Re: Rogers/Slavery/S.Carolina/MS/Bowen
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Re: Rogers/Slavery/S.Carolina/MS/Bowen
Jason Simmons 12/01/04
Jason, sorry it has taken me so long to reply to you inquiry about the Rogers mentioned in the Slave Narrative.I saw your post and thought your were asking about my Rogers family.I just looked closer at the info I posted and realized what you are needing.I promise to look into it just as soon as I get a little time to find your info.You realize these are slave narratives and to my knowlege not related to my Rogers family.
I was looking at some of your posts on the Rogers family. I am always looking for anyone related to Thomas Cole Rogers from Carthage, Mississippi.The story goes that his father set him up as an apprentice to a harness maker, he hated the man and took a family horse and left VIRGINIA.He some how ended up in the Carthage, Mississippi area when he married a Sicily Cobb.This farm family then migrated on to the Praire County, AR. area at the end of the Civil War.Thomas Cole Rogers married when he was about twenty-six years old, I think, and Sicily was was much younger.Thomas seemed to have made enough money on his own to farm and marry. But, Sicily Cobb had an inheritance that probably helped him prosper as a farmer.I would love to know what happened to him from the time he probably left VI at about age thirteen or fourteen to a man of twenty-six in MS.I wonder if there were already Rogers in MS which he joined or his their was a wagon train headed in that direction from VI. Any information you might have about Rogers in MS. would be helpful.
Pam Smith
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Re: Rogers/Slavery/S.Carolina/MS/Bowen
Jason Simmons 12/09/04