Loop, Texas Roberts Reunion 2022

 Roberts Family Reunion in Loop, Texas (4 September 2022)

There are Roberts’ cousins everywhere on this earth, even in Loop, Texas.  Loop is a small unincorporated farming community located in Gaines County near the New Mexico state line named for the loop of the postmaster’s lasso. The population is around 250 residents. Pumpkins were the primary crop we saw when we visited in 2022. Miles and miles of fields of bright orange pumpkins. It was harvesttime and the pumpkins presented great splashes of color to the normally dry brown landscape of west Texas.

If you want to see what Texas hospitality is… plan to attend the next Roberts Reunion in Loop.  The whole Humphrey Roberts family members (see group photo below) welcomed us with wide open arms as big as the state of Texas.  Tommy and I met up with our cousins from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Roy and Pat Roberts, to meet this new line of relatives. We plan to attend every time we can get out that way and highly recommend others do too.

L-R: 1st row: Sitting- Kathy Todd Halbrooks, June (Roberts) Boles, Carla Todd Young, Randy King, Jodi Furlow, & Billy Dale Roberts.   Standing- Stacy Halbrooks Williams. 2nd row: Kay Bingham Boggan, Noah Roberts, Scott Boles, Loyd Halbrooks, Ross Roberts, Donna Roberts, Jaclyn Roberts, Troy Parrish, Jan Allyn Boles, Caleb Gentry, Nate, Jaxon, Johnathan Mack Furlow, Roy & Pat Roberts, Lance Hudgin, Gracie & Tommy Roberts, & Gay King.

The Roberts families from Loop, Texas are descended from the Humphrey>Joseph>William> Joseph Buster> Billy Dale and Jane Roberts line.  Humphrey Roberts (b. 1790- d. between1850-1859) and Martha “Mattie” (Cowan) came from North Carolina. They married 20 January 1811 in Rowan County, North Carolina. They had four children: Samuel, the oldest, was born in North Carolina.  The couple then moved to Tennessee @ 1813 where three other children were born: Joseph (NOT our Joseph of Mine Lick Creek), Joshua, and Howard. Joseph Roberts (1906-1970) met Sarah K. Weeks in Giles County, Tennessee and they married @ 1843. They had eight children: Margaret, Mary Ann, James, Nancy, William, John, Martha, and Francis. William M. “Bill” Roberts was born @ 1859 in Marion County, Alabama. He married Helen Izora (Weeks) (1869-1955) on 7 April 1889 in Lamara County, Alabama. They moved to McCaulley, Texas in 1909 then to Dawson County, Texas in January 1917. They had eight children: Charles, Minnie, Mattie, Margaret, Sally, Hallie, Joseph Buster, and Mary. Joseph Buster Roberts (1906-1970) married Jewel Ruby Waldrep (1906-2003) and they had three children: Nelva June (1935), Joe (1937), and Billy Dale (1937). Nelva June (Roberts) married Harold Wayne Boles and they had two children: Jan and Joe.  Billy Dale Roberts married Donna Boles and they had four children: Ross, Gena Dale, Lori, and Jodi. Jodi (Roberts) married Aaron Furlon and they had one son Jonathan Mark.

  Neva June (Roberts) Boles and brother Billy Dale Roberts w/Tommy

(Children of Joseph Buster Roberts)

Families of brothers John & William M. Roberts

(Sons of Joseph Roberts)