Bessie Belle (Russell) Rogers (1881 - 1966)

Born 2 Oct 1881 in Harbour Island, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of Clayton Roy Rogers — married 14 Sep 1909 in Monroe County, Florida

Descendants

Died 1966 at about age 84 in Harbour Island, Bahamas

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Bessie (Russell) Rogers is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Bessie Belle Russell was born in 1881 in Harbour Island, Bahamas to Thomas Edwin Russell and Jane Adora Higgs Russell.

She married Clayton Roy Rogers, son of the Reverend Noah Benjamin Rogers and Arminda Belveal Rogers, 14 September 1909, in Key West, Florida. He was serving in the Army. Roy had enlisted in 1908 for a period of three years; in 1910, he and Bessie were living at Fort Screven, Tybee Island, Chatham County, Georgia.

Bessie Belle and Clayton Roy Rogers had two sons - born in Harbour Island, Bahamas - before their marriage ended. Glen Raymond Rogers was born in 1911 and Kenneth Leon Rogers was born in 1913.

Bessie Belle Russell died in 1966 in Harbour Island at 85 years of age.

Sources

• Ancestral Charts, Bahamas DNA Project

• "Bahamas Births, 1850-1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL9J-7C3 : 9 March 2018), Bessy Russel, 02 Oct 1881; citing Dunmore Town Harbor Island, Bahamas, reference 119; FHL microfilm 222,945.

• U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, 1908 - 1909, Jun, L-Z, Rogers.

• "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957," database with images, FamilySearch Florida State Archives and various county clerks of courts. Monroe County, 14 September 1909.

• 1910 United States Federal Census for Roy C Rogers, Georgia, Chatham, Militia District 5, District 0079.

• "Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRST-1G7?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZP-7MQ%3A216280001 : 7 October 2014), Births 1910-1911 > image 253 of 463; Registrar General, Nassau.

• Florida, Passenger Lists, 1898-1963 for Bessie B Rogers, A3995 - Miami, Florida, 1957-1963, 1958, 056.