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From: Carol Mallory <>
Subject: Robert Latney Rogers - Wake Co., NC
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:09:06 -0500


Robert Latney Rogers, one of 10 children born in Wake County=20
20 Mar 1870 - 8 Jan 1947 to William Washington and Ann Elizabeth Stell =
Rogers.
His birthplace was located on the west side of the state road 1003, =
the Wendell-Rolesville road. It was part of the original Rogers =
plantation where four generations of the Rogers family grew up and some =
are buried. The old colonial house stood for 200 years and was just =
recently destroyed.
The plantation system required knowledge from delivering calves to =
building coffins. Robert Latney knew how to do it all. Planter, harness =
maker, cobbler, carpenter, tree pruner, barber, saw mill worker, and at =
harvest time when the corn was piled high his wooden peg looped on his =
thumb by a leather string "out shucked" all the rest.
He was an artist at heart and on Sunday gatherings, while the other =
men whittled pegs to hang up meat in the smoke house, he carved dainty =
little squirrel watch fobs out of peach seeds.
The plantation system furnished most of life's essentials but it =
lacked watch and clock work. In 1891 Robert Latney enrolled at Jolly and =
Wynne Jewelers in Raleigh, NC, Wake Co., and served his apprentice as a =
jeweler-craftsman at age 21. He returned to Rolesville to put into =
practice his trade.
In 1893, Thomas Honeycutt was selling his property in Rolesville, NC, =
Wake Co., to join his son in Raleigh, NC so Latney bargained to buy it.
The property consisted of a large two-story building with living =
quarte4rs upstairs. (burned in 1913). A three room house that was built =
in 1789 for Colonel Thomas Davis by the men who served with him in the =
Revolutionary War; Shadrack Scarborough and his Wake County cousins, all =
carpenters. The house still stands and most of the property is owned by =
some of the family.
During this time Robert Latney was dating the Church organist, Roxie =
Hines Scarborough (5 Jan 1877 - 12 May 1960). With debts paid and a =
years provisions he planned a wedding.
On Sunday 15 Mar 1896 on the Rogers homeplace they were joined in =

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