Whitesboro News Record
Friday, November 23, 1945

Fred Roberts, 91 year old retired farmer of Sadler and resident of Grayson Co. 65 years, died at 6 p.m. Thur. at the home of a niece, Mrs. Dewey Roberts of Denison, following an illness of several weeks.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sadler Baptist Church.  Burial was in Christian Chapel Cemetery.
Mr. Roberts was born at Marshall, Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Roberts and received his education at Clarksville, Ill.
He came to Grayson Co. in 1880, settling one-and-a-half miles east of Sadler.  At that time business houses had not been built in Sadler, and residents of this community came to Whitesboro once a week for their mail.
Roads being too muddy for wagon travel, Mr. Roberts walked to Sherman to secure his marriage license.  He and Mary Elizabeth Adams were married here Feb. 12, 1882.
Surviving are his wife and two nieces, Mrs. Dewey Roberts of Denison and Mrs. Bill Holley of Sadler.

Sherman Democrat
January 1952

Sadler - Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sadler Baptist Church for Mrs. Mary E. Roberts, 86, who died
early Saturday morning at the home of a niece, Mrs. S.B. Woods, Denison.  Mrs. Roberts had been ill about nine weeks.
Burial will be in the Christian Chapel Cemetery, Sadler, under the direction of Funderburk Funeral Home.
Mrs. Roberts was born June 4, 1866, in Grayson County.  She was a member of the church of Christ.  Survivors include
two nieces, Mrs. Woods and Mrs. J.W. Hollie, both of Denison.