Rogers - Elijah
Source: `Family Histories of Montgomery County, Indiana 1823-1988
Compiled by Genealogy Section of Montgomery Co. Historical Society Turner
Publishing, Paducah KY p 288
Elijah
Rogers (submitted by J. Boyd) About the year 1829, Elijah Rogers came to
Indiana with his pioneer parents from Ohio to settle in Sugar Creek Township
near the little village of Bowers Station. He married Rachel ? who died in
1852. He then married Margaret Venis. From this union came 10 children. Two of
the children, Mary and David married a brother and sister; John and Sarah
Belle, from the Stull family. All of their children were double cousins. The
siblings (sic) of Elijah and Margaret Venis Rogers were: Mary Rogers; john
Rogers; Elizabeth who married Jesse Coyner; Melissa who married Jesse Saidla;
David Finley who married Sarah Belle Stull); George who married Isabelle Meek;
Mary Adeline, who married John W. Stull; Henry Edwin; Rilla May who married
John Hutchinson; and Nellie May who married Edwin J. Carr. The children of
David Finley and Sarah Belle Stull Rogers were: John Franklin who married
Annabelle Mitchell; Claude Chester who married Rosa Rettinger; Clifford who
married Hazel Clouser; Della who married Walter Long; Alden who married
Jeanette Zachgo; David who married Mary Watt; Edward Lee who married Pauline
Engle and Helen Watt; Oakel Hall who married Charlotte Cones and Mildred
Horsley; and Ethel Blanche who married Raleigh Carr and Leslie Edwards. The
children of Claude and Rosa Rettinger Rogers were: Juanita who died in infancy;
Helen who married Lew Waggoner and Haven. The children of Walter and Della
Rogers Long were Ellen and Cecil who married Helen Myers. The children of Allen
and Jeanette Zachgo Rogers were: Robert who married Rosemary Kelley and Ardith
Lindley and Dorothy who married Larry Gagnier. The children of David F. and
Mary Watt Rogers were Bonnie Jean who married Edward Kastl; and mary Jane who
married William Burkhalter. The children of Edward Lee and Helen Watt Rogers
were: Jack Graham who married Sharon Rabe and David lee who married Hazel
Wells. The children of Oakel and Charlotte Cones Rogers were Marjorie who
married Earl Bates and Albert Marschke; and Myron Lee who married Ruth ? The
child of Oakel and Mildred Horsley was Nancy Jane Rogers. The children of
Raleigh and Ethel Blanche Carr were: Laurabelle who married Glen Reppert and
Lois Mae who married Leslie Lassiter. With 10 children form John W. and Mary
Rogers Still and 10 children form David Finley and Sarah Belle Stull Rogers a
double cousin, it was natural that family reunions were frequently held. The
first Rogers-Stull family gathering was held at the country home of Walter and
Della Rogers in late Aug 1921 but did not organize until Aug 1924 at Stoddard
Park, Linden, Ind. The families met for 3 years at someone's home until 1924
when they went to the park, a central location for all of the families. They
then elected officers. As of this date, 1989, the reunion is still being held
in Linden, IN