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
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 Committee (1970-1980).