Rodgers - RODGERS

OUR SELVES & OUR CHILDREN

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of
the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once
left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even
drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family,
stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

~ Carl G. Jung

2. Timothy Webster Rodgers, firstborn son of [4] Karl Freeman and Ruth Jane (Flanzer) Rodgers, was born in the Free Territory of Trieste [now Trieste, Italy]. He married 10 May 1975 at 85 Squaw Hollow Road, Ashford (Windham) Connecticut,

3. Barbara Lynn Chomiak, who was born in Willimantic (Windham) Connecticut, firstborn daughter of [6] Theodore William and Elisabeth Joan (White) Chomiak.

Tim was born in Trieste because his father was serving in the US Army there. He was named after his great-granduncle, Edwin Ambrose Webster, a Provincetown painter and art teacher. Tim grew up in Wilton, Rockville and Storrs, Connecticut, and New Salem, Massachusetts. He attended Edwin O. Smith High School and graduated from Ralph C. Mahar Regional High School. Tim & Barbara were married in a simple outdoor ceremony at the home of Justice-of-the-Peace Frank Nemeth. Although at first it seemed that the Rodgers line was from England, there is more evidence pointing to Scotland as its origin. Barbara was named after a college friend of her mother. She grew up in Storrs, Connecticut and Papagou, a suburb of Athens, Greece, and is the compiler of this family history. Barbara attended Athens International School and graduated from Edwin O. Smith High School. The Ukraine is the origin of the Chomiak name, brought to America in 1909 by Barbara's immigrant grandfather. Together we have resided in Willimantic, Ledyard and Groton, Connecticut.

Barbara & Tim are the parents of three children:

i. NATHANIEL WILLIAM RODGERS was born in Willimantic (Windham) Connecticut. He married 18 January 2003 at Olde Mistick Village, Stonington (New London) Connecticut, Shannon Marie DeRico, who was born in Norwich (New London) Connecticut, daughter of Angela (DeRico) Jacobsen. Nathaniel graduated from Grasso Southeastern Technical High School. He is known as Nat to his family of origin, and also as Nate to his new in-laws, friends and neighbors. Nate & Shea live in Groton, Connecticut. Namesakes: [12] William Chomiak; [56] William Martin White; [232] Nathaniel Atwood; Nathaniel Hawthorne, 19th century American writer.

ii. JONATHAN FREEMAN RODGERS (1)

iii. LARISA KATHERINE RODGERS was born in Westerly (Washington) Rhode Island. Larisa was home schooled, and has an Associate in Science in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Cum Laude, from Three Rivers Community College. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Cum Laude, Honors Scholar, from the University of Connecticut. She lives in Vernon, Connecticut. Namesakes: [13] Katherine (Fusiak) Chomiak; Larisa Feodorovna Guishar, a fictional character from the novel Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak.

GENERATION 3

TIM'S PARENTS

For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in
an attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and
remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good
or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity
with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

4. Karl Freeman Rodgers, Jr., firstborn son of [8] Karl Freeman and Allegra Estelle (Hamilton) Rodgers, was born 26 April 1930 in New York City and died there on 23 November 1978. He married (as his first wife and as her first husband) on 14 July 1951 at Cranford (Union) New Jersey,

5. Ruth Jane Flanzer, who was born 20 November 1931 in Brooklyn, New York and died 11 March 1992 at New London (New London) Connecticut, firstborn daughter of [10] Joseph Asher and Lenore Naomi (Raven) (Ladd) Flanzer. Karl and Ruth were divorced 10 January 1958 in (Marion) Alabama.

In 1951, when he applied for a social security number, Karl was working at Lusal's Leather Product, 139 East 1st Ave, Roselle, New Jersey, and living at 31 Dunham Ave, Cranford, New Jersey. Karl was one of the founding members in 1964 of the Pinewoods Morris Men. Karl was also a founder and a dancer with the Village Morris Men in New York City, the first independent American Morris team formed in 1969. Morris is a traditional ritual English dance. In 1974 he was among the founders of the Greenwich Morris Men. Before he died he started the Pinewoods Morris Men's newsletter which evolved into the American Morris Newsletter. He desired to help other Morris dancers attend dances at Pinewoods and so established the Pinewoods Morris Men Scholarship in 1974. After his death the scholarship was renamed the Karl Rodgers Pinewoods Morris Men Scholarship in his honor, and is rewarded periodically by the Country Dance & Song Society.

Karl married (as his second wife) Elizabeth (---) Rodgers, who played a melodica for the Village Morris Men. She is a critically acclaimed pianist who is an active proponent of contemporary music and performs with the Metropolitan Players, the Long Island Chamber Ensemble, and the Columbia Festival Orchestra, New York Virtuoso Singers and Solisti del Mar and many others. [Tim, Barbara and Larisa had the privilege of seeing her play with cellist Eugene Moye and mezzo-soprano Blair Resika at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum on 29 August 2001, in a gallery of E. Ambrose Webster paintings. Elizabeth has remarried, but still uses the name Rodgers professionally, and it was a great pleasure to meet her after the performance.]

Karl was an electrical engineer, and at his death at age 48 of stomach cancer, he was employed in the Optical Electronics Research Department at Bell Laboratories. Toward the end of his final illness he was able to work from home on his computer over the phone lines, a rather new idea at the time. He wore his hair long in a pony-tail and played the piano when visiting at the house in Provincetown. He lived in Greenwich Village at 55 Perry St. in New York City with his partner, Jody Evans, who started the first American women's Morris dancing team, Ring o' Bells in 1974. Karl's ashes are buried in an old family plot, Lot #955, Clematis Path, Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion, New York. Namesake: [8] Karl Freeman Rodgers, Sr.

Ruth's mother, Lenore, died suddenly in 1961 when Ruth was almost 30 years old and when she was six months pregnant with her fifth son. She believed this shock might have had something to do with the onset of the severe mental illness from which she suffered for the rest of her life. It is also of interest to note that when Ruth was a 5 month old baby, her 5 year old half-brother, Marion, died in Michigan, apparently in the care of his father there. One can only wonder how his death affected Lenore, and Ruth by extension, or how long it had been since Lenore had last seen her young son.

After her divorce from Karl, Ruth married (as her second husband and as his second wife) 15 March 1958 in Missouri, Erik Paul Kahn, who was born 10 July 1932 and died 17 December 2008 at home in Dunnellon (Marion) Florida, the son of Alexander Kahn and Rose Lane. Alexander Kahn was born 15 August 1900 in Brooklyn, New York, and died in 1968, the son of Barney Meochoshinsky/Cohen. Rose Lane was born on 10 May 1907 in Manhattan, New York, at the corner of 82nd St. and Ave. B, and died 28 June 2004 in Ocala (Marion) Florida. She was a bookkeeper and the daughter of Jewish immigrants, Samuel & Etta (Trachtman) Lapinsky. Samuel Lapinsky was born in Poland and died in America about 1935, Etta Trachtman was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and died in America about 1940. Alexander & Rose were married 12 February 1927 in Bronx, New York, and were later divorced. Rose, who loved reading, shared a home and her retirement in Otisville, New York with her partner, Jacques DuPonte, who was born 9 June 1904 and died 21 October 1991. After Grandpa Jacques' death, Grandma Rose moved to Bloomfield, Connecticut to live with her son Erik and his partner, Elizabeth Ann (Renton) Hale, and the three later moved to Dunnellon, Florida in 1999. On 23 May 2001, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Alex & Rose's son Stephen died of malignant melanoma. After sharing their lives for twenty-nine years, Erik and Elizabeth married on 9 January 2008 in Florida. Erik died of renal cancer, peacefully at home with Liz by his side.

On Sunday, April 10, 1966, Erik & Ruth's house at 26 Pond Rd, Wilton, Connecticut, burned to the ground, leaving them and their six sons homeless. At 10:01 a.m., when a neighbor turned in the alarm, Erik was at the drugstore with Jed and Josh, Ruth was at home with Matt and Toby, and Tim and Dan were in Provincetown visiting their Rodgers grandparents. Ruth & Erik eventually moved to Rockville and then Storrs, Connecticut, and they separated about 1975. Ruth spent some time living with her son Toby in Putnam and Ashford, Connecticut, before moving to Groton near her son Tim in 1984. She resided there at 18 Colonial Drive until she died of lung cancer at age 60.

Uncle Steve used to come from Denmark to visit his mother every summer and the two of them would rent a cabin on Law St. and vacation in Provincetown. Tim & Barbara have many pleasant memories of driving them up and dropping them off there and then returning a month later to pick them up and drive them back to Erik & Elizabeth's in the 1990s. Some memories:

Tim: The first memory I have of Grandma Rose is her waking Dan and me up early in the morning to let us know she had arrived from New York City to take care of us as Mom was in the hospital giving birth to Toby, Jed or Josh. (I am not sure which one was being born at that time.) We were living in the Barn in Wilton, Connecticut at that time, and had bunk beds in one of the downstairs rooms. This was one of the few times she arrived without the pastries and Bubka from a New York bakery. We were typical boys back then, playing outside and getting all dusty and dirty. When we came in for lunch she would scoot us off to wash before eating. Invariably she'd scold us and would wash our ears (not too gently) with a warm soapy washcloth as we had been anything but thorough in washing. The attention was always appreciated. Those are some of the memories that come to mind when I think of her. I will miss her greatly.

Barbara: My first time meeting Grandma Rose was when Nat was just under a year old, and we brought him to Otisville to visit her and Grandpa Jacques. She undressed him and squeezed the baby fat near his knee and pronounced him healthy and well cared for. Encouraging words for a very young and inexperienced mother to hear. I also remember fondly that when Tim went to take the garbage out, she stopped him and insisted that he put on Grandpa Jacques' raincoat. She buckled him up and tied the string under his chin so that the hood would stay on. She was the only person who could get away with something like that!!! Grandpa Jacques used to call Nat Chumley. Grandma Rose used to fuss over everyone while they were eating, and I still remember Grandpa Jacques saying, "Leave them alone, Rosie, never saw a kid starve himself to death!" She was a sweetheart, though, and gave me much emotional support over the years. We shared a love of reading and I considered her my friend - she was one of the few people I know who would write letters regularly, and we exchanged many.

Nate: I remember Grandma Rose squeezing my cheeks and telling me I didn't eat enough. I also remember her teaching me the proper way to walk a lady. The more I think about her, the more I remember about her. It is amazing what things you put in the back of your head, and then what comes back later in time. I will remember her.

Jon: I will always remember her fondly, and she will be missed. I wish she could have met Eliza... when she gets older we'll all have to tell her where she got her name Rose from.

Larisa: I remember going up to stay with Grandma Rose [in Bloomfield] when Erik & Elizabeth went on vacation. We had a good time, and did a lot of reading together, which is more fun than it sounds! She really loved to dote on the cat, Spreckles. We would talk a lot about piano tunes and she made sure I ate until I was more than full. Then I would try to be sneaky about tricking her into letting me do the dishes, and she would not be sneaky and try to do them herself. Between the two of us, more than a few dishes got done.

Karl & Ruth were the parents of two sons:

i. TIMOTHY WEBSTER RODGERS (2)

ii. DANIEL BEDFORD RODGERS, born at Summit (Union) New Jersey. He married at Mansfield (Tolland) Connecticut, 21 June 1974, Frances Edith Heinige, daughter of Henry and Maria (Mundl) Heinige. Dan has a Bachelor of Science in General Business, Cum Laude, from Excelsior College. Dan & Fran's children are: (a) David Hamilton Rodgers, who has a Bachelor of Science in the Recording Industry from Middle Tennessee State University; and (b) Erica Marie Rodgers, who has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics & History from the University of Virginia. Namesakes: [65] Mahala (Bedford) Rodgers; Daniel Boone, 18th century American frontiersman and explorer.

Erik & Ruth were the parents of four sons:

iii. MATTHEW ALEXANDER KAHN, born in Chicago (Cook) Illinois. He married at Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 20 April 1986, Carol Dorothy Cleland, daughter of Norman Alexander and Mary Dawson (Nesbitt) Cleland. Matthew & Carol's daughters are: (a) Erin Rosemary Dionysia Kahn; (b) Robyn Midori Gaia Kahn; and (c) Roxanne Elisabeth Esta Kahn. Namesakes: Alexander Kahn; Alexander Graham Bell, 19th century Scottish American inventor.

iv. TOBIAS RAVEN KAHN, born in Norwalk (Fairfield) Connecticut. He married at Mansfield (Tolland) Connecticut, 1 December 1978, Karen Lisa Cook, they were later divorced. Toby & Karen's daughter is: (a) Bonnie Elizabeth Kahn, two children, Kia and Khari. Toby's daughter is: (b) Stephanie Kahn. Toby married at home in East Hartford (Hartford) Connecticut, September 2006, Noris Dubenka Martinez-Garcia. Toby & Noris are the parents of: (c) Julio Nuñez, and (d) Luis Baez. Namesake: [11] Lenore Naomi (Raven) (Ladd) (Flanzer) (House) Howard.

v. PAUL VERPLANK "JED" KAHN, born in Norwalk and he married at Las Vegas (Clark) Nevada, 8 April 2005, Audrey (---). Namesakes: Erik Paul Kahn; [23] Catherine Alta (Verplank) (Jewell) Raven; Paul Revere, 18th century American silversmith and patriot.

vi. JOSHUA ERIKOVICH KAHN WOOF WINNIETHER PENDRAGON, born in Norwalk as JOSHUA HUNTLEY KAHN. He married at Oxford (Oxfordshire) England, 30 November 2001, Margaret Rachael "Maggie" Scott, daughter of Ward Meikle and Katharine Joan Christabel (MacDonald) Scott. Josh has a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Marlboro College, and a Master of Studies in Historical Research from Oxford University. Namesake: [47] Ermina (Huntley) Verplank

GENERATION 4

TIM'S GRANDPARENTS

8. Karl Freeman Rodgers, Sr., son and only child of [16] George Lincoln and Mary Jane (Rodgers) Rodgers, was born 22 October 1895 on Cape Cod in Provincetown (Barnstable) Massachusetts, and died 27 March 1971 at Boston (Suffolk) Massachusetts. He married (as her first husband) on 18 September 1928 at the First Baptist Church or at the State School for the Blind, both in Batavia (Genesee) New York,

9. Allegra Estelle Hamilton, who was born 17 August 1900 in Newark, a village in the town of Arcadia (Wayne) New York, and died 16 January 1992 at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene (Cheshire) New Hampshire, daughter and only child of [18] Charles Amos and Gertrude Mabel (Hubbard) Hamilton.

Karl was supposed to be named Paul, but the minister who was going to baptize him was deaf and misunderstood what his parents wanted to name him and so he was baptized Carl. Since the minister did not write the name down they decided to use Karl instead of Carl. Karl served in World War I, and the great shock in his life that he never got over occurred while in the trenches in France during the war. He received a letter from his father with the news that his father had remarried. Karl had never received an earlier letter with the news that his mother had died. On 10 June 1921 Karl received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as an electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories for 39 years, retiring in 1960 as a member of the Transmission Systems Development Department at Murray Hill. As of 4 November 1940 he had 6 inventions patented, electrical condensers, terminal connections for electrical devices, and variable condensers. At the age of 32, he was engaged to marry Allegra, a fellow employee he met at Bell Labs and a graduate of Vassar College. The wedding was planned to be held at the First Baptist Church in Batavia, according to a newspaper announcement. However, in Allegra's father's autobiography, he states that they were married in a natural bower of evergreens and ornamental shrubbery on the grounds of the State School for the Blind, also in Batavia. They honeymooned in France. Late in life Karl developed emphysema that was caused by exposure to a gas in the war. "Grandpa Karl" died of complications following surgery.

Allegra married (as her second husband) 26 July 1975 in San Antonio, Texas, Lester Dean Lloyd, who was born 5 October 1903 in Red Oak (Montgomery) Iowa, and died 23 September 1988 in Schertz (Guadalupe) Texas, son of Noah R. and Mary Alma (McGimpsey) Lloyd. Her grandchildren called her "Grandma Allegra." Karl & Allegra are buried at Lot #955, Clematis Path, Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion, New York. Namesakes: Mamie Estelle "Minnie" Hubbard.; "From my study I see in the lamplight, / Descending the broad hall stair, / Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, / And Edith with golden hair," from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children's Hour (first published in 1860).

The following was written by Allegra's daughter, Delorma (Rodgers) Morton:

Allegra Estelle Hamilton was born in Newark, NY on August 17, 1900 to Charles Amos Hamilton and Gertrude Mabel Hubbard Hamilton. She was said to be a thirteen pound baby and as a result was an only child. The family soon moved to Batavia, NY where her father had been appointed superintendent of the State School for the Blind and they lived in the main school building. She was an excellent student, learning Greek and Latin and winning prizes for her recitations. She had many interesting stories about her life there. The school had one of the first automobiles in town and when her Mother came back from her first ride she said, "We went thirteen miles an hour!"

Allegra's father thought that blind children should be given every chance to develop both physically and mentally. He did things such as set up wires with hoops on them in front of the school to guide the children so that they could learn to run, and run races where they were visible to everyone. As well as stressing and expanding such things as music and piano tuning, he exposed them to things like carpentry, proper English, and gave them a well rounded education. This attitude was unusual and gave such good results that many other schools started following his example. His beliefs about education extended to his daughter. When Allegra said that she wanted to major in physics in college her father said that no woman would be able to get a job in physics. Instead she majored in math and graduated from Vassar in 1922. She continued to be an active alumni and maintained friendships developed there through her active life.

Allegra moved to New York City because of the job opportunities there and in 1928 she married Karl Freeman Rodgers, a fellow employee of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Because of company policy she had to leave that company but continued her career as a statistician.

In 1930 Karl Freeman Rodgers, Jr. was born. She took several years off but then went back to work. In 1936 Delorma Hamilton Rodgers was born. With the help of an extremely intelligent and self-educated black woman, she was soon back at work.

During her career she distinguished herself and became well enough known in her field to be in Who's Who. She set up the quality control for Squibb, doing such a good job that when she was finished, Bristol-Meyers asked her to come and do the same for them. She also helped edit the book by Dr. Ott on statistics that was used by Japan to change their output from cheap toys to expensive electronic equipment.

Karl and Allegra's life together was based on mutual trust, respect and honor. During the Second World War she worked on a secret project involving finding submarines at sea. Both she and her husband took the label "secret" so seriously that it was not until the 1960s that they found out that they had been working on the same project from different angles, one from planes looking down, the other from ships pulling submerged sensors. They had many hobbies. Golf, bridge, hiking, traveling and in later years, both ballroom and square dancing. Everyone who met them enjoyed them. When they went to Europe they went to an army sponsored square dance. A couple they had never met before had a spare room and offered it to them as a base of operations for the year they were planning to be overseas.

After about 40 years at Bell Labs, Karl retired. A year later Allegra retired from Bristol-Myers. They had decided to travel the United States for two years before settling down in Provincetown, MA. During that year Karl did research on trailers and cars to pull them. With the money from the sale of their house in Cranford, NJ, they bought an Airstream trailer and an Oldsmobile car. The local dealer said that the options that they were ordering were not possible until Karl showed them the letter from the president of Oldsmobile. Two years later those options came out as the trailer package, with one exception. They were planning to go to Mexico where unleaded gas was not available and therefore required a different engine.

They enjoyed seeing the country and meeting people so much that the first year they only made it as far as Atlanta, GA. The second year they got to San Antonio, TX. Then they spent 2 years in Europe. They visited places where Karl had been as an interpreter during the First World War, and where they had honeymooned, wintering in Toromolinis, Spain. Most of their time was spent in France, Germany and Spain. Everywhere they went they met new friends, often being invited to places tourists do not go, the pits of an automobile race, a family get together. Karl spoke French and was fairly good in German and Spanish. Allegra spoke Spanish and understood much of several other languages.

By the time they left Europe their Christmas card list had grown to 150, each one with a personal message. For them this was a pleasure because each person brought back special memories.

They continued to travel in the US but liked San Antonio best so when Karl developed emphysema they decided to spend the winters there and summers in Provincetown. They often traveled in two vehicles, Karl in the Oldsmobile pulling the trailer and Allegra in a VW. They not only did not have to unhook to go get groceries or see a town, but really preferred driving the smaller car when they got to where they were going.

On March 27, 1971 Karl died of complications after surgery. Allegra continued the migration between Texas and New England, often stopping to visit one or more of her many scattered friends.

On July 26, 1974 Allegra married (as her second husband) Lester D. Lloyd, a retired self made insurance salesman, and settled down in San Antonio. Allegra became good friends with Lester's son, Dean, a Southern Baptist minister and retired FBI agent. She soon convinced Lester to include a side trip to New England when they went to his family reunion in Colorado. As Lester's health began to fail Dean took a larger and larger part of such things as house maintenance but was unable to do anything to relieve what became the 24 hour surveillance Lester required. When Dean gave the sermon at Lester's funeral in October 1989, he praised Allegra, both for becoming a mother to him and for her devotion to his father. She lived alone until December 1990 when she moved to NH to live with her daughter, Delorma, and son-in-law, Robert D. Morton.

Allegra died quietly on January 16, 1992. She left her daughter and son-in-law, five grandchildren, John, Robert and Allegra Morton, and Timothy and Daniel Rodgers, and eight great-grandchildren. She also left her stepson Dean and his wife Ruth and his five children who felt about her as though she were related by blood instead of by marriage. The whole family looked at her as the symbol of the love and caring that creates a family out of a group of related people. She showed, by demonstration, that putting others before yourself is not only possible, but brings pleasure to all involved.

Delorma & Karl Rodgers (Tim's aunt and father) Allegra & Karl were the parents of two children:

i. KARL FREEMAN RODGERS, Jr. (4)

ii. DELORMA HAMILTON RODGERS, born in New York City. She married at Cranford (Union) New Jersey, 7 June 1958, Robert Douglas Morton, son of John Randolph and Viva Kathleen (Beattie) Morton. Delorma & Bob's children are: (a) John Charles Morton, married Sally Lemeris, two children, Robert Colin and Elizabeth Grace; (b) Robert Dundas Morton, three children, Kristopher Allen, Kenneth Robert, and Hannah Catherine; (c) Lydia Morton, died one day after birth, and was buried in South View Cemetery in Randolph, Vermont; and (d) Allegra Randolph Morton, married David R. Young, three children, Clarice Amanda, Ariana Kathleen, and David Morton. Namesakes: [9] Allegra Estelle (Hamilton) (Rodgers) Lloyd; [38] Delorma Brown Hubbard.

SOURCES:
Karl Freeman Rogers entry, Town of Provincetown Births, vol 3, pg 81, no 119, Town Clerk, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Karl Rodgers (Middle name Freeman), certificate of death no. 2858 (1971), Massachusetts Division of Vital Statistics, Boston
Karl Freeman Rodgers, US Social Security Application for Account Number (066-29-2230)
Charles Amos Hamilton, An Autobiography, "The Memory of the Just is Blessed", (Batavia, New York: Privately printed, 1941), 37, 53, 54
Allegra Estelle Hamilton, birth certificate no. 31893-1932 (1900), State of New York--Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Constance E. Sanders, Descendants of William and John Dundass 1773-1981, (Brantford, Ontario: Hurley Printing Co. Ltd., 1982), 176

GENERATION 5

TIM'S GREAT-grandparents

16. George Lincoln Rodgers, first son of [32] Elijah and Zipporah Ann (Horton) Rodgers, was born 1 January 1865 in Guysborough (Guysborough) Nova Scotia, and died 16 July 1939 in Fall River (Bristol) Massachusetts. George married (as his first wife) on 18 February 1891 in Provincetown (Barnstable) Massachusetts, his first cousin,

17. Mary Jane "Jennie" Rodgers, who was born 7 June 1867 in Boston (Suffolk) Massachusetts and died 10 July 1916 in Somerville (Middlesex) Massachusetts, one of four daughters of [34] Neadom and Hanorah (O'Brien) Rodgers.

George - immigrant from Nova Scotia.
George was brought up as a Wesleyan Methodist, and lived in Nova Scotia, working as a fisherman. Sometime between 1881 and 1891 he moved to Provincetown, at the end of Cape Cod, and continued his livelihood as a mariner. George & Mary Jane were married by Ezra J. Riggins, Clergyman. They resided at 4 West Vine St. in Provincetown. George & Mary Jane were first cousins, both of them grandchildren of [64] Jacob and Mahala (Bedford) Rogers.

(64) Jacob Rodgers (68)

Elijah Rodgers (32)	brothers	Neadom Rodgers (34)
George Lincoln Rodgers (16)	cousins	Mary Jane Rodgers (17)

Sometime after Mary Jane's death in 1916, George married (as his second wife) Mary Etta (Cushing) Simmons, widow of Mark L. Simmons. Mary Etta died in 1938, and George died soon after of colon cancer. George lies buried with his second wife and her first husband in Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Massachusetts. Mary Jane lies buried with her parents, brother and sister-in-law in Gifford Cemetery, in Provincetown.

George & Mary Jane were the parents of one son:

i. KARL FREEMAN RODGERS (8)

SOURCES:
Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Massachusetts, Simmons tombstone
Gifford Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Rodgers tombstone, Lot #20
Karl Freeman Rogers entry, Town of Provincetown Births, vol 3, pg 81, no 119, Town Clerk, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Karl Rodgers (Middle name Freeman), certificate of death no. 2858 (1971), Massachusetts Division of Vital Statistics, Boston
George L Rodgers, death registered no. 1094 (1939), Office of the City Clerk, Fall River, Massachusetts.
George L. Rodgers & Mary J. Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Marriages, vol 2, pg 94, no 12, Town Clerk, Provincetown, Massachusetts
CENSUS: 1881, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Guysborough Township, Dwelling 173, Family 180

GENERATION 6

TIM'S 2nd-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

This pack rat has learned that what the next generation will value
most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were
and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the
family stories that are worth the storage.

~ Ellen Goodman

32. Elijah Rodgers, son of [64] Jacob and Mahala (Bedford) Rodgers, was born 4 October 1834 in Guysborough (Guysborough) Nova Scotia, and died 19 June 1925 in Provincetown (Barnstable) Massachusetts. He married 15 December 1863 at Toby Cove (Guysborough) Nova Scotia,

33. Zipporah Ann Horton, who was born 22 February 1838 in Cook's Cove (Guysborough) Nova Scotia, and died 6 March 1920 in Provincetown, second daughter of [66] Charles S. and Eliza (Hanley) Horton.

Immigrants from Nova Scotia.
Elijah and Zipporah resided in Guysborough until at least 1881 when they appeared there on the census. Elijah was "39" and occupied with fishing and was a member of the Baptist faith. Zipporah was "39" and was a Wesleyan Methodist. At some point they moved to Provincetown and resided at 72B Commercial St, at the end of Cape Cod. Elijah died of arterial sclerosis, Zipporah of senile debility, and they are buried together in Gifford Cemetery in Provincetown.

Elijah & Zipporah were the parents of eight children, all apparently born in Guysborough:

i. ALICE RODGERS was born about 1865. At Evergreen Cemetery in Guysborough there is a small stone next to her grandmother Mahalia's stone, which reads "Alice, daughter of Elijah and Zipporia Rogers, Died July 2, 1870"

ii. GEORGE LINCOLN RODGERS (16)

iii. HARVEY R. RODGERS was born about 1872 and married Bertha Rodgers.

iv. CHARLES EDWARD RODGERS, born 12 November 1873, died 1893, lies buried with his parents in Gifford Cemetery, Provincetown.

v. NEADOM A./O. RODGERS, born 1875, died 1953, lies buried with his son in Gifford Cemetery. He was a fisherman. He married first, Adelaide Williams, who was born in Provincetown in 1875, and died there 24 October 1918, daughter of John and Marian (Campbell) Williams. Adelaide is buried with her parents-in-law in Gifford Cemetery. Neadom & Adelaide's children were: (a) Violet Rodgers, and (b) Oscar Francis Rodgers, born 1910 in Canada and died 2 March 1997, age 87, is buried with his father in Gifford Cemetery, unmarried. Neadom married second, 11 December 1923 in Wellfleet (Barnstable) Massachusetts, Lillian Udavilla (Stanley) Rodgers, who was born 1885 in New Brunswick, and died 1979, widow of his brother, William W. Rodgers, and daughter of Joseph and Mary (Griffin) Stanley. Lillian is buried with her first husband in Gifford Cemetery. [While Tim and Dan Rodgers were growing up, Aunt Lil Rodgers lived at 72B Commercial St. ( originally the home of her parents-in-law) with her nephew/step-son, Oscar. Aunt Lil called Oscar "the Boy", much to the amusement of Tim and Dan, who were much younger than he was!]

vi. WILLIAM W. RODGERS, born 1878, died 1920. He was a mariner. William married first, 24 January 1900 in Provincetown, Lizzie Ellsworth Newcomb, who was born there about 1883, daughter of John and Christina (McKinnon) Newcomb. William married second, Lillian Udavilla Stanley, who was born 1885 in New Brunswick (or possibly Prince Edward Island), and died 1979, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Griffin) Stanley. William and Lillian are buried in Gifford Cemetery. William & Lillian's children were: (a) Helen Rodgers, born about 1907, married John Guilfoyle, three daughters, Mary Louise "Tunie", Nancy Jeanne, and Anne, and (b) Louisa Edna Rodgers, born 1912, died 1934, buried with her parents in Gifford Cemetery.

vii. OSELA ELIJAH RODGERS, born after 1882 and married Sylvia Frimeyer. They had a son, (a) Charles Osela Rodgers, married Elizabeth (---).

viii. EDNA ESTELLE/ELIZABETH RODGERS, born about 1884, and married 22 November 1904 in Provincetown, Samuel Thomas Rich, a mariner who was born there about 1882, son of Caleb L. and Julia Ann (Freeman) Rich.

SOURCES:
George L Rodgers, death registered no. 1094 (1939), Office of the City Clerk, Fall River, Massachusetts
Elijah Rogers entry, Town of Provincetown Deaths, (1925) Vol. 3: 4, no. 34, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Zupporiah A. Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Deaths, (1920) Vol. 2: 138, no. 15, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Nova Scotia Vital Records, Guysborough County Births, microfilm 1,318,352, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Guysborough 1873, Charles Edward Rodgers b. 12 Nov 1873 Parents Elijah Rodgers & Zepporah Horton
Adelaide Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Deaths, (1918) Vol. 2: 135, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Neadom Rodgers-Lillian Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Marriages, (1923) Vol. 3:35, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
William Rodgers-Lizzie Newcomb entry, Town of Provincetown Marriages, (1900) Vol. 2:118, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Samuel Rich-Edna Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Marriages, (1904) Vol. 2:130, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
A. C. Jost, Guysborough Sketches and Essays, (Guysborough, Nova Scotia: no publisher, 1950), 269
CENSUS: 1881 Guysborough County, NS, Guysborough Township, Dwelling 173, Family 180

34. Neadom Rodgers, son of [64] Jacob and Mahala (Bedford) Rodgers, was born 11 June 1837 in Guysborough (Guysborough) Nova Scotia, and died 30 June 1897 in Provincetown (Barnstable) Massachusetts. He married 3 April 1866 in Boston (Suffolk) Massachusetts,

35. Hanorah "Nora" O'Brien, who was born 12 December 1846 in Boston, and died 16 January 1921 in Marshfield (Plymouth) Massachusetts, daughter of [70] William and Mary (---) O'Brien.

Neadom - immigrant from Nova Scotia.
Neadom was a mariner, and he probably met Hanorah in Boston after leaving Guysborough and before settling in Provincetown. They were married by Rev. Thomas Sheahan, and probably moved to Provincetown between 1867 and 1869, after their daughter Mary Jane was born in Boston. Neadom died of arterial insufficiency, and is buried with Hanorah in Gifford Cemetery in Provincetown.

Hanorah & Neadom were the parents of nine children:

i. ALVIN M. RODGERS, who married Anne Kahn and had two children, (a) George Alvin Rodgers, born 23 November 1921, and (b) Dorothy Rodgers, born 1 March 1924.

ii. INEZ MITCHELL RODGERS, who married Alton Phillips Stephens.

iii. MARY JANE "JENNIE" RODGERS (17)

iv. JOHN NEADOM RODGERS, born 14 February 1869 in Provincetown. He married Bessie Bennett, who was born 29 June 1893. They had one son (a) John Neadom Rodgers, who was born and died the same day, 30 November 1907.

v. GEORGE J. RODGERS, born 3 July 1871 in Provincetown, died there 17 March 1872 at 3 months old of "putrefied congestion of the lungs."

vi. GEORGIANNA RODGERS, born 4 May 1875 in Provincetown, died 27 May 1941. She married 6 December 1911 in Chelsea (Suffolk) Massachusetts, Edwin Ambrose Webster, who was born 31 January 1869 in Chelsea, and died 23 January 1935 in Provincetown, son of Edwin and Caroline A. (Emerson) Webster. They had no children. Georgianna was employed as a nurse, and would not consent to marry her husband until he was financially established as an artist. She was 36 when she and the Provincetown artist were finally married by R. Perry Bush, Clergyman. "Ever a modest person, Webster seems to have pursued his art and his teaching with remarkable talent, intensity, and intellect, but apparently with no bent for self-promotion." (comment from Miriam Stubbs) He attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, under Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell, and Acadamie Julian in Paris studying with Jean Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant. In 1913 he exhibited at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, "Old Hut, Jamaica" and "Sunlight, Jamaica". He started Ambrose Webster's Summer School of Painting, and was a founding member of the Provincetown Art Association. After his death, Georgianna lived in New York City with her nephew, [8] Karl Rodgers and his wife, Allegra, while she was in her final illness and while their daughter, Delorma was a small child. Georgianna left the house at 180 Bradford St. in Provincetown, where she and Ambrose had lived, to Karl when she died. Ambrose & Georgianna lie buried in an unmarked grave in the Webster plot at 2653 Hawthorn Path at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2] Timothy Webster Rodgers, Karl's grandson, was given a portrait of Georgianna painted by her husband, E. Ambrose Webster, after whom Timothy was named.

The following is from a booklet put out by Babcock Galleries in New York City, which still has many of Webster's paintings:

Provincetown was already an established art colony in 1914 when the Art Association & Museum was founded with several prominent citizens and artists as its members:... E. Ambrose Webster and Oliver Chaffee, both Fauvist painters and exhibitors in the 1913 Armory Show....The summer art classes initiated by Hawthorne and Webster-- painting outdoors on the beach with the model posed against the sun to teach the students to establish broad tone values and modeling with palette-knifed color-- attracted serious students by the hundreds, taught them the fundamentals and gave the town new color....The beginning of the collection was five paintings donated in 1914 by Charles Hawthorne, Ambrose Webster, William Halsall, Oscar Giebrich and Gerrit Beneker.

The following is from the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, 460 Commercial St, Provincetown, Massachusetts:

If ever an American painter reveled in light and color it was E. Ambrose Webster. He was among our first and most forceful modern painters. After initial studies under Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson in Boston, he spent nearly three years in Europe absorbing the latest developments in the Post-Impressionist art world. By 1900 he returned to the United States and, having developed his own original idiom, became a prominent member of the progressive art community. Over the years he traveled widely in France, Spain, Italy, Jamaica and Bermuda, seeking the sunlight heightened color which inspired him. In 1906 while painting in the Caribbean he exhibited a work which secured the Musgrave Silver Medal from the Institute of Jamaica. By 1913 he was exhibiting in Boston and Cleveland with Charles Hovey Pepper, Carl C Cutler and Maurice Prendergast. Webster also exhibited at least two pictures at the 1913 'International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show).' He later worked with Albert Gleize and exhibited with Demuth, Zorach, Spencer and Tworkov. Babcock Galleries' first exhibition of Webster's work occurred in 1965 and since then his paintings have been included in many shows including The High Museum of Art's 'The Advent of Modernism.' Webster devoted his extensive travels to finding light enshrined color. When he found it, he painted with a force and vigor that even today is astonishing. RED HOUSE, PROVINCETOWN demonstrates the vitality and exceptionally modern vision Webster possessed. His work and its influence rank him along with Alice Schille, Alfred Maurer, Oscar Bluemner and John Marin among the important painters of his generation.

[On 24 August 2001, Delorma Morton, Tim & Barbara Rodgers, Jon & Jannai Rodgers and little Ella Grace, attended the opening night of an exhibition of Webster paintings at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum. Most of the paintings and drawings were from private collections, and they met the curator, Miriam Stubbs, a relative of Kenneth Stubbs who was one of Webster's students.]

vii. NAOMI MAHALA RODGERS, was born about 1876. She married 2 August 1896, Henry Scott Akers. They had one son (a) Gerald Rodgers Akers, born 22 June 1897, married Dorothy Marie Adams.

viii. ELIJAH JACOB RODGERS, born 1878 in Provincetown, died 1960. He was a baker and married in Provincetown, 27 April 1898, Clara Louise Bangs, who was born there in 1879, daughter of Perez and Julia (Smith) Bangs. They had one daughter, (a) Louise Hazelton Rodgers, born 2 September 1899 in Provincetown, married 26 June 1920, William Axelby, two children, Winifred Louise and Robert William. Elijah and Clara are buried with Elijah's parents and his sister in Gifford Cemetery.

ix. GEORGE LEVAN RODGERS, born 2 May 1880 in Provincetown, died 13 November 1967. He married Sarah Schneider. George lived at 64 Mason St., and worked for the Coes Wrench Co. in Worcester, Massachusetts. There is a picture of George at work with the caption, "I believe this is a pump which was the first engine I ever operated. It was here I was allowed to Blow the factory whistle." George & Sarah had two daughters: (a) Thelma Naomi Rodgers, born 4 October 1909, married Cornelius Brown, one daughter, Cornelia, and (b) Frances Alice Rodgers, born 21 November 1911.

SOURCES:
Neadom Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Deaths, (1897) Vol. 2: 78, no. 39, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Needham Rogers-Honora O'Brien, copy of record of marriage no. M 002543 (1866), The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Secretary of State-Archives Division, Boston
Georgianna Rogers entry, Town of Provincetown Births, (1875) Vol. 3:24, no. 25, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Edwin Ambrose Webster-Georgianna Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Marriages, (1911) Vol. 3:8, no. 36, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
George L. Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Births, (1880) Vol. 3:37, no. 26, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Webster's passport on display at Provincetown Art Association & Museum - 24 August 2001.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, E. Ambrose Webster, Early Modernist Painter, (Provincetown, Massachusetts: no publisher, 2001), 3, 7, 10, 11, 14, 23
Louise Rodgers entry, Town of Provincetown Births, (1899) Vol. 3:94, Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Edwin Ambrose Webster, standard certificate of death no. 11 (1935), Town Clerk's Office, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA - computer database at information office on 5 November 2005.

GENERATION 7

TIM'S 3rd-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as
ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room
for another growth. When we have lived our generation
out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

~ Thomas Jefferson

64. Jacob Rogers, son of [128] Eli and Hannah (Cook) Rogers, was born about 1793 in Guysborough (Guysborough) Nova Scotia, and died 10 January 1872 in Lower Tabor Run, Guysborough. He married (as his first wife) 18 January 1819 at Guysborough,

65. Mahala/Mileath Bedford, who was born 25 April 1800 in Guysborough, and died there 1 February 1864, daughter of [130] Levan and Esther (Hamilton) Bedford.

Jacob was a farmer and a fisherman. Jacob married (as his second wife) 18 February 1868 in (Sydney) [now Guysborough], Nova Scotia, Susanna Dort, who was born 18 February 1822 in Guysborough, the daughter of Valentine and Eve (Sneider) Dort. It seems that Susanna had at least two daughters from a previous marriage, Selina, age 25, and Mary, age 10, as they were living with Jacob, age 73, and Susanna, age 50, in 1871, according to the census. This census states that Jacob was a Baptist, and of Scottish origin, and that Susanna belonged to the Church of England. Jacob died "of infirmity and old age." Mahala lies buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Guysborough. Her tombstone reads "Wife of Jacob Rodgers died Feb 1, 1864 Age 52 years." The headstone is broken almost in half, top leaning against bottom. It is a rounded top with "Mahalie" engraved around the curve.

Jacob & Mahala were the parents of seven children (order uncertain):

i. ANN ROGERS

ii. EZEKIEL ROGERS

iii. GEORGE ROGERS

iv. LEVAN ROGERS

v. HANNAH ROGERS, born 2 March 1824 in Guysborough, died there 22 November 1891. She married 1 February 1847 in Guysborough, Robert J. Atkins, son of Daniel and Charity (Jamieson) Atkins. Hannah & Robert were farmers, members of Christ Church Anglican, and are buried in Evergreen Cemetery. They had ten children: (a) Esther Maria Atkins; (b) James Laban Atkins; (c) George Rogers Atkins; (d) Levi Alexander Atkins, married Blanche Lillian Spicer, four children, Myrtle Antoinette, Payzant Williams, George Spicer, and Alice Adelia; (e) Henrietta Atkins; (f) Violetta Ann Atkins, married John R. Eaton, one son George Robert, married Frederick E. Doty, one daughter, Winifred Eliza; (g) Robert Milton Atkins, married Lucie Anne Vigneau, three sons, James Milton, George Theodore, and Levi Bertram; (h) John Alexander Atkins, one son, Daniel; (i) Mahalath Atkins, married Charles William Taylor, six children, Mabel Clare, Mary Ella, Esther Bird, Charles William, Elizabeth, and Florence; and (j) William Percy Atkins, married Eunice Elizabeth Lyle, five children, Percy William, George Bernard, Arthur M., Margaret Everall, and Ralph F.

vi. ELIJAH RODGERS (32)

vii. NEADOM RODGERS (34)

SOURCES:
Deaths Registered at Guysborough in the County of Guysborough 1872, microfilm 1,294, 781, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah (Jacob Rogers)
Research notes of Mary Therese (Marshall) Bates
Mary E. Koen, compiler, 1838 census of Nova Scotia Guysborough County consolidated listing of heads of families: index (Privately printed, 1985), 26
Mary E. Koen, compiler, Index. Head of households. Consolidated listing for Guysborough County. Census of Nova Scotia 1860-1861 (Privately printed, 1985), 38
Mary E. Koen, compiler, 1871 Census of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada, Vol 1, Nominal Return of the Living (Privately printed, 1988), 27
CENSUS: 1861, 1871, and 1881 Census, Guysborough, NS

GENERATION 9

TIM'S 5th-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

256. Joseph Rogers married in (St. Augustine) Florida,

257. Ferreby Alexander, daughter of [514] John and Margaret Elizabeth (Alden) Alexander.

Joseph & Ferreby and 3 of their children over 10 years of age, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from St. Augustine, on the ship "Argo" on 29 July 1784, and were in Chedabucto [Manchester], Sydney (Guysborough) Nova Scotia by the autumn of 1784. On 23 February 1785 they bought Lot #4, 400 acres, in Manchester. In 1790 they probably bought 250 acres from a Henry Johns, but this was not recorded.

Ferreby & Joseph were the parents of eight children:

i. JOSEPH ROGERS, born about 1762, died after 1819 in Mecklenburg (Anson) North Carolina. He married 18 September 1780 in Guysborough (Manchester) Nova Scotia, Abigail Wheeler. Joseph & Abigail were the parents of two children: (a) Joseph Rogers and (b) Needham Edward Rogers.

ii. CORP. ELI ROGERS (128)

iii. BRYANT ROGERS, born about 1766 in Virginia, died in Melford (Guysborough) Nova Scotia. He married (as his first wife) 5 January 1792 in (Sydney) Nova Scotia, Jennet "Jennie" Hunt, who was born 1772 in South Carolina, and died 1826. Bryant & Jennet were the parents of twelve children: (a) Isaac Rogers, married first, Marianne/Matilda (---), three children, Matilda, Isaac and Madison Charles, married second, Rebecca (---) [Distant Cousins: Isaac Roger's 2nd great-granddaughter, Mary Therese (Marshall) (Kafouse) Bates, is Tim's fifth cousin, once removed. We "met" her on the internet in and exchanged genealogical information.]; (b) Anna Rogers, married Thomas Cochrane; (c) William M. Rogers, married Temperance Carter, nine children, William, Bridget, Marianne/Mary Ann, William T., John Madison, George Shepard, Richard R., Catherine Jane, and Helen/Ellen F.; (d) Matterson Rogers; (e) John Rogers, married Elizabeth (---), two children, John Bryant and Mary Jane; (f) George Shepard Rogers; (g) Thomas Rogers, married Janet McNair, five children, Mary, William, Bryant, Thomas, and John William; (h) Bryant Rogers, married Mary Anne Peebles, four children, Bryan, Harriet Jane, William, and Charlotte Elizabeth; (i) Farriby Rogers, married Stephen McGuire, three children, John Henry, Bryant, and Mary Ann; (j) Jennet Rogers; (k) Susan Rogers; and (l) Temperance Rogers. Bryant married 4 September 1827 in Sydney, Nova Scotia (as his second wife) Christie/Hettie Stewart, who was born 1792 in Scotland, and died 1871. Bryant & Christie were the parents of two children: (m) Margaret Jane Rogers and (n) Christian Rogers.

iv. EZEKIEL ROGERS, born about 1768. Ezekiel was a farmer who served as a Loyalist in the Revolutionary War in the Duke of Cumberland's Regiment.

v. WILLIAM ROGERS, born about 1770. William also served in the Duke of Cumberland's Regiment.

vi. AFRICA ROGERS, born about 1772 in North Carolina, died in (Lincoln) Tennessee. She married in Guysborough (Guysborough) Nova Scotia, William George, who was born 19 July 1756 in (Lancaster) Virginia, and died 1 April 1847 in (Lincoln), son of William and Lucia/Lucy (Payne) George. Africa & William were the parents of ten children: (a) Eli George, married Mary Brown; (b) Farriby George; (c) John M. George; (d) Joseph George, married Mary Margaret Caldwell, married Eleanor Burton; (e) Mahala George; (f) Mary George; (g) Needham George, married Sarah Farish, married Emaline Rebecca Copeland; (h) Thomas B. George, married Susannah Hobbs, married Lillian "Lilly" Black, married Mary "Polly" Colbert; (i) David W. George, married Nancy Hobbs; and (j) William George, married Margaret Hobbs.

vii. NEEDHAM ROGERS, born about 1774, died in North Carolina. He married before 1801 in (Sydney) Nova Scotia, Catherine Proven. Needham & Catherine were the parents of one son, (a) Ezekiel Rogers, married Eleanor Hinshaw, eleven children, Catherine, Edward M., Elizabeth, George W., Harriet, John C., Joseph, Lucinda, Lydia, Mary, and William A.

viii. GEORGE ROGERS, born about 1775, died before 1813. He married 22 February 1803 in Guysborough, Martha "Matty" Henline, who died after 1861, daughter of George and Katherine (---) Henley. George & Martha were the parents of three children: (a) John Rogers, married Ruth (---), three children, Hannah Elizabeth, Martha Johanna, and James; (b) George Rogers; and (c) Henry Rogers, married Susannah Sneider/Shrader, six children, Israel, Permelia A., Maria L., George H., Sarah E., and Etta Frances.

SOURCES:
A. C. Jost, Guysborough Sketches and Essays, (Kentville, Nova Scotia: Kentville Publishing Company, Ltd., 1950), 173-175, 393
Township Books for Manchester and Guysborough: Births, Marriages and Deaths 1782-1860, Return of Lots of land on the West Side of the Gutt of Canso in the Township of Manchester to the Loyalists from St. Augustine
PANS Halifax, NS Census and Poll Taxes in RG 1767-1838 and Abstracts
Murtie June Clark, Loyalists in the Southern Campaign, Vol. 1, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.,1981)
Research notes of Mary Therese (Marshall) Bates