Josiah Rogers, born in 1802, who has no other record of his existence. It is surmised that he died young.
Elizabeth Clack Rogers McCroskey was first mentioned HERE last year as I tried to understand the McCrorskey connection to my family.
She was born 15 Aug 1805, and married David McCroskey in 1828. In Sevier County, Tennessee. They had 10 children. Her last son was born in 1848 when she was 43 years old.
Elizabeth died on Dec. 8, 1864.
The 1850 census for Eastern Subdivision 12, Sevier County TN lists her and her husband and all 10 children. By the 1860 census they are living in District 7 of Sevier County TN. I don't know if they moved, or the districts were renamed.
In the 1860 census they have 6 McCroskey children living with them. And the household has 8 people in the Reed family, as well as 3 of the Hardin family. This speaks of how mountain communities often merge families (especially on farms where they can work together) and even the mother-in-law might live where she can either help or be cared for.
Now that I've guessed that the Reeds and Hardins are families of married McCroskey daughters, I'm going to go check to see who married whom.
Ha, that's a joke. I found Rachel Reed on the census, and there was a McCroskey daughter named Rachel. But she married Sylvanus Ball, not Sam'l Reed. And the mother in law (age 67 to David and Elizabeth's 55 years) doesn't seem related to them. Who were the Reeds anyway?
Then how about the Hardins? No luck there, because wife Sarah Hardin was 4 years older than Sarah (Sally) McCroskey, who is already listed on the census.
So the household had 2 other families, as well as the younger 6 children McCroskeys in 1860.
The last record of Elizabeth Rogers McCroskey is her headstone.
In the Trundle Family Cemetery, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee
And David McCroskey remarried in 1865 and had 6 more children before his death in 1885.
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