ROBERTS, W J WILLIE JAMES - White County, Arkansas | W J WILLIE JAMES ROBERTS - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

W J Willie James ROBERTS

Hammons Chapel Cemetery
White County,
Arkansas

Apr 12, 1872 - Nov 8, 1891

Church of Christ publication, The Gospel Advocate, December 31, 1891, page 830.Roberts, Willie J. Roberts


Bro. Willie J. Roberts, son of J. W. and Mary C. Roberts, was born in Warren county, Tenn., April 12, 1872. Obeyed the gospel under the personal ministry of Bro. Richard Gillintine, Nov. 3, 1889. Emigrated in Arkansas the latter part of the year 1889, with his parents. The writer can only speak of him from his first acquaintance with him, which was on his arrival in White county, Arkansas, in 1889. Bro. Willie was universally loved and respected by all who knew him. With the highest moral and religious conceptions, he practiced the same in his every day life. He was confined to his room for nearly two months, with typhoid fever; which confinement he bore with great patience and Christian resignation; and before his death, which occurred Nov. 8, 1891, he spoke several times of his future prospects, which he assured his friends were all bright. His only desire was that he might live to do good. His death is greatly mourned by many friends and acquaintances, especially relatives, school-mates, and teachers, as he was an obedient son and pupil, and a pleasant class-mate. May we all live so as to meet Bro. Willie in the sweet by and by. (information submitted by J. B. Matthews.)

*When James William 'Willie' Roberts was born on April 12, 1872, in Campaign, Tennessee, his father, John, was 22 and his mother, Mary, was 17. He had one brother and one sister. He died on November 8, 1891, in White, Arkansas, at the age of 19, and was buried there.

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Submitted: 2/14/22 • Approved: 2/15/22 • Last Updated: 2/18/22 • R1420610-G0-S3

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