Brief Life History of Sylvia
When Sylvia Roberts was born on 15 September 1904, in Mercer, West Virginia, United States, her father, Walter Lee Roberts, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ellen Angle, was 20. She died in 1907, at the age of 3.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Picture her mother kept as a reminder
- Sylvia
- Silvia Roberts
Parents and Siblings
1875–1962 Male
1883–1973 Female
Siblings (10)
1899–1936 Female
1901–1975 Male
1904–1907 Female
1906–1988 Female
1909–1990 Female
+5 More Children
World Events (3)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 2
1906 · Licencing Butchers
Age 2
1906 · The FDA is Created
Age 2
Name Meaning
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.
Story Highlight
Silva
Silvas picture hung over my grandmother's bed till the day she passed away.silva died at 3yrs old of pneumonia. My great grandmother Mary Ellen Roberts Silvia's mother also had a picture of an angel h …
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