From "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans," Volume 5, by William Elsey Connelley, 1918:

Edward C. Roberson was born in Jefferson County, Illinois, in 1822, was reared and married there and became a farmer. In 1857 he brought his family to Linn County, Kansas, homesteading 160 acres of land. That farm was his home the rest of his life and he died there in 1889. The old homestead is now owned by his daughter Mrs. Lycena Carlyle. Edward C. Roberson was a democrat, and during the Black Hawk Indian war in 1832 he served in an Illinois company with the rank of first lieutenant. He married Nancy McCrite, who was born in Jefferson County, Illinois, in 1824. She met an accidental death in Linn County, Kansas, in 1859. Their home was in one of the districts where the warring factions made life and property insecure, and Mr. Edward Roberson in order to protect his corn from marauders stored it in the loft of his house. The weight was too great and the floor gave way, precipitating it all to the room below. Mrs. Roberson was struck and killed, this being one of the many sad tragedies directly or indirectly attributed to the Kansas territorial troubles.

Edward C. Roberson and wife had a large family of children: Slatha, who died at Hartshorn, Oklahoma, wife of Leonard Rotchford, a farmer who died in Linn County, Kansas; Joshua, who enlisted early in the war in Company K of the Twelfth Kansas Infantry and died of erysipelas at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1862, while still in the army; Matthew H., who when last heard from was living at Olathe, Kansas, about forty years ago, and he too was a veteran of the Civil war; Alexander, who has never married and is living with his sister on the old homestead in Linn County; Henry L. F.; Lycena, wife of George T. Carlyle, living on the old homestead; Amos, a coal miner at Pittsburg, Kansas; H. M., whose present whereabouts are unknown; L. D., who was a school teacher and died in Linn County, Kansas, in 1907; Charles Edward, twin of L. D., also deceased; John L., a boilermaker living at Los Angeles, California; and William D., a resident of Castleton, Kansas.

[NB: The youngest four children of Edward-- Lorenzo Dow, Charles Edward, John Leonard, and William David, were with his second wife, Susanna]