Virgie Lou (Shrum) Roberts (1902 - 1983)

Born 8 Aug 1902 in Tracy City, Grundy, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Marion Isaac Franklin Sweeton — married 19 Feb 1919 (to before 1929) in Grundy, Tennessee, United States

Died 20 Jun 1983 at age 80 in Coalmont, Grundy, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Daughter of Moses Shrum and Sherilda Jane Simpson.

She was age 9 in 1910.^[1]

She married Marion Isaac Franklin Sweeton 19 Feb 1919 in Grundy County, Tennessee.^[2]

They were the parents of Nina Marie Sweeton b 1919, Alice Sweeton b 1920, James Arnold Sweeton b 1921, Inez Novella Sweeton b 1923 and Cedric Waldon Sweeton b 1925.

In 1920 Virgie was age 17. She and Marion had an infant daughter, Alice.^[3]

Virgie married Monroe Roberts 8 Dec 1929 in Grundy County.^[4]

In 1930 Vergie and Monroe Roberts were living in Grundy County with her son Cedric Sweeton, age 4 and infant son Earnest Roberts.^[5]

Monroe Roberts, Sr. and wife Vergie were living in Grundy County in 1940. Children were James A (Sweeton) Roberts age 18; Inez (Sweeton) Roberts age 16; Cedric (Sweeton) Roberts age 14 and Monroe Roberts Jr. age 10.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFP-XZG : accessed 28 November 2022), Viran Shrum in household of Mose Shrum, Civil District 4, Grundy, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 40, sheet 8B, family 163, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1500; FHL microfilm 1,375,513.
2. ↑ "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8R6-YZK : 27 January 2020), Virgie Shrum in entry for Marion Sweeton, 1919.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNPP-7XR : 3 February 2021), Virgie Sweeton in entry for Marion I F Sweeton, 1920.
4. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHQ-ZVFR : 10 March 2021), Monroe Roberts and Virgie Shrum, 08 Dec 1929; citing Grundy, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,011,533.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP4S-KH3 : accessed 28 November 2022), Vergie Roberts in household of Munroe Roberts, District 2, Grundy, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 13B, line 80, family 268, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2250; FHL microfilm 2,341,984.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4H3-HRH : 11 January 2021), Virgie Roberts in household of Monroe Roberts, Civil District 2, Grundy, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-5, sheet 15A, line 32, family 496, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3897.

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