The gaps in mother's care

I'm thinking of the mothers who weren't nurtured, or weren't supported in a two-parent family in raising my ancestors. The first to come to mind are the widows. And then I think of those who moved away from their own parents when they married, then raised their families with only strangers around them.

Then there are the women who as children had only one parent who raised them...thus they missed the love and support of two parents. And I'm not saying having two parents was representative of a nurturing childhood. Those who lived through wars, who had necessity making them change their home location, those who depended upon the earth and then there were droughts or floods. And of course a calamity of an economic depression also would have impacted how much loving care was devoted to children.

Well, I don't mean just about everybody in a generation, though that might have been the case.

Many of my ancestors spent their whole lives just dedicated to survival. That meant shelter, food, clothing, maybe heat from the cold, and maybe having some rest from their daily grind.

When my ancestors moved from East Tennessee to Texas, they were fleeing a situation where crops were failing and then debts came due for purchases of land. My great times three grandfather, Micajah Rogers had owned several businesses and then relocated with some of his older children to east Texas in the mid 1840s. That was after the fall of the Alamo, and the battle at San Jacinto which eventually created the nation of Texas in 1836. 

Micajah must have known Sam Houston, who lived at times and is buried in Huntsville TX. Houston led the independence forces at San Jacinto, became the first president of Texas, and was in and out of politics of the new country of Texas and then finally the new state of Texas in 1845. 

But what of Micajah's wife Cyntha Cannon Rogers? She stayed behind in Sevier County Tennessee when Micajah first went west. I have read a letter to her from him stating that the younger children should return to Tennessee where there were schools for them.

She lost her last three babies within their first years, born in 1838, 1839 and 1841. Others of their children also died in 1829 and 1832. Based on later events in their lives, I can estimate that George, Nancy Terressa, and E. Lafayette went to Texas with their father. I'm not sure that William L. went to Texas at all, for he is now confused with another William L. Rogers who lived in Chatanooga TN most of his life and apparently had different parents.

So Cyntha Rogers was in Texas with her family by the 1850 census. By then her son George W. had married Luci Gibbs in 1848 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Cyntha's oldest surviving daughter Nancy Terrissa had married Tom Gibbs (yes brother of Luci) in 1847 in Huntsville, Walker County Texas. The first son of George W. and Luci was my great grandfather, William Sandford, born in Walker County, Texas in Feb 1850.

Cyntha's son E. Lafayette died in the fall of 1850. He had been named postmaster of Huntsville in July of that year, and died in Nov, so his father Micajah took over the job at his death.

That 1850 census of Micajah's household (taken Sept. 15) had had Lafayette (age 21) on it also, as well as younger sisters, Mary (16) and Minerva (14). They may have been the younger children that Micajah wanted to send back to Tennessee for some educating. It is unlikely that young girls would traipse out to Texas without their mother (though she might have been sick)...who at least got there with them by 1850. But both the young girls wouldn't survive until the next census, or the Civil War.

Neither would their mother, Cyntha Cannon Rogers, who died 24 Nov. 1855. Her daughter Nancy Terrissa Gibbs died in 1856. Only son George lived until 1864, and Micajah who survived through the Civil War died in 1873. It's possible William L. Rogers lived till 1887, but we're not sure which one was Micajah and Cyntha's son. 

But I once again got bogged down in seeing how events transpired within a family. Many children born who didn't live. Many young people who died, perhaps from diseases. A very sad family which Micajah had raised.

Then his grandson also died very young, William Sandford Rogers, my great grandfather. W. Sam had married Bette Bass when he was 26, had two children, then died at age 29, 2 months after his daughter was born. So Bette Bass is the subject I should have been talking about as far as a mother who had little support. Next time...

Trying to unravel an ancestor...

Spencer Rogers...who was he or they really?
It's just that there were 2 big families (different wives, different towns, different children)

It's not that his name was Jack Smith or anything either.

And the different families were 10 years apart on census records...but the children were too old to have been his (supposed) wife's.

They were Rogers - maybe.  And they were my cousins. So I thought maybe I could straighten their history out.

And hoorah for checking out every possible census of those wives.  There were two men named Spencer Rogers. One was my uncle Spencer Clack Rogers. The other was Spencer Joseph Rogers, who as of now doesn't seem related to me.

There are still many entwined records to clear out. I've worked on this off and on for over a month. And I'm just going to post what I have so far...and add another post as I learn more. (Don't hold your breath.)

This all started by my reading a letter my great great grandfather Micajah Clack Rogers wrote to his youngest brother Spencer Clack Rogers, who apparently was a printer.  Grandpa Micajah asked about his only living offspring, William Rogers...in the 1867 letter, and spoke at length about the recent Civil War.  Since Uncle Spencer lived in Tennessee, and Granpa Micajah in Texas, there were questions as to what Spencer's roll had been during the war.  His wife and children weren't mentioned.I've not found a mention of William Rogers on either of the Spencer Rogers' lists of census.

I have no idea when the last time Micajah might have heard from his brother. There's no address on the letter, except where Micajah lived in Huntsville, TX. Micajah does mention Tennessee, but both the Spencer Rogers lived in that state.

The one in Chatanooga, Hamillton County, is probably not my Uncle Spencer.

So I'll try to focus on the one who was most likely my Uncle.

Spencer Clack Rogers, lived most likely in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.   I'll be back again soon to give whatever facts I might be able to discern.


 Micajah Clack Rogers (1795-1873)

Micajah Clack Rogers was the oldest of children of Rev. Elijah Rogers and Catharine Clack Rogers of Sevierville TN.  Spencer Clack Rogers was the youngest. This is the information given in the Rogers Family Bible and transcribed in the 1950s by my grandfather George Rogers.

Catharine Clack Rogers was a daughter of Lt. Spencer Sterling Clack and Mary Beavers (deBeauvillers/Beiber) Clack.

Happy birthday Cyntha Cannon Rogers (1800-1855)

My great times three grandmother had a birthday 219 years ago today. I've included information about her siblings' lives as well (from previous posts.)

She was a woman who moved from east Tennessee to Texas during the forming of those states.  Her parents were both born in Virginia. Her mother, Catharine Henderson Cannon, may have been born in North Carolina in 1777,  but by the time she was 8 in 1786, her little brother was born in Tennessee.  Her father William Henry Cannon had been born in Cumberland County, VA in 1771, but his sister born in 1784 was either born in North Carolina or Tennessee.

Catharine Henderson married William Cannon in Sevier County Tennessee on Aug. 22, 1799. 

Cyntha was their first child of eight. 

I started celebrating Cyntha's birthday about six years ago on blogs...here's a snippet of one of those:

(Sunday, August 24, 2014)

Cyntha Cannon Rogers, born 24 Aug 1800, was wife of Micajah Clack Rogers, and died 24 Nov 1855 in Huntsville, Walker, Texas.

Her Mother: Catherine Henderson, born in 1778 in North Carolina, died: 15 Nov 1827 in Athens, McMinn, Tennessee
And Cyntha's grandparents were: 
Mary Catherine Beavers born abt 1750 and died after 1786
and
William Henderson.  He was born probably in 1741 in Virginia.  He died in Sevier County, TN, date unknown.
 
Father: William Henry Cannon; born 28 Nov 1771 in Cumberland, Virginia, died: 11 Jun 1868 in Sevier, Tennessee.                                                                       William Henry Cannon's parents were: John Cannon, born 18 Mar 1744 in Caswell, North Carolina; died Oct 1806 in Grass Valley, Knox, Tennessee
 and Nancy Ann Whitlow, born 18 Nov 1747 in Caswell, North Carolina, and died 01 Jul 1830 in Knox County, Tennessee.  More about her was posted HERE.
 
And an even earlier post in 2013 said:

When she was 18 she married the son of Rev. Elijah Rogers, Micajah Clack Rogers (1795-1873) who was  the eldest of 11 children born to the Reverend (from Farquier County, VA) and his wife, Catherine Clack Rogers, who was born in Henry County, VA.

Smoky Mountains

These were pioneering people.  These parents arrived in Sevier County, on the western side of the Appalachian ridges that would be called the Smoky Mountains in years to come.   And Cyntha and Micajah Rogers were among the first generation to be born there.

 Sevier County as it is known today was formed on September 18, 1794 from part of neighboring Jefferson County, and has retained its original boundaries ever since. The county takes its name from John Sevier, governor of the failed State of Franklin and first governor of Tennessee, who played a prominent role during the early years of settlement in the region.  Since its establishment in 1795, the county seat has been situated at Sevierville (also named for Sevier), the eighth-oldest city in Tennessee. (Wikipedia)

Micajah had lots of interests in business, resulting in part ownership of several, and his owning lots and buildings in Sevierville, and even part of a foundry, the Sweeden Furnace.

A Historic Marker now stands to remind us of the Sweeden Furnace, from Sevierville, TN located...

 5 miles northwest, (of Sevierville downtown) this was first called Short Mountain Furnace using local ore bank ore. Started about 1820 by Robert Shields, William K. Love and brothers operated it about 1830. Micajah C. Rogers bought it and changed its name in 1836. It closed in 1840, following the panic of 1837 and deterioration in quality of ore.

Another marker stands on Hwy 441 in nearby Pigeon Forge, TN which after all, was also the site of iron mining. Do you know what Pig-eon Iron is?  And most of you have heard of a forge...right?

About 3/4 mile southeast, Issac Love operated a forge on the site of the flour mill on Pigeon River in 1820, making bar iron. Ore came from an orebank about 3 miles east, later, pig iron came from Sweden Furnace, 5 miles east. Forge hammer and fittings are nearby. 

Micajah and Cyntha did not fare well as the economy had a down turn by 1840 while he was living still in Sevier County.  Cyntha's last child was born in March of 1841, and died in Oct. of that year in  Sevierville.  I'm pretty sure the Micajah Rogers family and the Hiram Gibbs family from South Carolina merged and moved west and south, and some of them stayed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.  

The Rogers Family Bible was a wedding present for Cyntha's eldest son, George Washington Rogers, as he married one of the 8 Gibbs children, and his sister married another.

By 1846 Cyntha and Micajah were living in Walker County, Texas.

My cousin Patricia Rogers Seliger, joined a Pioneer Society for Walker County Texas, based upon Micajah Clack Rogers arriving there before Oct. 5, 1850.

Cyntha had 11 children, and perhaps because of the economy, some of them didn't live very long.  Catherine Louisa died at 5. Amelia Amanda was 1. And Cyntha's last 3 children died within a few months of their births, all in Sevierville, TN.  The other 6 did live to become adults.

She only lived to be 55 years old, dying in 1855 in her new home town of Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. And that town was pretty new still at that time, since the Republic of Texas (1836-1845) and the statehood of Texas (1845) had occurred.
 
The Rogers were founding members of the Baptist Church in Huntsville.

Out of focus photo of marker for First Baptist Church of Huntsville, TX.

Cyntha's maiden name was Cannon, on all records except her tombstone, which says Cyntha O. Rogers.  Maybe whoever was in charge of it didn't know her real middle name.

Her son, George Washington Rogers, was my grandfather's grandfather, thus my name Rogers.

A later post (2018) talks about Cyntha's siblings:

The Cannon siblings

Cyntha O. Cannon (1800-1855) married Micajah Clack Rogers (1795-1873.)  She was the eldest of 8 children who all lived to be adults.

Let's discover what her siblings' lives were like.  Here and here were some blogs I've written about her before, focusing mainly on her husband.

I mentioned how grateful I was that some ancestors kept good records in the Rogers Family Bible.  Here's a little information about it from my own research.

The Rogers Family Bible was published in 1848, and begins with going back to Sevier County TN records of Rogers and Clack families. Micajah Rogers is listed as Col. and the Bible covers his 11 children, but not his siblings.  It kept good track of the Rogers and Gibbs births, marriages and deaths from 1848 onwards and was eventually kept in the Gibbs family.

On Sept 14 1848, his son George Washington Rogers married Lucinda Gibbs, in Bienville, LA.  All the George W. and Lucinda Rogers children were born in Bienville, LA.  (But Lucinda at some time came to Huntsville  TX where she died in 1884)

Cyntha at age 19, married Micajah at age 23.  In the Rogers Family Bible, "Cyntha Cannon, Daughter of William and Catharine Cannon, were married at the residence of William Cannon, in Sevier County, Tennessee, February 4th, 1819."

Cyntha's mother gave birth to her youngest sister in 1820, the same year she had her first son, my ancestor, George Washington Rogers.

1) But let's go in chronological order.  The next younger sibling born after Cyntha was John Overton Cannon (1803-1848) He was buried in Madisonville, Monroe County, TN.

The City of Madisonville originally began as the town of Tellico, and prior to that a Cherokee village of the same name. The Calhoun Treaty and resulting Hiwassee Purchase of 1819 opened the area for white settlement. Madisonville was founded in the early 1820s as a county seat for Monroe County, which had been formed in 1819. The town was initially known as "Tellico," but its name was changed to "Madisonville" in 1830 in honor of U.S. President James Madison in accordance with a petition from the residents presented by state representative James Madison Greenway.^[10] Madisonville was incorporated on May 16, 1850. Wikipedia.

He married Caroline Nelson in Knoxville TN in 1827...Knoxville is about 20 miles from where he was born in Sevierville.  They had two children Guilford (1834-39) and John Jr. (1837-75) and then Caroline died in 1839 and was buried in Madisonville TN.

In 1842 he remarried to Mahala Torbett in Monroe County TN. and they had a son, Willie, in 1845. John died in 1846 leaving Mahala a widow with a 4 year old son and probably a 9 year old step-son John Jr. (1837-1875) (since Guilford had died in 1839.)

This is how I get diverted...I had to go look at John Jr.'s record to see if he indeed stayed with Mahala after his father's death. His 1850 census record shows he has gone to Constable William Cannon's household in Overton County TN.

She was from another south-eastern Tennessee county, Blount County, and died in 1882 in Bradly County.  Their son died before she wrote her will, because she instructs that a monument be erected between their graves on May 28, 1882. She also leaves a sum of money from a trust to her church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  And she leaves her brother some furniture, and designates a nephew, Willie Roberts to keep the articles she has already given him. She designates a trust account that will have interest paid annually to her church and the pastor from the sale of her land and property, which she also wants her brother James to be able to cultivate.  I got a bit confused about the orders of rental and sales of the same land.

2) The next brother of Cyntha was Dr. Guilford Cannon (1806-1873) who became a doctor.  He was the Madisonvile TN postmaster from 1842-45. He married in 1838 Mary Ann Bicknell, who supposedly had been born in 1826...making her just 12 years old the way I count! Unfortunately, she died the next year, no matter how old he had been.  He then married Jane McGhee Cannon in 1843 and they had 4 children, 3 of whom lived to adulthood. His will is succinct and leaves his property to his wife, and moneys to his sons and daughter. He also was buried in Madisonville, Monroe County, TN.

3) Next child of William and Catharine Cannon was Nancy Cannon (1808-1844), who married Col. Matthew Bogle. They had one son who died at 2 years. Nancy was buried in Blount County, TN.  Her husband was about 17 years older than she was, and died in 1847.  He apparently remarried to a Mary in 1845 after Nancy's death.

4) Cyntha's next sibling was Rebecca Henderson Cannon Sharp (1812-1901)** who married James Madison Sharp Sr.  He actually outlived her by a few years! In 1900 they were living with their son John, and his family in Sevier County, TN.

John Sharp	52 head
Mary K Sharp	33
William P Sharp	21
Mary R Sharp	19
Bettie L Sharp	17
Johnie Sharp	12
Ruben T Sharp	5
James M Sharp	83
Rebecca H Sharp	88 sister of Cyntha Cannon Rogers

Rebecca and James Sharp had 4-5 children.
** Her obituary is at the end of this post.

5) Next comes Mariah Louisa Bonaparte Cannon Earnest (1814-1851).  She and Joseph Hammer Earnest (1807-1878) had 4 children. She died in Chucky, Greene County, TN and is buried in the Methodist Episcopal church burying ground. Her husband Joseph Earnest remarried twice after Mariah's death in 1851...to Ann Rebecca Barnett and then Lavinia Smith. (See below for his brother married to her sister!)

6) Next is younger brother William Henderson Cannon, (1817-1901).***  He married twice and had 2 children, Bettie and J. G. as listed in his obituary. His daughter was born while William was married to Julia Huffaker Cannon, though several other women are given on various Ancestry trees.  He died in Sevier County, TN.

It appears that William Henderson Cannon was first a U.S. Postmaster in Sevier County, Tennessee, and later for the Confederate States of America.  Because his position was a political appointment, he was not covered under the parole of Confederate soldiers and had to apply individually for a pardon, which was granted by President Andrew Johnson.   information is from http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/sevier/post.htm.

***His obituary is posted at the bottom of this page...***

7)  Cyntha's youngest sister was Martha Caroline Cannon Ernest, (1820-1847).  Her husband (also called her consort) was Nicholas Washington Earnest (1815-1866). They had 4 children, 
William (1841-1845), John Guilford (1842-1932), Maria R. (1844-), Rebecca Catherine (1846-1925).
The Ernests were buried in the Ebeneezer Methodist Burying ground in Chucky, Green County, TN.

And how were Mariah's and Martha's husbands named Earnest related?  Well, I checked with Joseph Earnest, and there it is! He had a brother Nicholas Washington Earnest born in 1815.  There were an even dozen siblings in that family.

** Obituary of Rebecca Cannon Sharp (that is "Mrs. James Sharp Dead" as title)

*** Obituary of William Henderson Cannon 

 

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!

Micajah's family

Let's look at another branch of my ancestors!
The Puritans of New England have captured my attention for weeks, from where grandmother Ada Swasey Rogers hailed!

How about the rest of the early immigrants?

The Rogers, mainly came into the Virginia colony.

The Booths of my mothers family however, also arrived in New England..

Where to next?  OK, throw a pin at the map?
And there are all those little green leaves all over my Ancestry trees.  So it will be easy. Except I was looking on a rainy Memorial Day, and Ancestry must not have been able to handle all the traffic that was coming through...slow!

Micajah Clack Rogers married Cyntha Cannon Rogers.  I've posted about both of them before, but let's look at all their children today.  Background may be found HERE or Here.

They certainly had a lot of children, but many died in childhood.

Micajah moved first to Texas from Sevierville TN by 1846 without Cyntha.  He and Cyntha had had 11 children, all born in Sevier County TN.  He brought the older children along to first Louisiana, then some continued with him to Walker County Texas.

More about Cyntha and the children was posted earlier Here. 

I just dug out boxes at the bottom of the closet, found the xerox copies of old letters saved first by my grandmother Ada Phillips Rogers, then my sister, Mary Rogers Miller. I knew there was one written by Micajah to Cyntha about how he was sending some of the younger children back to Sevierville , TN (?) because there was no school yet in Texas...a frontier if you will.  But alas, it has been lost in all the traveling around either by the letters themselves, or myself, a wandering Rogers.    And now that I think about it, perhaps Cyntha was in Louisiana by that time, and the schools that were set up by then were the attraction.

Micajah's oldest son married and lived in Bieneville Parish, Louisiana, the Gibbs family of South Carolina had 2 adults who married into Rogers family.

So who would have been the youngsters who might have still needed education? (And you can read from Micajah's letters that he was certainly well educated himself...though his father, Rev. Elijah Rogers, was spoken of by his descendants as being illiterate.)

1.) George Washington Rogers, (1820-1864) married Luci (Lucinda Benson) Gibbs in 1848, and their first son (my great grandfather William Sanford Rogers) was born in Walker County TX in 1850.

2nd son: William Lawrence Rogers (1822-1887) moved to Hamilton County TN by the time he started his family in 1844 (that's the Chattanooga area).  His 1850 census reports he is a farmer with a wife and 3 daughters, but by the 1860 census he is living by himself with a family named Powell and he was a Clerk of Court.  He died from diabetes apparently, in Knoxville in 1887.

3. Catharine Louisa, (June 1824- Oct. 1829), who only lived her 5 years in Sevier County TN.

4. Nancy Terrissa Rogers Gibbs, (1826-1856) married Thomas Gibbs in Huntsville, Walker County TX in 1847.  Thomas was the older brother of Luci who married George Rogers. He and Nancy had 2 children who lived to adulthood.  When Nancy died with the live birth of her third child in Texas, he married Mary Blake, and had 4-6 more children.

5.  Elijah Lafayette Rogers (1829-1850) moved to Texas with his father, and became the Postmaster of Huntsville, Walker County from July until Dec. when he died at age 21. His father, Micajah became Postmaster following him. Elijah didn't marry.

6. Amelia Amanda Adelia Rogers only lived 11 months, from 1831-1832.  What a lovely alliterative name!

7. Mary Narcisa Francis Rogers 1883-1858 moved to Texas by the time she was 17 for the 1850 census.  But she had a short life, and was buried in her family plot not in Walker County but in Mount Lebanon, Bienville, LA.

She is the first child that might have been considered to need to return to a place with a school.  The Mount Lebanon families also may have been starting some institutions of higher learning, as many of the church societies not only formed communities around their church, but started schools as well.

8. Cynthia Minerva Rogers (1833-1856) also moved south from Tennessee,  being in Texas for the 1850 census at age 15, but dying and being buried 6 years later in Mount Lebanon, Bieneville Parish, LA.  I think she also may have moved back to Mount Lebanon for educational purposes.

9. Next came the three infants who died very young: first poor little Henry Clay Rogers, who lived from 17 May 1838 until 4 Sept 1838.

10. Rebecca Emaline Josephine Rogers just lived from 4 July 1839 to 16 Oct 1839.

11. Guilford Cannon Harrison Rogers only lived from 1 March 1841 till 21 July 1841. 

I am so grateful that the Rogers Family Bible included all the births marriages and deaths of these ancestors in my family.  

Getting onto my Rogers Tree from the Whitlows of Virginia

Constantine and Ann Pollard Perkins had a daughter, 

Elizabeth Perkins

1724–1798

Who, according to Constantine's will, married a Mr. Ellis, not Mr. Whitlow.  So she and they weren't my ancestors.

However, there was a wife for Mr. Witlow...and for now she is unknown.  I will look for more documents that have some source 
materials.  There were so many lost in early Virginia!

Mr. Whitlow was...

Henry Othello Whitlow

1724–1788

Birth ABT 1724 • Henrico, Virginia

Death 21 JUL 1788 • Goochland, Goochland, Virginia

and Mrs. Whitlow had a daughter 

Nancy Ann Whitlow Cannon [see posts HERE and here]

1747–1830

Birth 18 NOV 1747 • Goochland County, Virginia

Death 01 JUL 1830 • Loudon County, Tennessee

who married:

William Henry Cannon [see post Here]

1771–1868

Birth 28 NOV 1771 • Cumberland, Virginia

Death 11 JUN 1868 • Sevier, Tennessee

So that couple became closer to my more known ancestors, since they lived and died in Sevier County, TN.

Their daughter Cyntha Cannon, married Micajah Clack Rogers. 

Cyntha CANNON ROGERS [see posts HERE and Here]

1800–1855

Birth 24 AUG 1800 • Sevier, Tennessee, United States

Death 24 NOV 1855 • Huntsville, Walker, Texas

married:

Micajah Clack ROGERS [see post HERE]

1795–1873

Birth 7 MAY 1795 • Sevier, Tennessee, United States

Death 15 FEB 1873 • Huntsville, Walker, Texas

and thus the George Rogers line moved west to Texas.  Micajah and Cyntha were my  great times 3 grandparents.

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