Charlotte Etheldred (Bly) Rogers (1908 - 1998)

Born 19 Jan 1908 in Shenandoah County, Virginia

Ancestors

Died 25 Jan 1998 at age 90 in Nursing home, Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia

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Biography

Charlotte was born at the Bly home on the Back Road near Saint Stephens Church in Shenandoah County, Virginia,^[1] and attended the two room "Chapel School" with her older brother, Irvin. Aa a young woman Charlotte went to work in the silk mill in nearby Strasburg, Virginia, a plant that made coffin linings and other silk upholsteries. She spent much of her working life in the silk mill, which during the war made parachutes for the United States army air force. She was a pattern designer in her later years there. Charlotte married Willard (Bill) Rogers, a career military man, and for a few years after the war lived at an army base in Kentucky but about 1948 returned to Strasburg and moved into the Rogers home on the corner of King and Holliday Streets. Charlotte was a quiet person, whose reserved demeanor hid a very kind and non-judgemental heart.

Sources

• Obituary: Northern Virginia Daily (Strasburg, VA), January 26-27, 1998.
• Tombstone inscription, Riverview Cemetery, Strasburg, VA. Find A Grave: Memorial #143000404
• Recollections of her nephew, Daniel W. Bly.

Footnotes

1. ↑ United States Census, 1910, Virginia, Shenandoah County, Davis Dist. family #247, p. 13A. The birth year on her death certificate and tombstone is 1909, however, her age was given as 14 months, in April 1910.