[GEN0061] Exceprts from the REMINISCENCES of Theophilus Rogan ----------------------- Note: - In only a few places did he write "and" other than "&". A long dash _____________ is where he has left a blank to possibly fill in at a later date. "ss" is in most instances "fs" ad in "Miss" - "Mifs" - but he wrote "Lefs & less." The following is abbreviated and punctuated just as it was in the original, and in several places the phraseology is a bit unusual. My maternal Grandparents, Thomas Smith & Lydia, his wife, were married July 9, 1978 When and where they were born, where raised & married, Lydia's maiden & when they died, I never knew. I might have learned all about them I resided, temporarily in my Aunt Nancy Davis family, but I was then too young to feel interested in the matter. All that I ever knew about them was that their home was on Walker's Mountain, a farm, on a public road leading westard about 8 miles N.W. of Abingdon; Washington Co. Va. In the earlier days of this country, even within my recol- lection, well to do farmers entertained travelers who wished to stop with them for the night. My mother told me that one evening when shee alone of the family was at home two travelers stopped for the night & called for "Hasty pudding" for their supper. She did not know what hasty pudding was, but examining the dictionary found that hasty pudding was "mush." So they had mush for sup- per. This is a slight incident upon which to form a conclusion, but from it I conclude that these Grandparents were not wholly ignorant, back-woods people, or entirely destitute of books. I was once, after their death, upon the fram, but all that I recollect about it was that it had many finde apples, & one variety, especially good, called "Sheep Nose." A great deal of Walker Mountain in this vicinity was covered with chestnut timber. While at my Uncle James Davis, near there, in the fall of the year, a fire burned over the mountain leaving bare great quantities of chestnuts just sufficiently roasted to make them deliciously -1- [GEN0062] sweet & that we had great fun gathering them. The children of these Grandparents were - Jonathan born July 3, 1779 John " Dec.30, 1780 William " May 3, 1783 Nathan " Jan.30, 1785 James " Dec. 3, 1786 Thomas " Nov.15, 1788 Nancy " Dec.26, 1791 Elizabeth " Feb.14, 1794 Henry " Jan.14, 1796 Sarah " March 10, 1798 Daniel " Febry 28, 1801 Polly " March 9, 1803 Jonathan married & settled in Petersburg Va & became a distinguished educator. Many eminent public men of the day were educated by him. He died there. In May 1857, I was crofsing the Gulf of Mexico with Louise and Cassie on a visit from Texas to Tennessee, when a strange gentleman, sitting near me on the vessel's deck called my attention to the beauty of the Rainbow caused by the spraying of the water from the great paddle wheel. He then remarked that God had created the rain bow for the comfort of Noah & future generations, an assurance that there would be no future deluge to destroy the earth. I re- plied that the bow being the result of natural causes it was to be seen ever since Creation & that it was shown Noah as a token that the would should not again be destroyed by water. Upon this point a sicufsion arose between us & we submitted the question to an elderly gentleman sitting near us, which we did. He sustained my view. We then introduced ouselves to each other. I then learned that the gentleman I had been differing with was a son of my Uncle Jonathan Smith, an Episcopalian minister, that he had married in Alabama; had been living for two years in Anderson, Texas, where - 2 - [GEN0062] his wife had died, that he now had her remains on the vessel, taking them to the old Alabama home for burial & that his ex- penses had already been so heavy that he could take them no further than New Orleans. I loaned him enough money to take him to Alabama, which he afterwards returned me from there & I never heard of him again. His name was Jonathan & he had an older brother, Aristides, who was also an Episcopalian clergyman, at Petersburg. The elderly gentleman to whom we referred our dif- ference proved to be Revd Wm. Breckenridge, one of the great Presbyterian preachers of Ky. Thus a little discussion resulted in unexpected pleasure & companionship during the remainder of the voyage. The old Smith homestead fell to the second son John. When somewhat advanced in life he married a widow with a well grown daughter. They soon led him such a life that he abandoned to them his farm & all his property except a riding horse & left them for all time. For the remainder of his life he traversed the upper counties of E. Tenn. & Washington Co. Va., selling good books. He had no home; stopped where it suited him to do so, everywhere well received; would perhaps spend a day or two there, mending up the delapidated books of the family, scolding the children, if there were any to scold & they needed it. He died in this work at the house of _____________ receiving kind treatment at the hands of the family. He was somewhat eccentric, a little crabbed, but a thoroughly good man, whose only object was to do good. In May 1901 I was attending Presbytery at Rutledge Tenn,, & had for my roommate the Revd I. C. Carson of Blountville, a great & intersting talker. He seemed to have at his tongu's end the histories of the families of Sullivan Co. Tenn. & Washington Co. Va. & I said to him "you then know my Uncle John Smith?" "Uncle John Smith yr. Uncle," he replied, that accounts for yr. ecentricity." I was amused but made no reply. I have never - 3 - [GEN0064] elsewhere heard that I had any excentricity about me. Uncle Wm Smith married & moved to Indiana & died there surreptitiously dringing fresh buttermilk when he was recover- ing from an attack of fever. In May 1845 I visited his widow, Aunt Annie Smith, in Hancock Co. Ind. Her family at home consisted of herself, three sons, Alexander, Thomas & Daniel & one daughter, Lydia, a fine looking girl. She had, also three married daughters living in the neighborhood. The family received me with much kind- ness & royally entertained me. A little incident at their table greatly but needlessly annoyed Aunt Annie. She gave me my coffee in a common Delf ware tea cup & for a time it made a noise like steam rapidly escaping from the spout of a tea kettle, caused by some internal defect in the making & not visible to the eye. My Aunt knew my father well & asked me if he still suffered from his sick headaches; told me to tell him that as he grew older his attacks would be ldfs frequent & less severe, which proved to be correct. When I left them for home, cousin Lydia, Alexander & Thomas accompanied me fore some hours on the way. They were a nice family & I became much attached to them. I have no recollection of ever hearing from them again. Of Nathan Smith I have no recollection of ever hearing; but I met so many cousins of the Smith family, on my visit to Indiana that I cannot recollect from which of my Uncles they sprang. It seems that Hancock Co. Ind. was quite rendevouz for the Smiths of my mother's family & for another Smith family, that of the wife of my Incle Amos Rogan, all of Washinton Co. Va. Of James Smith I have little recollectin. He too lived in Hancock Co. Ind. & I visited him on my trip out there; he lived on a good farm but was poorly fixed up & had rather a rough family. I do not know that I ever hearrd of them again. Thomas Smith married a Mifs McKinney & lived & died N. W. Part of Scott Co., not far from Clinch River & the noted [This would probably be Scott Co, VA which is 11 miles away and not Scott Co, TN, or Scott Co, KY, which are over a 100 miles away. Jonesville, VA is the seat of Lee county, VA. -MRW] Stock Creek Natural Tunnel or Bridges throo which a Railroad now - 4 - [GEN0064] runs. He operated a carding machine for making wool rolls, an institution that, in those days, was quite important in our country. He had two daughters & one son. The elder daughter, Louisa, married John Morrison, for many years the respected clerk of the Superior Court of Lee Co. Va. Their home was in Jonesville. She was a fine woman, died in the prime of life leaving a young & promising family. I do not know what became of them except that the eldest son ___________ died when nearly grown. The younger daughter, Elizabeth, a lovely woman married Smith Morrison, a brother of John's. They lived in Estillville, now Gate City, Scott Co. VA where he practiced law. She died young leaving two or three children. I do not know anything about them. I heard a man once say of my cousin Elizabeth that she would have to "take two bites at a cherry," her mouth was so small. Of their brother Jonathan I cant say much that is good & I wont say anything that is bad. I do not know what became of him. Nancy Smith married Capt. James Davis. They lived on a farm some 2 miles from the old Smith homestead & on the same public road. I frequently visited them & made my home with them, for a time in 1839. They had four daughters, all splendid interst- ing women, Lydia Ann, Mary, Sarah & Nancy. There were also four sons Archimedes, Jonathan, James & Griffith. All of the girls & two of the sons were my seniors. From my earliest recollection until I was a big boy one or another of these girls was in the habit of spending sometime with my mother for company. When I was quite young I would lead a horse & go after one of them and bring her home with me. The distance between was som 32 ms a day's ride. Archimedes, the eldest son, was a lawyer, his home near Abingden. He married Mary Fulkerson of Hawkins Co. Tenn & died leaving a large & interest- ing family. I do not know what became of them. Johnathan, the second son was a Physician. His home Blountville. He died in my mother's cabin at the "Mountain Springs" - 5 - [GEN0065] Scott Co. Va. I was with him when he died. He married Mary Jane Ireson in Washinton Co. Va. in Decr 1839. She recently died at the age of 87 leaving two daughters Mrs. N. D. Backman of Bristol, Tenn. & Mrs. N. T. Dulaney of Blountville Tenn. & a son, W. W. Davis of Bristol, all yet living as far as I know. James Davis is a Baptist preacher of some note. He married Mifs Hamilton of Sullivan Co. Tenn & was Pastor of a church at Liberty Va. for sometime. He is, I think, living yet. I know nothing of his family. Griffith, the youngest son took the old home- stead & married a neighbor farmer's daughter, Mifs Hortenstein. He is, so far as I know yet living but what family he now has I do not know. I rather singularly became acquainted with a son of his, John, a nice young man, who died soon after I met him. I was work- ing in my garden one Saturday even when I was called on by a book agent. As I was a good deal pestered by such agents I promptly declined to buy. He turned away looking very much discouraged * said that he would not so much regret not selling a book but he did not like to travel on Sunday & had no money for stopping over. Something prompted me to ask his name. "Davis," he said. "Where you from?" "Washington Co. Va." "Do you know Griffith Davis?" "He is my father." "Well you need no money for finding a home for Sunday." My wife & family were much pleased with him. He was a student in Washington College, Tenn & was using vacation in trying to raise funds to continue his studies. His father had not re- covered from the effects of the Civil War & could not educate him. We were grieved soon afterwards to hear of his death. Aunt Nancy's oldest daughter Lydia Ann married Peter Hanby a farmer of Washinton Co. Va. & Died leaving young children of whom I know nothing. Mary, the 2nd daughter married Wm. W. James of Blountville, Tenn. I helped them do their courting. She died in - 6 - [GEN0067] Blountville leaving a family of girls who grew up to be fine women. I visted some of them after they were married. I think most of them are dead. I have lost sight of their families. Sarah Davis married her cousin Frank Davis, a lawyer, settled for awhile in Blountville. They then moved to San Antonia Texas, then to San Saba, Texas, a new town & country just organized. I wrote th deed for the homeland of the 1st settler of the Co. Mr. Davis did not succeed in Texas, started to return from there, overland, to this country & Sarah died on the way to Arkansas. She left children. What became of them I know not. Nancy Davis was a teacher of some celebrity. She married after she was getting along in years, a Mr. Bradley & settled on a part of her father's old farm. She went to Texas with Frank Davis & visited me in Lockhart. Whether she ever had children, or not I dont know. She may be living yet. Uncle James Davis died on the farm about ________ He was a splendid man, some 6-1/2 feet height. Most of his daughters wer tall - Nancy a very tall woman. Aunt Nancy lived to be a very old woman, died about ___________ from the effects of a fall. She was the per- fection of a housekeeper. Of her "Presbyterian pone" you could well say "seek me no further." My mother was an adept in the bak- ing of this pone, but the breads differed. The last one you would eat of you would say was was the better of the two. Some of the pleasantest days of my early youth were passed at home of this Uncle and Aunt. They had one custom common to the farmers of the day that I did not like. They went early to the farm work without breakfast or feeding the work stock, then came in about 9 O.C. fed their teams & breakfasted. I never got used to waiting until 9 O.C for my breakfast. At home I always had an early breakfast & still want it early. - 7 - [gen0068] Horse back travelers, at that time, followed the same custom. They started out very early of a morn, rode until near 9 O.C. then put up for breakfast & horse feed. I tried the plany coming home from Indiana in 1845. I never repeated the experiment. Elizabeth Smith, Aunt Betsey. She married Mr. Jett; they lived on a farm near Estillville now Gate City, Scott Co. Va. I visited them sometimes when I was quite small. About all that I recollect about them is that they had a son Stephen. What be- came of the family I do not recollect. Henry Smith was a Presby- terian minister, for a time located in Hanover Co. Va., then for a time at Murphreysboro, Tenn. He died at Jonesboro, Tenn. Janry 27, 1870 at the house of Henry C. Lynch who had married his daughter Ann. She died in Rufsellville. I think a son of Uncle Henry's is yet living at Jonesboro, named _________ Sarah Smith married a Mr. Douglass. Their home I think was in ___________ Co. Tenn. I do not recollect to have ever seen her & if she left any family I do not know. Daniel Smith I have no recollection of. He lived in Hancock Co. Inc. I visited his old place when I was there in 1845 but wheteher he was dead or had moved some place else I do not recollect. As I have already said I met may Smith cousins out there but cannot recollect whose sons all of them were. Polly Smith, my mother, the youngest of the family married my father at the Smith home Feb. 24, 1824. She was always called Polly; would harly have recognized her name had she been addrefsed as Mary. She was a good woman, an affectionate mother, of graceful form, inclined to be tall & slender with the finest head of dark hair I ever saw. In October 1850 I visited Ananias Davidsons, a distant cousin of my mother's, & once a beau of hers, now living in sight of "Weyin's" cave _______________Co. Va. He - 8 - [GEN0069] told my Mother was the prettiest woman he ever saw, except one, her sister Sarah. For many years Mother suffered with a liver & a lung trouble & died at Lockhart, Texas, November 23, 1862 - Father's record of her death says, "She bore her afflictions with Christian fortitude & practice till she gently fell asleep." Cassie visited her grave a few years ago while on a trip to Texas - My paternal Grandfather, Daniel Rogan, was born August 25th 1771 in Ireland, in what part of it I do not know. He sailed from Dublin June 13th 1791 & landed at Baltimore, Md. August 25th, 1791 on his 20th birthday. I think he would never tell his family here anything of Parents or their Irish family, or why he left them & came to the U.S. That the family in Ireland was a large & not an obscure one, I have reason to believe. My wife's father, Hugh Graham, had an older brother, Andrew Graham, who was a surgeon in the British Navy. His daughter, Mrs. Eliza Johnson of Tazewell, told me that her father studied his profession under a Mr. Rogan. My law partner, W. R. Cowan, an Irishman, revisited Ireland in 1852. When he came back he said he had many of my kinspeople there In __________________ my wife & I stopped at a hotel in Vicksburg, Mifs. The proprietor, seeing our names on the register, followed us to our rooms & introduced himself as a relative, from Ireland. He favored my father and his brothers as much as they favored one another & so sure of the relationshp was he, that hearing my brother Ferdinand was the head of a school in Brookhaven, Mifs. he sent his boys there to school to him. In the early settlement of Tennefsee some Rogans from Ireland settled in Sumner Co., two brothers, I think. Descendants of theirs are yet in that part of the state. A few years ago one of these was a student in the University at - 9 - [GEN0070] Knoxville & entered the Navy,- Lieut. Chas. Rogan. We have never been able to trace any kinship between the families. My Grandfather was a well educated man when I knew him, a fine Mathematician & the best Scribe I ever saw. I have heard that when he came to the United States that he was uneducated & that he obtained much of his education lying on the floor by the fire, at night, with pine knot light. I think he became a school teacher for some years, but of this am not certain. Catherine Crawford, his wife was born May 15, 1779 in Frederick Co. Md and in that ocunty they were married March 1, 1797 & moved from there to Botetourt Co. Va. where they lived perhaps some 8 or 10 years before coming to Tennefsee. Their Children were: James born Decr 11, 1797 Amos " Sept. 9, 1799 Griffith " July 16, 1800 Jonas " Oct. 14, 1802 Catherine was born Decr 6 1803 Daniel, May 1, 1806 These all born in Botetourt Co. Va. Maria April 24, 1809 Rebecca Nov. 29, 1811 O.H. Perry Dec 5, 1815 These three in Sullevan Co. Tennefsee Lilbum Henderson Dec. 5, 1819 Washington Co. Va. Littleton Henderson July 13, 1823 in Sullevan Co. Tennefsee Eleven children. All of these but one, Jonas, lived to marry & raise familes, & all but one of these, Rebecca, to reach middle or good old age. The youngest, Littleton H. is yet living, so far as I know. Somewhere about 1806 they came to Sullevan Co. - 10 - [GEN0070B] Tenn & I think located on Beaver Creek in the upper end of that Co. Here they remained some three or four years & then went for a time to "Old Boatyard" on the left bank of the North Fork river in Washington Co Va. a few miles N.W. of Abingdon. I visited the place when I was staying at Uncle Jame Davis. There was no town there; an out of the way locality where a few boats were built for shipping produce down the fiver. It was not until many years afterwards that Kings salt generally shipped down this river. About this period, I think it was that Grandfather was engaged in merchantile businefs with two brothers, Lilbum, & Littleton Henderson, for whom he named his two youngest sons. About 1822 the family returned to Sullevan Co. Tenn & permanently settled at "The Boatward", so called because boats were built there for navigating the holston river. The place was afterwards called Kingsport, because it was the port to which the Kings salt was hauled from Saltvill VA. & from which it was shipped in flat boats to Decatur, Ala & other towns on or near the river, in North Alabama. Here Grandfather established himself in the Merchatile business & erected large warehouses for storing the salt hauled there in wagons & from which houses it was loaded into the boats when suitable tides came. He con- tinued to sell goods here as long as he lived. "The lebanon News" Tenn. tells this story of his early experience in store keepint "There lived in the lower end of Sullevan Co. Isaac Taylor & his wife, honest, industrious people. They had been married, had fairly prospered & were the happy parents of twelve pairs of twin boys, 24 boys. They decided to move to a Western county & on their way pass thro the hamlet of Kingsport where Taylor went into a store & asked for 24 hats of different sizes. The clerk, whose name was Daniel Rogan - he was his own clerk - asked if he were going peddling. "No," he said, 'the hats are for my own boys.' Rogan told him if he would show him the boys he would give each of them a hat. Taylor went - 11 - [GEN0071] out to his wagon & broght in twelve pairs of twin boys & their vigorous, youthful mother, looking as if she might bear a half dozen more pairs of twin boys. Rogan was as good as his word & also gave Mrs. Taylor a fine drefs pattern." Grandfather never grew rich, of course he could not if he had many such experiences as the one just related, but he had plenty, lived in comfort & surrounded himself with the appendices of good living. He built a large & commodious dwelling, with two story covered porches, on an eminance overlooking the Holston river & beyond it the beauti- ful Bays Mountains, with a large lawn sloping towards the river and covered with luxurient Blue grass. The garden was large, the best family garden I ever saw, entirely managed by Grand Mother who in fact managed the family generally. Grandfather confining himself entirely to his Store businefs & conenial pursuits carried on there. The Store house was some distance from the residence, & down a grade from there. Between the dwelling & the store house he made a stepped plank walk making a comfortable pass way to & fro. He was very methodical in his habits, his meals must always be & were under Grand Mothers careful manage- ment, punctual at the hour fixed for them, which however were some- what changed with the seasons. A tin horn some 5 or 6 ft long was always blown at the prper time for call to meals. His ledgers & journals until he was getting old, were kept by himself & were models of neatnefs without a blot or erasure, & for years after he he commenced businefs were kept in "L.S. & D" English computation. The handwriting was uniform & beautiful. I do not remember a time when he did not have a son in the store & so he did little of the selling of goods, leaving that for the boys. He fitted up for himself a room in the store house, which was his sanctum, which we always called the "Back room", where he amused himself with light mechanical pursuits. He bound his own magazines, & did it neatly, mad his picture frams & cunning mice & rat traps & little bells of short end thimbles & when he caught a large rat he belled it & turned it loose that it might scare others - 12- [GEN0071] away. He sometimes called me into this retreat & gave me hard sums to work, which, not being a natural mathematician troubled me much. After his supper, which was always early, he never returned to his store house, but read in his own private room, where he had for that day a good library. I remember a copy of "Ree's Encyclopaedia", in many large folio volumes. I think I never coveted anything so much as that work. It be com- paratively worthlefs now except as a curiosity. He had plenyty of Travels, Scott, James, Bird & Co. which enjoyed without stint. I asked him once to lend me "Paynes Age of Reason." "What do you want with that, you can not go amoung the pots & not get blacked I wioll lend you Wharburton's defence of the Christian religion" he replied. So I took Wharburton & never did read Payne. He was a consistent Christian, had his own pew in church, regularly attended preaching.- Dr. Rofs, but for some reason, which I do not recollect, he never joined the Church until not a great while before his death. Everything in the mechanical line about his house, he kept in perfect order under his own Supervision. Every- thing about the family, house, grounds & C was looked after by his capable wife. Their beautiful home was burned a few years ago and "The E. C. Railroad" for awhile under construction, never yet built cut thro their yard & garden. When on his death bed Grandfather sent for me & enquired what vocation I purposed to follow. I told him that I preferred mechanics. He thout well of such choice, but said I was not strong enough for any of the heavier mechanical pursuits but that it might be well for me to become a Silversmith. He died in his home Novr 28th 1842. 4. O.C. P.M. & was buried in the Old Presbyterian Church cemetary, an emanance overlooking the placid Holston. My fathers record of his death says that his death was "after a long & painful sicknefs, having been confined since the first of July previous & all that time suffering greatly, age 71 years 3 mos & 3 days" My grandmother survived her husband many years. She was the most - 13 - [GEN0072] competent & vigorous housekeeper I ever knew. As already in- timated, she held unlimited sway over her housekeeping, family, gardening & C. Grandfather looked after none of these things. She raised a large family of children of her own & when they mostly passed from under her management grand children came pretty rapidly, to some extent replacing them. Three of them required her care in lefs than a week. First I came; two days after me came Geo W. Rogan, & four days after him Cyrus Thomas was usheed into the Woorld. She did not interfere in the manage- ment of her children's families, but her commodious mansion, beautiful grounds, and unbounded hospitality brought the grand- children much about her & when the were under her eye she did not hesitate to control them as she had her own children & some- times she had her hands full with us. I remember one of our pranks. At Estillville, VA only 7 miles from us, a man had been hung for murder, with some striking surroundings making a strong impression on the minds of us youngsters. One day several of us were playing on the lawn in full view of the house when we concluded that we must have a hanging of our own, so we twisted a rope of the long stems of the Blue grass, & hung one of our number by his neck to a limb of an apple tree. Fortunately either the rope broke or we were seen from the house in time to prevent our sport from ending in tragedy. She had, after the death of her son Amos three of his young children to raise. She survived her husband many years & continued strong & in full control of her house up to the time of her last sicknefs. She died Oct 26 ________ My father's record says that "She was confined nearly two weeks, during which time she suffered much but bore it with Christian fortitude sustained by the hope of a blessed immortality" Her mortal remains were laid by those of her husband. - 14 - [GEN0074] I new all the children of my Rogan Grandparents except Jonas & Rebecca. James, the eldest married Sarah, daughter of Richard Netherland Sr., a rare old Virginia Gentleman with a long & always a well filled snuff box. From Kingsport Uncle James moved to ____________Ala where he merchandised.I remember his riding up to Father's house one evening, on horse- back, & on the next morning he & father started out on horse back to ride to Baltimore Md. On another occasion he brought his daugter, Maria & his son James upon horseback. That was the way in which individuals traveled in those days. Families traveled in wagons. My wife's Sister, Mrs Lucy Williams, when a girl accompanied her father, Hu Graham, on horseback to Baltimore. Later in life Uncle James moved to Tippah Co. Mississippi & settled on a farm near Ripley & became a farmer & somewhat of a a public man, & was, for some years Judge of one of the inferior Courts. He was no lawyer, but was so highly esteemed for his integirty & solid sense that the people freely committed their interests to his judg- ment. I visited him there in 1851, on my way to Texas & stayed with him several days. His family, at home, there consisted of himself, his wife, Aunt Sarah, three daughters, Catherine, Sarah, & Margaret. His oldest son, James W. had married Margaret, daught of John A. McKinney, Esq. of Rogersville, Tenn. and was living there. His oldest daughter, Maria had married Pinkney Wood of Ala & was living in that state. His second son, Lafayette had married & was living in Ripley, some two miles from home. In 1862, April 12th, on my horse back trip from Texas to Tennefsee, I again visited him & stayed with him a few days. His family at home then, consisted of himself, his daughters Catherine & Sarah, Aunt Sarah was dead. Margaret had married a Mr. Brooks & was living near him. She came to see me two of three times while I was there. Richard, John, & leonidas were in the Con- federate Army as was also Lafayette & Mr. Brooks. I think the three sons, Richard, John & Leonidas all unmarried. I think neither - 15 - Richard, John, Leonidas or Mr. Brooks ever saw home again. Richard was killed in one of the great Virginia battles, I think Spottsilvania _________________ was killed in battle in Perryvile, Lafayette too was in the same battle but was unable to recover his brothers body. I think Mr. Brooks was wounded in the same battle & died on his way home. ________I think was killed or died in the Army west of the Mifsisippi river. After the War Uncle James visited E. Tenn. two or three times. On one of these visits he stopped for a time with us, accompanied by two daughters; a daughter of Maria Woods and a daughter of Lafayette. On one of these visits, May _____ he came up as a delegate from his church to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 66 South which met at Knoxvile. He died suddenly_____at his daughter, Mrs. Woods, Talladego, Ala while on a Visit there. He was a devoted Christian a useful Citizen, a man of remarkable vitality. on one of his last visits to Tenn. Uncle Percy Rogan took him to a barber shop, where the barber remarked to Uncle Perry "Mr. Rogan you have brought yr younger brother for a shave" Amos Rogan, Mr. Uncle was born in Botetourt Co. Va Sept. 9, 1779 & married Mifs Smith of Washington Co. Va No relation of my Mother. I remember them, yet have little distinctive recollection of their persons. They lived on a gentle eminence on the S. Side of Holston river, a long gentle slope running down from the home to the river. i sometimes stayed all night at their house, & slept upstairs, & would listen, in the night, to the rain pattering on the roof, sweet music to me, & always since, I have loved to listen to it, when in bed. I think I can recollect that my Incle was hare lipped, bbut can recall no other feature of say what was his general appearance. He followed at Kingsport boat building & shipping salt down the river. Later he moved with his family to Hancock Co. Indiana, not far from Greenfield, where he && his wife soon afterwards died, leaving six children, James, Daniel, - 16 - George, Theodor, Catherine & David. My father went to Indiana & brought th echildren in a light wagon to Kingsport. This was before 1836, but I can not fix the date. In 1845 I went to their old home in Indiana. A horseback trip, on some businefs connected with my Uncle's estate. After reaching Kingsport James was sent to my Uncle James Rogan in Ala to make his home with him. Aunt Maria Thomas took Daniel, Grandmother took George, Catherine & David & my Father took Theodor & he & I were raised together, faring alike until he was pretty welll grown. He was something like two years younger than I. James when grown returned to Tenn & studied Medicine with Drs Patton & Vance, afterwards went to Mexico & practiced medicne for awhile & then came to Texas & settled there. He was our family Physician while we lived there. He married Mifs Armour Brown, & died in San Saba, Texas Feb 23, 1903, aged 82 years. His wife had been dead for some years. He visited us at Russellville in __________ & stayed some days with us. My wife & I were much at- tached to him & to his wife. Daniel became a mill wright & a mill owner; owned a fine griste mill property near. Broylesville, Washington Co. Tenn. Some years after the Civil War he was persuaded he could do better with a mill in ARk. & so moved there. The mill there soon burned down, & he died leaving his family much worted by his unfortunate move. He married Mifs Linewaver of Washington Co. I visited them at their Broylesville home, where were wll situated & doing well. He shipped us flour to Texas & was said to be making the finest flout made in the South. George became a Carpenter. He was th emost bashful young man, I think, I ever saw, especially afraid of girls, & yet when he was only seventeen years old-- perhaps hardly that, he married Mifs Caroline Coghill & at twenty was the father of two boys -- Amos & Griffeth. His wife died 19th March 1845. A singular incident was associated with her burial. Mr Hoback made - 17 - [GEN0077] her coffin & his wagon took her remains to the grave. I walked with him to the cemetery. He seemed in perfect health. After the burial he took his wagon into the woods near by & put on a load of wood, in doing which he hurt his thumb & cramped. On getting home he complained that his stomach hurt him, threw up his hands & cried "Mercy" & was dead. That evening George made his coffin. The family had Mr Ross to preach his funeral. He did not preach his soul to heaven-- he was a wicked man - and the family were displeased & had a Methodist clergyman to preach a more favorable sermon. George afterwards moved to Montevala Ala where he married & raised a family of which I know nothing. At the breaking out of the Civil War he & Amos went into the Army of Virginia, Confederate, & were in the first battle of Bull Run, [Bull Run was in Manassas, VA where I lived for about 15 years -MRW] where Amos was killed on the field. Griffith had died when a boy. George was with the Army of Genl Longstreet when camped here in the winter of 1863-64. He somehow learned that I was living here, and came to see me. When he entered the room my wife who had never seen him said to me, "Mr Rogan here's a kinsman come to see you." He survived the war; I have since heard that he was dead, but know nothing about it. He was just two days my junior. Theodore, too, became a mill wright, learning the trade with his brother Daniel. He settled in Texas, where he owned saw mill property in the pin of Fayette Co., & also on the Guadaloup river. He was in Tennefsee when the Civil War broke out & entered the Union army. He called on us at Hayslope when troups were passing. He was with Genl Gillams command on the night of the great stampede Nov_____from Bulls Gap, & was in command of a battery. He mad a stand on a little rise near the Barton house but lost his guns, tho he escaped. He died soon - 18 - [GEN0078] after the close of the war, at Uncle Perry's in Knoxville from a general worn out constitution. He never married. Catherine, when I was married, 1833, went with me & my wife to Texas to live with her brother James. She married his parner in the drug Businefs Edward Heppenstall, an English man, a worthy man. She only lived a few years after marriage & died at Lockhart, her husband & two or three children surviving her. Mr. Heppenstall is dead. I know nothing of the children. David, he too was a mill wright & settled in Texas owned fine griste mill, property in Brownwood, where he died in the prime of life. He never married. Mr _________ who mar- ried my Sister Emma's daughter succeeded to the mill property. Dr James Rogan was the oldest & last surviving one of Uncle Amos' children. - 19 -