Samuel J. ROBERTS

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OSAGE, IOWA - Samuel J. Roberts, 84, died Monday at his home in Osage. Having been in failing health for some time.

The Funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Champion Funeral Home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church in Rudd. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Rockford.

He was born on December 10, 1869, to James and Louise Roberts, near Rudd, where he spent his boyhood.

He married Jennie G. Crowell of Rudd, on December 25, 1891. The couple lived southwest of Rockford, then east of Rudd, later purchasing the parental Crowell farm where they lived until 1951, when they retired to Osage.

He leaves a wife and a son, Samuel Bern, both of Osage; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were a baby daughter, three brothers: Delbert, William and Arthur, and two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Schlick and Mrs. Elizabeth Brownell.

[ Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday June 15, 1954, page 14 ]

Samuel married Jennie G. CROWELL on 25 Dec 1891. Jennie (daughter of John H. CROWELL and Hannah Elizabeth PYATT) was born on 25 Mar 1870 in Floyd County, Iowa; died on 28 Dec 1954 in Iowa; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Floyd Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]