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From: "denise" <>
Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Rodgers/Nineveh Cemeter
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:09:35 -0400
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I also want to say what a tremenous job Carla Currie has done on recording
the area cemeteries! Her websdsite has helped me so many times. Thank you
Carla!
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From: "Roy E. Rodgers" <>
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Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:34 PM
Subject: [INDIANA] Rodgers/Nineveh Cemeter


> Many of you along with myself welcome the forthcoming rededication of
> the Ninaveh Cemetery. We also owe Mr. Wakefield and Skiles our
> gratitude for a job well done. I would also like to take this
> opportunity to express my gratitude to Carla Currie, whose diligence and
> dedication to the preservation of cemetery records in that area provided
> me a near perfect record of the graves now found, but thought to have
> long ago been washed away.
>
> In actuality, the cemetery predates Nineveh which was a name selected
> for the town that arose near the farm of Robert Rodgers and the home of
> circuit preacher David Wakefield. Robert's son Isaac, started a grain
> mill near the site of the cemetery and the first settlers called the
> settlement Rodgers' Mill. Robert went on to die and be buried in Greene
> County, but I have never been able to locate the grave of Sarah (Kyle)
> Rodgers, his wife who accompanied him to this new land in 1769.
>
> Robert(1) Rodgers b.1744 m. Sarah Kyle in Ireland and was the
> progenitor of the line in America and pioneer in western PA. They came
> from Donegal, Ireland to the Concocheague Valley PA. where George
> Findley encouraged Robert to farm land along the Conemaugh. Robert and
> Sarah had one sone Isaac(2), born at sea in 1767. Robert was a Rev.
> War vet. Robert fought in the Rev. War as a Pvt. 8th Co. 3rd Battalion
> of Cumberland Cty Militia
>
> Isaac fought in the War of 1812, and there has been a decendent of
> Isaac's from my line in every subsequent call to arms.
>
> Isaac (2) b. 1767 d.1822 m. first Mary Hice, then Eliza Elder.
> Children of Isaac (2) were: Robert, m. Margaret Updegraff; Sarah, m.
> James Killian; William, m. Almira Buck; John, (mine) m. first Ruth
> Wakefield, second unk. probably named Sarah. Henry, m. Sarah McRodden;
> twin Isaac(3), m. first Margaret Watts, second Martha Mathews; twin Mary
> m. Ephraim Skiles; Margaret m. Edmund Waters; George m. Roxanna
> Rodgers; Catharine m. Thomas Brown; Joseph; Samuel, m.Eliza Rodgers;
> Eliza, m. William Nixon; James; Jane Anne, m. John Hemphill. (from
> Isaac's will)
>
> Many of the names in the cemetery are related to the Rodgers name
> through marrage. I am a descendent of Isaac's son John who married Ruth
> Wakefield. Their children, James Wakefield Rodgers and Mary Wakefield
> (Rodgers) Swan moved to Lake Cnty Illinois. James then married Mary
> Francis Barber and settled in Racine Wisconsin in 1865. James next 4
> generations were born in Racine (Within an area of six square blocks).
>
> If there is anyone that wants a descendents outline tree for Robert
> Rodgers, Not fully validated but as I have it, I will e-mail one in
> reply to their e-mail request to: Roy E. Rodgers,
>
>
>
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