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James McRoberts - Samuel McRoberts IL138 |
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 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz
"James McRoberts and Mary his Wife Setteled this place in the year of our Lord 1798." * Samuel McRoberts, one of their ten children, was born here Feb. 8, 1799. He was elected clerk of the Monroe County Court at the age of 20. In 1824 he was elected circuit judge by the state legislature, on Dec. 16, 1840 He was the first native born Illinoisan to be elected to the United States Senate. He died in Cincinnati on Mar. 22, 1843, on the way home from Washington. His father died in 1844 at the age of 80, and is buried east of the dwelling. Maeystown is also located on a McRobert's claim, originally known as McRobert's meadow. * Exact inscription on the stone mantelpiece of the house built in 1798, and which is still used as a residence.
[James McRoberts was one of the George Rogers Clark Rangers of the Revolutionary War.]
Erected in 1976 by Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society of Omaha Nebraska, Waterloo Illinois, Camp No. 0233.
Maeystown Rd, 1 mile N. of Maeystown, Monroe County Illinois
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