ZADOC C. ROBERTS, son of Dr. Nathan E. and Mary (Bovee) Roberts, was born August 13, 1832, in Jasper Township, and has been a resident of Wayne County all his life.
Nathan E., son of Archibald, was born in Kentucky in 1808, and removed with his parents to Shawneetown, Ill, about 1810, then to the southern part of Wayne County in 1817, and married Miss Mary, daughter of John and Phebe (Gardner) Bovee, March 1, 1827, to whom were born
Mary was born October 4, 1809, in Hanover, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. John Bovee, her father, a soldier in the war of 1812, was the son of Nicholas, and he the son of Jacob whose ancestors were Hollanders.
John's brothers were Nicholas, Michael and Matthias.
Mary's brothers, John Aaron, Wesley and Nelson.
Her sisters, Sally (McMackin), Hannah (Gaston), Phebe (Burch and Ellis),
Archibald, the son of Cornelius (who was killed by the Indians), was born in Virginia, became a very talented local Methodist preacher, and is supposed to have been the first minister to preach a sermon in Wayne County.
His sons were
Our subject was married, November 22, 1853, to Miss Nancy E., daughter of William and Temperance (Owen) White, and to them were born
Subject's wife, Nancy E., was born in Jasper Township September 13, 1836.
William, son of John and Catherine (Simons) White, was born in Todd County, Ky., October 14, 1812, and came with his parents to Wayne County in an early day; served in the Black Hawk war, and was also a soldier in the Fifty-sixth Illinois, in the late war. John, his father, was born in 1785, and was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Our subject, a volunteer in Company D, Eighty-seventh Illinois Infantry, was at the battles of Vicksburg, Pleasant Hill, Wilson's Hill, Sabine Cross Roads, and numberous skirmishes. He is a farmer by profession, owning 240 acres of valuable land, 140 of which are in a good state of cultivation, having his residence in northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 27.
Subject has been a Justice of the Peace, Township Collector, and School Director, attending promptly to all duties imposed upon him. In religion, a Methodist in politics, a Republican; a Prohibitionist as to the liquor traffic, and makes no apologies for the part he took in the war of the great rebellion. The mother of subject died suddenly the day after the above facts were obtained.
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