Next in line of Rev. Elijah and Catharine Clack Rogers' children

My great times 3 grandfather, Micajah Clack Rogers, was the oldest. Then Robert, then Mary Ellen Rogers Randles, and then came...

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.

The answer to my quest

Who was the McCroskey who married a Rogers?  Or maybe someone who was a descendant of a Rogers?

I just looked at the names of 37 McCrosekeys on my Ancestry tree...none married to Rogers. I do add the married name for women as well as their maiden names, whenever I can.  That way at least I know where they went in their lives.  It doesn't work that way for men, so I can look to see if any of these men married a Rogers descendant.  That won't take too long.  (You've heard that before, haven't you?)

OK, my first task was including the 5 people whose names were spelled wrong, with a space between the "Mc" and the "Croskey".  While doing that I added about 20 more people.  I have no idea why these people were added several (maybe 5 times) because most of them were siblings with the same parents.  I just was focused on the Rogers connection.

And the fifth Mc (space) Croskey was Elizabeth Clack.  That's a great clue, because Spencer Clack was a Rogers ancestor.  So I went over the the Rogers list, and sure enough Elizabeth Clack Rogers married David McCroskey.  Yay me.

A portrait found attached to Elizabeth Clack Rodgers on Ancestry (many people's names were spelled several ways at that time)

Time frame?
Elizabeth Clack Rogers (1805-1860) b. in Sevier County, TN
m. 1828
to David McCroskey (1805-1885)

And who were Elizabeth Rogers McCroskey's parents?

Same ones as Micajah Clack Rogers...namely,
Rev. Elijah Rogers (1774-1841)
m. 1794
to Catharine Clack Rogers (1778-1850)

The McCroskey family called her Beulah "Aunt Katy" Rogers...how that came from Catharine Clack Rogers, I don't really understand, but that's what they've put on the markers about her.  The Rogers Family Bible doesn't have Beulah Aunt Katy as part of her name.

But now I know why I knew of that name!  And my next project will be to reduce the numbers of McCroskeys on my tree by merging the duplicates.  It's a good thing its a rainy night in North Carolina while I do this.  I also have a lot of photos to scan, so I don't want to take too long doing this!