Thomas ROGERS

                   BIRTH:Family records;
CHR:fhl# 226,169 Mawgan on Menage parish;
MARR:
DEATH:Headstone;Copy of obit;
BURIAL:Headstone;

Other Sources:
Letter from cemetary sexton
Pictures of headstones in Mt Vernon Cemetary;
1850 Federal Census Mineral Point,Iowa,Wisc.
1860 Federal Census Adams,Green,Wisc.
1870 Federal Census Mineral Point,Iowa,Wisc. Said citizen of US.
1880 Federal Census Mineral Point,Iowa,Wisc.
1883 Sold property in Mineral Point,Iowa,Wisc.
Copy of obit;
IGI fhl# 226,169 Mawgan on Meneage parish;

Conflict on date of birth:
Family records say 1 Jan 1816/1818-Headstone said died age 75 yrs 3 days on Jan
3, 1893;Date of death and age at death calculates his birth to be 31 Dec 1817
but is likely the 1 Jan 1818.

1860 federal census Adams,Green,Wisc. fhl# 805,411 pg 43 dwelling # 301 family
# 287             Enumerated 16 June 1860
Thomas Rodgers age 42 male white Farmer Value Real Estate 800 b. England
Elizabeth Rodgers age 55 female white b. England
William           age 21 male white Miner b. England
Thomas Rodgers    age 7 male white b. Wisc.

1870 federal census pg 30 fhl# 553,217 Mineral Pt.,Iowa,Wisc
Thomas Rogers  age 52 Day Laborer Value of real estate $600 Real Property $180
Elizabeth      age 54 Keephouse b. England
Thomas Jr.     age 16   In school within the year

1880 federal census fhl# 1,255,429 Mineral Pt.,Iowa,Wisc Enum. 12 Jun 1880
pg 19 dwelling 161 Family 166
Rodgers, Thomas white male age 62 Widowed Occ. Miner  b. Eng Father and Mother
b. Eng.
Rodgers, Thomas Jr. white male age 26 son married Farmer b. Wisc Father and
Roodgers, Eliza white female age 17 Daaug-in-law married keephouse b. Ohio
Father b. England Mother b. Vermont
Mother b. Englalnd
Copy of Naturalization Papers. Unable to locate application.

Need copy when he bought property in Wisc. Purchased before 1870.
Need to check property tax rolls for each year in Wisc.

Obit       ROGERS
     At his farm situated north of Plankington, S.D. on the 3rd inst., of heart
disease, Thos. V. Rogers; aged 75 years 3 days.
     Deceased was a native of Cornwall, England.  In 1848 he settled in Mineral
Point, and lived in this vicinity until 1883, when he moved to Dakota.  He
leaves one son, T.V. Rogers, Jr. and one sister, Mrs. Jas. Bennett, of the town
of Mineral Point.  His remains were interred at Mt Vernon, S.D.