Alice Roberts

Mrs. James Roberts

Alice Hurst was born at Daisy Hill, West Haughton, Lancaster, England, July 16, 1822 and departed this life at her home in Roberts, Ill., Tuesday morning, Nov. 1, 1910, aged 88 years, 3 months and 15 days.
In December, 1847, she came to America with her father's family and lived for some time in Philadelphia, later coming to Ford county, Illinois, which has been her home for many years, they being among the early settlers of Lyman township. December 27, 1857, she was joined in marriage to James Roberts, also of Lyman township, and for twenty-seven years they lived on a farm three miles south of Roberts. In 1886 they retired from the farm and moved to our village, which has been her home for the twenty-four years since that time.
October 5, 1894, Mr. Roberts died, and since that time she has lived alone. Her son Oscar and his family have lived just beside her, so that while she had her own home she was practically never along, as it was but a few feet from one home to the other, and she received all the attention, care and companionship a loving family could give to a deserving mother.
Mrs. Roberts was a kind neighbor and a good Christian woman, worthy of the respect and confidence of the entire community, which she had. In early life she was a member of the sect of Quakers, but later she transferred to the Congregational church of which she has been a faithful member for many year.
She leaves to mourn her departure one son, Oscar, two step-daughters, Mrs. Mary Pierce, and Mrs. Mary Jane Hurst, four grandchildren, Alice, Ralph, Flossie and Orah Roberts, two brothers and two sisters, Mary, Joseph, William and Hannah.
The funeral services were held at the Congregational church today at 10 o'clock, Rev. W. Be. Milne officiating, after which the remains were laid to rest in Lyman cemetery. --Roberts Herald.

-- Paxton Weekly Record.  10 November 1910.

--The Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  7 November 1910.  Page 4.