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Edwin Wilburn Rogers
Born: 12 November 1844 in Platte
County, Missouri
Died: 04 October 1921 in Winchester, Jefferson County, Kansas
Mother: Sarah (Sallie) Tabitha Carr
Father: John Marshall Rogers
Married: Martha Lucretia Ann Witt 25 February 1869 in Platte City, Platte County, Missouri
Born: 11 July 1852 in Platte County, Missouri
Died: 27 April 1927 in Winchester, Jefferson County, KansasMother: Eleanor T. Gibbs
b. 06 October 1822Father: William Hughes Witt
d. 05 April 1883 in MOb. 17 March 1819 in KY
d. 16 April 1904 in MO
Children:
- Infant
- William Edwin
b. 14 July 1870, Leavenworth County, Kansas
d. 13 December 1924, Winchester, Jefferson County, Kansas - Jennie Elanor
b. 04 February 1872, Winchester, Jefferson County, Kansas
d. 30 May 1923, Winchester, Jefferson County, Kansas - Wesley Turner
b. 06 May 1874, Leavenworth Co, KS
d. 03 November 1969
m. Nora Boyd - James Marshel
b. 22 March 1876, Leavenworth Co, KS
d. 06 May 1961
m. Claire Pitts; d. 1905. - Charles Gibson
b. 21 January 1878, Leavenworth County, Kansas
d. 13 January 1976
m. Marian Burns, 17 May 1921 - Anna May
b. 10 October 1885, Jefferson Co, KS
d. 11 September 1920
m. David Henson
Sources and Additional Information:
Subject: Edwin Wilburn Rogers info.
Date: 02/11/99 4:31:21 AM GMT Standard Time
From: wellmanj@idir.net (Joy and Richard Wellman)
To:
JRogers722@aol.com
I've not been participating in the active exchange of Rogers info. because I've been working on a special project with a local cemetery board that has taken over an abandoned cemetery. There are several legal issues that I've been researching in Kansas statutes as well as documents at the county court house. Have some other Rogers info. that I'll get on the network as soon as I have time to get it entered.
The following is not primary information, but it does give some comments about the connection to the person we know as Major David. It is from the "HISTORY OF JEFFERSON CO. KANSAS, 1889".
Richard
EDWIN W. ROGERS
Edwin W. Rogers is the owner and occupant of a pleasant and remunerative estate in Jefferson Township, and ranks well among the progressive and enterprising farmers of Jefferson County. He is a man of intelligence, uprightness and ability, and one with whom an hour can always be pleasantly spent, his experience of life in different parts of the west having given him an excellent fund from which to draw entertaining and instructive incidents and opinions.
Mr. Rogers was born in Platte County, Mo., Nov. 12, 1844, to John and Sarah Rogers, who were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom lived to maturity. The Rogers family were residents of Eastern Tennessee, and the father of our subject removed west at quite an early day. He was a son of Major Rogers who lived to be above ninety years of age, and who was the father of twelve sons and one daughter, all of whom grew to maturity and were alive at the beginning of the war. During that civil strife, members of the family participated on both sides. The wife of Major Rogers also lived to be above fourscore and ten years old.
The gentleman of whom we write was reared on a farm in his native state, which he left at the time of the gold excitement in the northwest to search for the precious metals in Montana, where he made mining his business. He was located at Virginia City, Helena and the great mining center of Bannock, and was able to make $8 per day and to secure some property. He has paid as high as $2 per meal for his board, and when boarding himself bought flour at $1.10 per pound. While at the mines he was an eye-witness to a hanging, when a man was taken from a saloon by a mob and summarily executed by being hung to a beef post.
Returning from the mines, Mr. Rogers staid with his mother until they broke up housekeeping, and in 1869 he was united in marriage with Miss Anna, daughter of W. H. and Eleanor Witt, who were among the first settlers in Platte County, whence they had come from Kentucky. After his marriage, Mr. Rogers remained in Missouri a year, and then removed to Leavenworth County, Kansas, settling on the western line, where he bought and opened a good farm. He had brought it to an excellent state of cultivation, when in 1881, he sold it, and a few months later bought the place which he now occupies.
It is one of the finest locations along the road, is three and a half miles from Winchester and about eight miles from Nortonville, occuping parts of section 12, 8 and 19, and comprising 145 acres. The Hull Cemetery joins his place on the southwest corner. The dwelling is which the family now live is a well-built frame structure, 16 x 34 feet,, with an L 14 x 18 feet, and porches on the front and rear. It was erected in 1883, and commodious barn which is now in use was built in 1889.
The progeny of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers comprises four sons and two daughters: Edwin is a young man of nineteen; Jennie, a young lady; Turner is fifteen; James, thirteen; Charlley, eleven, and May four years old. Mr. Rogers was elected to the office of Township Trustee on the Democratic ticket, and filled the position so acceptably that his friends urged him to accept again, but he positively declined. He belongs to the Home Protection Society. He is a member of the Christian Church at Winchester, and it is needless to say is highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens.
Subject: Platt County Mo. Graves
Date: 07/25/2000 1:25:40 AM GMT Daylight Time
From: PVROG
To: wellmanj@idr.net, JRogers722
Hi Richard and Jerry;
I am not sure which of the members or the list are interested in the Platt county Mo. graves. In view of some of the recent letters all may find this of some interest.
I did do some exploring in the area. I am reasonably sure that I was in the right location. It is reasonably easy to find now. The best way is to leave either I 435 or I 29, south of the airport, go to Amity on either 152 or Barry Road. You can then go north to Tiffany Springs Road. I believe that the Earl Snider farm is on the North west corner of Tiffany Springs road and Amity. .
I did not make an attempt to go on the property. I think that the good news may be that the land use does not seem to have changed recently. The property is just north of Weatherby Lake, there are pockets of development in the area.
I went west of Tiffany Springs to the T in the road. The North south road is closed just north of the interchange. The no trespassing sticker on the barricade indicates that it belongs to the Kansas City park department. From the barricade it looks like the cemetery may have been used as a rock and dirt dump. If I do go ahead and trespass I will take a camera and a Video. You might be able to access the area from the Tiffany Springs Park.
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