Clare-Missaukee-Manistee County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rogers, Charles Anthony August 30, 1913
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Charles Anthony ("Chip") Rogers rogersc@ohio.edu October 27, 2007, 2:28 pm

LAKE CITY PLAIN DEALER, Sept. 4, 1913
"CHARLEY" ROGERS DEAD,

Well known Lake City Boy Dies in British Columbia, Last Week, and is Being 
Brought Home.

A letter from Joseph Yarnell and a telegram from Anthony Rogers were received 
Tuesday morning by Geo. W. Wood, both announcing the death of Charley Rogers, 
formerly of this place.  Neither gave the cause of death, but announced that 
death occured Friday, August 30th, and that Mrs. Rogers and children were 
bringing the body back to Mcihigan for burial, and were due in Grand Rapids 
Wednesday.

"Charley" was a son of Anthony Rogers, formerly supervisor of Norwich Township 
and later treasurer of this county.  "Charley" was employed for some years by 
the Lake City Hardware Company, under the Howey ownership, and was widely 
known and loved.  He married here Miss Mabel Yarnell, daughter of Joseph 
Yarnell, a well known citizen here at the time.  Miss Yarnell was chief 
operator for the local telephone company for some years before her marriage 
and cointinued in that capacity for some time afterwards and is still 
remembered as an expert operator, and one of the best the company ever had.  
She, also, had a host of friends who will mourn with her in the great sorrow 
that has come to her.  They have three children, the oldest about five years 
old and the youngest a small babe.

Deceased was a member of the local lodge of Woodmen, and carried a $2000 
beneficiary certificate.

Later news from Harrsion indicate that the funeral will probably be held in 
that city, as telegrams received from Mrs. Rogers en rout say she is coming 
there, direct.

Deceased had not been in very good health for some months, but the news of his 
death came without warning.  He was living in Manistee, B.C., and had been 
employed as a fireman on a railway.

Additional Comments:
"Charley" Rogers was my grandfather.  He died of nepheritis and was, at the 
time, working for the Crows Nest Pass Lumber Company as a locomotive engineer 
(and not a fireman as noted in the obituary).

"Charley" was the only son of Anthony and Jane Elizabeth (Miller) Rogers.  His 
older sisters were Margaret (who married Will Mooney), Martha (who married 
Francis Morrissey one time Clare County Clerk), Jane/Jenny (who married Austin 
Richardson), Adelaide (who married Paul Lux, Jr.)and Joy (who married Alfred 
VanVoorst).  The Rogers had another daughter Jesse Mary who is buried at 
Harrison, in Maple Grove Cemetery, dying at the age of one year.  My 
grandfather, Charles Anthony Rogers, whose obituary I have submitted, is also 
buried in Maple Grove, near his sister Jesse.

Anthony Rogers was, at one time, Superintendent of the Clare County Infirmary 
and a member of the Harrison Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

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