Great (X4) Uncle Joshua Gist Rogers (1813-1880)

One of Micajah Rogers' younger brothers, Joshua Gist Rogers was born after my great x3 grandfather had left his parents home to fight in the war of 1812. Their parents were Rev. Elijah Rogers and Catharine Clack Rogers. Joshua Gist Rogers was born in 1813 in Sevier County TN.

He appears on the tax rolls of Sevier County in 1837, listed right before his father Rev. Elijah Rogers.
He was then in the census of 1840, which just lists ages and numbers of members of that age.  I don't know who the elder woman (50-59) living with him might be. He and his wife Mary Ann Cowan had just 3 childrenat that time, a boy and 2 girls, under 5 years old.  It is recorded in Ancestry that they were married in 1835, but there's no record available.

Some other Ancestry trees have his wife named Mariah Cowan, with different birth and death dates. However, most of the census reports (shown below) give Mary Ann Cowan as his wife.

There are no documents about their deaths, but Ancestry is estimating they both died around 1880.  As you may note, the census records have the childrens' and the parents' ages all over the place.

Ancestry gives place of death for Mary Ann as Natchitoches, LA, while Joshua is assumed to have died in Mississippi, both around1880.

Sevier TN 1840 Census, Joshua Rogers
Males, under 5 - 1 (Oliver Gist)
Males, 20-29 - 1 (Joshua, actually 38 years old)
Females, under 5 - 2 (Catherine & Matilda)
Females, 20-29 - 1 (wife, Mary Ann Cowan Rogers, age 20 probably)
Females, 50-59 - 1 (?)

The 1850 Census of Warren, Mississippi for Joshua Rogers
Joshua Rogers   36
Catherine Rogers  14
Oliver Rogers  12
Martha Rogers 9
Amanda Rogers 7
I wonder where his wife and Matilda were for this census...??

1860 Winn County, LA Census:

Joshua Rodgers  45  Farmer

Mary M. Rodgers (gives her age as 30?)

Matilda Rodgers  22 

Oliver G. Rodgers 21

Martha E. Rodgers 19

Ann A. Rodgers 17 (Amanda)

George W. Rodgers 6

Elijah L. Rodgers 4

1870 Louisiana, Winn, Ward 4 census:

Joshua Rogers 54 

Mary Ann Rogers 40

Amanda Rogers 20

Eliza H Rogers 14 (Same age as Elijah, but listed female here)

Mary Rogers 8

James F. Rogers 5

Pleasant Rogers 2

1880 Census -2nd Ward, Natchitoches, Louisiana:

Joshuay Rogers 65

Mary Rogers 48

Amanda Rogers 21
James Rogers 14
Pleasant Rogers 9
John Rogers 7

Rev. Elijah and Catharine Rogers had another son, Henry, born in 1815. He probably died young, as there is no notation in any records beyond his birth.

The youngest son of Elijah and Catharine Rogers, Spencer Clack Rogers, was born in 1817, and I've already blogged about him HERE.