When William M. Roberts was born in 1833, in Calloway, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Bennet Roberts Sr, was 30 and his mother, Martha Blackwell, was 24. He married Nancy Adaline Findley on 23 December 1853, in Marshall, Marshall, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Marshall, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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