Captain John Rogers, Jr., Principal Chief

Disambiguation

Nolichucky John Rogers, Chief John Rogers, and Captain John Rogers were three different people.

Family

From Jim Hicks page https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0015...

Children of ELIZABETH EMORY and JOHN “Hellfire” ROGERS are

20. vi. JOHN5 ROGERS, JR, CAP, CHIEF (ELIZABETH4EMORY, MARY3GRANT, LUDOVIC2, JOHN1GRAUNT) was born 1781, and died June 12, 1846 in Washington, DC.He married (2) ELIZABETH COODY April 19, 1804 in Roane Co, TN, daughter of ARTHUR COODY and MILCAH - .She was born 1786 in Lookout Mt Town, Hamilton Co, TN, and died 1846 in Washington, DC.

Starr lists John's children as two sets of half-siblings but only lists Elizabeth Coody as a wife.

Child of JOHN ROGERS, JR, CAP, CHIEF is:

• 121. i. ISAAC6 ROGERS, b. Abt. 1800; d. Bet. 1851 - 1895.

Children of JOHN ROGERS and ELIZABETH COODY are:

• 122. ii. CYNTHIA6 ROGERS, b. 1808; d. Bet. 1880 - 1895.
• 123. iii. THOMAS LEWIS ROGERS, SR, b. Abt. 1816.
• 124. iv. CHARLES COODY ROGERS, HON, b. 1818; d. June 1885.
• 125. v. GEORGE WASHINGTON ROGERS, b. Abt. 1820.
• 126. vi. W D NELSON ROGERS, b. Abt. 1824, Georgia; d. Abt. 1865.
• vii. GRANVILLE ROGERS, b. Abt. 1826.
• 127. viii. RANDOLPH ROGERS, b. Abt. 1828; d. Abt. 1852.

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rogers-3889

John (Jack) was born to John Rogers and Elizabeth Emory around 1781 in the area of the old Cherokee Nation that is now part of Tennessee.

He was first married to Jennie Raincrow and their two children were John and Isaac.[1]

He then married Elizabeth Coody and their children were Cynthia, Thomas, George, Nelson, Charles, Randolph, Granville and Edith. He was the grandfather of later Cherokee Principal Chief William Charles Rogers.

He moved to Arkansas around 1819. John Rogers, Jr. became Chief of the Western Cherokee in 1839[2] after his uncle John Jolly died. (Jolly adopted Sam Houston.)

John Rogers, Jr. was dismissed from office when Principal Chief John Ross arrived with the last party on the Trail of Tears in 1839 .

He owned and operated salt works on Spavinaw Creek & Grand Saline in Indian Territory.

He died 12 Jun 1846 in Washington D.C. and is buried at the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C [3] The marker for the Chief's grave was not placed until 1989 and was sponsored by the Cherokee Nation.[4]

John Rogers was the last elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation West, elected 11 October 1839 by the faction of Old Settlers who rejected the unity constitution of September 1839. The rejectionist faction gained no further adherents and the effort died the next year. Rogers was the nephew of previous Cherokee Nation West principal chiefs Tahlonteeskee and John Jolly

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5213350

Born in Cherokee Nation; Principal Chief, Cherokees, Arkansas, 1839 while in Washington D C, on Cherokee Nation business, Capt. Rogers died, & his wife Elizabeth also died in the District, buried here. He was the son of John Hellfire Rogers Sr. & Elizabeth [Emory,(Cherokee) Due - Rogers. F/o 8 children, including Isaac Rogers.

Old text on FindaGrave:

John Rogers Jr., who was born about 1776 (date on tombstone was born 1781). John Jr. is also known as Captain John Rogers for his service with the Cherokee troops of General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Wars. He was elected Chief after the death of his uncle, Chief OO-LOO-TES KEE or John Jolly. John Jr. died at the home of Mrs. Eugenia Townsley, in Washington, D.C., June 12, 1846, while presenting his claims for possession or reimbursement for the salt works. The Rogers were supplanted by John Ross, leader of the anti-treaty party, who became chief of the Cherokees after the general Removal in 1826. Captain John Rogers and Colonel A. P. Chouteau had established the salt works on the east side of the Grand River, near the present town of Salina, in Mayes County, Oklahoma. They manufactured large quantities of salt which was sold to the garrison at Fort Gibson as well as the Cherokees and other Indian tribes. Chouteau died in 1832 - possession passing to Rogers. Then John Ross, Principal Chief, in the name of the Cherokees, took over the salt works and gave the concession to his brother, Lewis Ross. Ross asserted the springs were the property of the national domain of the Cherokee tribe and might be leased to a new party if deemed expedient. Captain and Chief John Rogers, Jr., is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. There were three Cherokees buried about the same time; John Rogers, Jr., Thomas W. Starr and W. B. West. Their grave sites are #89-90-91, Range 40.

Died while on Cherokee business buried there. Born in Cherokee Nation

Son of John "Hellfire" Rogers...located here on Geni site. Also on Findagrave # 5213350

All of the following refers to John the son, and possibly his brother James, not the man (Hellfire Jack) in this profile.

https://www.songofml.com/john_james_rogers.htm (dead link)

John [or] James Rogers was a very prominent figure among the Cherokee. He gave them much help and advice. You will find many letters, written by him to the government. He once paid the ransom, demanded for a young boy named Jennings and returned him to his family. John Rogers was often a delegate to Washington, D.C., a Councilman of outstanding ability; and his influence was manifested then and yet today.

John Rogers lived about twelve miles south of Calhoun, Tennessee, on the Hiwassee River. He had boats plying on both the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers. He was a man of wealth. Captain John must have loved to entertain, for in the minutes of the mission, this is mentioned. The Christmas of 1806 he gave such a large party - they tell what his guests consumed - not how many were present as we do today; saying, the guests consumed a number of beeves, two barrels of flour, and two barrels of rum, and their stock ate two stacks of hay and one hundred bushels of corn. At one time there were two hundred present. Nancy Vann, a guest, was reported as saying, "I never had such a good time in all of my life.".

In 1818 Captain John Rogers came to western Arkansas from his home, Ross Landing, on the Tennessee River near Lookout Mountain. Leaving there in 1817. It is interesting to know how the government had provided the Indians transportation to the west. A boat was constructed to be sixty feet long and twelve feet wide, two thirds of it were to be covered, two side oars and a steering oar, they were called Keel Boats. Each was given a gun, a kettle, a beaver trap and some ammunition. Often these boats fell apart on the rocky shoals of the Tennessee. He and thirty-one members of his party settled at Big Mulberry Bend, about twenty miles south of the present Ft. Smith. Captain John Rogers Sr. is buried there.

From this marriage [which marriage?] comes three of the Cherokee Chiefs of Oklahoma; namely, Chief John Rogers, Jr. born 1779 Chief of the Western Cherokees and Grand Saline; Judge Charles Coody Rogers and Chief William Charles Rogers, last Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

John Rogers married Alsey Vann (also known as Anna Pruitt) and their only child, Polly Ann, born 1787, married Samuel Dawson, a Scotch-Irish. They were the parents to the well-known Dawson families of Oklahoma. F. M. or Bud Dawson was one of the leading ones in establishing the rights of citizenship of a large family, who were placed on the Cherokee rolls by the Dawes Commission. Alsey was Cherokee.

William Vann's genealogy "Vann Generations with Cherokee Origins".

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rogers-3886
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