The following is printed in EARLY LIFE & TIMES IN BOONE CO IN, publ. 1887.
Pages 354-55 "Hiram J. Roberts was born in New York State, November 25, 1804;
married to Eunice Young, March 4, 1837. Miss Young was born in New York August
17,1813;married in Tippecanoe Co, Indiana. Came to Clinton Township, Boone
County, in 1837. Mr. R. entered, in 1837, the land on which he died, April 25,
1873. His family yet live on the farm near the Clinton County line, and on the
bank of Sugar Creek. The following are the names of their children: Silas,
died at the age of four years; Charles R., died at the age of fourteen months;
James L., died at the age of one year; Sarah A., married to Richard Hardesty,
April 5, 1863, resides in Clinton Township; William H., married to Margaret A.
Sims; Hayden E., married to Martha E. Hundley, resides in Kansas; Mary A.,
married to James Sims, resides in Clinton County, Indiana; John Alonzo, died
at the age of nine years; Diana, born October 18, 1852, lives at home; Josiah,
married to Mary K. Blubough, August 17, 1882, lives on the farm. The deceased
members are buried at Mechanicsburg. Mrs. Roberts is a member of the Christian
Church".