Rogers, Minerva Eliza 1858 - 1858

ROGERS, GRISSELL, BENEDICT

Posted By: Norman Hjelmeland (email)
Date: 9/9/2012 at 15:54:37

The Decorah Republican, Thursday, September 13, 1928

Our Sisters Buried at Springwater, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Sister Minerva Eliza Rogers
d. 4th day of 11th mo., A.D. 1858
age 6 weeks and 1 day

Sister Theodora Rogers
d. 2d day of the 2d mo., A.D. 1868
age 1 week and 5 days

Daughters of Nathan and Lydia Ann Rogers, whose maiden name was Lydia Ann Grissell, and who was born at Alum Creek, Delaware County, Jan. 10th, 1840, in Ohio, and who died at Minneapolis Minn. June 22nd, 1910, age 70, buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis. Her mother was Cynthia Benedict, who is buried at Alum Creek, Delaware County, Ohio.

Nathan Rogers was the second of six children of Ansel and Louisa Rogers. Ansel Rogers was minister of the Friends, or Quakers. He is buried at Richmond, Indiana, and his wife Louisa is buried at the Friends metting house at Rollin, Michigan.

Ansel Rogers built the grist and saw mill at Springwater, Winneshiek County,Iowa about 1852, where he had moved from near Adrian, Lenewee County, Michigan. He afterwards moved to Springdale, near Leavenworth, Kansas, and with other Friends started a Quaker settlement, but the Civil War came on and the Southerners came there and took what they could and then the Northern Army came down and took what was left, so the Quakers were glad to dispose of their property and get away from there.

Nathan Rogers built the meeting house in Springwater, which may be the one there now and used as a church by the Lutherans.

Out of all those Quakers that settled in Springwater in those early years not one remains there now, living.

There are some of their children in Decorah and vicinity.

Of these two little infant sisters there are now three brothers living, Harlan A. Rogers, Wm. Francis Rogers of Minneapolis, Minn., and Clarence Raymond Rogers of Mound, Minn., which is at Lake Minnetonta near Minneapolis.

Edward Elwin Rogers, born in Springwater about 1865 and died at Algona, Iowa Jan. 23rd 1893, aged 27. He is buried in Minneapolis in Lakewood Cemetery. He was a brother of these two infant sisters.

Harlan A. Rogers was born in Springwater in 1859
Clarence Raymond Rogers was born in LaCrosse, Wisc. about 1870

Springwater Cemetery
 

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