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Descendants of James Rogers

Generation No. 6

8. NATHAN⁶ ROGERS (CARY⁵, NATHAN⁴, JONATHAN³, JONATHAN², JAMES¹) was born September 20, 1784 in Hoosick, NY, and died January 13, 1872 in Elk Creek Township, Erie Co., PA. He married SARAH STEWARD February 4, 1810 in Grafton, NY, daughter of Lemuel Steward and Rebecca Rose.

Notes

Nathan Rogers was a carpenter, millwright and farmer. He was born in Hoosick, N.Y. and moved to Elk Creek Township (Erie Co.) PA. He married Sarah Steward in Grafton, NY, on February 4, 1810. They moved to the Elk Creek area in 1824.

EARLY HISTORY OF THE STEWARD/ROGERS FAMILY

(Read by Bertha Joslin at the reunion, Christmas, 1897)

Lemuel Steward was married to Rebecca Rose not far from 1780. Their home was in Grafton, Rensselaer County, State of NY. Of this union there were eight children as follows:

Lemuel Steward married Betsy Rouse
Josiah Steward married Hannah Sweet
Rebecca Steward married Nathaniel Church
Sarah Steward married Nathan Rogers **
Deborah Steward married Francis Brock
Eiphalet Steward married a Miss Tilly

Lemuel and Josiah Steward, Nathan Rogers, Francis Brock and Samuel Main and their families emigrated to Elk Creek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania between the years of 1817 and 1824. (Josiah Steward and Samuel Main came about 1817. Lemuel Steward came in 1823. Nathan Rogers and Francis Brock came in 1824.) Their journey was not a pleasure trip in a cushioned palace car...but was made in a long covered lumber wagon drawn by two yoke of stout oxen over rough roads and through gloomy forests, taking about five weeks to complete a journey of five hundred miles.

Those five families bought and occupied farms adjoining. They felled the giants of the forest, built log cabins, logged and made logging bees. They worked with stout heart and willing hands, so where once waved the limbs of giant trees in the winter winds, and grotesque shadows played in the long winter evenings, we now see broad meadows, rolling pastures, fruit orchards and comely frame buildings. And while our fathers were at work the mothers were not idle. It seems as if we can almost hear today the hum of the spinning wheel, the click of the shuttle, the snip of the shears, as they carded the wool, spun, wove and made their clothing. In summer, straw hats and bare feet were the order of the day.
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Those five families raised thirty-two children. Not all of their names are known, but the following is a partial list:

1. Lemuel and Betsy (Rouse) Steward
       Joseph
       Huldah
       Mary
       Betsy
       Warren
       Gates
       Jonathan
       Justice
       Josiah

2. Josiah and Hannah (Sweet) Steward
       Hannah
       Rosetta
       Riley
       Silas

3. Nathan and Sarah (Steward) Rogers**
       Sarah
       Washington Benjamin married Kezia Tozer
       Nathan married Nancy Marie Hills
       Lemuel D. married Lovina Partlo**
       Cary
       Hiram Warren

4. Samuel and Betsy (Steward) Main
       Rebecca
       Lemuel
       Deborah

5. Francis and Polly (Steward) Brock
       Polly
       Steward
       Lois
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This explains the connection between the Rogers and the Brock's and explains why Lemuel D. Rogers is buried in the Brock Cemetery.

**My direct lineage, Roxie Rogers Cole

[Brøderbund Family Archive #317, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1850, Date of Import: Apr 16, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.317.1.27638.37]

Individual: Rogers, Nathan
County/State: Erie Co., PA
Location: Elk Creek Twp
Page #: 354.
Year: 1850

Erie Observer March 21, 1872

NATHAN ROGERS

On January 13, 1872, Nathan Rogers died, aged 87 years. He was one of the first settlers that emigrated from Rensselaer County, NY 47 years ago.

Seven families formed a settlement in Elk Creek Township near the Crawford County line in a vast wilderness. They cleared up their farms and enjoyed each other's society many years, then death came and took now and then one away, till only three out of eleven remain to tell their adventures.

Mrs. Marie Joslin, granddaughter of Nathan Rogers and wife of Chester Joslin died January 24, 1872, aged 22 years.

Inscription, Hope Cemetery, Wellsburg, PA:

Nathan Rogers/September 26, 1784/January 13, 1872/ Aged 87 years, 3 months, 18 days.
Wife: Sarah

       Children of Nathan Rogers and Sarah Steward are:

9.	i.	NATHAN STEWARD⁷ ROGERS, b. January 24, 1811, Grafton, NY; d. April 4, 1887, Elk Creek Township, Erie Co., PA..
10.	ii.	LEMUEL DAVIS ROGERS, b. February 26, 1813, Grafton, NY; d. September 22, 1844, Elk Creek Township, Erie Co., PA.
	iii.	CARY ROGERS, b. August 22, 1815, NY¹; d. August 30, 1894, Lundy's Lane, Erie Co., PA.; m. MARY STUNTZ, January 17, 1848.
	iv.	HIRAM WARREN ROGERS, b. April 19, 1818.
11.	v.	SARAH ANN ROGERS, b. February 2, 1820, Grafton, NY; d. September 15, 1865, Elk Creek Township, Erie Co., PA..
	vi.	REBECCA ROGERS, b. June 30, 1823.
12.	vii.	WASHINGTON B. ROGERS, b. July 4, 1827, Elk Creek Township, Erie Co., PA; d. 1901, Lundy's Lane, Erie Co., PA..

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