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Born: 26 Mar 1887
Died: 16 Sept 1953
Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, LaFollette, Union County, Tennessee
Mother: Olivia P. L. (Ollie) Rogers
Father: Reuben B. Rogers
Married: Leslie Thomas
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Subject: [ROGERS-BEN] RE: LDS Microfiche
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Date: 8/17/2001 9:32:31 PM GMT Daylight Time
From: Kaybulling@aol.com
To: ROGERS-BEN-L@rootsweb.com
Dear Cousins,
While searching for the identity of the father of my Madison M. Rogers, I encountered a delightful little story about Dr. French Haggard Rogers. The title of the article was "Clairfield--Home to Me" by Minnie Thomas Fleeman. Minnie is the sister of Leslie Thomas who married Dr. Rogers.
And I quote " Dr. French Haggard Rogers from Well Spring finished medical school in 1912, came here to practice medicine and stayed until he died. He would go day or night to see anyone who needed him, or he would sit up all night with a very sick patient. In the early days he rode a big black horse that he called Raven; later he drove an automobile. When he had to go on the mountain from Buffalo, he would borrow a mule to ride up the mountain.
Dr Rogers and his wife Leslie were going down the road in a car one day when a dead tree that had been standing by the highway fell across the car and broke Dr. Rogers leg-- halfway between his knee and his ankle making a compound fracture. The train had run for the day and there was no hospital in Jellico. They put Dr. Rogers on a railroad hand car operated by four men-two men on each side worked the lever up and down. They took him to Holton and put him on a train to send him to a hospital in Knoxville. One of the men on the hand car said that the Doctor was praying one minute and "cussing the next".
Dr. Rogers delivered hundreds of babies in this area. He was very well-known and will be remembered by the multitude of people for his generosity and unselfish service to mankind. He served this community for forty years before he died of diabetic complications. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in LaFollette."
Kay Bullinger
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