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Thema: Jesse Rogers and Mr. Cawood
Datum: 03/06/2001 1:49:48 AM GMT Standard Time
From: djanet@hotmail.com (Janet Deck)
To: ROGERS-BEN-L@rootsweb.com
Dear List,
I just came across the post below at Claiborne County Queries. I have not
contacted the submitter, Glenn Taylor, to see if he knows anything further about
this Jesse Rogers. Perhaps Glenn is a member of the list??? Interesting story.
Janet
Jesse Rogers & Mr. Cawood 1878
Posted by Glenn Taylor <glenta@icx.net> on Wed, 28 Feb 2001
Maryville Index (Maryville, TN) September 18, 1878 Jesse
Rogers, Clerk & Master, and Cawood, Circuit Court Clerk of Claiborne
County, who are charged with murder of Ed Jackson, colored, for having
criminal intimacy with the wife of Rogers, have fled the country. Cawood,
who was recently re-elected as Circuit Court Clerk, was qualified on the
2nd inst. The body of the deceased, badly decomposed, was brought into
Tazewell Wednesday when a warrant was procured for the arrest of Rogers
and Cawood.
They refused to accompany the Deputy Sheriff who was sent to secure their
arrest, and while that officer left for reinforcements, the two men escaped.
Cawood subsequently appointed young Rogers as Deputy Clerk, who is now
performing the duties of the position. Efforts are being made to secure the
arrest of Cawood and Rogers, but nothing is known of either whereabouts.
---Knoxville Tribune
Note:
It is assumed that he was not tried or found not guilty as he is listed in the
1870 Claiborne Co, TN census with his wife and two children. He is listed as
"Clerk and Master"
From: JRogers722@aol.com
Subject: Re: Jesse Rogers and Mr. Cawood
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:43:37 EST
Hi Janet,
Thanks for sharing this information with us. Looks like another skeleton in our
closet. Still, it is interesting, it happened, and should therefore not be
forgotten.
I've got 14 Jesse or Jessie Rogers listed. Here is one candidate:
Jesse
C. Rogers b. 1847 in Claiborne Co d. 27 April 1888. He married Emily
E. Cawood b. 10 Mar 1849 in Claiborne Co d. 07 March 1891. They
were married 6 Jan 1865 in Campbell Co. He was the son of Canada
Hodge Rogers b. 1826 and the grandson of Major
David Rogers b. 1779. His brother was Deputy
Sheriff David F. Rogers b. 1853 who was involved in the shooting of
Wash Smith.
This Jesse would have been about the right age, born in Claiborne Co and
interestingly enough married a Cawood. That might be why "Mr." Cawood appointed
Jesse as his deputy clerk and why Mr. Cawood might have been involved in the
murder of Ed Jackson. You would think that two men associated with the justice
system would know better, but this was obviously a crime of passion and emotion.
I think they were probably guilty, but it would be interesting to find out if
they were ever brought to justice.
Trial and Death of Jesse C. Rogers
CUMBERLAND GAP PROGRESS May 2, 1888
J. C. ROGERS IS DEAD.
Jesse C. Rogers died very suddenly at the residence of his father-in-law, Jas. R. Cawood, on April 27. It has been expected for some time that he had not long to live, and that his end would be sudden. It has not been many days since he was here at Tazewell, and able to attend to his business as usual. He was buried Sunday, at the residence of Henderson Rogers in Powell's Valley.
Mr. Rogers at the time of his death was only about forty-three years old, and ought to have been in the prime of his manhood. He was elected Revenue collector at the August election 1872, and re-elected in 1874. About the time of his election to his second term he was made deputy clerk of the county court, which latter position he held until the Fall of 1878. At the October term 1877 of the Chancery Court, he was appointed Clerk & Master for the term of six years. At this time he was considered very wealthy, and he probably had more political influence than any other man in Claiborne county.
In the Fall of 1878 he had some domestic trouble and he with others was indicted at Williamsburg, Kentucky, for the murder of a colored man, Ed Jackson. When he was tried for this crime, he was acquitted, but the enormous outlay of money which it was necessary for him to make in order to secure his acquittal, materially crippled his wealth. From the time Mr. Rogers had the trouble with Jackson in Mayes stable, short time before Jackson was killed, his influence began to wane. A great many people believed he was guilty of the murder of Jackson, and besides losing a great deal of money, he began to drink excessively.
Toward the last he was seldom free from the influence of whiskey, or other alcoholic stimulants, and this fact probably hastened his death. Before he started on his downward course, few men in this county had more friends than Jesse C. Rogers. When we consider what he had done, at his early age; what he might have done, and what he finally did do, we may well say that his life is a fit subject to Po_____t a moral, or adorn _______le.
J. R. D.
May 18 2008 02:30:15
