Lauren Eastman Rogers 1898-1921

ROGERS, EASTMAN, HODSON

Posted By: Mike Kearney (email)
Date: 12/16/2007 at 15:26:07

The Clinton Herald Tuesday July 5, 1921 p. 8 Clinton learned with a shock Sunday of the death of Lauren Eastman Rogers, only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Lauren C. Eastman of Clinton, at 6:30 o'clock Sunday morning in a hospital in Laurel, Miss., his death following an emergency operation for acute appendicitis, performed Thursday, June 30. The message, bearing the sad information of the death, was received by Mr. and Mrs. Eastman about 10 o'clock Sunday morning and they left for Laurel at noon, accompanied by Mrs. Frank Wisner of Laurel, Newell Rogers of Indianapolis, a guest of the Eastman home and a close friend, and Dr. A.W. Hunt, their family physician. Funeral services were held at Laurel this morning, followed by interment in the Laurel cemetery. The tragic and unexpected news came as a great shock not only in the immediate family and hosts of friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace B. Rogers, parents of the deceased, but to the numberless friends and admirers the young man had won in his association with Clinton people, as a boy, a youth and a man. He was born in the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eastman of Clinton, August 13, 1898, and had therefore lived nearly 23 years ---, years unusually full of happiness and rich blessings. But though life had brought to him so many privileges, he had grown but to a broader outlook on life and a stronger determination to use these abundant privileges for greater and truer usefulness in the world. He was most ardently in sympathy with his parents' ideas on "the true stewardship" of money, and as a boy at home --- and later as a student in school and university --- he planned always to do his part generously in supporting the work of the church, missions, the Y.M.C.A. and in short seconded in every way possible the wise plans of his parents in preparation for life's responsibilities. While a student in Princeton university he made every effort to enter the service of his country during the World War but was rejected because of a weakness of the hear. He graduated from Princeton in June 1920, and was united in marriage to Miss Lella Hodsen of East Orange, N.J., October 9, 1920. After their marriage they made their home in Laurel, Miss., where Mr. Rogers was employed in the firm of Eastman, Gardiner & Company and where he was rapidly pushing his way, step by step to a position of responsibility and trust. In all his varied affiliation whether in business or social life, his unusually charming personality won for him sincere friends, whose number was legions - the employees in his lumber mills, which whom he was associated as "one of them" when in vacations he began his systematic study of the busines, being among the most loyal. He was always kind and courteous especially toward older people, showing them most thoughtful consideration. He was not only most "fair to look upon, but was also a fine example of clean, splendid manhood, growing year by year to a rich fulfillment of the perfect ideal of Our Creator's noblest work - a Christian gentelman" was the tribute paid him by one Clinton friend today.