Willis J. Roberts and Sarah Eberhart

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Husband Willis J. Roberts ¹

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           Born: 4 Nov 1856 - Arcadia, Wayne Co, NY 1
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       Marriage: 28 Nov 1889 1

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Wife Sarah Eberhart ²

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           Born: 28 Mar 1841 - Venango Co, PA 2
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         Father: Abraham Eberhart (1797-1880/1883) 3 4 5
         Mother: Esther Amand (1801-1890) 4 5

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Eberhart

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She was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and lived there on a farm with her parents among the hills of the Allegheny river until fourteen years of age, then with her parents went West to Dixon, Illinois. There she spent several years, mostly in household duties and taking care of the sick, as most of the family were sick with fever and ague a good part of the time. She also attended Lee Center Academy, and then taught a part of a term in the home district, to fill the place of a teacher who had failed. She then attended Rock River Seminary during the winter term, and the following summer took lessons in instrumental music at Rock Island, Illinois, and then joined the rest of the family in Eldorado, Iowa, where they had preceded her a year. The next ten years were spent mostly in teaching, with an occasional term at Cornell College, where she had hoped to graduate, but was prevented by failing health, caused by too great a strain on her mental powers in the effort to educate herself. After this she devoted herself to the care of her aged parents, residing part of the time at Vinton, Iowa, and part of the time at Chicago Lawn, Illinois.

1 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 141.

2 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 140.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 865.

4 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 99.

5 Gladys & Oliver Eberhart, Eberhart History 1938 (Kismet, KS: Privately published, 1938), Pg III.