Fred Marvin Rogers was born on April 28, 1886 in Iron Duff, Haywood County, North Carolina. His father Sebrum was 42 years and was a Confederate War veteran. He had been married twice before when he married Elizabeth Caroline Fincher who had been married once before.
The week that Fred Marvin was born, you could buy a 120 acre farm in Haywood County for $1,500.
Fred had older brothers and sisters from his parents previous marriages. From Fred’s first marriage to Mary Cathrine Liner, there were two children, Robert J R Rogers and Mary Isabel Rogers. Robert goes missing after the 1880 census, presumably dead but Mary Isabel Rogers Stevenson lived until 1924. Fred married Sarah Jane Mason and her son Mason N Rogers was living with Fred, Sarah, Robert, and Mary in the 1880 census. Fred was also the youngest of the children born to the marriage of Sebrum and Elizabeth Carolina Fincher. His brother Elmer has not been located in census after 1910 but his sister Evie Victoria lived until 1967, living to be eighty-three.
Fred Marvin also had five Ferguson half brothers and sisters from his mother, Elizabeth Fincher, who was married to Ebed Riley Ferguson in her first marriage. Those children were Laura Louise, Robert, Joseph Dunn, Marietta Mary Elizabeth, and Francis Davis “Frank Ferguson.
Fred Marvin’s father Sebrum passed away in Iron Duff, North Carolina when he was only eleven. Fred can be found in the 1900 census living with his mother Elizabeth and sister Evie on the farm. Fred is a farm laborer and has attended school for 2 1/2 months in the year. Brother Elmer is living in the household of half-brother Joseph Dunn Ferguson and wife Flora.
Fred Marvin married Beulah Ada Mull in 1905 when he was 19 years old. His son Joe Cephas “Joe” was born in January of 1908 and son Dewey Ernest was born in March, 1910. In the 1910 census, Fred is counted in two census. He is living with his mother and sister Evie and her son James R Rogers in Haywood County. He is also living with his wife and two sons Joe and Dewey Ernest in Buford Village, Union South Carolina, working as a weaver. The Rogers family is living with Beulah Ada’s sister and her husband and child (Robert, Delia, and son Willie Franklin).
In 1912, Fred Marvin becomes a land owner in Haywood County. He buys 1/12 acres adjoining T G Davis and C M Ross from Joseph Dunn Ferguson and his mother Elizabeth Caroline Rogers. Fred and Beulah Ada have their first and only daughter, Elizabeth Mae “Lizzie” together on 1918 in Haywood County. The third son Jack Ray was born in 1919, while on a sad note, Fred’s half sister Marietta “Mary” Ferguson Ross died that year.
In 1918 when Fred registered for the World War I draft, he reported that he was engaged in farming was of medium frame and build, had grey eyes and light colored hair and had a crippled hand which would affect his military service.
In the 1920 census, Fred Marvin is doing general farming and living in Crabtree in Haywood County. He is living with wife Beulah Ada and children Joe, Dewey, Lizzie Mae, and Jack. In 1922, tragedy struck when Fred’s wife died unexpectedly. She had bronchial pneumonia after a bout with the flu.
Fred Marvin’s half sister Mary Isabell Rogers Stevenson also died in 1924 and his half brother Joseph Dunn Ferguson died in 1925.
In 1927, Fred Marvin remarries. He marries Candas Burress Lee, a widow of Dock Rockefeller Lee. Her mother was Callie M Rogers and she was a distant cousin of Fred Marvin. Candas brings to the family four Lee stepdaughters for Fred to help raise: Jessie Ann, Cloia Irene, Pearl or Pearlene, and Katherine.
Fred Marvin and Candas Burress Rogers had daughters, Doris Geneva Rogers and Virgina Dare Rogers in Waynesville, Haywood County. In 1930, they were living in a rented house on Rogers Cove Road. The family consist of Fred, Candace, Lizzie Mae Rogers, Pearl Lee, Jack Rogers, Katherine Lee and one year old Doris. Fred was a laborer in a pulp mill. Virginia Dare Rogers was born in 1930 and Fred Marvin Rogers Jr. was born in 1932. The family then moved to Union South Carolina, presumably in search of a better life.
In 1933, Fred Marvin lost his mother Elizabeth Caroline Fincher Ferguson Rogers. She passed away on April 22, 1933 in Waynesville, North Carolina at the age of 87. His son Dewey Ernest passed away suddenly on Halloween Night, October 31, 1934 in Buffalo, South Carolina at the age of 24. The truck he was riding in with his brother overturned when it hit a cow.
In 1938, daughter Basha Louise Rogers was born in Union, South Carolina. In the 1940 census, the Rogers family is living in rural Union County South Carolina in a rented home. Fred Marvin was operating an elevator in a cotton mill. Wife Candas is keeping house. Son Jack is lay roping in the cotton mill. Doris, Virginia Dare, and Fred Jr “Buddy” are all attending school.
Fred Marvin’s youngest daughter, Basha Louise suffered from Von Recklinhausen disease which comes from a mutation of the seventeenth chromosome. It affects the skin and can cause bone deformities. This picture is of her dad, Fred Marvin, brothers Joe Cephas, and Fred Marvin Jr. at the Shriners hospital.
Fred Marvin Rogers lived a long life, dying on June 6, 1972 in Buffalo in Union County, South Carolina. His obituary appeared on June 8 in the Greenville News on page 22.
Fred Marvin Rogers is buried at Union Memorial Gardens at Union, in Union South Carolina.
Fred Marvin’s children with Beulah Ada Mull were:
1. Joe Cephas Rogers 1908-1987 married Thelma Ellen Dennis 1911-1988 and Gladys Inez Willis 1920-1979
2. Dewey E Rogers 1910-1934 married Lola Pearle Dunning 1911-2013
3. Elizabeth Mae “Lizzie” Rogers 1916-1971 married David Peter Kelly 1910-1993
4. Jack Ray Rogers 1919-1992 married Mildred Helen Graham 1930-2015
Fred Marvin’s children with Candas Buress were:
5. Doris Geneva Rogers 1928-2017 married Hubert Ball 1924-2014 then Fain (living)
6. Virginia Dare Rogers 1930-2009 married Herbert Eugene Gatlff 1926-1991
7. Fred Marvin Rogers, Jr. 1932-2010 married Briggs (living) 1932-2010
8. Basha Louise Rogers 1938-1976 married Adams (living)
Fred Marvin’s step children from marriage to Candas Buress widow of Dock Rockefeller Lee were:
9. Jessie Ann Lee 1911-1984 married Boyd C Turner 1907-1964
10. Cloia Irene Lee 1913-1997 married M Ladson Erwin Smith 1909-1989
11. Samuel Cordell Lee 1916-1920
12. Pearlean Lee married Watts (living)
13. Catherine Mable Lee (1920-1995) married Gaden (living)
References available at Rogers Family Tree on Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/34712803/family
and at Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBNL-8P9
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