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Mrs. Richard Lindsay Roberts
(Martha Todd Barker)
1911 - 1997
Martha Todd
Barker Roberts, daughter of Winston Brooks Barker and Mary
Louise Herrick was a
native of Covington, Kentucky. Mrs. Roberts was married to
Richard Lindsay Roberts who died in 1972. He was
an officer with a leading bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs.
Roberts had been employed by the
Cincinnati Art Museum. She was an
historian widely recognized as an authority on genealogy
and was devoted to historic preservation and restoration
projects. Martha Todd Roberts died October 14, 1997.
Memberships
* National Gavel society (former President)
* Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25 (former
President)
* Order of the Crown in America (former President)
* National Society Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
(Honorary
President General)
* National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of
America (former
Counselor)
*
National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
(Surety)
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (former
Historian)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(Appointed
Member to the Committee Chairmen's Association and the President
General's Reception Room Committee)
Mrs. Roberts
was honored by the National Society Colonial Daughters of
the Seventeenth Century by the named Rare Book Fund at the
College of William and Mary. In addition, she originated
the establishment of the Catherine Lindsay Knorr Records
Restoration Fund for the Order of the Crown in America.
Other Notes
Mrs. Roberts served as a member of the Historical
Board of Duncan Tavern in Paris, Kentucky. She was a
member of Highland United Methodist Church of Fort Thomas,
Kentucky. Mrs. Roberts served as First President of
the Holly Hill Guild Protestant Children's Home, as well
as Campbell County Chairman of the Kentucky Heritage
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