The Family of George W. Roberts (1842–1911)
of Wakulla County
1 The marriages of Jackson Roberts (ca 1806–1870’s) to Sarah (ca
1812–1860’s) and to Mary W.(b. ca 1845)
The household of Jackson and Sarah Roberts appears in the
seventh precinct of Gadsden County, Florida in the 1850
census and in the Apalachicola district of Franklin County in
the 1860 census, Jackson’s occupation given as farmer both
times. The household of Jackson and Mary W. Roberts appears
in the Ochlockonee district of Wakulla County in the 1870
census. Listings of the names and ages of offspring each time
identifies the family through the series of censuses. The
1840 census had found a Jackson Roberts in Jackson County,
Florida, with age-bracket data for the oldest male and female
in the home fitting the years-of-birth of Jackson and Sarah
given above, and with six children under age 15. This may not
be sufficient evidence for establishing identity with the
later-known family.
Mary was probably the mother of the four children in the home
in 1870, their ages four months to six years. On that
assumption Generation 2 given below is divided by a dashed
line. Those named above the line are offspring of the first
marriage (their mother Sarah), on good census evidence, and
those below probably all belong to the second marriage. Mary
Roberts, evidently widowed, headed a household in the
Ochlockonee district in the 1880 census, and had with her the
first three of the second set of children.
(bold type indicates that subsequent generations are covered below)
2 Thomas B Roberts (b. 1832)
2 [open possibility of one or more females married or deceased before 1850 census]
2 Jackson J. Roberts (b. prob. ca 1841) note A
2 George W. Roberts (1842–1911)
2 Leonidus Roberts (b. ca 1844–46) note B
2 Francis J. Roberts (b. ca 1849)
2 Mary Roberts (b. ca. 1852)
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2 Green B. Roberts (b. ca 1864) note C
2 Delila Roberts (b. ca 1866)
2 Martha Roberts (b. ca 1868) note D
2 James D. Roberts (b. 1870)
Collective note on Generation 2: For those siblings of George W.
Roberts not endnoted, no further information is in hand. There
was a Thomas or Tom Roberts in the Curtis Mills community, with
wife Lou Roberts, in the late 1800’s; his descendants are
nearby. No information establishing his identity with the
subject family has been gained. That Mary (b. ca 1852) was not
reported in the Jackson and Mary Roberts home in 1870 may be
evidence that she had married by then—possibly in Wakulla
County. Green, Delila, and Martha were reported in the 1880
households of both the widow Mary Roberts (probably the mother
of all three) and their half-brother George, the girls then ages
14 and 12, and Green 16. (This assumes that the 12-year-old girl
whose name looks like “Lanty” in Mary’s home was Martha,
possibly listed by an affectionate name rooted in a middle
name.) James D., the last, was reported only in the 1870 census,
apparently.
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2 The marriages of George W. Roberts to Mary Ann Lewis Roberts (ca
1849–1884) and to Julia Nan “Mintie” Lewis Roberts (1862–19__)
The first marriage, to Mary Ann Lewis, was made between 1870
and 1874, after George’s Confederate Army service in which he
had been captured at Gettysburg and held in a Union prison
until the end of the war. The marriage to Mintie was made in
1889, five years or more after Mary Ann’s death. Mintie
survived George and later married J. A. Sunday (b. ca 1855 )
when she was 50 years old or more; she is usually remembered
as Mintie Sunday. The 1920 census report for the Sunday
household indicates that she had no children in that
marriage.
Mary Ann Lewis appears in the 1870 census for the Ochlockonee
district of Wakulla County as a 20-year-old domestic servant
in the home of Duncan and Lea Redd, before appearing in the
1880 census as the 31-year-old wife of George Roberts and
mother of their two children. No information is at hand on
her ancestors. Mintie Lewis can be found as the 23-year-old,
single, J.N. Lewis in the 1885 home of W.B. and Jeannette
Lewis in the Ochlockonee district—this by use of the fact
that 72-year-old, widowed, Jeannette Lewis was listed in the
1910 census as living in the home of George and Mintie
(Julia), there listed as mother-in-law.
A notation in the 1910 census report on the household, a year
before George’s death, gives the marriage to Mintie as his
second marriage; it was surely his last. However, data for
the age and year-of-birth of the child Elzie in the 1900
census place his birth outside the period of the George-
Mintie marriage( he was born in 1886, while George and Mintie
reported having been married 12 years in 1900; Mintie’s 1911
pension application gives her marriage to George as March
1889). That 1910 report also indicated that the marriage was
the second for Mintie also, something that cannot be
corroborated in the other census reports, since a first
marriage for her would have been, if at all, in the four-year
period after she was reported as single in 1885 and before
the marriage to George in 1889.It is possible that Elzie was
Mintie’s son from such a first marriage. It is also possible
that he was a nephew of George or Mintie erroneously listed
as a son.
That Generation 3 below is divided twice by dashed lines
evidences the possibility of another marriage of George
Roberts or another of Mintie Lewis. Nevertheless, the
offspring listed above the first dashed line are the children
born to Mary Ann, while those below the second were born to
Mentie. The question of Elzie is in abeyance. (Spellings here
of the first-names Mintie and Jeannette are taken from 1908
signatures of both women; census reports spell them
differently and evidently erroneously.)
The graves of George Roberts and, probably, of Mary Ann Lewis
Roberts are in the small Mackery Landing Cemetery near the
Ochlockonee River just west of the Curtis Mills community.
George’s grave is marked by a formal, inscribed tombstone,
and evidently Mary Ann’s is marked by one of three
utilitarian concrete markers. The tombstone of William L.
Roberts of the next generation (just below) is also there.
Third generation in collapsed form:
3 Sarah (Sallie) Roberts (b. ca 1874)
3 Arie Louise Roberts (1879–1951)
3 Maggy Roberts (1883–1919)
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3 Elzie Roberts (b. 1886)
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3 Jackson M. Roberts (1890–1970’s)
3 William L. Roberts (1890–1900)
3 Mabel (Trix) Roberts (1900–1974)
Third through fifth generations:
3 Sarah (Sallie) Roberts (b. 1874) m. Hardy Crum (1861–1950), his 2nd marriage1note E
4 Edith Mary Ann (Babe) Crum (1891–1975) m. Jim Gilbert (Gib) Taylor
(1881–1935)2 note F
5 Henry Taylor (1909–1980) m. Lonie Mae Cayson
5 Johnny Taylor (b., d. ca. 1911)
5 Monroe Taylor (1913–1982) m. Minnie Lee Porter
5 Lois Lorraine Taylor (1915–1998) m. Elmer Pyle
5 Edith Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1917) m. Jasper (Jack) Tucker
(1908–1976)
5 James Taylor (b. 1919) m. Ruby Nichols
5 Mary Jane Taylor (b. 1921) m. William Wood Renner
5 Sarah Magdalene Taylor (b. 1923) m. Eugene Lord
5 Ernest Taylor (b. 1925) m. 1st ____; m 2nd Esther Lorice Harrell
5 Annie Taylor (b., d. ca. 1927)
5 Hardy Taylor (b. 1932) m. ____
4 Amanda (Mandy) Crum (1892–1936) m. William T. Daughtry
(1889–1978)1 note G
5 Preston Daughtry (twin) m. Lucile Corley
5 Lester Daughtry (twin) m. Lois Strickland
5 Emmie Mae Daughtry m. Lee Thompson
5 Sally Daughtry
5 Elsie Daughtry m. J.W. Sarvis
5 Raymond Daughtry m. Evelyn Thompson
5 Doris Daughtry m. John Chason
5 Mattie Daughtry
5 Faye Daughtry
5 Betty Daughtry m. Fred Harrell
5 Clinton Daughtry
5 Amanda Daughtry m. Dick Barfield
4 James Harmon (Bud) Crum (1894–1960) m. Olivia Sanders (1900–1938)3
5 Penelope (Penny) Crum (b. 1920) m. Howard M. Itz
5 Betty Crum (b. 1922) m. Col. Virgil Warner, Jr.
5 Lakie Crum (b. 1924) m. George Johnson
5 Charles Walter Crum (b. 1927) m. 1st Corrine Jordan, m 2nd Faye Steptoe
5 Arie Crum (b. 1929) m. Joseph C.(Bully) Edwards
5 Eunice Louise Crum (b. 1933) m. Thomas Davis
4 George W. Crum (1896–1977) m. 1920 Ollie Ola Sanders (1903–1983) note H
5 Thelma Crum (1921–1995)
5 Edgar Crum m. Emily Dunlap
5 Fred Crum (b. 1926)
5 William Crum (b. 1929) m. Peggy Jackson
5 Harley Crum (twin) m. Gloria Odom
5 twin deceased in infancy
4 Hardy A. (Sweet ) Crum (1898–1980) m. 1919 Rosa Lee Stephens (1904–1968)
5 Pauline Crum m. Barney Harrell
5 Martha Crum m. Clois Pigott
5 Flossie Crum (b. 1929) m. J.W. Cabler
5 Lois Crum (b. 1933) m. Leon Herndon
5 Adelia Crum (b. 1936) m. William McKenzie
5 Clarence Crum (twin; 1939–1969)
5 twin deceased in infancy or childhood
4 Lloyd Thomas Crum (1900–1991) m. 1929 Molly Mae Pope (1908–1974)
5 Zylphia Octavia Crum (b. 1930) m. 1951 Delbert Lowell (Bud) Roberts (b. 1926)
5 Thomas Lloyd Crum (b. 1933) m 1st 1954 Voncile Kelly (b. 1934),m 2nd Harriet Carroll (b. 1953)
5 Mary Viola Crum (b. 1934) m. 1st 1954 Curtis Mayfield (1934–1985), m. 2nd Carlton E. Harvey (1962–1989)
5 Bobby Crum (twin b. 1936) m. 1954 Sandra Faye Carraway (b. 1938)
5 Betty Crum (twin b. 1936) m. 1956 Maynard Smith Mash (b. 1934); div.
5 Henry Jackson Crum (twin b. 1938) m. 1960 Lorraine Revell (b.1943)
5 Zula Rebecca Crum (twin b. 1938) m. 1958 William Coney Smith (b.1939)
4 Alma Crum m. John Metcalf, his 2nd marriage4 note I
5 Herman Metcalf (b. 1922) m. Margaret Thompson
5 Henry Metcalf (b. 1924) m. Inez Spears
5 Ruby Metcalf m. Lincoln Porter
5 Bill Metcalf (b. 1928)
5 Alexander (Alex) Metcalf (b. 1933)
5 John Metcalf, Jr.
5 Eloise Metcalf
5 Hardy Metcalf (twin)
5 Sally Metcalf (twin)
5 Charles Metcalf
3 Arie Louise Roberts (1879–1951) m. 1902 Robert L. (Bob) Roddenberry (1876–1963) note J
4 Norma Lee Roddenberry (1903–1990) m. 1928 Macon Ames Rudd (1896–1965); no offspring
4 Ernest Dupree Roddenberry (1905–1971) m. 1940 Lottie Idoma Stalnaker (b. 1911)
5 Robert Howard Roddenberry (b. 1941) m. 1964 Geraldine Shepard (b. 1943)
5 Linda Gail Roddenberry (b. 1943) m. first 1965 L. Franklin Jones (1944–1989); m. second Richard Lumley
5 Ernest David Roddenberry (b. 1947)
4 George Sampson Roddenberry (1910–1910)
4 Frederick Crowson Roddenberry (1911–1915)
3 Maggy Roberts (1882–1919) m. David Murray
4 R. J. Murray
4 ______Murray
3 Elzie Roberts (b. 1886)
3 Jackson M. Roberts (1890–1970’s) m. first 1910 Viola Sanders; m.
second Helen Trojan; no offspring
3 William L. Roberts (1890–1900)
3 Mabel (Trix) Roberts (1900–1974) m. first Walker Schoelles; m.
second Mark Regnier note K
4 Oren Schoelles (b. 1920’s) m. Christine ______
5 (Jimmy) Schoelles
5 _________
4 Jackson Lanier Schoelles (1920’s –1999) m. Julaine _______
5 Laura Schoelles
5 Jackson Lanier Schoelles, Jr.
5 Sally Schoelles
4 Roland Schoelles (b. 1925) m ______; m. Nony_______
5 (Butch) Schoelles
5 Roland Schoelles
Genealogy presently available beyond Generation 5:
4 Lloyd Thomas Crum m. Molly Mae Pope1
5 Zylphia Octavia Crum m. Delbert Lowell (Bud) Roberts
6 Delbert Lowell Roberts, Jr. (b. 1953) m. 1971 Marian Delores Laird
(b. 1953)
7 Anthony Lyle Roberts (b. 1977) m. 1999 De-Anna Harper
7 Daniel Lee Roberts (b. 1984)
6 John Lloyd Roberts (1955–1984) m. Cathy Elizabeth Laird (b. 1956)
7 Stacey Denise Roberts (b. 1982)
6 Crandall Dale Roberts (b. 1959) m. 1984 Dedra Elayne (Deedie)
Wortham (b. 1958)
7 Cameron Dale Roberts (b. 1985)
7 Brandi Michele Roberts (b. 1985)
James (Jeremy) Bishop Putnal IV (stepson; b. 1976)
6 Diane Denise Roberts (b. 1961) m. 1979 Ted Christopher Gerrell (b.
1960)
7 Eli Christopher Gerrell (b. 1983)
7 Joshua Heath Gerrell (b. 1985)
5 Thomas Lloyd Crum m. 1st Voncile Kelly; m. 2nd Harriet Carroll
6 Wanda Darlene Crum (b. 1959) m. 1st John McKnight; m. 2nd Curt
Daniels
7 Miranda Lynn McKnight m. 1998 Robbie Whaley
6 Timothy Lloyd Crum (b. 1960)
6 Paula Lynn Crum (b. 1967)
6 James (Jim) Lee Crum (b. 1968)
6 Jonathan Leon Riley (stepson; b. 1973) m. 1994 Darlene Preston
7 Jonathan (Johnny) Curtis Riley (b. 1996)
6 Terri Lynn Crum (b. 1977) m. 1995 Russell Lee
7 Marlyn Shae Lee (b. 1995)
5 Mary Viola Crum m. 1st Curtis Mayfield; m. 2nd Carlton E. Harvey
6 Belinda Joyce Mayfield (b. 1958) m. 1st Maynard Davidson; m. 2nd
Duane Woods (b. 1957)
7 John Michael Davidson (b. 1976)
8 Denny Ephrim Davidson (b. 1999)
6 Suzanne Elaine Harvey (b. 1964)
5 Bobby Crum m. 1954 Sandra Faye Carraway
6 Robert Jeffery Crum (b. 1954) m. 1976 Heather Brady
7 Jeremiah Bobby Crum (b. 1978)
7 Joshua Marion Crum (b. 1980)
6 Larry Donald Crum (1956) m. 1976 Beverly Reddick (b. 1957)
7 Larry Donald Crum, Jr. (b. 1978)
7 Shannon Nicole Crum
6 Deborah Jean Crum (b. 1958) m. 1978 Roger David Rankin (b. 1956)
7 Chasidy LaFaye Rankin (b. 1978)
7 Roger David Rankin (b. 1979)
5 Betty Crum m. 1956 Maynard Smith Mash; div. 1994
6 Maynard Smith (Smitty) Mash, Jr. (b. 1957) m. 1976 Tina Lee
Hopkins (b. 1958)
7 Lori Brook Mash (b. 1980) m. 1996 Terry Gene Conger (b. 1980)
8 Macy Brook Conger (b. 1996)
7 Lauren Ashlie Mash (b. 1982)
6 Donna Kay Mash (b. 1958) m. 1978 Samuel Mark Bates (b. 1953)
7 Philip Mark Bates (b. 1980)
7 Samuel Thomas Bates (b. 1981)
7 Bryan Andrew Bates (b. 1983)
6 Michael Shelly Mash (b. 1961) m. 1982 Debra Pawnee Roland (b.
1964)
7 Michael Garrett Mash (b. 1984)
7 Shelly Melinda Mash (b. 1986)
5 Henry Jackson Crum m. Lorraine Revell
6 Stanley Jackson Crum (b. 1961) m. Gladys Sherwood
7 DeMarco Crum (b. 1991)
7 Annaliese Crum (b. 1992)
7 Sarah Crum (b. 1995)
7 Courtney Crum (b. 1997)
7 Darien Crum (b. 1999)
6 Clyde David Crum (b. 1964) m. 1986 Heidi Jones (b. 1966)
7 David Crum (b. 1984)
7 Jonathan Crum (b. 1986)
5 Zula Rebecca Crum m. William Coney Smith
6 Carol Smith (b. 1960) m. 1979 Jimmy Stokley (b. 1960)
7 Casey Stokley (b. 1981)
7 Amy Stokley (b. 1984)
6 Gail Smith (b. 1962) m. 1st 1979 Vernon Henderson (b. 1960); div.;
m. 2nd 1990 Jeff Stokley; div.; m. 3rd 1999 Denny Powell
7 Chasidy Nicole Henderson (b. 1981)
7 Zebulan (Zeb) Henderson (b. 1984)
6 William Ivery (Bill) Smith (b. 1964) m. 1982 LeShan Crum (b. 1967)
7 Cami Smith (b. 1983)
7 Bethany Smith (b. 1985)
4 Ernest Dupree Roddenberry m. Lottie Idoma Stalnaker
5 Robert Howard Roddenberry m. Geraldine Shepard
6 Cindy Renee Roddenberry (b. 1964) m. 1986 BoJack White
7 Kayla Danielle White (b. 1990)
7 Leah Drue White (b. 1992)
6 Robert Duane (Bobby) Roddenberry (b. 1967) m. 1997 Cynthia Dione
Mullins
7 Justin Robert Roddenberry (b. 1998)
5 Linda Gail Roddenberry m. Franklin Jones (d. 1989); m. 2nd Richard
Lumley
6 Catherine Adele Lumley (frmly Catherine Adele Jones; b. 1983))
5 Ernest David Roddenberry (b. 1947)
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Notes:
(A) The marked grave of this Jackson Roberts of the second generation
covered is in the Roberts Cemetery on the Franklin County shore of the
Ochlockonee River near Ochlockonee River State Park. The tombstone,
giving no date of death, documents his Confederate Army enlistment.
The biographical roster of Confederate soldiers shows a Jackson
Roberts enlisting at the same time and place as George Roberts and in
the same unit—Co. B of the 8th Florida Regiment. It shows Jackson
Roberts’s being wounded at The Wilderness (Virginia) and finally
captured near Appomattox in 1865, making it implicit that he had been
in the Battle of Gettysburg where George was captured. However, the
roster also shows a Jackson Roberts enlisting in a different company
in the regiment (evidently organized elsewhere) and making a different
record. It is that company—Co. H—that is shown on the local tombstone
over what is surely the grave of the Jackson Roberts of this family.
(B) This may be the Leonidas Roberts who married first Sallie
Roddenberry and later her sister Carrie Roddenberry, both daughters of
Sampson Roddenberry. Leonidas Roberts (1847–1905) had children by both
women. That Leonidas Roberts (spelling from Confederate pension
application) of local record was called “Cap” Roberts and lived at
McIntyre on the Ochlockonee with wife Carrie Roddenberry Roberts in
his last years. His grave is someplace in Wakulla County; the
Veterans’ Grave Registration Project of 1941 gives West Sopchoppy
Cemetery. Pension records establish his time and place of birth as Feb
1847 and Liberty County, Fla. That is a year or more later than the
latest time of birth to be reckoned from either census report in which
the boy Leonidus appears in the Jackson Roberts household. The Liberty
County datum is not necessarily contrary, since the family could have
been elsewhere than Gadsden, Jackson, or Franklin County in 1847
between censuses.
(C) Green Roberts had one or more offspring and has descendants in
this area now. The marked grave of Green Roberts is in the Roberts
Cemetery mentioned above. Beside it is the grave of Maggy Roberts, who
may have been his wife. Green Roberts operated a ferry on the
Ochlockonee near Curtis Mills.
(D) There is a child listed as Martha in the 1870 census only, but a
girl of an age fitting Martha’s is shown in 1880 (only) with a name
that might be read Lanty. It is likely that those are two names of the
same person.
(E) Hardy Crum was also the father of a daughter in the first marriage
and a daughter and four sons in a third marriage, after Sallie’s death
(in a fourth and last marriage he had no offspring):
Hardy Crum m. 1st ______
dau. Carrie Crum m. Morgan Cruse
Hardy Crum m. 3rd Maggie Harris
Andy Crum (1911–1982)
Jackson Crum
Annie Lee Crum m. Obie Brown
Owens Brown
Oblee Brown
Gordon Brown
Jackie Brown
Sarah Frances Brown
Randall Brown
Rufus Crum (1918–1982) m. Christine Gray (d.1994)
Hilton Crum
Leon Crum (b. 1919) m. Deannie McKenzie
Louise Crum
Helen Crum
Martha Ann Crum m. Eddie Jack Porter
(F) Offspring of this marriage (the Taylors) have been generally
associated with the Panacea community in Wakulla County.
(G) Offspring of this marriage (the Daughtrys) have been generally
associated with the Curtis Mills community in Wakulla County.
(H) Offspring of this marriage have been generally associated with
eastern Franklin County.
(I) Offspring of this marriage (the Metcalfs) have been generally
associated with the Panacea community.
(J) The ancestry of Robert L. (Bob) Roddenberry is covered in the
genealogical The Roddenberry/Roddenbery Family Book (1979).
(K) Offspring of Mabel (Trix) Roberts Schoelles have been generally
associated with Apalachicola in Franklin County.
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1 Zylphia Crum Roberts provided major parts of the genealogy:
- the order of the offspring of Sallie Roberts and Hardy Crum
- the Daughtrys
- the full genealogy of descendants of Lloyd Crum and Mae Pope Crum
2 Edith Taylor Tucker provided information
3 Arie Crum Edwards provided information
4 Herman Metcalf provided information
David Roddenberry
1999