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Show 185 Salt Lake Cemetery. Clustered there around her headstone, a substantial 5-foot slab of finely mottled pink/gray granite, are modest markers in pale gray granite announcing birth and death dates of Walter Curtis Shipp, Detta (Milfordetta) Shipp Neville (whose husband rests beside her), and Louisa Caroline Parrett. The dates inscribed upon their markers reveal that two of these three preceded their mother in death: Louisa on March 20, 1914 at age 38, and Walter on October 24 of the same year at age 45-a double blow for Margaret in her 65th year. Detta alone, of a family of nine children, outlived her mother. She passed away on February 11, 1964 in her ninetieth year. Maggie's memorial, in large letters, reads simply: "Dr. Margaret C. Roberts, March 13, 1926, Wife of B. H. Roberts" with this inscription across the bottom: "He giveth his beloved sleep." In that familial cluster of Maggie's markers, there is one for her father, Theodore Curtis, who died in 1908 at age 88. Close beside Maggie's large stone is a small white granite one, somewhat eroded by time, with "Maggie" carved across its top. At first glance, one would be inclined to consider this the original marker, later replaced by the family with the more substantial one. More careful scrutiny yields this inscription: "daughter of Margaret Roberts, Feb. 14, 1879 - Oct. 7, 1893." It simply follows that these heart-tugging inferences can be made: This daughter, though born in Salt Lake City, arrived during Maggie's medical schooling and departed at age 14 in the early bloom |
