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From: Dan & Robyn Asimus <>
Subject: Alma Denton Rogers
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:57:14 -0700


Good-morning,
I recently submitted a story written about my gg-grandparents Niels
Christian Mortensen and Mariana Christensen Mortensen.
http://members.tripod.com/~asimus/LifeSkch.txt
This next story is an autobiography of Alma Denton Rogers, who is
also my gg-grandfather. The daughter of Neils and Mariana Mortensen,
Inger Sophia Amelia Mortensen would eventually marry the son of Alma
Denton Roger, Theron Rogers.

Autobiography of Alma Denton Rogers Son of Isaac Rogers and Susan Mills
Rogers

My grandfather, Isaac Rogers, was born in Maine and was a cooper by
Trade. He was a volunter in the war of 1812. He joined the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in Kirtland, Ohio.
I was born in Genesco, New York, moved from there to Kirtland, Ohio,
from these to Macedonia, living there for two or three years. We then
went to New Orleans and stayed one winter, going from there to
Jeffersonville, Indiana. Here my mother died in 1841. My father soon
married again. I did not get along well with my new mother.
My brother Ruel Mills Rogers who was eleven years of age and myself,
who was nine years of age walked back to Elgin, Illinois to live with my
sister whom I had not seen for four years. There I was made acquainted
with the blessing my mother had received before I was born from the
Patriarch of the church who was the father of Joseph Smith the Prophet.
He told my mother in this blessing she would give birth to a son and he
would be like ALMA of old, and when I was born a young girl by the name
of Priscillla Cole, came in to see me, and wanted to give me a name. My
mother consented and she said we will call him Alma. This made a great
impression on my mind after hearing this.
I went on to Terracoupe, Indiana where I lived for eight years, from
there I went to Fort Smith Arkansas where I met and married Mary Jane
Collins, a blind girl. Here I taught my first school. The war broke
out I started to get out of the country, was taken prisoner along with
my brother Ruel, we abandoned our wagons and go by horseback with our
families. We got the guards drunk by giving them Brandy to drink, which
Ruel being a medical doctor had for medical purposes.
I got into Iowa in 1861. In 1862 I emmigrated to Salt Lake Valley. I
spent most of my time teaching school and as a Dentist

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