Mary Ann Turner and Henry Clay Rogers

Mary Ann Turner and Henry Clay Rogers
(Mary Ann Turner and Henry Clay Rogers married 26 December 1866)
refer: Boone Co., ('Colored' Marriage Registers, 1821-1915)," Molly Turner and Henry Rogers" Marriages, 1865-1882. M514664. Recorder Deeds, FHL Film#: 0913355.

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Contributed by: Linda Palmer, daughter of

Nursery School Tots to Adopt Mrs. Rogers on 100th Birthday.

On Monday about 40 boys and girls of the Negro Nursery School will visit Mrs. Mary Ann Rogers at her home at 211 West Park Ave.
The children plan to "adopt" Mrs. Rogers because on Monday she will be 100 years old.
She was born June 14, 1848, on a farm a few miles east of Columbia owned by Sam Henry. At the age of three, she was taken to Columbia, and on the Courthouse steps, sold for $850.00 and a deed of trust to John Fields.
She was sold again to Puller Allen and taken to Callaway County. there she was hired out until freed by the EmancipationProclamation during the Civil War.
note: Mary "Molly" passed March 14, 1949

Born a slave, Mrs. Rogers could not go to school, but learned to read and write. She is the mother of 14 children, seven of whom are living. They are Henry Clay Rogers, Jr.; David Rogers; Smith Rogers and Mrs. Winnie Coats, all living inColumbia, Mrs. Mary Mathews, Los Angeles, Calif.; and Ola Rogers and Mrs. Dora Owen Williams, Kansas City.
Mrs. Rogers has 102 living grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Her husband, Henry clay Rogers died in 1931. After his death, Mrs. Rogers moved from the country to Columbia.
A church member for 73 years,Mrs. Rogers attributes her long life to "Christian living".

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Memorial Book of
Mary Ann Rogers
1848- 1949
(Grandma Mollie)
Burial at Mt. Moriah Cemetery near Hallsville Mo.
wife of Henry Clay Rogers, also buried at Mt. Moriah Cemetery

Contributed by Leslye
gg granddaughter of
Mary Ann Turner Rogers and Henry Clay Rogers;
great granddaughter of Winnie Coates
grandaughter of Nancy Washington
daughter of Mary Ann Canton

Children of Mary Ann and Henry Clay Rogers:

1.George J. Rogers 1867	8.
2.Minnie Rogers 1869	9.
3.Henry C. Rogers 1871	10.
4.Dora Rogers ( Williams ) 1874	11.
5.David Rogers 1877x	12.Winnie Rogers ( Coats) 1890
6.Charlie Rogers 1879	13.Ola Rogers (son) 1894
7.Smith Rogers 1879	14.Gussie (dau) a897

This page is a work in progress, additional information will be added

Leslye's email of Jan 2002, shared here with her permission, concerning her search for information

Subject: Mt. Moriah Cemetery ----snipped

....... I talked with you sometime ago (summer of '99) and had an interesting visit with you. You shared the information you'd written in the newspaper article about my gg grandfather, Henry Clay Rogers. You also gave my niece and I directions to go to the grave site at Mt.
Moriah, of which we did during my week in Missouri ( wrote you sometime back of the visit). We have pictures of gg grandfather's headstone, and have the area well documented....thanks to you!

Since I last talked with you, I have since lost my grandmother (Nancy E., Dec. 24, 1999) and my beloved mother (Mary Ann., May 27, 2001)...mother was only 66 years young. Our ! five living generations so quickly disappeared. It was very difficult for us for a while, but thank
God for a large & loving family.
The reason for the "ring" today.....you ask that if I ever came across information of other family members that are buried in the cemetery to contact you. I have since become the benefactor of a pretty cool piece of paper. I have...what I believe you would call the wake book...of my gg grandmother, Mary Ann (Molly) Rogers. It's the actual register of my
gg grandmother's wake and the family and friends who attended. In this booklet, it lists her birth as June 18, 1848 in Boone Co, and her death on March 14, 1949 in Columbia. This is Henry Clay's wife. Her interment is listed as MT. Miria CENN on "3.20.1949 at 2 o'clock".
I'd like to also ask, in your 1998 article, you talked of an obit on Henry Clay Rogers. Would you please send me a copy or send the source where I can look at the obit myself. I'd be very pleased to see it.

The email was addressed to the gentleman who wrote and had an article published in the Columbia Tribune about Mt. Moriah Cemetery near Hallsvile. To avoid satuaration email to him, I have omitted his name and connection pending contact and permission.