Brief Life History of William
When William Robarts was born on 18 April 1833, in Georgia, United States, his father, William Roberts, was 52 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Law, was 48. He married Mary Ann Mizell on 5 June 1866, in Hamilton, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Hamilton, Florida, United States for about 10 years and White Springs, Hamilton, Florida, United States in 1880. He died on 31 May 1896, at the age of 63, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, White Springs, Hamilton, Florida, United States.
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- Wm Robarts in household of Sarah E Robarts, "United States Census, 1860"
- William Roberts, "Florida Marriages, 1837-1974"
- William Robarts, "Find A Grave Index"
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1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
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English (Bedfordshire and Hertfortshire): variant of Roberts .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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