The first written record I found on Ancestry (not counting other members' postings on their own family pages) is the Census for Hamilton County TN, Dist. 27, for 1850.
And I doubt that they have this record listed, since the family is listed under Spinger Rodgers, for Spencer Rogers. Jane is 32, while Spencer (Spinger) is 33. That does give us a general idea of her birth year, within a few months. Since the census was taken in Nov. of 1850, she probably had already had her birthday.
The way I was sure the Spinger C. Rodgers and Jane were Spencer C. and Jane Rogers was the names and ages of their children. See my previous post which listed them in the 1860 census...with new wife, Mary (who had 2 records of their marriage.)
in 1860 Census - Spencer C. Rogers -
Children's names are
Arthur C. 18
Jane C. 15
Cornelia A. 13
Emma 10
William S 6
George M 6 months
By the next census of 1860 John was 23 and a bookkeeper still living at home with Spencer (in Nashville TN then). Since George M. was 6 months old in 1860, I assume he was Mary's son, not Jane who died in 1855.
OK back to Jane Chandler Rogers. The Chandler family was pretty well off in Sevier County TN at the time she would have met Spencer, a preacher/farmer's youngest son.
Her father John built a gorgeous home...
Wheatlands (Sevierville, Tennessee)
1825
Sevierville, Sevier, Tennessee
"Wheatlands was an antebellum plantation in Sevier County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The plantation's surviving structures— which include the plantation house, a storage shed, and smokehouse— have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The plantation house has been called "the best example of a Federal-style building remaining in Sevier County."[2] Wheatlands, named after its large annual wheat crop, was established as a family farm by Revolutionary War veteran Timothy Chandler in 1791. Chandler's son, John Chandler (1786–1875), inherited Wheatlands in 1819, and under his direction the plantation grew to become one of Sevier County's largest farms, covering 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) by 1850.[3] Chandler's freed slaves inherited part of Wheatlands in 1875, and formed the Chandler Gap community in the hills south of the plantation. State Highway 338 roughly follows what was once a section of the 18th-century Native American trail known as the Great Indian Warpath. In 1780, John Sevier followed the path across the French Broad River to engage and defeat a Cherokee force at the Battle of Boyds Creek, which took place at the future site of Wheatlands.[5] Early settlers also followed the trail into the Boyds Creek area, among them Timothy Chandler, a Revolutionary War veteran from Virginia, who moved his family to Boyds Creek in 1791.[2] ...
After Timothy Chandler died in 1819, his son, John Chandler, inherited the family's Boyds Creek farm. The original Chandler farmhouse burned in 1824, and John Chandler built the present plantation house at the site to replace it.[2] By 1850, Wheatlands had become one of the largest farms in Sevier County, covering some 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) worth $7,000 (US$193 thousand in present terms[6]), and included fifteen horses, ten mules, forty cattle, fifty sheep, and three hundred hogs. Chandler and fourteen slaves produced 3,000 bushels of corn, 400 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of sweet potatoes, 12 bushels of buckwheat, 10 tons of hay, 150 pounds of wool, 200 pounds of butter, and 200 gallons of honey. The plantation's distillery produced 6,000 gallons of whiskey, worth $4,500 (US$124 thousand in present terms[6]).[3]
When Southern slaves were emancipated during the American Civil War (1861–1865), Chandler started paying his freed slaves to remain at Wheatlands. Upon his death in 1875, Chandler left his former slaves a portion of land along the south side of Wheatlands known as Chandler Gap. The Chandler Gap community remained a predominantly African-American community well into the 20th century. In 2011, three Pigeon Forge businessmen purchased Wheatlands, and announced plans to restore the house, and possibly re-establish a distillery on the property.
Wheatlands is located at the corner of State Highway 338 (Boyds Creek Highway, sometimes called Old Knoxville Highway) and Cedar Springs Valley Road in the Boyds Creek community, about halfway between Sevierville and Seymour. The plantation was situated along the banks of Boyds Creek, which empties into the French Broad River at the Brabson's Ferry Plantation about a mile to the east. This gave Wheatlands access to the nation's interior waterways, allowing this shipment of its "Wheat Whiskey" to New Orleans."
(Source: description which came with the photo on Ancestry, posted by
SherryWhaley2 June 14, 2013.)
Jane was one of 9 children raised in that home.
So Jane Chandler married Spencer C. Rogers on Dec. 18, 1833. I don't know how that date was commemorated, as the documentation is missing. But a specific date does lead one to believe it happened.
She and Spencer supposedly had 10 children. I'm sure if I looked at the trees of them, I would find out records that substantiate most of them.
Correction of Mary A. Simmons Rogers:
There are many ancestry trees belonging to other descendants who list Mary A. Rogers as the daughter of Jane Chandler (first wife) and Spencer C Rogers, since she was born in 1833, just before his marriage to Jane Chandler in December of that year. I have taken the liberty to return Mary A. to her (I assume) rightful place as his second wife. There are 2 census records that support this. She doesn't exist on his 1850 record above with Jane as wife. And she is listed first above his children in the 1860 record, where a wife would have been. (Plus two records of her marriage to Spencer in 1859.)
I do have records that show that both Spencer C. and Jane Chandler Rogers were listed as parents, on the death certificates of these 2 of their daughters. Both Emma and daughter Jane C. Rogers are on the 1850 and 1860 census of the Spencer C. Rogers families.
Jane C. Rogers Grosheider died in 1935 at 89 years of age, and her death certificate information in Indiana, clearly gives her parents. This information was provided by Bertha Grosheider, the youngest daughter of 11 children of Jane C. Grosheider.
More, maybe a final chapter, on Jane Chandler...soon.
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