He died at the Battle of Chancellorsville
Co H 7 W. VA. INF
Letter from Capt Francis Roberts to his wife, Minerva Full Roberts.
Hd Qrs 7th Regt VA Volts Inft
Camp near Falmouth, Va Dec 18th, 1862
Dear Nervia,
I have just read your letter bearing date of 7th inst which Sant backed for you, So I judge he is able to be about yet. I had thought the last letter I rote him perhaps had poisoned him to death.I was truly glad to hear form you again and this one come quicker than any letter has come to me in a long time. I do think with you that some of the neighbors might afford to and take time and get your wood when you pay them for it. Tell me who is inhumane as to take your money and then not get the wood.
We have not been paid yet, the paymaster come to to pay us but the fight scared him away before we got paid, so I don't know when we will see him again. I am glad to hear that things are quiet down there again and there surely will be a change some way in this war. If Sarah and Ed has a girl, that is extraordinary. I hope to get to come home yet and see my family and friends.
You will do well if you fatten three hogs and winter old white on your 15 bushels of corn. It will take 40 bushels to fatten the hogs. I could not make out what you paid per bushel but thought 30.thirty cts.
When I look back and see how I have been favored by providence during this war, my heart melts in thankfulness to God. O, how I love His name, His law and His statutes. His ways are past finding out and His love is boundless and I earnestly pray that through His divine grace I may still be preserved until I again may be permitted to see my family. Pray for me and now may God bless and sustain you in and finally save you in Heaven is my prayer.
Frank, to my family
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FRANCIS MARION ROBERTS
Adjutant & Acting Captain Company "H" 7th West Virginia Infantry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
Service Record: At age 27, enrolled at Elizabeth, Wirt County, on Sep 2, 1861; mustered in at Grafton on Nov. 5, 1861; 1st Sergt. "Killed in Action at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863."
A statement included in widow's pension file (Certificate #96656): "The Adjt. General reports that F. M. Roberts mustered as 2d Lieut in July 1862 and Acting Adjutant. Killed in action at Chancellorsville, Va. 3 May 1863. Commission, signed by Gov. F. H. Pierpont, dated 21 April 1863, as Captain, to date 12 April 1863. Late Lt. Col. Lockwood makes oath that said Roberts received his commission a day or two before the battle of Chancellorsville and was in command of his company when killed, as Captain. As the regiment was in motion at the time he received said commission, he could not be mustered in."
This soldier was the son of John Barton Roberts and Juliann/July Evans, who married in 1832 and resided in Marshall County. John B. Roberts is named in the 1836 and 1840 Tax records. The family lived in Wetzel County in 1850 and in Wood County in 1860.
F. M. (Francis Marion) Roberts, 24, married Minerva Full, 21, on Nov. 25, 1858 in Jackson County, W.Va. The marriage record states that he was "born in Marshall County." They had two daughters, Cynthia Ann (born 1859) and Frances Oley/Ola (born 1861). Two brothers, Johnsey and Walter Roberts, died while in service in 1864.
Co H 7 W. VA. INF
Letter from Capt Francis Roberts to his wife, Minerva Full Roberts.
Hd Qrs 7th Regt VA Volts Inft
Camp near Falmouth, Va Dec 18th, 1862
Dear Nervia,
I have just read your letter bearing date of 7th inst which Sant backed for you, So I judge he is able to be about yet. I had thought the last letter I rote him perhaps had poisoned him to death.I was truly glad to hear form you again and this one come quicker than any letter has come to me in a long time. I do think with you that some of the neighbors might afford to and take time and get your wood when you pay them for it. Tell me who is inhumane as to take your money and then not get the wood.
We have not been paid yet, the paymaster come to to pay us but the fight scared him away before we got paid, so I don't know when we will see him again. I am glad to hear that things are quiet down there again and there surely will be a change some way in this war. If Sarah and Ed has a girl, that is extraordinary. I hope to get to come home yet and see my family and friends.
You will do well if you fatten three hogs and winter old white on your 15 bushels of corn. It will take 40 bushels to fatten the hogs. I could not make out what you paid per bushel but thought 30.thirty cts.
When I look back and see how I have been favored by providence during this war, my heart melts in thankfulness to God. O, how I love His name, His law and His statutes. His ways are past finding out and His love is boundless and I earnestly pray that through His divine grace I may still be preserved until I again may be permitted to see my family. Pray for me and now may God bless and sustain you in and finally save you in Heaven is my prayer.
Frank, to my family
Info from wvgw.net
FRANCIS MARION ROBERTS
Adjutant & Acting Captain Company "H" 7th West Virginia Infantry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
Service Record: At age 27, enrolled at Elizabeth, Wirt County, on Sep 2, 1861; mustered in at Grafton on Nov. 5, 1861; 1st Sergt. "Killed in Action at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863."
A statement included in widow's pension file (Certificate #96656): "The Adjt. General reports that F. M. Roberts mustered as 2d Lieut in July 1862 and Acting Adjutant. Killed in action at Chancellorsville, Va. 3 May 1863. Commission, signed by Gov. F. H. Pierpont, dated 21 April 1863, as Captain, to date 12 April 1863. Late Lt. Col. Lockwood makes oath that said Roberts received his commission a day or two before the battle of Chancellorsville and was in command of his company when killed, as Captain. As the regiment was in motion at the time he received said commission, he could not be mustered in."
This soldier was the son of John Barton Roberts and Juliann/July Evans, who married in 1832 and resided in Marshall County. John B. Roberts is named in the 1836 and 1840 Tax records. The family lived in Wetzel County in 1850 and in Wood County in 1860.
F. M. (Francis Marion) Roberts, 24, married Minerva Full, 21, on Nov. 25, 1858 in Jackson County, W.Va. The marriage record states that he was "born in Marshall County." They had two daughters, Cynthia Ann (born 1859) and Frances Oley/Ola (born 1861). Two brothers, Johnsey and Walter Roberts, died while in service in 1864.
He died at the Battle of Chancellorsville
Co H 7 W. VA. INF
Letter from Capt Francis Roberts to his wife, Minerva Full Roberts.
Hd Qrs 7th Regt VA Volts Inft
Camp near Falmouth, Va Dec 18th, 1862
Dear Nervia,
I have just read your letter bearing date of 7th inst which Sant backed for you, So I judge he is able to be about yet. I had thought the last letter I rote him perhaps had poisoned him to death.I was truly glad to hear form you again and this one come quicker than any letter has come to me in a long time. I do think with you that some of the neighbors might afford to and take time and get your wood when you pay them for it. Tell me who is inhumane as to take your money and then not get the wood.
We have not been paid yet, the paymaster come to to pay us but the fight scared him away before we got paid, so I don't know when we will see him again. I am glad to hear that things are quiet down there again and there surely will be a change some way in this war. If Sarah and Ed has a girl, that is extraordinary. I hope to get to come home yet and see my family and friends.
You will do well if you fatten three hogs and winter old white on your 15 bushels of corn. It will take 40 bushels to fatten the hogs. I could not make out what you paid per bushel but thought 30.thirty cts.
When I look back and see how I have been favored by providence during this war, my heart melts in thankfulness to God. O, how I love His name, His law and His statutes. His ways are past finding out and His love is boundless and I earnestly pray that through His divine grace I may still be preserved until I again may be permitted to see my family. Pray for me and now may God bless and sustain you in and finally save you in Heaven is my prayer.
Frank, to my family
Info from wvgw.net
FRANCIS MARION ROBERTS
Adjutant & Acting Captain Company "H" 7th West Virginia Infantry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
Service Record: At age 27, enrolled at Elizabeth, Wirt County, on Sep 2, 1861; mustered in at Grafton on Nov. 5, 1861; 1st Sergt. "Killed in Action at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863."
A statement included in widow's pension file (Certificate #96656): "The Adjt. General reports that F. M. Roberts mustered as 2d Lieut in July 1862 and Acting Adjutant. Killed in action at Chancellorsville, Va. 3 May 1863. Commission, signed by Gov. F. H. Pierpont, dated 21 April 1863, as Captain, to date 12 April 1863. Late Lt. Col. Lockwood makes oath that said Roberts received his commission a day or two before the battle of Chancellorsville and was in command of his company when killed, as Captain. As the regiment was in motion at the time he received said commission, he could not be mustered in."
This soldier was the son of John Barton Roberts and Juliann/July Evans, who married in 1832 and resided in Marshall County. John B. Roberts is named in the 1836 and 1840 Tax records. The family lived in Wetzel County in 1850 and in Wood County in 1860.
F. M. (Francis Marion) Roberts, 24, married Minerva Full, 21, on Nov. 25, 1858 in Jackson County, W.Va. The marriage record states that he was "born in Marshall County." They had two daughters, Cynthia Ann (born 1859) and Frances Oley/Ola (born 1861). Two brothers, Johnsey and Walter Roberts, died while in service in 1864.
Co H 7 W. VA. INF
Letter from Capt Francis Roberts to his wife, Minerva Full Roberts.
Hd Qrs 7th Regt VA Volts Inft
Camp near Falmouth, Va Dec 18th, 1862
Dear Nervia,
I have just read your letter bearing date of 7th inst which Sant backed for you, So I judge he is able to be about yet. I had thought the last letter I rote him perhaps had poisoned him to death.I was truly glad to hear form you again and this one come quicker than any letter has come to me in a long time. I do think with you that some of the neighbors might afford to and take time and get your wood when you pay them for it. Tell me who is inhumane as to take your money and then not get the wood.
We have not been paid yet, the paymaster come to to pay us but the fight scared him away before we got paid, so I don't know when we will see him again. I am glad to hear that things are quiet down there again and there surely will be a change some way in this war. If Sarah and Ed has a girl, that is extraordinary. I hope to get to come home yet and see my family and friends.
You will do well if you fatten three hogs and winter old white on your 15 bushels of corn. It will take 40 bushels to fatten the hogs. I could not make out what you paid per bushel but thought 30.thirty cts.
When I look back and see how I have been favored by providence during this war, my heart melts in thankfulness to God. O, how I love His name, His law and His statutes. His ways are past finding out and His love is boundless and I earnestly pray that through His divine grace I may still be preserved until I again may be permitted to see my family. Pray for me and now may God bless and sustain you in and finally save you in Heaven is my prayer.
Frank, to my family
Info from wvgw.net
FRANCIS MARION ROBERTS
Adjutant & Acting Captain Company "H" 7th West Virginia Infantry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
Service Record: At age 27, enrolled at Elizabeth, Wirt County, on Sep 2, 1861; mustered in at Grafton on Nov. 5, 1861; 1st Sergt. "Killed in Action at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863."
A statement included in widow's pension file (Certificate #96656): "The Adjt. General reports that F. M. Roberts mustered as 2d Lieut in July 1862 and Acting Adjutant. Killed in action at Chancellorsville, Va. 3 May 1863. Commission, signed by Gov. F. H. Pierpont, dated 21 April 1863, as Captain, to date 12 April 1863. Late Lt. Col. Lockwood makes oath that said Roberts received his commission a day or two before the battle of Chancellorsville and was in command of his company when killed, as Captain. As the regiment was in motion at the time he received said commission, he could not be mustered in."
This soldier was the son of John Barton Roberts and Juliann/July Evans, who married in 1832 and resided in Marshall County. John B. Roberts is named in the 1836 and 1840 Tax records. The family lived in Wetzel County in 1850 and in Wood County in 1860.
F. M. (Francis Marion) Roberts, 24, married Minerva Full, 21, on Nov. 25, 1858 in Jackson County, W.Va. The marriage record states that he was "born in Marshall County." They had two daughters, Cynthia Ann (born 1859) and Frances Oley/Ola (born 1861). Two brothers, Johnsey and Walter Roberts, died while in service in 1864.
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