John W. Rogers 1818-1890

ROGERS, HAWLEY, HAMMELL

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 6/26/2018 at 12:49:00

6 February 1890 - The Tipton Advertiser

ROGERS.--In Salem, Oregon, on Wednesday, Jan.22d, 1890, John W. Rogers, in the seventy-second year of his age.

The deceased was born near Toronto, Canada West, Feb. 23rd, 1818, and had, therefore, almost completed the seventy-third year of his age. When only seventeen he emigrated to southern Illinois and in 1873 came with his family to Cedar County, Iowa, being for a decade of years a prominent and respected citizen of West Branch. In 1883 he went to Salem, Oregon, where also resided his son, Mr. Henry Rogers, and his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Hammell. Three other daughters remain in Iowa, one of them being Mrs. C. W. Hawley, of this place. The remaining member of his family of six children, Mr. David Rogers, lives in Georgia.

The Salem Statesman, recording this death, says Mr. Rogers has been gradually failing for some months, but was only confined to his bed a few days, passing away without a struggle at the last. And the Salem Statesman adds to its notice the following:
Mr. Rogers was a man of the highest type of patriotism, and while he could not go to the war himself, he sent three sons to serve in the Union army, one dying in the South. Deceased was raised a Friend, but for nearly half a century was connected with the M.E. church. He was never a member of any civic order, although a man of genial and social nature. He was at one time possessed of considerable property, but was compelled by sickness to lose it in great part. Losing his wife in 1861--to whom he was married in 1839--he has since made his home with his children, whose affection followed him closely to the close of his life.