Daniel ROBERTS

                   Notes taken from: "Roberts from Connecticut to California"  by Daphne Hartle, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Book 929.273  R541  h.

1. Dr. Daniel Roberts moved with his parents from Connecticut to Trumbull County, Ohio about 1804 or 1805.  He served as an apprentice to Dr Miles Clark of Portage County, Ohio. Dr. Daniel later married Dr. Clark's daughter Eliza Aldula.
2. The story does not show a move by the Roberts from Ohio to Winchester, Scott County, Illinois, but we learn from the history of William DeWitt Roberts, their seventh child, that the family moved from Winchester to Pike County in 1838  After several moves about Illinois the family crossed the Mississippi River on the ice and located at Garden Grove, Decatur County, Illinois which is about 60 miles west of Nauvoo. Dr. Daniel Roberts was baptized in Scott County Illinois in 1841.
3. Dr. Daniel Roberts was a personal friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
4. Dr. Daniel Roberts was also closely involved with correspondence to Brigham Young about questions about properties on which some of the Saints were living. The Deseret News of the 1848 period carried the story.

5. Dr. Daniel Roberts did not stay in Utah. In the spring of 1852, he went Placerville, San Jose, then San Bernardino, California, for a time where a Mormon settlement has been established. In the fall of 1853, he returned east to permanently reside in Lancaster, Schuyler, Missouri, where he practiced medicine. His wife, Eliza Aldula remained in Utah until 1856 when her son Orville Clark took her and two younger brothers back to Lancaster. She remained there until her son, William DeWitt came to Missouri in 1862 and married Maria Lusk. Then William brought his wife, mother, and brothers to Utah. Daniel, however, remained in Lancaster where he died in 1865.

Dr. Roberts was well thought of by all who knew him and was remembered by many for his medical skill and his congenial disposition. He always gave a new baby its first bath while he instructed the woman who was to care for it. His son, Orville Clark said his father would drive his one-horse cart to visit his patients, sometimes for miles, in all kinds of weather and all hours of the day and night. He loved people, especially children, and was always happy to have a group listening to his stories.