Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Jessamine Co.

JAMES A. ROBERTS is a son of Rankin and Nancy (Jones) Roberts, natives
of Jessamine County, Ky.  The grandfather, Thomas Roberts, a native of
Virginia, settled in Kentucky in 1792.  James A. was born in 1842 in
Jessamine County, Ky., and received his education at the common schools.
He enlisted in September, 1862, in Company B., Eighth Kentucky, Cluke's
regiment (Morgan's cavalry), was wounded at Bull's Gap, E. Tenn., and
served until the close of the war.  Since then he has been engaged in
farming.  He was married, in 1875, to Rossa Belle Oldham, of Fayette
County, and there have been born to him three children: William Rankin,
Nancy Belle and Florida M.  He is a member of the Christian Church, of
Providence.

Roberts Jones Oldham
=
Fayette-KY VA

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