sixty acres, in Morgan county, and in 1868, sold out and bought a farm of two hundred and forty acres in Talkington township, Sangamon county, where he still resides. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church forty-one years. William Roberts, father of William H., was born in 1796; he was a shoemaker by trade, but owned and run a farm; he was a local preacher, and was in the War of 1812, under Old Hickory Jackson, and died February 28, 1858; his wife, Eva (Ruble) Roberts, born in Tennessee in 1795, and died October 24, 1880; she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church eighty years, having joined that church when sixteen years of age. Mrs. Roberts, wife of W. H., was born near Old Franklin, Morgan county, Illinois, in 1817, she died November 25, 1865; she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Roberts on January 16, 1868, married Mrs. Elsie Hart, her maiden name was Elsie cox, she was a daughter of Harris and Nancy (McClelland) Cox, who were old settlers of Morgan county, Illinois. John Roberts, son of W. H. Roberts, enlisted in the One Hundred and First Regiment, Company H, Illinois Volunteers, and was shot in the battle at Resaca, Georgia, he died of this wound on July 12, 1881.