Levi Roberts (1815 - 1894)

Born 26 Feb 1815 in Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet Ann (Efford) Roberts — married 18 Aug 1835 in Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England

Descendants

Died 22 Jan 1894 at age 78 in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, USA

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Biography

Levi Roberts was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Private Levi Roberts served with the Iowa Volunteers during the Mexican-American War
Service Started: Jul 1846
Unit(s): Company E, Mormon Battalion
Service Ended: Jul 1847

• Member of the Mormon Battalion (Private, Company "E"), Mexican American War
• He was the son of Samuel Roberts and Mary Margmate
• Married 30 April 1857 to Sarah Davis

Levi Roberts was a Private in Company E. He completed the journey to California and was discharged at Los Angeles, July 16, 1847.^[1]

• Fact: Christening (26 February 1815) Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England
• Fact: Residence (1850) Davis, Utah Territory
• Fact: Residence (1860) [Blank], Davis, Utah, United States
• Fact: Residence (1870) Kaysville, Davis, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States
• Fact: Burial (24 January 1894) Kaysville City Cemetery, Davis, Utah, United States
• Fact: His log cabin was brought from Kaysville to "This Is the Place Monument/Park" (Moved about early 1970s) Movement of Levi Robert's cabin From Kaysville, Utah to Salt Lake City.

Married Harriet Ann Efford, 18 Aug 1835, Deerhurst, Gloucester, England

Children - Henry Roberts, Caroline Roberts, Phoebe Ann Roberts, Marinda Roberts, Harriet Ann Roberts, Mary Jane Roberts, Matilda Roberts, Lucy Ellen Roberts

Married Sarah Davis, 7 Mar 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Daughter - Sarah Elizabeth Roberts

STORIES OF THE MORMON BATTALION

Treasures of Pioneer History, Kate B. Carter Vol 4, page 529

Levi Roberts was born February 26, 1815, in Deerhurst, Gloucester, England. He married Harriet Ann Hefford and they joined the Latter-Day Church in their native land. Soon after they were baptized and came to America. They went to Nauvoo where he served as a bodyguard to the Prophet Joseph Smith, in the troublesome times of that period.

Levi joined the Mormon Battalion at Council Bluffs in Company "E" and crossed the plains and mountains to California. After his discharge he returned to Council Bluffs where the family made preparations the next two years to come West. They arrived in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1850 and settled on a farm in Kaysville. Levi made baskets of willows that grew on Kaysville creek and took them to Salt Lake City to sell. He was also proficient in the art of grafting. Whenever a new variety of fruit was brought to Utah he procured a slip and grafted in into one of his seedling trees. He named the fruit trees after the person who gave him the slip.

Mr. Roberts passed away at his home in Kaysville, Utah, January 22, 1894. - Robenia B. Christensen

• Mormon Battalion members

Family links: Parents: Samuel Roberts (1775 - 1859)

Spouses: Harriet Ann Efford Roberts (1818 - 1895) Sarah Davis Carter (1837 - 1925)*

Children: Henry Roberts (1836 - 1914)* Caroline Roberts Oliverson (1838 - 1901)* Phoebe Ann Roberts Taylor (1843 - 1919)* Marinda Roberts Doney (1845 - 1881)* Harriet Ann Roberts Bodily (1849 - 1923)* Mary Jane Roberts Layton (1851 - 1936)* Matilda Roberts Bodily (1854 - 1925)* Lucy Ellen Roberts (1855 - 1928)* Sarah Elizabeth Roberts Carter Mikesell (1857 - 1934)*

Levi was born in 1810. He passed away in 1894.

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.mormonbattalion.info/mbt/person?id=518

• Find A Grave: Memorial #122697
• Members of the Mormon Battalion, A Sesquicentennial Remembrance, compiled by Dr. Susan Ward Easton, p. 57. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5417209
• LDS Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868 web site: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/43294/levi-roberts
• Mormon Battalion Association, Original Battalion Roster: http://www.mormonbattalion.com/Original_Battalion_Roster
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 10 December 2017, 04:41), entry for Levi Roberts(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KWJP-8T3); contributed by various users.
• LDS Pioneer
• "Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSF-N8BQ : 17 March 2018), Levi Roberts in entry for Henry Roberts, 27 Mar 1914 Obituary in the Davis County Clipper, 1909-1924, The University of Utah. J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City: https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1166378