Ned H. Rogers (1918)

ROGERS, PORTER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 12/26/2007 at 20:05:46

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
September 11, 1918

NED ROGERS Dies in France

A large budget of mail arrived from France Saturday and Monday. Sad news came to Mrs. Lillie Ann Rogers on Saturday morning in a letter from Dr. J. S. Corkey, written August 16, expressing deep sympathy at the death of her son, Ned, with Company A In France.

He stated that Ned died on the battlefield amid fierce fighting, and is buried close to Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt's grave. No official word has ever come to Mrs. Rogers from the government. In the same mail, a cablegram was forwarded to her from her other son, Lieut. Lewis Rogers, who stated under date of Aug. 5th that he was well. Evidently, his company, which was distant from Company A, had been in action, and he had come out safely.

The death of Ned Rogers, a youth of not quite twenty years, brings genuine grief into the majority of homes in Winterset, where he was admired and esteemed as a bright boy full of promise and a great comfort to his mother. The flag in the court yard floated at half mast Monday, in his memory.

Note: Son of Lewis and Lillia Ann (Porter) Rogers