Killed in cotton gin at age 14.

[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security DeathIndex: U.S., Date of Import: Jul 31, 1999, Internal Ref.#1.112.5.58712.164]

Individual: Rodgers, Oren
Social Security #: 255-10-8563
SS# issued in: Georgia

Birth date: Jun 9, 1916
Death date: Feb 1985

Residence code: Georgia

ZIP Code of last known residence: 31601
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Valdosta, Georgia

Source: A. O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, pg. 368,

"James Rogers was a miller by trade. He died in 1676. His wife, Mary,remarried c. 1677 to John Peabody. They (James and Mary) had threechildren, viz.: Sarah, md. c. 1648 to Richard Knight, d. after 1685;Thomas (rn255); John, b. October 8, 1641, d. March 27, 1716, md.Elizabeth, who died October 24, 1676. He (James) may have been the son ofThomas Rogers who came over on the Mayflower in 1620. (The MayflowerSociety does not accept this theory because of lack of proof.) From 1643to 1676 he was the General Seargent of Newport."

Source: Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia

". . . [James and his wife, Nancy] moved to Georgia after the birth oftheir second child, and located in Bulloch county about 1820 [ed: beforedate of 2nd child's birth]. They moved a few years later to the newcounty of Thomas and settled in what became known as Groovervilledistrict. . . . About 1835, Mr. Rogers and family moved to what was thenLowndes county and settled on a farm in the 12th land district, in theportion made into Brooks county in 1858. He died there in 1847. Theoldest son, Thomas F. Rogers, was appointed the administrator of theestate. The only record book in the Ordinary's office of Lowndes countythat was saved when the records of that office were burned in the 1870s,was a book containing annual and final returns of administrators andexecutors, and it shows that the personal property of the estate was soldin November, 1847, by the administrator, and the remainder of the estatewas divided by lot between the widow and the above eight children on Dec.6, 1850. Mrs. Mary DeVane, wife of Benjamin DeVane (Vol. III), was asister of James Rogers."

Burial - [place: Pauline Baptist Church (near Morven, Georgia)]