Great (x4) Aunt Amanda M. L. Rogers Henderson (1812-1876)

The next chronological birth of Rev. Elijah and Catharine Clack Rogers was Amanda M. L. Rogers.
She was born May 30, 1812 in Sevier County, TN (the Rogers homestead is described as "at the fork of the French Broad and Little Pigeon Rivers," by the Rogers Family Bible.

Amanda had older brothers who went to fight in the War of 1812, including my great times 3 grandfather Micajah Clack Rogers (1795-1873).

Amanda grew up on the farm, while her father preached at times. (I haven't found that he had his own church.) She had 3 younger siblings as well as at least 6 older ones. Two additional brothers had probably died before she was born, but there's no evidence as to when they died.  One of her younger brothers, Henry, died within his first year.

She married William Taylor Henderson (1807-1859) when she was 18, in 1830. OR she married him in 1836 when she was 25, according to some other Ancestry trees.  I would go with the later date, because her first child wasn't born until 1838. But this son, Samuel L. Henderson didn't have clear information as to where he went after the census of 1850. On that census for Monroe County TN, William T. Henderson his wife Amanda had these children as well as Samuel: Henry, Matilda, Amanda, William Jr, and Katherine Reagan and Mary H. Reagan.

Matilda also is known as Caroline or Cate.  The two Reagan children ages 15 and 17 may have been relatives.

By the census of 1860 for Sweetwater, Monroe County TN, Amanda (40 years old) was a head of household, with the occupation of seamstress. Her husband, William had died the previous year. She lived with her Henderson children, Henry, Caroline, John, Mariah, William, but not Samuel who would have been 22. And there was now a younger daughter, Catherine just age 8. The Reagan children no longer were part of her household.

But here's the fun of looking at the original census documents. Guess who was living right next door (or across the road perhaps) to the Amanda Hendersons? Samuel and Nancy Henderson, ages 74 and 72. Yes, they were her in-laws, parents of her husband, William T. as well as his siblings on the census (I think) Martha, Lawrence and Hugh Henderson, ages 40, 33, and 23.

Another connection is that Amanda's father-in-law Samuel Henderson (1786-1867) was brother to Catherine Henderson Cannon (1777-1827) the mother of Cyntha O. Cannon Rogers (1800-1855) my great times 3 grandmother, and wife of my GGG Grandfather Micajah Clack Rogers (1795-1873). So I guess that makes Samuel Henderson a Great times 5 uncle of mine.

Amanda lived till 30 July 1876, dying in Madisonville, Monroe County, TN and she was buried in Henderson Cemetery, Monroe County, TN. Her son William T. Henderson Jr., a postman, was appointed administrator of her estate when probated in Feb. 1877.