Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1881, MAY 730 COUNTY FINANCES May 1 - GENERAL WILLIAM ROGERS lived on the line of Clay, near Barry, from the earliest settlement of Platte. He now removes to Texas, and as we will hear no more of him, we will sketch him. He was born in Virginia, February 16, 1792, removed to Kentucky, volunteered in the War of 1812, served in Captain Morris' company, First Battery, under Major Gano, in Colonel John M. Scott's regiment, in Brigadier General Winchester's division