Josiah Rogers (1766-1834)

Josiah Rogers (1766-1834) has his birth recorded in Franklin, Virginia. He died in Sevier County TN on 12 AUG 1834. 

He married Martha "Patty" Clack/Clark Rodgers (1768-1867) who had been born in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Spencer Clack (1746-1832) and Mary Beavers Clack (1745-1840) (mentioned in my post in 2017 here.)  Josiah's brother, Elijah Rogers, married "Patty" Clack's sister, Catharine Clack Rogers (1778-1850).  Rev. Elijah and Catharine Clack Rogers were my great times 4 grandparents.

Josiah and "Patty" Clack Rogers' 1786 marriage was recorded by "Marriage Bonds Franklin County,Virginia 1786-1858; page 197.  Josiah Rodgers & Martha Clark, dau. Spencer Clark, 22 Jan 1786; Sur: Richard Literal." This is the source of the use of the name Clark, which was given to both Patty and her father Spencer, a clerical error. She was 17 at the time of her marriage to Josiah, who was 20 years old.

Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1786 in Sevier County, TN, where their parents had moved as well.  Another daughter,  Nancy was born in 1787, also in Sevier County TN. Nancy married James Porter, and Elizabeth married Isaac Love, but both died on May 20, 1811. Nancy had had a daughter who did live to marry, so there may be descendants through her.

If the sisters' deaths on the same date isn't weird enough, about half the Ancestry trees give a death date for their mother, Patty Clack Rogers in 1810. These same trees have her marrying a second husband in 1804, named Spencer DeKalb Beavers, and having about a dozen more children...many of whom would have been born after the 1810 death date.

And how did it happen that Patty married another man in 1804, whcn Josiah lived until 1834?

A lot of people consider themselves descendants of Patty and Spencer De Kalb Beavers, at least by looking at all those children they supposedly had.  

Perhaps Patty didn't die in 1810, but on April 17, 1787,  at age 99, the way my tree says.  If so, she didn't have very many children in her long life, for those times.  Or maybe somehow she did marry again, and we don't know what condition Josiah might have been in when that happened.

There are many things we don't know about these people. Just a few facts. Josiah apparently died on Aug. 12, 1834 in Sevierville, Sevier County TN. He was buried in the Forks of the Little Pigeon River Cemetery, where his brother, Elijah, was also buried.