History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 473, Banner Township
Mary M. Rogers was born in Indiana in 1828; her father was Wm.
Guilliams, of Tennessee, who died in 1849, and her mother, Edith
Williams, of the same State, is still living, aged about 84. Mrs. R.
first emigrated to Rock Island, thence to Missouri, and thence to
Fulton Co. 22 years ago. June 16, 1849, in Missouri, she married Joseph
Rogers who had served in the Mexican War and subsequently in Co. A,
31st Reg. Ill. Vet., in the late war: he listed Oct. 4, 1864, and was
mustered out July 19, 1865. He died in January, 1874, at the age of 49.
Their children are: James Wesley, John Farmer, Mary Jane, Joseph
Franklin, Wm. Douglas and Clara Amanda. Mrs. R. has 96 acres of land on
sec. 9, Banner township and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Her husband was a Democrat.
