JOSEPH BYRD ROGERS
Joseph Byrd Rogers, b June 6, 1806 in
Tennessee, d May 23 or 25, 1867 (his tombstone is broken), and buried in Alto
Springs Cemetery in Falls County, Texas - was a brother of Larkin R. Rogers and
Caleb Rogers, who both came to Falls County, Texas. He married about 1834 in Alabama to
Tabitha E. Massengale, b ca 1816 in Madison County, Alabama, d after the 1880
Census was taken and buried in Limestone County, Texas "about four miles south
of Groesbeck, Texas - a daughter of John Cobb Massengale, b January 20, 1792 in
Washington County, Tennessee, and his wife, Jane (Rogers) Massengale, b February
20, 1795 in Sevier County, Tennessee.
Joseph Byrd and Tabitha (Massengale) Rogers
came to Falls County, Texas after 1855, where he purchased 2,000 acres of land
in the Sarah Pillow Survey. It was here that he built his log cabin, and donated
land for the
Alto Springs Cemetery. His broken tombstone indicates that he was a
Methodist, and a Mason. Joseph Byrd and Tabitha had eleven children - all but
the youngest born in Alabama:
John W. Rogers, b 1835, d 1914 in Coke
County, Texas - married
Martha Massengale.
James M. Rogers, b 1836 - married 1868 in Falls
County, Texas to Nancy A. Newton.
Martha E. Rogers, b June 11, 1838 - married
four times: first to John W. Buttrill, second to William M. Davis, third to
Ebenezer R. P. Glass, and fourth to Henry Orum.
William S. Rogers, b in February 1841 -
married September 21, 1865 to Anna E. Fenner of Kosse, Texas.
Mary Jane Rogers, b April 11, 1843, d November
10, 1897 - married first to Tom Petty, married second to Samuel
Fenner, and married third to M. L. Myatt.
Henry J. Rogers, b 1845, d July
31,1879 near Mustang Prairie, Falls County, Texas, where he was assaulted and
died of a fractured skull. He was serving as a Falls County Constable at the
time of his death. He married ca 1870 to Louisa M. Warren and had one son,
Thomas B. Rogers, b May 12, 1872, d June 29, 1873 and buried in the Alto Springs
Cemetery. Henry J. married second on December 29, 1878 to Sarah Jenetta
Cardwell, and his daughter by his second marriage, Henrietta Rogers, was born
after her father was killed.
Sarah A. Rogers, b August 8, 1847, d July
2, 1927 - married first to Charles Aaron Rogers - son of her Uncle Larkin Rogers
and had one son, Charles Aaron Rogers, b November 20, 1867, d in Kosse, Texas
July 19, 1892 and buried by his mother in Alto Springs Cemetery; married second
to William Paschal Cain.
Frances Minerva Rogers, b January 14, 1850,
d May 11, 1935 in Limestone County, Texas - married in Falls County on May 21, 1869 to Julius
Alford McDaniel.
Emma Catherine Rogers, b October 14, 1852,
d January 6, 1930 in
Limestone County, Texas - married first to George Rutledge Pringle, and
married second on May 11, 1879 to James E. Warren.
Joseph Larkin Rogers, b October 23, 1854, d
May 2, 1934 at Burkeville, Newton County, Texas - married February 8, 1877 in
Kosse, Limestone County, Texas to Mary Leona Jones - daughter of William
Calloway and Sarah Broomfield (Pringle) Jones.
Robert Elonza Rogers, b February 6, 1859 in
Texas, d August 7, 1934 in Young County, Texas- married February 1,1883 in
Limestone County, Texas to LouAnna Irene Patterson - daughter of William and
Sarepta (Harlan) Patterson.
Alfred Massengale - a brother of Tabitha
(Massengale) Rogers - came to Texas on a wagon train with the family of his
sister and brother-in-law.
More info submitted by Donna Owen
Joseph B. Rogers was the father of Sallie A. Rogers who married William Paschal Cain (my great grand uncle) son of Thomas J. Cain. It includes his date of death. May 23 or 25, 1867 (stone was broken)
Copyright
Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these
Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 397 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
