Euphemia (Saunders) Roberts (1874 - 1954)

Born 25 Dec 1874 in Alice Town, Bimini, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Franklin Peacon — married 22 Jul 1899 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Died 3 Oct 1954 at age 79 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida

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Euphemia (Saunders) Roberts is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Euphemia Saunders was born in Bimini, Bahamas on Christmas Day 1874 to Benjamin James Saunders and Adriana Mary Elizabeth Weech Saunders.

Euphemia moved with her mother to Florida sometime before 1900. In 1899, she became the second wife of Benjamin Franklin Peacon in Key West. Her husband died there in 1921, and Euphemia Saunders Peacon married, second, Erlin Deleil "Dewey" Roberts, son of Luddington Roberts, in Key West 9 July 1927.

Euphemia Peacon Roberts died in Key West, Florida in October 1954 and is buried in the City Cemetery.

Sources

Bahamas Civil Registration, Births, Bimini, 1874.

"Florida Marriages, 1837-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWW7-4JY), Benjamin F. Peacon and Euphemia Saunders, 22 Jul 1899; citing Key West, Monroe, Florida, United States; FHL microfilm 946,973.

1900 - 1940 US Federal Censuses, Key West, Monroe County, Florida.

Florida Marriages, 1830-1993, 1927, # 004706897.

Florida Marriage Index, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, 1927.

Florida Death Index, 1877-1998.

Find A Grave Memorial# 60735174 created by Jackie Roberts.