FRANCIS MARION ROBERTS

Adjutant & Acting Captain Company "H" 7th West Virginia Infantry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

Service Record: At age 27, enrolled at Elizabeth, Wirt County, on Sep 2, 1861; mustered in at Grafton on Nov. 5, 1861; 1st Sergt. “Killed in Action at Chancellorsville, Va. May 3, 1863.”

A statement included in widow’s pension file (Certificate #96656): “The Adjt. General reports that F. M. Roberts mustered as 2d Lieut in July 1862 and Acting Adjutant. Killed in action at Chancellorsville, Va. 3 May 1863. Commission, signed by Gov. F. H. Pierpont, dated 21 April 1863, as Captain, to date 12 April 1863. Late Lt. Col. Lockwood makes oath that said Roberts received his commission a day or two before the battle of Chancellorsville and was in command of his company when killed, as Captain. As the regiment was in motion at the time he received said commission, he could not be mustered in.”

This soldier was the son of John Barton Roberts and Juliann/July Evans, who married in 1832 and resided in Marshall County. John B. Roberts is named in the 1836 and 1840 Tax records. The family lived in Wetzel County in 1850 and in Wood County in 1860.

F. M. (Francis Marion) Roberts, 24, married Minerva Full, 21, on Nov. 25, 1858 in Jackson County, W.Va. The marriage record states that he was “born in Marshall County.” They had two daughters, Cynthia Ann (born 1859) and Frances Oley/Ola (born 1861). Two brothers, Johnsey and Walter Roberts, died while in service in 1864.


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