More about Micajah Clack Rogers

 I knew there had been something published telling about his holdings in Sevierville TN before he moved to Texas.

I searched and searched and finally found the letter sent by a third cousin 2X removed, J. A. Sharp to my grandfather's cousin, Hayden Ross.

Relations? I'll look at them later, first I was glad to find information about 3X great Grandpa Micajah.

James Hayden Ross 1880-1961 rec'd letter from JA Sharp in 54

Hayden was my first cousin, 2X removed.

OK, the Ross family had 10 children, and mother Ross was a Rogers, the sister of my grandfather's father. When my grandfather was orphaned around 2 years old, he was welcomed into the Ross family with his own little sister. (Of course there weren't quite all those children at that time, only 3 sons had been born by then.) But Hayden was a cousin to my grandfather, and just 3 years younger. So of course when the Sharp letter came to Hayden, he shared it with my grandfather, George Rogers Sr.

Which is how I came to have a copy!

I've written about my relation to J. A. Sharp before, several times. First I had to find him on my tree, then learn that he was indeed a historian. Check out these posts if you're interested.

 Here where I searched to find the connection between the Rogers and the Sharps....
and another link in a series I posted about the Sharp family...Here,  and J.A. Sharp the Historian.

Anyway, I'll write more about my Great X3 Grandfather Micajah Clack Rogers soon. Just a tangent happened here, finding the Sharp letter and more of his writings.

How is a Sharp related to the Rogers?

Again searching for a connection to someone I know I'm related to.  This is getting to be a daily pursuit.  J. A. Sharp wrote my grandfather (and somewhere I have a copy of his letter), saying they were related through Mullendore and Rogers marriages.

And I do remember we just found a James Sharp married to one of Cynthia Cannon Rogers' sisters, Rebecca (see yesterday's post).

So I've looked at all the 13 children (well only the daughters actually) of Dialtha Rogers Mullendore and her husband John, to see if any married a Sharp.  Silly me, I will now go hunt up the letter.  I found nary a Sharp among them.

Mr. J. A. Sharp of Sevierville was interested in ancestry and history, so I should start with him.

OK, here's his letter to my grandfather's cousin, J. Hayden Ross of Houston in 1954.

All the hand-writing on this letter looks the same, so I think it was part of the original letter from J. A. Sharp.

My grandfather had been part of a Ross household at times as a boy, since he'd been orphaned at 2 years of age.  So his cousin Hayden Ross was someone who knew the history of the Rogers family, and whose mother had also been a Rogers, (sister to my grandfather's father, W. Sam Rogers.)

James Hayden Ross, 1880-1961

So the answer to my original question is that J. A. Sharp says he was a grandchild of the Mullendores branch of the Rogers lineage.  And that means I need to check each of the 13 children...having already looked at the 5 daughters, but not having looked to see which of any of the13 Mullendores had a daughter married a person named Sharp, in order to have J. A. as their child.  Oh my goodness, isn't genealogy fun?

I find it interesting that J. A. apparently didn't know about Rebecca, because he says he doesn't have any lineage including the Cannon family. But then a cousin who didn't live in the same community might have been totally unknown to him.

And since a genealogist of the 50's may not be around any more, I want to see if Mr. Sharp had children as well.

I'm off to see what I can see, hi ho, hi ho.