Re: capt. john rogers jr.> who were his children??
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Re: capt. john rogers jr.> who were his children??
Betty Scarborough 3/16/05
All of the evidence we have on Andrew's ties to John Rogers as his father comes from eleven applications for Membership in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (Dawes Roll) and six applications for Eastern Cherokee Citizenship (Guion Miller Roll).All of these applications were rejected by the respective commissions, most likely because Andrew never registered for any roll or his registration was lost.The most convincing testimony on Andrew's behalf came from William Lowery Snow, who dressed Andrew for his funeral (September 1836) and was to become Andrew's son-in-law posthumously.The Carroll Co., AR Snow community founder, minister and leader stated in 1893:“W. L. Snow a resident of Carroll County Arkansas, after being duly sworn says that he was acquainted with Andrew Rogers the father of Mary Ann Miller, who is an applicant for Cherokee citizenship, for about fourty years in his lifetime, I have heard him say "that he had been accused of having Cherokee blood in him and he said that he had never denied it."I have heard parties call him a dam[n]ed old Indian when they would be angry with him and he didn't deny it.At the time he was accused of being an Indian, or having Indian blood in him it was considered a disgrace and an insult among white men.”