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Born: 09 April 1855 in Claiborne
County, Tennessee
Died: 17 January 1911 in Knox County, Tennessee
Mother: Margaret (Peggy) Wilson
Father: Jesse LaFayette (Mut) Rogers
Married: (1) Annie McPhetridge. She was born 25 Feb 1860 in Milford, Ohio and died 6 Feb 1903 in Knox County, Tennessee
Children:
- Ralph L.
b. 17 February 1879
d. 06 January 1943
m. Ann McIntosh - Margaret (Maggie)
b. 10 August 1880
d. 17 September 1940
m. George Hodges
Married: (2) Mary "Molly" (Ewing) Cottrell 9 Jun 1904
Child:
- Frank Tipton
b. 29 February 1908
d. 5 May 1977
m. Dale Gilette
Sources and Additional Information:
Subject: Ralph Rogers
Date: 25/10/99 5:37:41 AM GMT Daylight Time
From: mckinzie@thefuturenet.net (McKinzie Brantley)
To: jrogers722@aol.com
Hey Jerry:
I'm the g-grandson of John Rogers, brother of Jesse, Jr. or Mut as they called him. I just have the 2 kid of Ralph; Nancy & Ralph, Jr.
McKinzie
Subject: Jesse L. Rogers
Date: 06/21/2000 3:48:33 AM GMT Daylight Time
From: wellmanj@idir.net (Richard & Joy Wellman)
To: JRogers722@aol.com
As we share information on the various branches of the Rogers tree, one approach that might help clarify which John Rogers or James Rogers ---or Jesse, we are talking about would be to list the ancestry line back to immigrant Benjamin in a manner as shown below.
The following article is from GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF TENNESSEE, 1887 of thirty east Tenn. Counties, page 1187 regarding Jesse. L. Rogers (Jesse, Major David, John the powdermaker, Benjamin) Jesse L. Rogers, one of the most prominent members of the Jefferson County bar, at Dandridge, was born in Powell's Valley, Claiborne County, April 9, 1855, the son of Jesse and Margaret (Wilson) Rogers, both natives of Powell's Valley, and born October 6, 1811, and December 15, 1814, respectively. The father has followed farming for over a half century, on his present farm, in Claiborne County, serving two terms as trustee before the war, and being justice several years. David, the grandfather, was born in 1777, in Virginia, and came to Claiborne County in early days, and served as the first sheriff, being elected by the county court. He was ninety-four years old when he died. The mother, a daughter of David Wilson, of Claiborne County, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died November 29, 1857. Our subject worked for twelve years on the farm, when he became an invalid for three years, afflicted with white swelling. He finished his education at Tazewell Academy, and in February, 1873, began the study of law at home, and in October following enterted the law department of Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn., from which he graduated in 1874. He then practiced in Tazewell, and in October began a three years' career as clerk and master of Claiborne County Court. When twenty-one he was a successful candidate for representative of Claiborne and Hancock Counties in the Fortieth General Assembly, the youngest member of that body.
He was a delagate to the famous Chicago Convention, and cast thirty-five ballots for Blaine, and the last for Garfield. Since September, 1881, he has been in a splendid practice at Dandridge, of which place he was elected mayor in 1882. Annie McFetridge, who was born in Milford, Ohio, February 25, 1860, became his wife October 24, 1877. Their children are Ralph L., born February 17, 1879, and Maggie, born August 10, 1880
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