Will of John Rogers

                                                           Will of John Rogers

                                                                     4 Dec 1852

Georgia

Jackson County

 

I John Rogers of said state and county being of sound mind disposing memory calling to mind the mortality of my body do ordain this my last Will and Testament as follows.

I bequeath my soul to God and my body to the dirt to be interred by my surviving friends.

It is my will that all my just debts be paid & that my wife Sarah Rogers have a comfortable support out of my estate during her life or widowhood & that my estate be arranged so that my three sons, John Wellburn Rogers, James Thomas Rogers and Franklin Jackson Rogers be raised & educated out of my estate & at the death or marriage of their mother, Sarah Rogers, what is left after they are raised & educated to be equally divided between them.  My three elder children Elizabeth C. Thornton, William S. Rogers & Sarah J. Potts, having already had a full portion of my estate & that it shall be discretionary with my executors to hire my Negro girl Frances or keep her to live in the family.

And I hereby appoint my wife Sarah Rogers executrix & my friend Thomas S. Stapler executor to see this my last Will and Testament be executed & I hereby revoke all former Wills and Testaments heretofore made by me.  In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 4th day of December 1852.

In presence of the following witnesses


 

Thomas Stapler

C.A. Strickland

W.J. Pittman

John G. Strickland

John M. Stapler


 

 

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             John X Rogers

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Georgia

Jackson County

 

Personally came into open court Thomas Stapler, John Stapler and C.A. Strickland who being duly sworn saith that they saw John Rogers the testator sign seal publish & declare the within instrument to be his last Will and Testament and that they with W.J. Pittman & John C. Strickland subscribed the same as witnesses in the presence of each other & the testator & at his request swore to in open court 6th June 1853.


 

John G. Pittman, Ord.


 

 

Thomas Stapler

John M. Stapler

C.A. Strickland


 

Recorded 6th June 1853

John G. Pittman, Ord.

 

                          (Coped from original Will Book A, page 353, Jackson Co., GA Probate Court, Oct 2002)

 

 


 

 John Rogers, was born in 1789 in that area of Jackson which became Gwinnett County.  He married (first) Nancy Stapler, daughter of Thomas Stapler, about 1815.  They had three children, Elizabeth C. (Thornton), William S., and Sarah J. (Potts).  It is not known whether Nancy died, or they were divorced, but John married, Sarah (Sallie) Thomas on 19 Oct 1837 in Franklin County.  They also had three children, John W.,  James T. and Franklin J. (who may have been adopted).  John died 29 April 1853 and is buried in Jackson County.
 
John Rogers served as an Ensign in Capt. Reid's Infantry Company, 3rd Regiment, Georgia Militia during the War of 1812.  Starting in 1879, his wife Sarah (Sallie) Rogers drew a pension of $12 per month until her death in 1900 at age 97 in Harmony Grove.

John Rogers and Sarah (Sallie) Thomas were the great great grandparents of the contributor and John W. Rogers was his great grandfather.

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