Lawson C. Rogers Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Lawson C. Rogers: was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1815, and was brought to now Hancock County, West Virginia, by his father, Roland Rogers, in 1819. He married Mary Ann Moody, of Ohio in 1845. They settled in Grant District. At present they own a farm one and a half miles from the Ohio River, on which they are now living. They have a family of six children, four sons and two daughters.