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Born: 1892 in Christian County,
Missouri
Died: 1975
Mother: Ivie Elvina Southwick
Father: John Clark (Johnnie) Rogers
Married: (1) Sadie Berstein
Child:
- William Cecil
b. 1919
m. Mary Jane Anderson
Married: (2) Rosemary Fleming
Sources and Additional Information:
Charlie Rogers, son of John Clark Rogers was a journalist who wrote several interesting articles about growing up in the Ozarks and his family.
" Two years of high school had been added to the Ozark school system by the time I was ready to go to secondary school. I completed the two years at Ozark and went on to William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, deviating from the family tradition of Drury. Mother favored the school because it had a religious orientation (Baptist), and I because of its proximity to what I thought of as the gay life of Kansas City. After prepping at William Jewell I joined Jim at Oklahoma in 1911 and made my own letter in football, playing end under a famous coach, the one-armed Bennie Owen. That same year the Sooners had their first all-victorious season. I don’t claim all of the credit for it, but the fact is that it had not happened before I appeared on the scene! Although I was involved in a number of campus activities I was known chiefly as "Chuck Rogers, the football player." Like By and Jim before me I became a member of Kappa Alpha. At the time I thought of it as the preeminent college fraternity in the nation. Oklahoma had not long been a state in those days and the university was small, with a few hundred students. I was enrolled in the journalism school and was on the staff of the University Oklahoman, good practice for my later career as a reporter and still later as a professor of journalism."
Subject: Re: Rogers in Christian Co
Date: 01/10/99 2:37:00 PM GMT Daylight Time
From: ruf002@mail.connect.more.net (Mabel G. Phillips)
To: JRogers722@aol.com
Christian County First 100 Years has been out of print for a couple of years. The library owns the copyright, and I've been meaning to get bids on reprinting it. Two things I might mention, though. There are usually some copies listed on Bibliofind. That's an on-line book selling service where anyone from individuals to big companies can place holdings and what they're asking. Several of those around, but I usually check Bibliofind.com first.
Second, though I'm not sure exactly what the status of all these things I've been sending are, we are putting the book on-line. Marie Steele who maintains the Christian County Transcribed Records site told me three or four weeks ago that she had finished putting it into the computer. But, I haven't heard anything in a while.
A Rogers - huh? Let's see if I can untangle all this. I have tried hard to figure out a connection with my family, but it doesn't seem to be a blood connection, just social. On the 1880 census, Laura Ann (Fowler) Hart Parton who is "Uncle Ike" housekeeper is my great grandmother, Mary Belle (Fowler) Phillips' oldest sister. Isacc and his two doctor brothers took on a teen-age apprentice about that time. Cullen Bryant Elkins was the son of my great, great grandmother's baby brother, Higdon Richard Jarrett "Dick"
Elkins. C. B. went on to medical school in New York City, serve on the first Missouri Medical Board, headed every hospital in Springfield before dying at nearly age 90 as the oldest practicing physician in Springdfield.
Upon the death of their parents, Isaac and his mother took to raise two Flagg sisters and their brother. C. B. married one of those sisters. Their grandson lives near Hopedale today. Ron Elkins owns EDCO microfilming and serves as vice chairman of the county planning & zoning. C. B.'s full sister, Malissa
Caroline Elkins married my great grandfather's younger brother, William Lincoln "Bill" Phillips. C. B.'s older full brother, Euclid S. Elkins married Laura Ann (Fowler) Parton Hart Wimmer's oldest daughter, Sarah Mary "Mollie" Hart. And one of the Rogers grandchildren, Charles Elkins Rogers who was a journalist was named for C. B. who also delivered him.
Mabel
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