Roberts, D. Q.

Posted By: Brenda Kerr
Date: 17 March 2005

transcribed from A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio, Lewis Publishing Company, 1900, part II, pp 748-749

D.Q. ROBERTS, deceased, was for more than forty years one of the respected farmers of German township, Darke County, Ohio. He wasborn in Harrison Township, Darke County, Ohio, February 2, 1834, the son of German parents. His father and uncle, Samuel and George ROBERTS, with their wives, emigrated from Germany to this country and made settlement in Darke County, Ohio where they passed the rest of their lives, engaged in agricultural pursuits. D.Q. remained on his father's farm in Harrison Township until his marriage, November 8, 1856, when he located on the farm of one hundred seventy acres in German Township where his widow still resides. Here for four decades he successfully carried on general farming and stock raising, and was well known and highly respected throughout the county. While not a politician or a public man in any sense, he took an intelligent interest in public affairs, and gave his support, so far as his vote was concerned, to the democratic party. He died March 28, 1897.

Mrs. Elizabeth ROBERTS, nee BAKER, his widow, was born in Jefferson Township, Preble County, Ohio, December 25, 1834. Her father Thomas BAKER, was a native of Brooklyn, New York, from which place about 1812, he came to Ohio and settled in Butler County, where he subsequently married. He then moved to Preble County and took up his abode on a tract of land in Jefferson Township, where he cut the logs, built a cabin in the clearing and began life in true pioneer style. As the years passed by he developed a god farm, which is now owned and occupied by his son Thomas. thomas BAKER, the grandfather of Mrs. ROBERTS was an englishman, who on coming to this country, located on Long Island. Grandmother BAKER was a native of Scotland. Mrs. Roberts' mother was before marriage Miss Elizabeth WESLEY, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was related to the WESLEYs who founded the society of Methodists. She was the mother of ten children that grew to adult age, Mrs. ROBERTS being the eighth born. Mrs. ROBERTS passed her girlhood days on her father's pioneer farm in Preble County, and received her education in a log school house near her home. She is the mother of six children, four daughters and two sons, namely: Adella F., the wife of Daniel SHAW, of Indiana, by whom she has one daughter, Hazel; by a former marriage she has two children, Earl and Ethel MITCHELL; Dorson, who married margaret HAMILTON and lives in Hollansburg, Darke County: Emma, the wife of Moses ADAMSON, of Nebraska has two children, Hugh and Hazel: Martha Ann, the wife of William SMOCK, of Indiana, has three children; and Ella and Linneus, at home.

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