Daughter of Jesse Ward & Elizabeth McIntyre.
Side note: Her death certificate gives her place of birth as "North Cumberland Co. N.C." Although there is a Cumberland County in NC, other evidence shows that her family came from Rutherford Co. in western NC, and that is probably where she was born. And although her gravestone gives her year of birth as 1828, her death certificate lists her age at death as 63 years, 9 months, which would put her birth in 1826. Census records would normally help pinpoint the year, but she seems to have eluded the census taker her entire life.
Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, July 2, 1890, p. 6: "DIED. ROGERS - June 30, 1890, Mrs. T. S. Rogers, aged 63 years. Funeral from her late Residence, 219 North Olive Street, today, at 10 o'clock. Friends are invited without further notice."
Los Angeles Herald, June 28, 1890, p. 2:
"IN HER YARD.
Mrs. Rogers Found Insensible by Her Neighbors.
At 11 o'clock on Thursday night the wife of a colored man named Asbury, who resides in a small shanty in the rear of Mrs. Tempy B. Rogers's lodging-house on North Olive, near Temple street, was awakened from her sleep by a moaning sound which emanated apparently from the yard. Mrs. Asbury listened attentively for a few moments, and hearing the noise again very distinctly she aroused her sleeping husband, and the couple arose and made a tour of investigation. Much to their surprise they found Mrs. Rogers, an old lady, 63 years of age, lying upon the ground in the middle of the yard in an unconscious condition. They picked her up and carried her into the house, and as she evinced no signs of recovery, Drs. Wise and Fellows were summoned to her aid. The physicians applied all the usual restoratives, but the case baffled all their skill, and the patient remained in a comatose condition in spite of the efforts that were made to restore her to consciousness. At a late hour last night Mrs. Rogers was still in the same state of insensibility and grave doubts were expressed as to her recovery. It is supposed that the old lady was stricken with paralysis while crossing the yard on her return to the house from the outbuilding; but as she was hale and hearty a few hours prior to her being found by the Asburys, the most plausible theory is that she received a severe nervous shock, probably through fear, but the cause of her fright, if any she had, will of course remain a mystery until explained by herself.
Mrs. Rogers was visited by her five married daughters yesterday, and the news of her sudden illness was telegraphed to her son, who is at present in Washington territory."
Side note: Her death certificate gives her place of birth as "North Cumberland Co. N.C." Although there is a Cumberland County in NC, other evidence shows that her family came from Rutherford Co. in western NC, and that is probably where she was born. And although her gravestone gives her year of birth as 1828, her death certificate lists her age at death as 63 years, 9 months, which would put her birth in 1826. Census records would normally help pinpoint the year, but she seems to have eluded the census taker her entire life.
Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, July 2, 1890, p. 6: "DIED. ROGERS - June 30, 1890, Mrs. T. S. Rogers, aged 63 years. Funeral from her late Residence, 219 North Olive Street, today, at 10 o'clock. Friends are invited without further notice."
Los Angeles Herald, June 28, 1890, p. 2:
"IN HER YARD.
Mrs. Rogers Found Insensible by Her Neighbors.
At 11 o'clock on Thursday night the wife of a colored man named Asbury, who resides in a small shanty in the rear of Mrs. Tempy B. Rogers's lodging-house on North Olive, near Temple street, was awakened from her sleep by a moaning sound which emanated apparently from the yard. Mrs. Asbury listened attentively for a few moments, and hearing the noise again very distinctly she aroused her sleeping husband, and the couple arose and made a tour of investigation. Much to their surprise they found Mrs. Rogers, an old lady, 63 years of age, lying upon the ground in the middle of the yard in an unconscious condition. They picked her up and carried her into the house, and as she evinced no signs of recovery, Drs. Wise and Fellows were summoned to her aid. The physicians applied all the usual restoratives, but the case baffled all their skill, and the patient remained in a comatose condition in spite of the efforts that were made to restore her to consciousness. At a late hour last night Mrs. Rogers was still in the same state of insensibility and grave doubts were expressed as to her recovery. It is supposed that the old lady was stricken with paralysis while crossing the yard on her return to the house from the outbuilding; but as she was hale and hearty a few hours prior to her being found by the Asburys, the most plausible theory is that she received a severe nervous shock, probably through fear, but the cause of her fright, if any she had, will of course remain a mystery until explained by herself.
Mrs. Rogers was visited by her five married daughters yesterday, and the news of her sudden illness was telegraphed to her son, who is at present in Washington territory."
Daughter of Jesse Ward & Elizabeth McIntyre.
Side note: Her death certificate gives her place of birth as "North Cumberland Co. N.C." Although there is a Cumberland County in NC, other evidence shows that her family came from Rutherford Co. in western NC, and that is probably where she was born. And although her gravestone gives her year of birth as 1828, her death certificate lists her age at death as 63 years, 9 months, which would put her birth in 1826. Census records would normally help pinpoint the year, but she seems to have eluded the census taker her entire life.
Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, July 2, 1890, p. 6: "DIED. ROGERS - June 30, 1890, Mrs. T. S. Rogers, aged 63 years. Funeral from her late Residence, 219 North Olive Street, today, at 10 o'clock. Friends are invited without further notice."
Los Angeles Herald, June 28, 1890, p. 2:
"IN HER YARD.
Mrs. Rogers Found Insensible by Her Neighbors.
At 11 o'clock on Thursday night the wife of a colored man named Asbury, who resides in a small shanty in the rear of Mrs. Tempy B. Rogers's lodging-house on North Olive, near Temple street, was awakened from her sleep by a moaning sound which emanated apparently from the yard. Mrs. Asbury listened attentively for a few moments, and hearing the noise again very distinctly she aroused her sleeping husband, and the couple arose and made a tour of investigation. Much to their surprise they found Mrs. Rogers, an old lady, 63 years of age, lying upon the ground in the middle of the yard in an unconscious condition. They picked her up and carried her into the house, and as she evinced no signs of recovery, Drs. Wise and Fellows were summoned to her aid. The physicians applied all the usual restoratives, but the case baffled all their skill, and the patient remained in a comatose condition in spite of the efforts that were made to restore her to consciousness. At a late hour last night Mrs. Rogers was still in the same state of insensibility and grave doubts were expressed as to her recovery. It is supposed that the old lady was stricken with paralysis while crossing the yard on her return to the house from the outbuilding; but as she was hale and hearty a few hours prior to her being found by the Asburys, the most plausible theory is that she received a severe nervous shock, probably through fear, but the cause of her fright, if any she had, will of course remain a mystery until explained by herself.
Mrs. Rogers was visited by her five married daughters yesterday, and the news of her sudden illness was telegraphed to her son, who is at present in Washington territory."
Side note: Her death certificate gives her place of birth as "North Cumberland Co. N.C." Although there is a Cumberland County in NC, other evidence shows that her family came from Rutherford Co. in western NC, and that is probably where she was born. And although her gravestone gives her year of birth as 1828, her death certificate lists her age at death as 63 years, 9 months, which would put her birth in 1826. Census records would normally help pinpoint the year, but she seems to have eluded the census taker her entire life.
Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, July 2, 1890, p. 6: "DIED. ROGERS - June 30, 1890, Mrs. T. S. Rogers, aged 63 years. Funeral from her late Residence, 219 North Olive Street, today, at 10 o'clock. Friends are invited without further notice."
Los Angeles Herald, June 28, 1890, p. 2:
"IN HER YARD.
Mrs. Rogers Found Insensible by Her Neighbors.
At 11 o'clock on Thursday night the wife of a colored man named Asbury, who resides in a small shanty in the rear of Mrs. Tempy B. Rogers's lodging-house on North Olive, near Temple street, was awakened from her sleep by a moaning sound which emanated apparently from the yard. Mrs. Asbury listened attentively for a few moments, and hearing the noise again very distinctly she aroused her sleeping husband, and the couple arose and made a tour of investigation. Much to their surprise they found Mrs. Rogers, an old lady, 63 years of age, lying upon the ground in the middle of the yard in an unconscious condition. They picked her up and carried her into the house, and as she evinced no signs of recovery, Drs. Wise and Fellows were summoned to her aid. The physicians applied all the usual restoratives, but the case baffled all their skill, and the patient remained in a comatose condition in spite of the efforts that were made to restore her to consciousness. At a late hour last night Mrs. Rogers was still in the same state of insensibility and grave doubts were expressed as to her recovery. It is supposed that the old lady was stricken with paralysis while crossing the yard on her return to the house from the outbuilding; but as she was hale and hearty a few hours prior to her being found by the Asburys, the most plausible theory is that she received a severe nervous shock, probably through fear, but the cause of her fright, if any she had, will of course remain a mystery until explained by herself.
Mrs. Rogers was visited by her five married daughters yesterday, and the news of her sudden illness was telegraphed to her son, who is at present in Washington territory."
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TEMPY S. A. ROGERS / 1828-1890 / A PIONEER OF LOS ANGELES / CROSSING THE PLAINS FROM / TEXAS IN 1868
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