Roberts of Stuart!

 
Stuart's "First" Dentist

Dr. Charles Roberts and his wife, Mattie Belle McQuarrie Roberts

We would like to thank Dorothy E. Clark (the Roberts' granddaughter) of Avondale Estates, Georgia, for the following information and photos. We appreciate you allowing this information to be used in our historical section of the City's web site.


Dr. Roberts 1907   Mattie B Roberts 1907

  Home 1910           Roberts Family 1917
 

  Roberts and McQuarrie Family 1917

  Home 1920           Bathing 1917

  Behind the Roberts home in 1930 

  Mattie B Roberts 1920                  

  Stuart in the 30's

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Mattie Belle Roberts arrived in Stuart from Key West in May, 1909 with her family - the Rev. N. P. McQuarrie (her father), Rebecca Agnes Woodworth McQuarrie (her mother), her 9 month old daughter Elizabeth and her sisters, Vesta and Edith.

Her father, Rev. McQuarrie, was head of the "Gospel Navy", relocated to Stuart from Key West in 1909 and providing ministry to isolated settlers up and down the east coast of Florida.

Her husband, Dr. Charles Earnest Roberts, was Stuart's first dentist, starting his practice in the early 1900's and moving his family to the Atlanta area in 1918. They were married in 1907.

Mrs. Roberts served a term as school principal in 1909, taught piano lessons and served as the first Stuart's newspaper society editor. She gave birth to two children in Stuart - Charles Neil (1911) and Isabel (1913).Mrs. Roberts passed away in 1978 and is buried with her husband, parents and daughter Elizabeth in Stuart.

For a look into Stuart's past, click here (large file - 480k) for the article  on Mrs. Roberts, published May, 1978.