Begin forwarded message: > From: Dorothy Hagerty <[email protected]> > Date: October 25, 2007 1:44:50 PM PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Erastus > > Hi Carol, I found Erastus in "The History of Wayne County, New York" > by Prof. W.H. McIntosh (1877) pp.41. ---- The farmers of Wayne County > had a group called "Wayne County Agricultural Society" . For some > reason they disbanded the old society and formed a new one. On the > 15th day of May, 1855 they elected new officers and listed names of > life members. Among the names are ERASTUS ROGERS, B.R. ROGERS > (Benjamin??), THOMAS ROGERS, JAMES ROGERS --- so evidently Erastus > did stay in the area. In 1876 B.R. Rogers was elected as one of the > directors. In 1865 THADEUS COLLINS and W.H. ROGERS were elected to > the Assembly of New York State. A William H. Rogers attended the > wedding of my great grandfather, (Theodore Rogers) in Ann Arbor, > Michigan in 1866. It sites him as being from California. ?? I'll > continue to look through this book and will let you know what I find. > Dorothy >

I would hope for better times. How ever watching the news and seeing all the destruction all over the US and world. I offer my Prayer to all my list memebrs and possible cousins. I am hoping none of our members are in these dangers seeing the CA fires and flooding of New Oreleens and problems on the east coast. I have recenty moved to the Oregon desert. Not much where I am to burn, but we could freeze tho <sigh> Maybe in the next year some of those brick walls will show some tumbling and some one will find enough clues to knock em all down. Maybe a little conversation on the list will help. Folks who post their lines or talk about family lore in the past have found clues and also cousins. Some times listing your family lines are a bigger help than just sitting waiting for the other person to post it, every one is waiting for the other. So go ahead, post them, chat about family , what did great grandma do and great great grand father ? Sunny this fri morning on the Oregon desert, 25 degrees makes the coffee wonderful. Looking fwd to seeing a million posts <G> Here is my old site, I bought a domain and am re writing the whole thing over , you will find a few surnames and a few errors I hope to fix in the re write. At least take a look, you might be able to help me out with some add ons or errors. Watch out for the pop ups, one reason I am putting things on my own domain, I hate pop ups. Here is a re write of my Rogers http://www.d-matney.com/Henry-Rogers.html any one want to add links to my Rogers page to thiers ? and the home page of my Matney http://www.d-matney.com I will make a newer index later, for now I will just have the seperate pages. I downloaded my last website before I moved so I can make corrections with out re doing the whole thing. http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/ Dan M

I am just checking on members. Also posting my new address. Dan M [email protected]