Jack County, TX - Obituaries - Miss Alice Maude Rogers ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Jacksboro Gazette Thursday, March 12, 1931 Funeral services for Miss Alice Maude Rogers, who died at her home in Jacksboro Monday. Services were held at the First Baptist Church with Rev. A.R. Bilberry, pastor officiating. Burial in the family plot in Oakwood cemetery. Miss Rogers had resided here most of her life. She was a consistent Christian and an active and devoted member of the Baptist church. In addition to her editorial and religious work, she was interested in the moral and educational level of Jack county. [paper washed out] Out-of-county relatives here for the funeral services were Mrs. Colvin, Miss Mary Wood Lane of Clarendon, M/M George Colvin, T.L. Colvin of Turkey. A large number of men, many of whom are now prominent in business and professions began their business careers in the Gazette office under the leadership of Miss Rogers, whose influence has been an inspiration for them to succeed. They were all referred to by her affectionately as the ÒGazette boys.Ó Miss Alice Maude Rogers had been one of the leaders in the development of this section of Texas not only in directing and advancing its culture, refinement and spiritual life but in its material development. With a foundation of a liberal education, based on the traditions of her native state, the cultured Kentucky of the Old South, continued by voluminous reading of the best in literature. As the editorial writer for the Rural Citizen and its successor The Jacksboro Gazette. Coming from Kentucky to Tarrant County, Texas, with her parents, the late Mr. And Mrs. J.N. Rogers, who later purchased a home and moved to what was the Springdale Community, 10 miles south of Jacksboro. There the Rural Citizen was established in 4 June 1880, later as the demands of the newspaper increased, the family moved to Jacksboro, the publication continuing under the firm name of J.N. Rogers & Company, with the father and the two daughters, Alice M. and Joanna L., as the publishers in 1886, the name was changed to The Jacksboro Gazette, its interests widened, when it was purchased by Capt. J.R. Dennis, a product of The GazetteÕs training from early boyhood. After the sale of the paper, Miss Rogers retired from active participation in its affairs and devoted the remaining of her years to her favored subjects of literature, the cultural arts and her church. Back in the 1880s there were many problems to be solved in material lines for North and Northwest Texas. Its main industry had been ranching; a transformation to stock farming and farming was imminent. Miss Rogers, with her father, saw many of its needs and with her editorial pen helped direct such change for many years through the columns of the paper. Her interest in the education of the youth of the land was always there. Her paper was a large factor in Jack CountyÕs public school system development and later in securing the location at Jacksboro of its ambitious educational experiment, The North Texas Baptist College