Henry Roberts

Henry Roberts

OhioProbable

Probable father of Henry S. Roberts · 1829–1907

Born

December 1829, Ohio

Died

25 September 1907

Buried

at Greenwood Cemetery, Bellaire

Married

Harriet (1848)

Children

Henry S. Roberts

Sources

7

Images

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Research status

Research status: PROBABLE (strong) father of Henry S. Roberts, with his wife Harriet Roberts. Evidence: Henry S. Roberts is in this couple’s household in 1860 (as “H S L”, 5) and 1870 (Henry, 15) with the same sisters, Rachel H., Mary C. and Ephalinda/Ethelinda (S1049, S1504), and his own 1931 death certificate names his mother Harriet (S2411). Weak: No record yet names Henry Roberts as Henry S.’s father: his 1931 death certificate gives the father as “Samuel” (the informant was Henry S.’s son Samuel); Harriet’s maiden name is unresolved, Gamble (1931 certificate) or Sheet(s) (Find a Grave index); the 1880 household and the burials are index only. Added to the family tree on 25 October 2026.

Evidence: Henry S. Roberts is in this couple’s household in 1860 (as “H S L”, 5) and 1870 (Henry, 15) with the same sisters, Rachel H., Mary C. and Ephalinda/Ethelinda (S1049, S1504), and his own 1931 death certificate names his mother Harriet (S2411). Weak or missing: No record yet names Henry Roberts as Henry S.’s father: his 1931 death certificate gives the father as “Samuel” (the informant was Henry S.’s son Samuel); Harriet’s maiden name is unresolved, Gamble (1931 certificate) or Sheet(s) (Find a Grave index); the 1880 household and the burials are index only. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1829

Born December 1829, Ohio, by the 1900 census, his father born in Ohio and his mother in West Virginia S2412; the Find a Grave index gives 7 December 1828 S2415.

Birth1850

Where he lived: 1850, Colerain Township, Belmont County, Ohio, aged 20 S2413; 1860, Martinsville (Martins Ferry), Pease Township S1049; 1870, Martins Ferry, a laborer, 42 S1504; 1880, Triadelphia, Ohio County, West Virginia S2414; 1900, Pultney Township, Belmont County, Ohio, with Harriet and her widowed sister(-in-law) Mary A. Dorsey S2412.

Death1907

Died 25 September 1907; buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio S2415 (index only; the memorial page has not been read).

Death1931

The 1931 death certificate of his son Henry S. gives the father’s name as “Samuel Roberts” S2411. Best guess: the informant, Henry S.’s own son Samuel, wrote his own name in that line; the 1860 and 1870 censuses show the boy in Henry’s household, and in 1880 Henry and Harriet were at Triadelphia, the birthplace a daughter’s death record gives Henry S.

Census2026

History of this card. 25 Oct 2026

card added from the 1931 death certificate of Henry S. Roberts (S2411), the 1900 census image (S2412), the 1850 and 1880 census indexes (S2413, S2414) and the Find a Grave index (S2415); parent link to Henry S. Roberts graded Probable, and strong. 25 Oct 2026 — the note on the “Samuel” reading said the boy was with Henry in the censuses through 1880; rewritten, because the 1880 household (S2414) does not include Henry S., only those of 1860 and 1870 do. No grade changed.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1848

Married Harriet about 1848: in June 1900 they had been married 52 years S2412. The marriage record has not been found.

Children1848

Children in their households: Margaret (about 1848), Ephalinda or Ethelinda (about 1851), Rachel H. (about 1853), Henry S. Roberts (1855), Mary C. (about 1857), Jane E. (about 1860), Louisa D. (about 1865), Henry A. (born 1869, a younger son, probably died young) and, in 1880, Rosa E. J.; a William N., 22, is also in the 1870 household S1049S1504S2414. In 1900 Harriet said she had borne nine children, four then living S2412. None of the others has a card yet: the censuses state no relationships.

Children1855

Father of Henry S. Roberts, born 1855 S92 S1049 S1504 S2411 S2416.

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Census of Henry and Harriet Roberts, 21 June 1900, Pultney Township, Belmont County, Ohio

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1. S10491860 United States Federal Census — Martinsville (Martins Ferry), Pease Township, Belmont County, Ohio, page 107, dwelling 777. Ancestry record 43664618. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable 28 July 1860: a Roberts household, the head a laborer of 31 born Ohio, with his wife, 31, and children Margaret 12, Ephalinda 9, Rachel H. 7, H. S. L. Roberts, 5, and Mary C. 2, all born Ohio. The boy “H S L”, 5, is Henry S. Roberts: his sisters Rachel H., Mary C. and Ephalinda are with him again in 1870 (S1504), and his 1931 death certificate names his mother Harriet (S2411). The census states no relationships; the parent link is Probable, and strong.
2. S15041870 census — Martins Ferry, Pease Township, Belmont County, Ohio, p. 23 (stamped 123), dwelling 192, family 194, line 13 — Henry Roberts household. Ancestry, “1870 United States Federal Census”, record 39478841. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Probable Henry Roberts, 42, a laborer, and Harriet, 42, both born Ohio, with Henry Roberts, 15, a laborer, born Ohio. No relationships are stated. The boy Henry, 15, is Henry S. Roberts: Rachel H., Mary C. and Ethelinda (Ephalinda) are also in the 1860 household with “H S L”, 5 (S1049), and his death certificate names his mother Harriet (S2411). A baby Henry A., 6 months, is a younger brother.
3. S2411Ohio certificate of death, file no. 21197 — Henry S. Roberts, Pease Township, Belmont County, 1931. FamilySearch, “Ohio, Deaths, 1908–1953”, 1:1:XD16-SJJ, image TH-267-11599-76808-33. Image examined, read 25 October 2026. Confirmed Henry S. Roberts, widowed, died 31 March 1931, aged 75 years 4 months 13 days, of bronchopneumonia; born 8 November 1855, Wheeling, West Virginia; worked in the sheet galvanizing department of Wheeling Steel; buried at Greenwood on 1 April 1931. Father “Samuel Roberts”, born Ohio; mother’s maiden name “Harriet Gamble”, born Ohio. Informant Samuel Roberts, Bridgeport, Ohio, his son. The mother’s first name, Harriet, agrees with the 1860–1900 censuses. The father’s name does not: every census gives Henry, and the informant was named Samuel, so he probably wrote his own name in that line. The maiden name Gamble is also the maiden name of Rose Williams’s mother, so the two mothers may have been mixed up.
4. S24121900 census — Pultney Township (south of the B&O), Belmont County, Ohio, ED 14, sheet 16A, lines 5–7 — Henry Roberts household. FamilySearch 1:1:MMCH-3VK, image TH-266-11758-52464-77. Image examined, read 25 October 2026. Henry Roberts, head, born December 1829, Ohio, his father born Ohio and his mother West Virginia; Harriet, wife, born March 1830, Ohio, both her parents born Maryland, mother of 9 children, 4 living; both married 52 years (about 1848); Mary A. Dorsey, sister-in-law, born April 1822, Maryland, widowed. Names no child, so it does not by itself tie Henry S. to this couple; it gives the marriage year and Harriet’s parents’ birthplace. Mary A. Dorsey is probably Harriet’s sister.
5. S24131850 census — Colerain Township, Belmont County, Ohio, house 2065 — Henry Roberts household. FamilySearch 1:1:MXSR-S4J. Index only. Henry Roberts, 20, and Harriett, 21, both born Ohio, with an unnamed girl born Virginia. The girl is probably Margaret, 12 in 1860; the image has not been read.
6. S24141880 census — Triadelphia, Ohio County, West Virginia — Henry Roberts household. FamilySearch search result. Index only. Henry Roberts and his wife Harriet, born about 1830, Ohio, with Louisa D., William N. and Rosa E. J. Louisa D. and William N. are in the 1870 Martins Ferry household, so this is the same family. Triadelphia is the birthplace a daughter’s death record gives for Henry S. Roberts (S2416).
7. S2415Find a Grave index — Henry Roberts and Harriet Sheet Roberts, Greenwood Cemetery, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. FamilySearch 1:1:QK1P-SYH4 and 1:1:QK1P-SYFT. Index only. Henry Roberts, 7 December 1828 – 25 September 1907; “Harriet Sheet Roberts”, 1830–1906. A compiled memorial index; the memorial pages and stone photographs have not been read. “Sheet” may be a maiden name (Sheets); the 1931 certificate says Gamble.