Col. John Coleman Roberts and Mary Louisa Walker

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Husband Col. John Coleman Roberts ¹

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       Marriage: 1866 1

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Wife Mary Louisa Walker ²

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           Born: 2 Jun 1835 2
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         Father: Isaac Walker (1808-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Eliza Ann Brooke (      -      ) 2

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1 M Edward Walker Roberts ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Col. John Coleman Roberts

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of Texas... He was a wealthy young Kentuckian, who had been an officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War. He met his future wife in Richmond.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Louisa Walker

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She took an active part on the side of the Southern Confederacy in the late civil war. She crossed the lines in 1860, and was at once appointed chief matron of the Howard Hospital, at Richmond. To procure medical supplies she volunteered to run the blockade, and did so from Wilmington, North Carolina, though chased by a man-of-war. She visited the West Indies, Halifax, Quebec, and Montreal. At the latter place she was detained till the St. Lawrence was frozen over, and she was compelled to transport her supplies on sleds through Lower Canada and New Brunswick, a distance of five hundred miles, to Halifax. Thence she sailed, in January, 1865, and ran the blockade at Galveston, Texas. Though closely pursued by gunboats, she took her cargo one hundred and ninety miles up the Brazos River to Port Sullivan, in Milam County. The war had then closed, and she engaged in teaching a classical school at Port Sullivan.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 1058.

2 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 1057.

3 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 612.