Obituary Records for Families - R Surnames

of Fayette County

Mahala J. Roberts, wife of James P. Roberts, dies at her home on Upper Seven Mile, near near Coxs Landing, April 7, 1915.

She died of dropsy of the heart and was about 66 years of age. Her illness was quite a duration - about a year. She died in a triumphant faith, leaving the testimony that she was going to meet the loved ones who had gone on before.

She leaves a companion, one son, Sidney P. Roberts, living with his father, and one daughter, Mrs. George L. Godby, of Mount Hope, WV, and a number of friends to mourn her death.

She was placed in the Arthur cemetery, on Big Cabell creek. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. R. M. Kapp. --------- S. M. Jefferson

*** Page 5, The Ceredo Advance ----- Wednesday, April 14, 1915