Sarah Magness Roberts
My four times great-grandmother was Sarah Magness. The daughter of Perrygreen/Peregrine and Mary [or Sarah Hamrick] Magness, she was born 16 February 1772 in Tyron County, North Carolina. She married Col. John Roberts sometime between 1788 and 1790, possibly in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Sarah and John were the parents of eleven known children with their son, Thomas, being my three times great-grandfather.
About the year of 1816, Col. John and Sarah Roberts with their family moved to what was Lincoln County to take up residence on the farm of his brother-in-law, William Magness, who had passed away earlier that year. This farm contained about 800 acres and is located just east of State Route 2047. All of this rich bottom land now lies beneath the waters of Moss Lake. Their house stood on a knoll about 300 yards east of the old cemetery where Col. John and Sarah are buried.
She died 16 October 1828 in Lincoln (now Cleveland) County, North Carolina, and is buried in the Roberts Family Cemetery in Cleveland County, North Carolina. The cemetery is located in a grove of cedars on a high knoll just off State Route 2047 about four miles easy of Shelby. The cemetery is now located on private property.
Sarah Magness World Connect Project Page
Source Citations
Juanita "Nita" Evans Caldwell, Morris Roberts and Some of His Descendents, third printing, November 2002 (Lincolnton, North Carolina: Juanita Evans Caldwell; April 1999)
Earl Douglas Honeycutt III, "Col. John Roberts Family," in The Heritage of Cleveland County Volume I - 1982, coordinator James D. Marler (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: The Cleveland County Historical Association in cooperation with Hunter Publishing Company, 1982), 501-02.
Elizabeth, "Sarah Magness Roberts." Find A Grave. 17 Oct 2014
Thomas Gray Webb, The Webb Families of Dekalb County, Tennessee and 23 Related Families (Smithville, Tennessee: Thomas Gray Webb; 2002)