Married Sabra Vise and had 9 children. Married Edna Shipp and had 8 children. Parents: Daniel Roberts and Elizabeth Betsy Kyser (Kiser)

Roberts-Shelley-Hardin Cemetery (Located in the Blowout community - northwest corner of Blanco County)
Located on RR 3347; 7.3 miles from intersection of 962 and 3347; on right side of road; rock enclosure; visible from road; property owned by Norbert Fritz (1985) Property known as Lon Hardin Ranch.

Alexander (Buck) Roberts
TEXAS RANGER SERVICE
Born 09 Jan 1813, Franklin County, Tennessee, Died 11 Jun 1886, Blanco Co. Texas

Parents: Daniel Tipton Roberts (1777-1846) and Elizabeth Betsy Kyser (1780-1837)

According to official Texas Ranger files, Alexander Roberts was a 1st Lt. serving under Captain W.H. Perry; according to other accounts, he also served under Captain Rufus "Rufi" Perry; and when Rufi died, Alexander Buck Roberts assumed the Captainship of the company he was serving in at that time.
There may be more records, but according to this record, Alexander Roberts enlisted July 17, 1861 at Cannonville, Hays, County Texas, 26th Brig., Hays County Mtd. Rifles; on scout July 17 to the San Saba River, Concho Springs river, the head of both the Devils and Llano Rivers (no fresh Indian sign found). A 31 day assignment.
Contributor: Eugene Watson (47684907) [email protected]

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Alexander Roberts, came to Texas in 1836, and helped the Texans fight the battles of the Republic for nearly four years, being in many engagements with the enemy, the most noted of which was the Plum Creek fight, which has gone into the history of Texas.

Soon after the Plum Creek fight, my mother prevailed on father to take his family to some place of safety, firmly believing that wholesale murder would be their fate: (Father's judgment was waived) and her love of family won her cause, and they went back to Mississippi in 1839. Written by Dan W Roberts - printed in Source: RANGERS AND SOVEREIGNTY, By DAN W. ROBERTS, CAPTAIN COMPANY "D" of the TEXAS RANGERS, Published 1914
During their stay in Mississippi, I was born, making that State my native soil, but father's love for Texas had never subsided, and his turn came to persuade mother back to Texas, where he joined his old comrades again in 1843. I was about two years old when they returned to Texas.
My father followed up the frontier, and I was reared, and almost rocked in the cradle of Texas warfare.