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ROBERTS, H., farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 20; P. O. Camp Point. He was born in Kentucky, Dec. 25, 1823; came to this county the fall of 1835. He has forty acres of land, valued at $2,000. He married E. L. Willard, who was born in Tennessee, January 22, 1827. Four children: M. A., born May 8, 1851; Joel M., July 12, 1864; M. E., Oct. 19, 1867, and S. E., Oct. 2, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts belong to the United Brethren church. Emigrated from Kentucky to Schuyler county, Ill., in March, 1833; lived there about two years; thence to Adams county, where he has lived since. When he first came to this State he was ten years old; Schuyler county was wild; moved into a log cabin a short time until they built a shanty of hewed logs, 18x20; used prairie bed steads. When he was a boy he worked for six and one-quarter cents, and what he could eat, per day, and a man’s wages at that time was only fifty cents, and thought that good wages. Mrs. Roberts came to the State when she was only two years old, the winter before the “big snow.” Mr. and Mrs. Roberts were among the earliest settlers, and can well understand what a life in a new country is.