Samuel Edwards Roberts & Emma Lee Morris
Samuel was born 11 MAR 1869 in Jefferson County, West VA and Emma Lee was born 10 JUN 1872 in Clarke County, Virginia. They were married by a Methodist minster, Caleb M Yost, in Martinsburg on 19 AUG 1894.
They spent most of their married lives together in the Jefferson County area of West Virginia. Samuel worked as a farm laborer until the 1920 census when we see him working as a laborer at the hosiery mill in Martinsburg.
After the death of Emma and while living in Martinsburg, he resided at 114 Liberty and 118 Pennsylvania Ave. He did not own any of the homes he lived in as an adult but rented them all.
They had seven children: Leona Emma, Elsie Virginia, Mary Ruth, Gilbert William, Henry Slicer, Ernest Johnson and Nannie Viola
Emma died 11 JUN 1911 in Martinsburg after a long illness.
Samuel died 14 AUG 1946 at the Weston State Hospital. He was probably in the hospital due to the condition of senility with psychosis that is listed on his death certificate. The first patients were admitted to this facility in 1864 and at the time that Samuel was a patient there was overcrowding and poor conditions. The facility was originally designed to house 250 patients in solitude, the hospital held over 1,800 in 1949 in overcrowded conditions. An estimated 400-500 people died while in the hospital.
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