The Proeger Family · Generation 5 — the immigrants and the frontier

Rose Alice Williams

Wife of Henry S. Roberts · mother of Anna Blanche · 1853–1919

Rose Alice Williams

Confirmed

Wife of Henry S. Roberts · mother of Anna Blanche · 1853–1919

Born
10 November c.1853
Died
2 February 1919
Married
Henry S. Roberts
Children
Anna Blanche Roberts, Samuel R. Roberts
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1853
Born 10 November c.1853, West Virginia; died 2 February 1919, Martins Ferry, Ohio; buried Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, 6 February 1919
Census1900
In 1900 she had borne thirteen children, seven then living S92

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Children
Mother of Anna Blanche Roberts and wife of Henry S. Roberts; her maiden name, Williams, and her mother, née Gamble, are on her own Ohio death certificate (file 8346)
Children1884
🆕 Her son Samuel R. Roberts, born at Bellaire on 13 March 1884, a car inspector, married Mary Doughty of Martins Ferry on 20 August 1907; the record names his mother as Rose A. Williams Confirmed S1043. added 29 September 2026

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
🆕 Probably her family in 1870: at Bellaire, Ohio, Rosa A. Williams, 15, was at home with Mary A. Williams, 52, who kept boarders, and Angeline, 23 Probable confirm or correct → S1153. The evidence is her name, her age (15 fits the November 1854 birth in the 1900 census S92) and Bellaire, where her sons were later born S1043. What is weak: the 1870 census states no relationships, it gives her birthplace as Ohio, not West Virginia, and her father, foreign-born, is not in the house. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

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Rose Alice Williams · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S921900 US Federal Census — Henry Roberts household, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. Henry Roberts, 45, Head, b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, Glass Blower, married 25 years; Rose A Roberts, 45, Wife; Etta, 19; Florence, 17; Sam, 15; Thomas, 13. Henry's parents both b. Ohio. NARA T623, Roll 1769, Page 10, ED 0125. Ancestry collection 7602, record 62778072. Image examined, read 24 September 2026: 1590 Warren St.; Rose A. born Nov 1854, W. Va., both her parents b. Ohio, mother of 13 children, 7 living; Etta b. Feb 1881, Florence Feb 1883, Sam Mar 1885, Thomas May 1887. Anna Blanche is not in this household. Only four of Rose's seven living children are at home, so a daughter of seven living elsewhere is consistent with her own count. Siblings Etta (Henrietta), Florence, Sam, and Thomas confirmed.
  2. S1043Belmont County, Ohio, Probate Court marriage record no. 4724, pp. 582–583. Ancestry record 1201052391. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Samuel R. Roberts, 23 on 13 March 1907, car inspector of Bellaire, born Bellaire, son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose A. Williams, licensed 19 August 1907 to marry Mary Doughty, 20, of Martins Ferry; married 20 August 1907.
  3. S11531870 U.S. census, Bellaire City, Pultney Township, Belmont County, Ohio, p. 8, dwelling 54 (30 June 1870). Ancestry record 39001297. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Probable Mary A. Williams, 52, keeping boarders, born Ohio, both parents foreign-born; Angeline, 23, at home, born Ohio; Rosa A., 15, at home, born Ohio, father foreign-born; then five boarders, a locomotive engineer and four coal miners. The 1870 schedule states no relationships, so Mary A. as Rosa’s mother and Angeline as her sister are probable, not proven. Rosa’s birthplace (Ohio) differs from West Virginia on her card.

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