John Wesley Rogers

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John W. Rodgers, 94, Retired Ellsinore Man, Died Monday, Mar. 1

John Wesley Rodgers, 94-year- old retired Ellsinore railroader, died at 9:30 am Monday, Mar. 1, 1976, at Doctors Hospital in Poplar Bluff He had been ill two days.

Mr. Rodgers was born July 25. 1881, in Texas County. Mo.. and had formerly lived in Michigan. He had lived in Ellsinore for 76 years, and was a member of the Ellsinore General Baptist Church.

He was married in February of 1908 to Willie Casteel who died in 1919. On Oct. 13, 1950 he married Elsie Sharp, who survives. Other survivors are three children, Melvin Rodgers of Westland, Mich. Nona Brown of Cedar Hill, Mo., and Eva Shierman of Plattsville, Ontario, Canada; eight grandchildren, 26 great- grandchildren and one great-great- grandchild.

The funeral will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Pewitt-Sloan Funeral Chapel in Ellsinore with Rev. Don Black, and Rev. Laddie Boyer officiating. Burial will be in White's Mill Cemetery

John — Jennie Miller. Jennie (daughter of Jacob "Jake" Miller and Eva Kalbfleisch) was born 16 Aug 1885, Bright, Blandford Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; died 18 Jan 1968, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blandford Cemetery, Bright, Blandford Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

1. Eva Virginia Rogers was born 1928, , Michigan, USA; died 2001, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Chesterfield United Cemetery, Chesterfield, Oxford Co., Ontario.