GGGF Micajah Clack Rogers' next younger sibling

Siblings of Micajah Clack Rogers, (1795-1873) children of Rev. Elijah Rogers (1774-1841) and wife Catharine Clack Rogers (1778-1850)  Please note (maybe you did, maybe you didn't) that I'm spelling Mrs. Catharine Clack Rogers' name the way my grandfather spelled it from the Rogers Family Bible, when he transcribed it for his 4 sons onto typed pages with carbon copies. Not an electric typewriter either. There were correspondences with other descendants of Rev. Elijah and Catharine Rogers who still lived in Tennessee, in which their family trees called her Beulah Fairfax, and lovingly Aunt Katy. That was the first we out in Texas heard of the other names, as well as 2 daughters, Diatha and Elizabeth Rogers.

The next child Catharine Clack Rogers gave birth to was Matilda Langford Rogers, born on 14 October 1807.  There isn't much known (on Ancestry) about little Matilda, who grew up in Sevierville, Tennessee. She married Jan 10, 1828 to Jonothon or Ignatius Riggins.  The Riggins children were: James Howard, John Calhoun, Henry, Katherine, and Mary (Molly) Howard.

And the last note which I usually can add here, doesn't have any information. We don't know when Matilda died, or where. Probabaly in 1841. Her youngest child had been born in 1837. There is an interesting story about her youngest daughter, Mary (Molly) Howard Riggins, (born 1837) who married John McClure Biggs in 1857 and "removed with him to Texas."

Their daughter, Lily (1868-1948) married William J. Sims of Houston Texas. Lily Biggs Sims relayed the story that when her mother (Mary Howard Riggins Biggs) was orphaned as a baby, she had been raised (in Sevier County TN) by her grandmother Catharine Clack Rogers till the age of 15, when Mrs. Rogers died.  Lily Biggs Sims also related how the Rogers family were descended from John Rogers, the martyr who had been burned at the stake back in England. This is still part of the history of our Rogers family.

Catharine (Mrs. Elijah) Rogers died in 1850, and could easily have fostered her granddaughter, Molly Riggins before she married Mr. Biggs and moved to Texas. There's certainly joy of the first hand story (well, as transcribed in an unknown "Family Chronicle" on pg. 662) about the Riggins, Biggs, Sims line from Matilda Langford Rogers Riggins.

And I'm pleased to find a print from a photo of Mary (Molly) Howard Riggins Biggs. She lived until 1920. It's a bit amazing that this granddaughter of Rev. Elijah and Katharine Clack Rogers was raised in their household and lived till the 20th century.