Charles David ROBERTS

                   SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0013 lists Nicholas H. Ridgely's two wives, their
children, and their grandchildren.  It is undated, but was compiled  at
some point after 1923 and prior to 1935, and lists Octavia Roberts (Mrs.
Barton Corneau) as living.
SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0008 (Kith and Kin Mailing List, February 26, 1936),
gives address as 25 Chestnut Street, Boston, Massachusetts
SOURCE:  personal knowledge of Nancy Lenox: she and Uncle Bart lived for
many years in Ogonquit, Maine, which was their summer home when my
mother was young, then later their retirement home.
SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0008 (Kith and Kin), CORNEAU 0045 (Kith and Kin) and
CORNEAU 0057 (Road of Remembrance) contain her reminiscences of her
childhood and young womanhood prior to her marriage.
SOURCE: Information from the Sangamon Valley Collection of the Lincoln
Library in Springfield, Illinois describes her as reporter for
State Journal (which experience she describes herself in CORNEAU
0057). SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0011 includes a letter from Moses Williams of
Minot, DeBlois & Maddison dated March 13, 1970 in which he says: Mrs.
Corneau seems to be well, and Mrs. Benson [her caregiver at the time] is
doing a fine job as far as I can make out.  I go over to
Mrs. Benson has a problem, or if I have not been for a number of weeks I
go over anyhow.  Mrs. Corneau seems to be getting more and more
confused and difficult to talk to.  It is too bad that her
far away, but under the circumstances, she appears to be better taken
care of than if she had gone to Springfield earlier after the death of
Barton. OBITUARY:  Death notice, Illinois State Journal, Springfield,
Illinois, Thursday, 16 March 1972, page 12:  Mrs. Octavia Roberts
Corneau, 96, of Ogunquit, Maine, formerly of Springfield, died
her home.
Prior to her marriage to the late J. Barton Corneau she was a reporter
for the Illinois State Journal.  She also wrote several special articles
and novels, including Lafayette in America, Lincoln in Illinois, The
Perilous Isle and a history of the Governors Mansion for the Illinois
State Historical Society.  Surviving are two sisters, Miss Marianne
Roberts and Mrs. George H. Atherton, both of Springfield.  A requiem
Eucharist will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Friday at the Cathedral Church of
St. Paul, Springfield.
PUBLISHED WORKS:  I have copies of all of her books that are listed in
the Library of Congress:
Lincoln in Illinois;
With Lafayette in America;
My Lady Valentine; and
The Perilous Isle (which is a novel based loosely on the early
Baptiste Toussaint Corneau).
Also in my possession are:
A Girl in the Sixties, Excerpts from the Journal of Anna Ridgely (Mrs.
James L. Hudson), edited by her Niece Octavia Roberts Corneau;
several short stories she wrote for the American Magazine; and
10 articles she wrote for the Illinois State Journal in 1912-1913
(CORNEAU 0072), which were reprinted during 1999 by the Journal:
April 24, 1912  on the sinking of the Titanic, and women's answers to
the question Should the husband die that the wife may live?
April 29, 1912 about Springfield public vocational schools
June 6, 1912 about telephone switchboard operators
June 21, 1912 about meeting John Phillip Sousa at a trap shoot
July 13, 1912 about the moving picture business and the Grand Theatre
Sept 11, 1912 about the innovative new Montessori teaching system
Sept 20, 1912 about Autumn store window displays
October 7, 1912 about the Travelers Aid Society
November 5, 1912 about immigrants learning American customs and
language at Springfield night school
November 13, 1912 asking the question is the farmer's wife lazy of
Col. Charles F. Mills, the publisher of The Farm Home
December 11, 1912 an article against the use of chewing gum by women
June 20, 1913 about fortune tellers
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS of Nancy Lenox:  When Aunt Tavie and Uncle
Bart, for so we referred to them, would come to visit us in Santa Cruz,
they would always stay on the very top floor of the Palomar Hotel in
downtown Santa Cruz.  It was a great thrill to go and visit them there,
since it meant a ride in the tallest elevator in town, all the way up to
the sixth floor; and a wide-eyed gaze out the window of the tallest
building in town when we got to their hotel room.  Aunt Tavie always had
a box of mints on hand -- round ones about the size of a silver dollar,
flat on top, ridged on the bottom, in four colors and flavors -- pale
green, pink, pale yellow, and white.  I think she was one of the few
relatives I knew who really understood what a joy it was to meAlice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was a birthday gift tobirthday, June 28, 1956.
                  

                   NICKNAME:  Renie (Ree-nee)
SOURCES:  CORNEAU 0002 (obituary, Illinois State Journal, March 9,
1961), CORNEAU 0004 (wedding announcement, with photo of the
wedding party), CORNEAU 0008 (Kith and Kin), Personal knowledge of
Catherine Addison Corneau (Lenox)
SOURCE:  Her wedding announcement (CORNEAU 0004) gives the spelling
of her middle name as GRAY, though other sources give it as GREY.
SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0013 lists Nicholas H. Ridgely's two wives, their
children, and their grandchildren.  It is undated, but was compiled  at
some point after 1923 and prior to 1935, and lists Catherine Roberts
(Mrs. Addison Corneau) as living.
SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0008 (Kith and Kin Mailing List, February 26, 1936),
gives address as 1415 Wiggins Avenue, Springfield, Illinois; at the time
of her death, she was a resident of 1248 South Grand Avenue, West,
Springfield, Illinois, and died at the Homestead Nursing Home (CORNEAU
0002).
MARRIAGE:  As Catherine Addison Corneau (Lenox), her daughter, tells it:
She was being courted by two men.  Harry Hertz Merry Harry was very
entertaining and a good dancer, but perhaps not as stable and
as he might be; Addison Corneau, though more solid, and a better
financial prospect, was a bit more quiet, busy (he was supporting his
family following his father's death in 1902) and had less time for fun.
The only time he had for courting was Friday night.  She went to Europe
to get away from both of them and sort out her thoughts and emotions.
Addison, the solid one, followed her to Europe, an action that was
romantic and impulsive enough to tip the scales in his favor, and they
were married in London at the home of her Aunt, Mrs. Julia Rea.  The
great compliment that she gave him, at the end of her life, was he was
the only one in her life that had never, ever made her cry.
He was one of the older boys in the crowd when she was a
she used to take food coloring and put it in jars to play with in the
sandbox.  One day they tipped over, and she remembered Addison kindly
stopping to help her pick them up before continuing on his way to play
with his friends.
She had dark hair and dark eyes, and played the piano some and had a
lovely singing voice.  She went to the equivalent of about two years of
college at St. Mary's Episcopal School in either Galesburg or
central Illinois.  They had to recite a quotation every
the dining hall.  Dr. Leffingwell at St. Mary's impressed her with the
maxim that the two most important qualities in life are adaptibility and
self-control.
One day her friend Helen was out of quotations, so she just tried to get
in without one, and began to quote Far away to the westward, the sun
was sinking low....  No one was familiar with the quotation, nor could
they have been, since it was an invention of the moment, but
to dinner.
AFFILIATIONS:  She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, and
the Progress Circle of King's Daughters (CORNEAU 002).	2  TYPE Keyword
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                   SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0013 lists Nicholas H. Ridgely's two wives, their
children, and their grandchildren.  It is undated, but was compiled  at
some point after 1923 and prior to 1935, and lists Nicholas Roberts as
living.
SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0008 (Kith and Kin Mailing List, February 26, 1936),
gives address as 87 High Street, Montclair, New Jersey
SOURCE: CORNEAU 0008, CORNEAU 0017
SOURCE: at the time of his mother's death (1935), he lived in Montclair,
New Jersey
He was a great story teller.
DATE OF DEATH:  Death notice, Illinois State Journal, Springfield,
Illinois, Thursday, 16 March 1972, page 12 of his sister, Mrs. Octavia
Roberts Corneau, does not list him as surviving her.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS of Catherine Addison Corneau Lenox in January
of 1995:  His mother Octavia Ridgely Roberts was particularly fond of
his conversational skills.  In her elder years, if anyone
dinner table tale-telling, or if she thought someone else's conversation
was growing tedious, she would bang her cane on the floor and say, Let
Nick talk
In the late 1920's he was President of Strauss & Co. [a bond house] in
New York.  The whole thing fell apart in the depression and he went
completely broke. He went to Yale, and they used to keep him with the
Yale chorus because, although he couldn't sing on key, he knew
words to just about every song.  He gave a big do in New York where he
gave a big silver bowl to Yale graduates who had made their Y in Life.
He had a summer house in Shelter Island, sort of the Gold
Island, where the rich folk had their summer houses, and a yacht along
with 9 other boats, all of which he lost in the depression.
CORNEAU 0045 (Kith and Kin, April 1936) his sister Octavia tells of one
of his early adventures:  One sad day, both Nick and Renie were seized
with measles at the same time.  Renie was moved into Mother's room,
but Nick was put to bed in the old nursery.  They were both very sick.
But, on Easter Sunday the doctor pronounced Renie a little better so
Mother ventured to go to church, entrusting the nurse girl to
sick children their medicine.  I must have accompanied her for I
distinctly remember that when she came home, to her horror Nick's bed
was empty. The nurse maid had devoted herself to Renie and Nick had
arisen and escaped.  We found him at last, gay and carefree, playing
about the grounds.  He not only felt no worse, he felt better.
his new found energy had taken an active and unexpected turn.   While we
had been at church, he had pried open the trap to the well and
down several bars of castile soap.  For days our drinking water was
decidedly reminiscent of this adventure.  What Nick's idea was
the soap in the well, we never knew.  Even at this distant day I wish he
would explain.
Quinine, that bitter horror, was given for every kind of cold,
form.  My brother, a lively, resourceful little fellow, dealt in no
unavailing protests.  For him to rebel was to act.  One day,
climbed up to the medicine chest and seized the bottle of quinine, and
brought it into the nursery.  Somehow it must be effectually
and forever.  We watched him with fascination, as his bright eyes
glanced about the room.  Before him stood our beautiful hobby-horse,
Dapple Gray.  His tail chanced to be the exact shade of the drug
awaiting disposal, so onto Dapple Gray's tail it was immediately poured.
To our surprise and disappointment the brush of the tail was not
absorbent, and the quinine streamed to the floor in a dreary tell-tale
puddle.  My brother, not particularly abashed by this mishap, now seized
the ipecac for which he had a fondness, as it was sticky and sweet.  The
small doses he had been given in the past had never satisfied
so with no overseer in sight, he now put the bottle to his lips and
drained the contents to the last drop.  Alas, the penalty was severe; so
great and unexpected that no one held him accountable for the
quinine, which I never remember seeing administered again.
SOURCE:  GEDCOM posted by Robert Thomas Reed, Sr., on America Online's
Genealogy Forum 20 July 1998.
                  

                   SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0013 lists Nicholas H. Ridgely's two wives, their
children, and their grandchildren.  It is undated, but was compiled  at
some point after 1923 and prior to 1935, and lists Mildred Roberts (Mrs.
R. E. Hatcher, Jr.) as living.
NICKNAME:  Milly
SOURCES:  CORNEAU 0008, CORNEAU 0017
RESIDENCES:  at the time of her mother's death (1935), she was married
to Robert Hatcher Jr., and resided in Springfield, Illinois;
630 South Sixth Street, Springfield, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH:  Her sister Octavia Roberts (Corneau's) obituary, March
1972, lists her as a survivor, and lists her married name as Mrs. George
R. Atherton, and her residence as Springfield; her son, Bob
December 2, 1975 letter to his cousin Catherine Corneau Lenox (CORNEAU
0007), says that a memorial fund has been established in his mother's
name at St. Paul's Cathedral in Springfield, Illinois, implying that her
death preceded that date, and thus falls between March 1972 and
December 1975. CORNEAU 0007 also includes a newspaper reprint of
photo of Mrs. R.E. Hatcher (maiden name Mildred ROBERTS) taken in 1908,
captioned Do You Remember.