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Born: August 07, 1853 in Christian
County, Missouri
Died: July 24, 1942 in Christian County, Missouri
Mother: Jurrita Wilson Watts
Father: Robert Doak Rogers
Married: Ivie Elvina Southwick December 21, 1882 in Christian County, Missouri
daughter of Hosea Southwick and Harriet Winston. She was born 1861 in Pennsylvania, and died 1949 in Christian County, Missouri.
Children:
- Herbert Newton
b. 1883 - Robert Emmet
b. 1886
d. 1970 - John Byron
b. 1887
d. 1971 - James Winston
b. 1889
d. 1956, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma - Charles Elkins
b. 1892, Christian County, Missouri
d. 1975 - Ruth Elinor (Dolly) Park (Adopted)
b. 1903
d. 1968, CA.
Sources and Additional Information:
The 1870 Christian Co Census shows his middle initial as "R".
In 1880 W. A. Aven was Probate Judge, Morgan Bell Public Administrator, John C. Rogers , County Clerk, E. B. Brown and J. H. Fullbright were physicians. Pollard & Hendrick, Real Estate. Some of the merchants in Ozark were: S. M. Jernigan, hardware; Wiand Tunnell, stoves and tin-ware; Tunnell (John L.) and Wrightsman, general merchandise, J. W. Robertson and son (T. L.) general merchandise; Bigbee, Caskey, & Co., clothing; Pollard & Kendrick, real estate; E. B. Brown and J. H. Fulbright were physicians. (This list is not complete but was taken from the advertisements appearing in a copy of the Monitor & Leader issue
For more insight into the life of John Clark (Johnnie) Rogers, see C. E. Rogers Writings #2.
Robert Doak's son, Johnnie, was eight years old when the Civil War battle of Wilson's Creek took place near their farm on in the summer of 1861 just after the fall of Ft. Sumter. As the battle raged near-by, Johnny's task was to keep the geese quite so that Grandpa (Jesse) Rogers who was a veteran of the War of 1812 could hear the cannons roar.
It was also John Clark Rogers who founded that Bank in Ozark, MO that was recently featured in 2 hour Dateline "Murder Before Dawn".
Another one of Robert Doak's sons was Isaac Newton Rogers (28 December 1849-12 October 1938). Charles Elkins wrote about his uncle and father:
" Father and his brother Isaac Newton were sent to St. Louis to study medicine. Uncle Doc got his M.D. but Father was unable to stomach the cadavers and switched to a business college, such as it was in those days. Uncle Doc started his practice in a village which became known as Rogersville. The story is that he sold some land he owned in the vicinity to the Springfield and Southern Railroad for a station upon condition that it would be named for him. He was a successful doctor, later practicing in Springfield, about 18 miles from Ozark."
Charles Elkins wrote of his hometown and his father"
"Ozark, in my boyhood, had a sign at its northern limits which read "Population 830." It was a village, really. In the middle of the town was the Public Square. The old county court house, built of brick (and long gone) stood in its center. Nearby was the county jail, also brick. It was here that the Bald Knobbers, a southwest Missouri vigilante band, were held after their trial for murder in 1889, pending the hanging of three of the group in the jail yard. Father had been a member of the committee assigned to witness the execution. He was acquainted with all of the doomed men, and when one of them had to be hanged twice owing to the awkwardness of the sheriff in arranging the rope Father fainted and was carried out of the jail yard. It was an experience that must have haunted him all his life."
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