The Roberts Family

The Thomas Roberts family built our home in 1892.  A local book on the history of our community has a number of photos of the family and property and relates that it encompassed fifty acres and was known as the best farm in West Bountiful.  During much of the twentieth century our community was considered the poor step-child of Bountiful, our much larger neighbor to the east of the highway and the train tracks.  But in the later nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century this was the rich part of town because this was (and is) where the best farm land is located.  Consequently we have many more "mini-mansions" as they are called than our neighboring city to the east that is built on the poor, rocky soil of the bench (our local foothills).

Home and Family - early 1900's?

The Roberts family raised eleven children in our home and like most homes of the time there was one bedroom for the boys and one for the girls and one for Ma and Pa.  If we can find a current family member that has the original family photo posted here we would like to copy and frame it for display in our foyer.  In later photos we'll show how we modified the porch from the original which had been removed before we bought the house.  Due to the size of the bushes we assume these photos are from the early 1900's.