Benton Co., AR - Biographies - C. F. Rogers

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SOURCE:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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C. F. Rogers is a native of Walker County, Ga., born June 21, 1841, and is the son of Hugh and
Martha (McWhorter) Rogers. The father was born in South Carolina March 7, 1797; was reared in
that State, married there, and then moved to the Cherokee Purchase, of Walker County, Ga. He
moved from there to Sulphur Springs, Washington Co., Ark., in 1851, then to Prairie Grove in
1852, and is now living with his son, C. F. He has been a farmer all his life. The mother was
born in South Carolina about 1800, and died at the age of seventy-three in Washington County,
Ark. C. F. Rogers remained at home until his marriage to Miss Charlotta Howell in 1859. She was a
native of Washington County, Ark. Two children were the result of this union: John C. and Maggie
E., wife of B. D. Wilson. The mother of these children was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and died in 1861. Mr. Rogers took for his second wife, February 7, 1869, Miss
Amanda Howell, a cousin of his former wife, and a native of Washington County, Ark. Eleven
children were born to this union, five deceased: Dora, wife of Henry Daniel; Robert W., Samuel
F., James W., Myrtle A. and Lawrence H. This wife died August 7, 1888. She was also a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as is the subject of this sketch. During the war Mr.
Rogers was in Company E. First Battalion Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate service, and was in duty
all through the war. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been justice of the peace of his
township for two years. He moved five miles southeast of Siloam Springs in 1883, and is the owner
of 280 acres of land, 200 under cultivation.