John A. Rogers

HAMNER, ROGERS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/12/2004 at 21:04:24

John A. Rogers, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Winterset; one of the earliest settlers of this county; was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, December 28, 1810, and lived there until he was nineteen years old and then went with his father's family to Indiana; he lived in Bartholomew and Johnson counties 27 or 28 years; December 13, 1832, he was married to Mary Hamner; she was born in Mercer county, Kentucky; in the spring of 1850 he started for Iowa on horseback and arrived in this county a short time after; at the first land-sale he entered over 700 acres; he removed his family here the following year; they came by wagon and were eighteen days on the road; he now owns a well improved farm of 270 acres; they have raised a family of two sons and two daughters.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 586, 587