Cause of Death:
Cancer
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 4, Ed. 1, Tree #1822, Date of Import: Jun 2, 2001]
Verda married Walton, they became missionaries.
Member of Mazomanie patrons of Husbandry
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The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie
MRS. IDA ROBERTS was born in Fairfax, Vt., in 1845. Her maiden name was Ida Warren, and she came to Waukesha county in 1847 and to Black Earth in 1853 with her parents. The family moved to Mazomanie in 1855, about three miles west of the village. Her father died there in 1872 and her mother in 1873. Miss Warren married Lewis O. Roberts in 1867 and he died in 1881. The children are: Ora and Mrs. George Smith in Mazomanie, Fred M. and Harry E. in Blue Mounds.
BIOGRAPHY: Lloyd A. Roberts
LLOYD A. ROBERTS, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Black Earth; born in Massachusetts in 1811; his father died when he was a child. After the death of his father he went to Franklin Co., N. Y., and lived with a sister until he was 18 years of age. He then went to Geauga Co., Ohio, where he was married, in 1833, to Matilda Boker, a native of the State of New York. They removed to Racine Co., Wis., about 1842; to Black Earth, and settled on the farm where Mr. Roberts now lives, in 1849. His wife died in the fall of 1872; his present wife was Mrs. Mary E. Carpenter. Mr. Roberts has four children--William B., resides in Nebraska; Lewis O., lives in Mazomanie; Elmira, now Mrs. William Ellsworth; Eben, who resides in Kansas; lost five children, one son and four daughters. His farm contains 160 acres. Mr. Roberts, and his son, William B., enlisted in Co. A, 11th W.V.I.; served two years, and was discharged by reason of disability; his son, William B., served till the close of the war. Another son, Lyman H., enlisted in 1863 in the same regiment, and died in the service.BIOGRAPHY: --From History of Dane County (Western Historical Company: Chicago, 1880), p. 1263 (Town of Black Earth)
men enlisted in Co.'s A and G of the 11th Wisconsin Infantry. This regiment assembled at Camp Randall, Madison, in October, 1861. After a few weeks' drill they left on November 20, by way of Chicago, for St. Louis, Mo. During the war they campaigned along the Mississippi, and in Alabama and Texas. In the battle of Champion Hills the Eleventh made a brilliant record. Company A were deployed as skirmishers in the face of a fierce artillery engagement, and the regiment took one thousand prisoners with regimental stand of colors. They were in the trenches before Vicksburg, and constantly took part in the active operations of the siege. They were mustered out of service at Mobile on September 4, 1865, and received their final discharge at Madison on September 28, 1865.