This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roberts, Kelley, Mather Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XW.2ADI/709 Message Board Post: Obituary: Yreka Journal, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1914 Isaac Roberts was born July 16, 1831, near the city of Chillicothe, Ohio. Died September 29, 1914. at Fort Jones, California. In 1852 he joined the ranks of those sturdy pioneers who were wending their way towards the Golden West and crossed the plains, arriving at Willammette Valley, Oregon, subsequently coming to Siskiyou County in 1853, where he engaged in mining on Indian Creek. In 1861, he was united in marriage with Miss Honora Kelley and to this union were born four sons and three daughters, of whom three sons, Charles, Emmett I. and Walter, and one daughter, Mrs. Lester Mather, together with Mrs. Roberts are still living. As a husband and father he was kind and devoted and too great pleasures in the society of his children and grandchildren. His was one of those kindly dispositions that make friends on all sides. He became a member of North Star Lodge No. 91, F & A. M., in October 1859 and for over half a century had been an active worker and holder of various offices in that lodge. One of his last requests was that his funeral services be conducted by the lodge of which he had so long been a member. His creed was simple: Faith in God, hope of immortality and charity towards his fellow man. His charity was of that unobtrusive kind that "vaunteth not itself, thinketh no evil". A few hours before his death, he fell into a slumber so deep that as the setting sun sank to rest behind the western hills his soul forsook the weary body for that peace and response that are to be found only in that house eternal in the heavens where Christ has told us "are so many mansions". No more will this kindly countenance be seen in his accustomed walks; no more will his voice be heard in the councils of his Masonic breathern; we mourn our loss.