Lewis Roberts

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Husband Lewis Roberts ¹

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         Father: Robert M. Roberts (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Lewis Roberts

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In Mercer County, Pennsylvania, along near the Salem line, where the Roberts family settled, Lewis Roberts came over into what later became Sugar Grove Township. His cabin was erected near the later location of Kennard Station, and about it he cleared what afterward became an excellent farm. A bear story is related concerning this man: He had been in the township for several years, when, one day, upon coming from Hannell's mill toward his home, a little dog, which followed him, spied a young bear endeavoring to creep away unnoticed among the bushes, and, running after it, chased it up a tree. Roberts, thinking that he might capture the animal, which was quite small, climbed the tree, when his horror can be easily imagined at seeing the parent brute appear and prepare to go up after him. But in this dilemma, when he was meditating upon the expediency of jumping to the ground, at the risk of breaking his neck, the little dog proved his friend, for as the bear approached the tree he attacked her upon the flanks, and obliged her to turn her attention in that direction. Several times she reared upon her hind feet and commenced climbing, and as often the cur bit her furiously, and compelled her to turn back. Meanwhile, his master had followed the cub to the end of one of the limbs, and, shaking it with all his strength, threw him to the ground, when both of the beasts left, and he was able to come down in safety. [HMC 1888, 600]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 269.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 695.