You never know what you are going to learn about someone when you start doing historical research; that’s what happened to me when I began to write about the Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights.  I came across the name Frederick Roberts and accidentally discovered that there was more to his history than meets the eye.  Not only was he the great-grandson of the enslaved Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States), but Frederick was the first African-American to be elected to the California State Assembly in 1919.  But as you will read, there were other firsts for the Roberts family.