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| Burial: Johnsville Cemetery, Erath County, Texas |
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Sources:
[1] 1850 Tippah County,Mississippi Census(page 413).
[2] Confederate Pension Application( Texas ).
[3] "THE ALLARDS "by Lela Belcher Hurley dated 1942( Stephenville Public Library)
[4] John Mackey ""
(5) " Erath County, Texas Death Records, # 18400 ( DOD 23 April 1930 ).
W R ( Buck ) Roberson moved to Texas and settled in Duffau, Erath County, Texas. According to his statement on his application for pension for service in the Confederacy dated 1 September 1917, they arrived at Duffau on 2 January 1860.They moved to Texas from Tippah County, Mississippi, where Buck was born.
The War Department's record states : " W R Roberson Bugler, Captain Whiteside's Co, Lt, Wes W Hickey, Co H, McCord's Frontier Regt. Tex Cav,C S A , Enlisted Feb 2. Muster Roll Of _____ _____ Oct 1863, last on file, shows him absent hunting deserters since Sept 20.No record of capture or parole." Witnesses, I Danley and H K Danley, who signed affadavits verifying Buck's service. They stated : " The first year we served as Texas Frontier Rangers. Colonel McCord, which was reorganized, under Co. H we think. Captain John Salmon, W Hickey 1st Lieutenant, and we served with him for three years in the same Company. And the latter part of the time R M Whitesides was our Captain, and W R Roberson was a good soldier and was wonded (sic) by the Indians. "
In Buck's Confederate pension application, he stated that he was honorably discharged at Picketville, Eastland County, Texas, in May of 1865.
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John Mackey provided the following memoirs of William Reed (Buck) Roberson:
Aunt Delpha (Delpha Roberson, dau of Arthur Roberson) thinks Buck was from Mississippi and came to Texas at the age of 18. This would have meant he came to Texas in 1858. Other stories say the family came to Erath Co. when it was organized in 1856. That would make him 16 years old. She recalls he had a brother, Tom Roberson of Haskell, Texas, and one sister, Martha Kehey of Canadian, Texas. These would probably be Thomas W. Roberson, Jr. and Martha E. Roberson.
She remembers he was a member of the Church of Christ since he was 14.
"Grandpa Buck" lived with his daughter, Mandy, from 1923 to 1926. He moved in with his son, Arthur Vincent Roberson, in 1926 until his death in 1930.
Buck had lost a leg and there are several stories as to how it happened. One is that he was shot in the leg by an Indian arrow in west Texas, near Abilene. Another version that Aunt Delpha relates is that he was wounded by Indians in a fight in Eastland County, Texas (which is not so far west, just halfway from Stephenville to Abilene). Another slant to the story is that he didn't lose his leg directly from the arow wound, but from an infected blister on his foot caused by the limp the injury left him with!
My mother tells the story she heard that Grandpa Buck used to feel his lost limb after it was amputated and buried. It had been buried in the cemetery where he himself was eventually buried. He felt like there was a stone between his toes. They dug up his leg and, sure enough, there was a stone between the toes!
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Buck died in the home of his son, A V Roberson, on 23 April 1930. He was buried in Johnsville Cemetery, Erath County, Texas. His wife, Sarah I , died six month's later, 30 October 1930 and was buried by his side.
(6) Erath County Appeal Newspaper, January 25, 1899, page 380.
" Buck Roberson, reported dead some time ago by local papers, was doing well at last accounts."
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