John Hamilton Rogers (1787 - 1821)

Born 3 Jan 1787 in Jefferson County, Virginia, United States

Husband of Mary (Buckles) Reed — married 31 Mar 1812 in Jefferson County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 2 Dec 1821 at age 34 in Jefferson County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Birth

3 JAN 1787, Jefferson County, Virginia.^[1]

Marriage

31 MAR 1812, to Mary Buckles, Jefferson County, Virginia, United States.^[2]

Occupation

John Rogers had been a gunsmith in Harpers Ferry, Virginia during the Revolutionary War prior to relocating to Jennings County with his wife and daughter.^[1]

Residence

BEF 1818, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, Virginia.

ABT 1818, Jennings County, Indiana.^[1]

Death

John Hamilton Rogers apparently returned to Virginia in 1821 to attend to some business matters and died either during the trip or in Virginia prior to returning to Indiana.

2 DEC 1821, Jennings County, Indiana.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Township Histories of Jennings County (Indiana), June 1990. Daughters of the American Revolution, Muscatatuck Chapter. Pg 11:

   Right after Indiana became a state, James Buckles and his wife, Ann Osburn Buckles, came from Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1818 and bought around 900 acres in the Mt. Zion and German neighborhood. John Rogers and Mary (Buckles) Rogers came about the same time from Harpers Ferry, Virginia. There, John Rogers had been a gun smith during the Revolutionary War, on the American side. Mary Rogers, his daughter, was born at Harpers Ferry in 1816, she later married Elias L. Deputy in 1835 in Jennings County. They raised their family near Mt. Zion community.

2. ↑ West Virginia, West Virginia Vital Research Records, Pp. 201-202, John Rogers; Mary Buckles, 1812; online, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Vital Research Records (accessed 13 January 2016).
3. ↑ International Genealogical index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT. Nov 2006. John Hamilton Rogers; Male; Birth: 03 JAN 1787; Death: 02 DEC 1821 , Jennings, Indiana; Spouse: Mary Buckles; Marriage: 31 MAR 1811 , Jefferson, Virginia