Mrs Martha Rogers
(about 1795 to about 1865)
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Marker Text: According to family tradition, Martha Rogers was the daugther of United States Army General James Wilkinson (1757-1825) and his wife Ann Biddle of Philadelphia. When she married Benjamin Rogers (b. 1781) in Perry County, Ala., in 1809, Martha was disinherited. She and her husband had ten children. As a widow she moved to TX in 1847 with sons Allen Jefferson, M.C. ("Lum"), and James Rogers. A true Southwestern pioneer, she lived in Lost Prairie community. (1978)
Marker No: 3513
Grave Marker
Geographic: 31.498304, -96.371788
Location: Approximately 87/8 miles east of Groesbeck on FM-3371
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