Mary E Cloud was born 1839 in Austin County, Texas, USA, and died 24 Sep 1929 in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas, USA. She was buried in Comanche County in Mercers Gap Cemetery, Texas, USA. She was the daughter of John Clark Cloud and Mary Polly Griffin. She married Joseph D Rogers Abt 1858 in Texas, USA.

Her death certificate lists her birth date as 16 Aug, 1834.

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Mrs. Mary Rogers, 95 years old, who not only enjoys the distinction of being the oldest person in Comanche, but belongs to the select few who were born in Texas when it was still a Mexican province. Her father, Jerry Cloud, came to Texas over 100 years ago as a member of Austin's colony, and Mrs. Rogers was born in Austin County on 16 August 1833. J.W. Griffin was her maternal grandfather, who also settled in the Colony and acquired large land holdings. Mrs. Rogers was interviewed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tom Edwards on Monday afternoon with a remarkably clear mind for a woman of her age, although she has been confined to her bed most of the time for the past two years up to which time she says she never failed to do some work every day, which she assigns as one reason for her long life. When Mrs. Rogers was 12 years old she remembers well her first visit to Houston which was the first time she had been in a village which contained more than a scattering of houses. While visiting her cousin, who was running a hotel, Mrs. rogers saw her first matches, whcih were just then coming into use and according to her recollection cost as much as five cents a piece. This was also her first time to see a cook stove which was a novelty even in Houston at the time. "When the Civil War broke out, I had been married to Joe Rogers for several years and had four children. Joe had always been an expert at driving oxen and as soon as the war was declared he was called into service to handle teams and oxen and I never saw him for several years. I spent most of my time in the saddle armed with a pistol keeping guard over my own and my grandfather Cloud's cattle. We marked and branded every one of them." "My brother went into service at the beginning of the war and that was the last any of the family ever heard of him." Mrs. Rogers says the social conditions have changed for the worse. "I never heard a man swear until I was 40 years old," she said. When I was 16 years old, I went to Washington, which a few years before had been the capitol of Texas to a dancing school. Boys never came nearer two feet to a girl.

Comanche Chief

Comanche, Texas

August 23, 1929