Hannah Rogers

Daughter of Major Jonathan Tipton of Battle of King's Mtn. in American Revolution. DAR

The is a story listed as “The Story of Texas” by Fannie Dunhill (I think), written 1935. It is interesting reading about Stephen and his family. The are no sources given, but just a “memory” recall. It says:

"The first grave in the Rogers Prairie Cemetery was for a Mrs. Rogers. One evening at dusk while her cows were penned for milking, Indian bucks rode up, opened the gate and drove them away. In her anxiety and excitement, the widow attempted to follow them begging them to leave them alone as it was her childrens only milk source of supply. Looking back as they galloped away they let fly their arrows and left her body where she fell."

It is possible that the marker for Steven Rogers b. 1831 d. 1841 who was Stephen and Rebecca's son and scalped by Indians, is wrong. Appears from photo of gravesite that the marker has been placed over the grave of a full grown adult person -- Could that be Hannah's grave?

She is possibly buried in Old Liberty Baptist Church cemetery between Fortuna and Versailles, MO, in Cooper Co/Montineau Co or Morgan Co MO (not sure which one, Cooper was the parent county. She was a Tipton and this is just SW of the town of Tipton, one of the first towns in MO cerca 1820.

Not sure if Hannah Rogers made it to Texas with husband Robert though.

There exists several unmarked graves and stones that cannot be read in Old Liberty Baptist Church cemetery, one could be hers. Furnis Adair is there. Furis (aka Furnace) was the neighbor of Robert Rogers, either Robert m. Hannah or Robert m.Delilah Nations, not sure which one: could be Robert m. Delilah Nation because Robert m. Hannah came to MO before his sons Stephen and Robert). However, could be Robert m. Hannah because Furnis and Robert were about the same age, as Furnis was born in 1762.

Many other Adairs buried there, as well as the Greers (Baptists) who were along with Robert became first settlers in Leon/Madison Co., TX (Captain T.N.B. Greer was pretty famous friend of Sam Houston, and in the first militia in that area around Ft. Boggy). Fishers and Porters there, too, some of whom may have come to Texas soon after Robert Rogers.

Another cemetery with a few Rogers was about 10-15 miles South in Montineau Co. called Freedom Cemetery, and there are Tiptons and Adairs there, too.

There is a Hannah Rogers in St. Louis in BelleFontaine cemetery -- it's definitely not her because that Hannah was only 18 when she died.