Generation No. 1

 1.  Elijah Samuel "Sammy"1 Roseborough was born 1830-1840 in Alabama, and died Unknown in Oxford, Izard County, AR.  He married Ellen wife of Sammy Roseborough Abt. 1861.

Notes for Elijah Samuel "Sammy" Roseborough:

1.  Sammy, as recorded in Roxie Hamilton's bible (possessed by Wilma Rosebrough Mize), and "Elisha or Elijah" as remembered by Clyde Rosebrough, was reportedly captured/kidnapped by Indians and separated from his family at about the age of 8 to 9 years.  Sammy was later unable to locate or identify his ancestors.  Burl Rosebrough, one of Sammy's sons, spent $500.00 attempting to trace the Rosebrough ancestors.

2.  From "The Rosebrugh Family Story", 1971 Supplement, written by Harold Rosebrough:   "One branch of the family, who used the spelling 'Roseborough', was living in Alabama at the time of the Civil War.  Though it has not
been possible as yet to learn of any connection with the other branches, it may well be that this will eventually come to light.  These people were living in the line of advance of the enemy armies and knowing that their property would eventually fall into the hands  of the Union forces, the Roseboroughs and a family of the Hamiltons, who were neighbors and friends, went to a lawyer and had their property legally deeded to the head men among their slaves.  Both families buried their gold and other valuable articles of metal, such as table and silver ware.  After this they left in the night, and made their way to Arkansas.  The Hamiltons settled at Melbourne and the Roseboroughs at Oxford, a short distance from them.  When the Union troops arrived at the plantations they burned all the buildings.
 Several years later the two men returned and dug up the valuables, which included a quantity of gold money, especially that belonging to the Hamilton family.  The amount must have been considerable, as a grand-daughter many years later received the sum of $300.00 at the death of her stepmother, this being her share of the residue of the estate.  This grand-daughter had married a Roseborough, so that the two families became connected by marriage.

 Many years after the families had moved to Arkansas, a Negro who, as a teenager, had hunted with, and had the oversight of both the Roseborough and the Hamilton boys, came with his sick wife to the Hamilton place, asking for help.  The land that the slaves had been given had been taken away from them, and they had traveled from
Alabama.  Slavery was no longer the law of the land, and Mr. Roseborough gave the man a piece of land, along with a team of mules, and other necessary equipment.  This man and his wife spent the rest of their lives on that farm.

 This information has been supplied by Mrs. Gordie Rosebrough of McPherson, Kansas, whose husband is a great grandson of the man who, with his family, fled from Alabama during the Civil War."

Sammy is the Roseborough described in the preceding book passage.  The Hamilton and Roseborough marriage also described in the preceding book passage was between Edna Rosebrough and Roxie Hamilton.
 

More About Elijah Samuel "Sammy" Roseborough:
Buried: Batesville, AR

Notes for Ellen wife of Sammy Roseborough:
1.  Ellen's paternal grandmother was believed to be of Irish and/or English descent

Children of Elijah Roseborough and Ellen Roseborough are:

+ 2 i. Robert "Dixie" Dismuke2 Rosebrough, born 16 Dec 1862 in Izard County, AR; died 02 Jul 1932 in    Shamrock, Creek CO, OK.
+ 3 ii. Samuel "Sammy" R. Roseborough, born 16 Apr 1852 in Izard County, Arkansas; died 24 Jul 1937 in Sarcoxie, Jasper CO, Missouri.
+ 4 iii. James Roseborough.
+ 5 iv. May Rosebrough.
 6 v. Zuleu Rosebrough.  He married ? Johnson.

Notes for Zuleu Rosebrough:
1.  Zuleu operated a hotel in Caney, KS

 7 vi. Burl Rosebrough.  He married ? Lewis.