BAILEY ROBERTS
1888-1959
  
SERVICES TODAY FOR RETIRED
MINER OF OFFUTT
  
Bailey Roberts, 69, died at 7:55 a.m., January 26, in a local
hospital from the effects of a stroke following a month’s illness.
  
A resident of Offutt, where he formerly was employed as a miner, he
was born in this county July 13, 1888, the son of George and Sarah
Bowens Roberts.
  
He was married in Floyd County March 12, 1913, to the former Gypsie
Osborne, who survives.
  
Also surviving are two sons, Joe Roberts, Urbana, Ohio; Rufus
Roberts, Offutt; two daughters, Anna Lee Blanton of this city; Mrs.
Nellie Tackett, Chillicothe, Ohio; one sister, Mary Branham,
Williamsport; two brothers, Fred and George Roberts, both of
Weeksbury; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
  
Funeral services will be conducted at 11:30 a.m., today from the
Boons Camp Free Will Baptist Church with Claude Preston and Scott
Castle as officiating minister.
  
Burial will be in the Offutt Cemetery.
  
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
Jan.21 1959

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