Upson-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rogers, Augustus Curran September 22, 1917
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The Pike County Journal, Friday, October 5, 1917

Rogers

My brother, Augustus Curran Rogers, son of Dr. Curran and Mrs. Dorothy Rogers, 
was born in Thomaston, Ga., Feb. 10, 1838, and died suddenly at his home in 
New York City, Sept. 22, 1917. He was a fine specimen of physical manhood, 
being over six feet tall, and weighing 185 pounds. I never knew him to be the 
least sick. He wrote me recently that he never had an ache or pain and that 
his health was perfect. This continued until the moment of his death.

At the beginning of the Civil war he volunteered and joined the Macon 
Volunteers, 2nd Ga., battalion and served in the campaigns of Virginia. He did 
valiant service until the latter part of the war, when the Confederate 
government sent him to France to purchase new machinery for father’s factory, 
which was running day and night to make clothing for the confederate soldiers.

He went to New York in 18?7 and for several years was on the editorial staff 
of the New York Herald. He was president of the Atlantic Publishing company 
for over thirty years.

He was big hearted, generous and unselfish. He was a great help to his aged 
parents and his brothers and sisters, not only in sympathy but in financial 
and material aid. His letters to the home-folks were loving and tender, and in 
every letter to me he gave some expression of his faith in Christ and his hope 
of meeting me in heaven. He had been a faithful member of the Methodist church 
and an earnest Christian for a number of years.

He leaves a widow and three grown sons.

Farewell my dear brother, we shall soon meet again. - Richard W. Rogers


Additional Comments:

His wife was:
Amelie Labarre [sp], born in Pau, France

The three sons mentioned were:
Curran Rogers, b. 30 November 1879 in New York
Augustus Rogers, b. 01 February 1882 in New York
Fletcher Rogers, b. 03 March 1886 in New York

[Note: Birth dates for sons are from misc. passport applications]


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