Mary Ann Roberts

1830-1908 · Cambria Co, Pennsylvania

Born 1830, Cambria Co, Pennsylvania

Died 1908

Children include Alma

Mary Ann Roberts was born on 22 June 1830 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, at Cambria City beside Johnstown according to her memorial. In October 1850 she is Mary A., twenty, in the house of William Roberts, a farmer of forty-nine in Jackson Township, north of Johnstown. His wife then was Catherine, thirty-nine. The other children were Harriet, eighteen, Ester, fourteen, and Elizabeth and John, ten and nine, both at school. A labourer, John Moorland, lived with them. William owned land worth two thousand dollars.

Find a Grave links her to William Roberts and Ann Williams, who lie in the Beulah cemetery. Ann died in January 1837 at thirty-seven, when Mary Ann was six. William died at Johnstown in May 1855, aged fifty-four. The farmer of 1850 is very probably the same William, married again after Ann's death. Beulah was the Welsh settlement founded in Cambria County in the 1790s, and the names fit it. The census gives no relationships, so her parents are probable rather than proven. A second William Roberts, forty-eight, farmed in Conemaugh Township in 1850, and either man could be the one on the Beulah stone.

The Harriet of that household is very probably the Harriet Roberts who married William C. Smith. If so, the two girls were sisters. In 1879 Harriet's eldest son, William Roberts Smith, married Mary Ann's eldest daughter Alma, and the bride and groom were first cousins.

In April 1853 she married George Huntley, a young man from Vermont. Their first child, Alma, was born the next February. She bore eight children over nineteen years and buried three of them: Sarah Ann at eleven months in 1856, Charles at nine months in 1874, and George W. at twenty-four in 1888.

The family lived at Ebensburg, the county seat, where George kept the hardware store. Her two elder daughters were married from her house, Alma in October 1879 and Carrie in August 1881. Asked in 1880 where her mother was born, Alma said Pennsylvania.

She died on 14 July 1908, aged seventy-eight. Her headstone in the Huntley plot at Lloyd Cemetery reads MARY ANN WIFE OF GEO. HUNTLEY, with her dates. George outlived her by twelve years.

Children

Alma Huntley b. 1854

Sources

Cambria Freeman (Ebensburg, Pennsylvania), 10 October 1879, p. 3 (Library of Congress, Chronicling America, sn83032041).

C. W. Church, Simeon Church of Chester, Connecticut, 1708-1792, and his Descendants (Waterbury, Conn., 1914), p. 150 (archive.org simeonchurchofch00chur).

Find a Grave memorial 75657672, Lloyd Cemetery, Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.

Find a Grave memorial 75863232, Lloyd Cemetery, Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.

1850 US census, population schedule, Jackson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, county page 199, dwelling 75, family 77; archive.org populationschedu0761unix, image n398.

Find a Grave memorials 75863232, 16839129, 16839030; C. W. Church, Simeon Church of Chester, Connecticut, 1708-1792, and his Descendants (Waterbury, 1914), p. 150; Cambria Freeman, 10 October 1879; 1880 census of Blairsville; 1850 census of Cambria County (archive.org populationschedu0761unix); Griffith, Rev. Morgan John Rhys (1899), archive.org revmorganjohnrhy00grif

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