Inger blev gift med James Albert Welker cirka 1875. James blev født i jul. 1850 i Iowa, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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I, Rosetta Welker Roberts was born on January 5, 1889 in Bloomington, Idaho to Inger Mary Madsen and James Albert Welker, I was the 7th Child. My mother was born in Denmark and when she was 3 years old her parents sold all they had and journeyed to the United States to join up the with LDS saints who were going to Utah. She had a baby sister die and burried along the trail. Her parents walked all the way as they gave all they had to help others who needed help to leave. When they arrived in Utah they settled in what is now known as 12th street in Ogden. They stayed there for awhile and then moved to Idaho areas of Monteplier, Bloomington and Benington. I was born in Benington.
My father was born in Pottowattame Co. Iowa on July 6, 1851. He is of Dutch decent. He farmed for most of his life. He was a minute man and body guard for Brigham Young. He also carried the mail over the mountains to Casche Valley and had several exciting and life threatning experiences. In the winter he had to snow shoe to cross the mountains, in the summer he rode his horse. Then as of now, the mail must go through. But a pretty fair haired girl with dancing eyes and feet was the most important thing. Young Jim would take her to the dance at 8 in the evening, dance until 2, take her home, put on his snow shoes, throw the mail over his shoulder and start over the mounain. In the winter it was common to have the temperature register 40 below.
They married Feb. 5, 1875. He was 24, she 21. It was the custom for the bride and groom to do the entertaining on their wedding night, so they had a dinner and dance for the whole town.
They had a family of 10, 8 girls and 2 boys. The oldest boy drowned at the age of 18 months and my brother melvin died at the age of 19 while serving a mission for the LDS church in Holland. He and another missionary contacted small pox.
When I was 14, I went to Montpelier to live with my sister Clara so I could attend better schools. I loved living with Tom and Clara, she was like a mother to me. I had many friends there. In December 1905, I went to Cokeville Wyoming to live with my sister Mary. It was here I met my future destiny. We saw each other first at the railroad station. Will had a big long black pipe in his mouth which did not impress me at all. But he had not yet been affilliated with our church. The next night we were formally introduced at the Character ball. Then the impression was more favorable, almost love at first sight. I invited him to a dance the next friday in Montpelier. He came, and from then on our fate was sealed. Will was baptized 1 year later and became a faithfull and devoted member of the church. Our courship continued for 4 1/2 years. During this time I was living in Idaho and he in Wyoming. We wrote letters and courted on weekends. I taught school for 2 years. On June 22, 1910 we were married in the Logan Temple. We got on the train in Montpelier and went to the Temple alone.
After our marriage we returned to Cokeville Wyo and took up a homestead where we built a 4 room log house and lived there for 6 years.
Cokeville was typical western town. Cokeville had 5 Saloons, a large hotel and 2 grocery-drygood stores. We also had some thrilling experiences of hold-ups, shootings, killings and bank robberies.
We farmed for several years in the Cokeville area and then WW1 broke out and we sold out and moved to Burley where we lived for most of the rest of our lives. Will farmed and was also the Cemetery sexton for 23 years.
In 1919 our Wilburn was born, a beautiful baby boy with auburn hair and big brown eyes. He was everything anyone could ask for. He has grown to manhood a fine and honorable man in every way. He was a very amusing little chap and very handsome too. He often heard people remark about his good looks and he really thought he was good looking too, and he ofen amusssed us with his funny remarks. One time we were traveling to Montpelier where we had a flat tire. We were out in the desert and it was hot, so the children got a blanket and hung it over a fence. He watched the other childfren and then said, "I guess I had better put my pretty little face in the shade too."
We had 10 children. We lost 2 daughters in seperate fire accidents. Our 4 sons served in the second world war, and all came home safely.
We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 1960 and served 2 missions for our church serving the Lamonite people, also served several stake missions. We had many, many blessings through out our lives . We had sad times, happy times, good times and hard times, but the Lord was always there with us.
If Grandma Rosetta Roberts were here today with us, I am sure she might say something like this... I am so thankful for my grandparents who listened to the LDS missionaries and accepted their message. Because of this we were blessed and our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have all been blessed. My life was spared many times because of blessings given to me thru the power of the priesthood. ( this is only some of the history of Rosetta Welker Roberts, taken from her life history, Joann Roberts Ingram put this into her words as she read grandmas history. Her life history that she wrote will be included, complete, in her memories section of family search. Linda Roberts Nielsen.

Rosetta blev gift med William Carlyle Roberts den 22 jun. 1910 i Logan, Cache, Utah, USA. William (søn af William Henry Robert og Minnie Tanner) blev født den 16 aug. 1884 i Cokeville, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA; døde den 14 aug. 1963 i Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, USA; blev begravet den 18 aug. 1963 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Cemetery: Pleasant View Cemetery, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA; Pleasant View Cemetery
• Obituary: 26 feb. 2000, Twin Falls, Idaho, USA

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Wilburn (Bill) Roberts was a great scouter having earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He learned to love his fellow men and he learned to do a good turn daily, these he did all his life as he served his fellow men every chance he could. Wilburn through scouting and the influence of his father, learned to love the out doors, hunting, camping, and fishing. Wilburn married his high school sweetheart, Eva Lapree Horn on 11 Nov 1938. They were sealed for time and Eternity in the Idaho Falls Temple on 7 January 1947. Wilburn was drafted into the army leaving Eva with 3 daughters, Joann Lapree, Shirley Jean and Linda Diane. He honorably served his country in the South Pacific. After the war they had two more children, Susan Darlene and Joseph Wilburn. Making his family all included 4 girls and 1 boy. They had a still born daughter in 1957. Wilburn loved his family and worked hard to provide for Eva and the girls and Joe. He worked in construction all of his working career and owned and operated his own roofing business for many years, Roberts Roofing, and involving his family and only son as much as he could. Wilburn loved his family, and worked hard for them. He was up every day between 5-6, no matter the weather, he carried the bundles of shingles up and down ladders, working on black tar roofs in hot temperatures and windy days. He had some set backs and hard times including a cerebral hemorage and several back operations but Wilburn did not quit he worked hard and endured through whatever trials he encountered. Wilburn was a great young men leader and a great scout leader. He enjoyed the youth of the church. When the youth were going on trips and activities everyone would fight to ride with Wilburn because he was so much fun to be with. He loved the church, he loved the youth and he was wiling to do anything and give what ever he could to the church. When he was serving in the war, he picked up the habit of smoking, which kept him out of the church for many years, but that did not change his love of the gospel. He was active in the Elks in Burley and worked hard on many projects to help with medical programs for children and raise funds. He was proud of the service he gave and proud of the donations he was able to give as a service to others. Many times he would do carpentry work or roofing work for widows or others that he knew could not pay and he would neglect to send out a bill. My dad was a wonderful man, caring, giving, generous, and loving. He had a sense of humor and was loved by all who knew him and his wonderful smile. Dad is missed dearly by all of us and we look forward to seeing that wonderful smile of his again. We are grateful for the love he showed us and for the warm and loving home that he provided. We are grateful for the fun times we had as a family and for the memories of laughter and song and the heritage given to each of us.

Wilburn blev gift med Eva Lapree Horn den 12 nov. 1938 i American Falls, Power, Idaho, USA. Eva blev født den 5 sep. 1920 i Medical Springs, Union, Oregon, United States; døde den 26 maj 2002 i Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, USA; blev begravet i 2002 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

James blev gift med Geraldine Georgia Huber den 23 nov. 1956 i Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, USA. Geraldine (datter af George Edward Huber og Adelaide Jolley) blev født den 2 feb. 1932 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA; døde den 20 sep. 1987 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Shirley Jean Roberts was born November 4, 1941 to Wilburn Carlyle and Eva Lapree Horn Roberts. She was born at her Maternal grandparent's farm in Rupert , Idaho. She was welcomed by her older Sister Joann and followed soon after by Linda, Susan, and Joseph. She grew up in Burley, Idaho on 740 Miller avenue and later moved to Normal Avenue. She attended grade School at Overland Elementary. She worked at A&W root beer stand in her high school years and really enjoyed her time there. She Graduated from Burley High School in 1960 and became a bit of a "Wild Child". She met Howard William Haak while "dragging main" street in Burley. They were married on March 10, 1961 at the home of Pat and Mable. Howard was inducted into the army in December 1965 and was sent to Germany. Shirley remained in Burley awaiting his return. He was honorably discharged in November 1967 and thereafter they moved to Jaksonville, North Carolina to work with his step dad. On April 1, 1969 their much anticipated daughter, Kristine Leigh was born 3 months premature. They moved bak to Burley when Krissy was 6 months old. Howard's career of welding and pipe fitting required a lot of travel, he worked in 20 different states throughout his life, taking Shirley and Kristine along with him until Krissy started Kindergarden in 1975. In 1978 Howard moved them to Pocatello, Idaho to start a new job at the BE plant They lived in a nice home on Bluegrouse. Shirley started a new job working at the Idaho First National Bank on the teller line. she forged many lifelong friendships while woriking there and they remained good friends to this day, They still had a monthl girls nite to catch up on each others lives. They moved from Bluegrouse to Mingo and then to Myrl where they settled in a nice home that became their Home. Kristine married David Young in 1989 and the first grandchild, Cody Matthew was born in 1990. Shirley was overjoyed at her growing family and her favorite thing was when Cody visited the banik and would come in running inside yelling for grandma. Courtney Elizabeth was born in 1993, Shirley's second grandchild. Shirley appeared in the delivery room unbeknown to Kristine, announcing it was a girl.
The two grandchildren loved spending time and having sleepovers at grandma and grandpa's where a popsicle and outdoor fun were always waiting. in 1999 the final grandchild, Parker William was born. Shirley retired from the Bank and soon became the babysitter for Parker. His favorite time of the day was dunking peanut butter and jelly sandwiiches with her. Every Saturday , Shirley, Kristine and the kids would head out for a bite to eat before wandering around the mall. There were numerous instances of dairy queen being the destination with shirley ending up at Article Circle. She could not keep the two straight. She even sent Howard to the wrong place on one of the many occasions when she locked her keys in her car. The years flew by with all of the kids events keeping everyone busy.Whether it was dance recitals, sports, or academics Shirley was always there supporting them and cheering them on. Shirley lost Howard in 2009 and found a bit support group in the people she lived around, they always watched out for her. In 2001 Shirley decided to stay active by walking and she found a partner and she continued to walk almost daily together at 2:00, they loved their walks and their talks. Shirley also picked up more hobbies and began traveling with her family, taking family vacations. she loved o bring back a magnet for her fridge from each of her trips. Shirley also kept close to her siblings as well, she traveled to see Joann and Joe and shopping with Linda, she was also by Susan's side when she needed help. Some of Shirley's hobbies were drawing, working in her yard, line dancing, a movie club, avid reading, and most recently a passion for sewing. Shirley was well known for her knack for time lines, she always had everything in its place , especially her many hair styles over the years. Shirley was loved by everyone that knew her. She had an infectious smile and was a good friend. Shirley had a great love of her family and had strong family ties, a happy childhood and she was a loving wife, Mother and grand mother.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 22 dec. 2013, Kimberly, Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
• Obituary: 27 dec. 2013, Twin Falls, Idaho, USA