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• Cemetery: Pleasant View Cemetery, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA; Pleasant View Cemetery
• Obituary: 26 feb. 2000, Twin Falls, Idaho, USA

Notater:

Wilburn (Bill) Roberts was a great scouter having earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He learned to love his fellow men and he learned to do a good turn daily, these he did all his life as he served his fellow men every chance he could. Wilburn through scouting and the influence of his father, learned to love the out doors, hunting, camping, and fishing. Wilburn married his high school sweetheart, Eva Lapree Horn on 11 Nov 1938. They were sealed for time and Eternity in the Idaho Falls Temple on 7 January 1947. Wilburn was drafted into the army leaving Eva with 3 daughters, Joann Lapree, Shirley Jean and Linda Diane. He honorably served his country in the South Pacific. After the war they had two more children, Susan Darlene and Joseph Wilburn. Making his family all included 4 girls and 1 boy. They had a still born daughter in 1957. Wilburn loved his family and worked hard to provide for Eva and the girls and Joe. He worked in construction all of his working career and owned and operated his own roofing business for many years, Roberts Roofing, and involving his family and only son as much as he could. Wilburn loved his family, and worked hard for them. He was up every day between 5-6, no matter the weather, he carried the bundles of shingles up and down ladders, working on black tar roofs in hot temperatures and windy days. He had some set backs and hard times including a cerebral hemorage and several back operations but Wilburn did not quit he worked hard and endured through whatever trials he encountered. Wilburn was a great young men leader and a great scout leader. He enjoyed the youth of the church. When the youth were going on trips and activities everyone would fight to ride with Wilburn because he was so much fun to be with. He loved the church, he loved the youth and he was wiling to do anything and give what ever he could to the church. When he was serving in the war, he picked up the habit of smoking, which kept him out of the church for many years, but that did not change his love of the gospel. He was active in the Elks in Burley and worked hard on many projects to help with medical programs for children and raise funds. He was proud of the service he gave and proud of the donations he was able to give as a service to others. Many times he would do carpentry work or roofing work for widows or others that he knew could not pay and he would neglect to send out a bill. My dad was a wonderful man, caring, giving, generous, and loving. He had a sense of humor and was loved by all who knew him and his wonderful smile. Dad is missed dearly by all of us and we look forward to seeing that wonderful smile of his again. We are grateful for the love he showed us and for the warm and loving home that he provided. We are grateful for the fun times we had as a family and for the memories of laughter and song and the heritage given to each of us.

Wilburn blev gift med Eva Lapree Horn den 12 nov. 1938 i American Falls, Power, Idaho, USA. Eva blev født den 5 sep. 1920 i Medical Springs, Union, Oregon, United States; døde den 26 maj 2002 i Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, USA; blev begravet i 2002 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Obituary: 2002, Idaho, USA

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Hi, MY name is Eva Lapree Horn. I was born September 5th ,1920 in Medical Springs, Oregon. I am the 3rd daughter born to Joseph Horn and Katie May England. At the time of my birth my family was living on a 140 acre ranch, that my dad was helping farm.
My family moved to Cashe Valley, Logan, Utah when I was very small, My first years of school was there. I think I was in the 4th grade when we moved to Rupert Idaho which is where I grew up. I remember the years of growing up on the farm helping my dad herd sheep and when he cut the hay using our horses, Gub and June, to pull the swather. My mom, my sisters and I would put the hay in big round piles by hand so dad could rake it up. My dad took us to school on a horse pulled wagon. Going to school was a real hoot. We were always getting in trouble with the boys. My favorite sport was baseball and track and math was my favorite subject. I graduated in 1938 from Heyburn. I liked going to the Art exhibits that were held at the Heyburn school every spring. In fact that is where I met my future destiny....
This day that I am writing this is April 6, 1993. The remembrance of my life with Father and mother the two lovely man and women who brought me to this world was named Joseph Horn and Katie May England. My father was age of 28 and my mother at age 26, living on a ranch at Medical Springs Oregon,l the day of September 5th 1920 at 11:30 pm. I was the third child and my father and mother named me Eva Lapree. It is hard to remember my age, I would guess, 4 years old, my mind goes back to Cash Valley Utah on a farm at Logan, Utah. I remember a church Christmas party there was a big green tree decorated up pretty colored lights all lit up. A person in a red suit, white hair and a beard was by the tree he was giving out gifts and calling out names. He gave me a package and when I unwrapped it there was a pair of pretty blue necklaces. I thought how could he know my name. Rememberance of school, daddy as I remember took us 2 miles to school in a wagon pulled by horses, the school was called Young school. Now on the farm in Logan, Daddy had pure bred white faced panama sheep. He would always sheer them for wool to sell. My dad had us girls heard them on ditch banks on the farm. I remember my dad out plowing with two white horses named June and Gub. Daddy would hum a song as he was doing his farming watching the dirt roll over. Daddy cut his hay down using the only mower he had, June and Gub pulling it. Then when the hay dried, he raked it into ferlos, then us girls, Zylpha, Gladys, Delva and I and also mother, would put the hay into round piles to dry. Our mother was always out worling in the fields. She would go to the house and fix inner, us four girls took turns doing the dishes. I remember us arguing whose turn it was, that day to do dishes. Our mother had us girls take turns mixing bread in a big round pan with a live yeast mix of potatoe juice. She kept it in a qt jar, our Dad would take us to school on a sled with horses pulling it. on the way we would pick up other kids. some of them is my cousins, Benches also living in Burley. We had a herd of sheep in Logon, us girls would herd them around our farm, also cows, I tried to milk a cow one night and she had hobbles on, but still kicked over the bucket and spilled the milk. I cried over that so dad said for me not to milk again. O boy I was about 6 or 7 then. My mother, Dad and sisters always worked together on the farm, thinning beats topping them, and hauling them in a wagon pulled with the horses. We all picked potatoes together.

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I, William Carlyle Roberts was born August 16, 1884, the son of William H. and Minnie Tanner Roberts, in Cokeville, Wyo. A curly headed red faced little boy in a log house with a dirt roof and a dirt floor. It was a lean-to to the village blacksmith shop. When I was 2 years old, we moved to Rock Springs Wyo where my sister Lucy was born, then back to Cokeville where my brother Guy was born, then back to Rock Springs, Wyo until I was 6 years old. My mother married at the very young age of 16 and my father was not much older. Times were tough and one day my father and Grandfather Tanner had an argument and my father left. My mother and Grandfather Tanner raised me. He taught me how to ride, throw a rope, grand and cut out cattle, so I could get a job almost anywhere in stock country. On Sunday afternoons we would have a riding contest. We would pass the hat for the one to ride a certain horse. When the hat was passed they would call out "We have so much money on that black horse and if you get throwed, you don't get any money." So I knew I had to ride, so I did. I made as much as $10.00 in one afternoon, and that was good money, as I was making $22.00 for a whole month out with the sheep and $1.00 a day when I worked the dry good store. Always being small of stature, I became a little cocky and did almost as I pleased.
When I was 14 I told my Mother and Grandfather I was a man now, and left to work in the red desert with a sheep outfit as a camp tender. I spent most of my youth working with the sheep camps and working on ranches. I had my own horse , saddle and gun - you just wasn't a man unless you had them.
The best part of my life was meeting Rosetta Welker in 1905 and our 4 1/2 year courtship. Then our marriage on June 22, 1910. At the end of WW1 I loaded my family into our model T Ford and headed for Burley, Idaho. We had 4 children, Fern, Minnie, Jim and Evelyn. We drove to Montpelier and visited folk there and headed for Pocatello. When we got there a big celebration was going on as WW1 had ended. That was the first we knew the war was over. When we got to Burley we needed to buy a place to live so I went to work for the sugar factory and worked my spare time at the Dray and coal business. We lost all of our stuff in Cokeville as the government took the reserve rights because I had moved to another state. The dry ground and lambing ground was sold for taxes. We got $60.00 an acre so things were not so rosy, and to think Mother took it all as it came and never complained and raised our family on what we had.
Over the years I farmed in several places around Burley and earned what I could. I became the sexton of the cemetery for $124.00 a month which was good wages. I stayed at that job for 25 years. The winter of 1927 I had my teeth, tonsils and adenoids all out the same day, and was sick all winter.
The Children all said I was very cross and cranky, which was not usual for me. I became very active in the scouting program and I was one of the first to receive the Silver Beaver award in the state of Idaho and the first one to receive the Scout Masters key. While living in Mesa, AZ i was honored for 50 years continous scouting.
Mother and I served on stake missions and in 1952 was called to the Sothwest Indian Mission and in 1958 we were called to the Eastern States Mission again working with the Lamonite people. While on this mission I was the oldest participant in the Hill Comorah Pagent.
Inb 1963 we were living in Arizona and in March we traveled to SLC Utah for the wedding of Joann and Russel, then in April we went to conference. About this time I had 2 strokes and went to the hospital for 8 days. All the family gathered to watch me die, but when I got to heaven and the veil opened, the folks in there said,d "there's no room here", so they sent me down to hell, and they opened the veil and looked at me and said, "no we can't use him here as he raised too much hell on earth", so they sent me back to repent. So all I do now is rent and take pills.

If William C. Roberts were here today with us I am sure he might say something like this:
Mother and I had very many trials and tribulations and many many blessings as we raised our children and tried to serve the Lord. I am so thankful for all that I was able to do in my life and to serve others. I hope my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will be pround of me. I am so proud of our children and their accomplishments.

William blev gift med Rosetta Welker den 22 jun. 1910 i Logan, Cache, Utah, USA. Rosetta (datter af James Albert Welker og Inger Mary Madsen) blev født den 15 jan. 1889 i Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho, USA; døde den 10 nov. 1984 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA; blev begravet den 14 nov. 1984 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Notater:

I, Rosetta Welker Roberts was born on January 5, 1889 in Bloomington, Idaho to Inger Mary Madsen and James Albert Welker, I was the 7th Child. My mother was born in Denmark and when she was 3 years old her parents sold all they had and journeyed to the United States to join up the with LDS saints who were going to Utah. She had a baby sister die and burried along the trail. Her parents walked all the way as they gave all they had to help others who needed help to leave. When they arrived in Utah they settled in what is now known as 12th street in Ogden. They stayed there for awhile and then moved to Idaho areas of Monteplier, Bloomington and Benington. I was born in Benington.
My father was born in Pottowattame Co. Iowa on July 6, 1851. He is of Dutch decent. He farmed for most of his life. He was a minute man and body guard for Brigham Young. He also carried the mail over the mountains to Casche Valley and had several exciting and life threatning experiences. In the winter he had to snow shoe to cross the mountains, in the summer he rode his horse. Then as of now, the mail must go through. But a pretty fair haired girl with dancing eyes and feet was the most important thing. Young Jim would take her to the dance at 8 in the evening, dance until 2, take her home, put on his snow shoes, throw the mail over his shoulder and start over the mounain. In the winter it was common to have the temperature register 40 below.
They married Feb. 5, 1875. He was 24, she 21. It was the custom for the bride and groom to do the entertaining on their wedding night, so they had a dinner and dance for the whole town.
They had a family of 10, 8 girls and 2 boys. The oldest boy drowned at the age of 18 months and my brother melvin died at the age of 19 while serving a mission for the LDS church in Holland. He and another missionary contacted small pox.
When I was 14, I went to Montpelier to live with my sister Clara so I could attend better schools. I loved living with Tom and Clara, she was like a mother to me. I had many friends there. In December 1905, I went to Cokeville Wyoming to live with my sister Mary. It was here I met my future destiny. We saw each other first at the railroad station. Will had a big long black pipe in his mouth which did not impress me at all. But he had not yet been affilliated with our church. The next night we were formally introduced at the Character ball. Then the impression was more favorable, almost love at first sight. I invited him to a dance the next friday in Montpelier. He came, and from then on our fate was sealed. Will was baptized 1 year later and became a faithfull and devoted member of the church. Our courship continued for 4 1/2 years. During this time I was living in Idaho and he in Wyoming. We wrote letters and courted on weekends. I taught school for 2 years. On June 22, 1910 we were married in the Logan Temple. We got on the train in Montpelier and went to the Temple alone.
After our marriage we returned to Cokeville Wyo and took up a homestead where we built a 4 room log house and lived there for 6 years.
Cokeville was typical western town. Cokeville had 5 Saloons, a large hotel and 2 grocery-drygood stores. We also had some thrilling experiences of hold-ups, shootings, killings and bank robberies.
We farmed for several years in the Cokeville area and then WW1 broke out and we sold out and moved to Burley where we lived for most of the rest of our lives. Will farmed and was also the Cemetery sexton for 23 years.
In 1919 our Wilburn was born, a beautiful baby boy with auburn hair and big brown eyes. He was everything anyone could ask for. He has grown to manhood a fine and honorable man in every way. He was a very amusing little chap and very handsome too. He often heard people remark about his good looks and he really thought he was good looking too, and he ofen amusssed us with his funny remarks. One time we were traveling to Montpelier where we had a flat tire. We were out in the desert and it was hot, so the children got a blanket and hung it over a fence. He watched the other childfren and then said, "I guess I had better put my pretty little face in the shade too."
We had 10 children. We lost 2 daughters in seperate fire accidents. Our 4 sons served in the second world war, and all came home safely.
We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 1960 and served 2 missions for our church serving the Lamonite people, also served several stake missions. We had many, many blessings through out our lives . We had sad times, happy times, good times and hard times, but the Lord was always there with us.
If Grandma Rosetta Roberts were here today with us, I am sure she might say something like this... I am so thankful for my grandparents who listened to the LDS missionaries and accepted their message. Because of this we were blessed and our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have all been blessed. My life was spared many times because of blessings given to me thru the power of the priesthood. ( this is only some of the history of Rosetta Welker Roberts, taken from her life history, Joann Roberts Ingram put this into her words as she read grandmas history. Her life history that she wrote will be included, complete, in her memories section of family search. Linda Roberts Nielsen.

William blev gift med Minnie Tanner den 19 nov. 1883 i Randolph, Rich, Utah, USA. Minnie (datter af John William Tanner og Lucy Rhoena Snyder) blev født den 1 jun. 1867 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; døde den 22 jun. 1932 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA; blev begravet den 26 jun. 1932 i Burley, Cassia, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

James blev gift med Inger Mary Madsen cirka 1875. Inger blev født i jun. 1854 i Denmark. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]