Frank Rogers/Rodgers - Part II - Was it Murder? . . .

WAS IT MURDER?
Suspicious circumstances in connection with the Sistersville Tragedy.
The Leader of Monday morning contained an account of a tragedy at Sistersville, in which Frank Rodgers was supposed to have attempted the life of a fallen woman named Alice McClelland and then shot himself through the heart. The coroner's inquest developed some facts justifying the suspicion that Rodgers and probably the girl were victims of foul play. An inmate of a boat lying near the one on which the tragedy occurred was heard coaching a witness to "make it out that Rodgers shot her." On the day of the inquest it was learned that Rodgers had known the girl but 15 hours, making it improbable that he should shoot her because of love or her refusal to marry him, especially so as he knew her bad character.
Further, Rodgers was shot twice in the left breast, one of the bullets passing through his heart and the other striking a rib. Physicians say that the infliction of either wound would have disabled him so that he could not have fired the second shot. Both bullets passed into his body on the left side directly from the front. Rodgers is known to have been a left handed man and consequently must have assumed a very unusual, not to say improbable posture to have fired the shots himself.
The case will be sifted to the bottom and the body may be exhumed for further examination.

Marietta Daily Leader - January 1, 1896 - Marietta, Ohio

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Arthur Lloyd Rogers - Obituary

Rogers Services
CONSTITUTION - Funeral services for Arthur Lloyd Rogers, 58 of Constitution will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Wieser & Cawley Funeral Home with the Rev. Walter Frost officiating.
Burial will be in Barlow Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of services.
Mr Rogers died yesterday at Marietta Memorial Hospital.

The Marietta Ohio Times - Tuesday evening. September 29, 1964

Arthur is the son of Albert Newton Rogers and Elizabeth Maggie Peggs-Rogers

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CCC Camp - MI

Walter Hemme - 2nd from left at Lone Pine CCC Camp - Raco, Michigan - Marquette Forest. 667th Company - August 1933

Tombstone of Julia May Rogers Hoffmann - Oak Grove Cemetery - Marietta, Washington Co., OH.

Julia May Rogers-Hoffman Obituary

Barnsville Enterprise - Belmont Co., OH
Pg. 1 - col. 6 - - 26 Oct 1928

The death of Mrs. Charles P. Hoffman occurred at Grant Hospital, Columbus. Wednesday morning, shortly before five o'clock. Mrs Hoffman, who has been in poor health for more than a year became ill two weeks ago and was rushed to Columbus where an emergency operation was performed, but it failed to save her life.
Julia May Hoffman was born at Kansas City, Kansas, 56 years ago. She was the daughter of James and Martha Hill Rogers. When she was five years old the family moved to Marietta, Ohio, and for the past 25 years Mrs Hoffman has lived in Barnesville.
When she was 20, she was united in marriage to Charles P. Hoffman. He survives her, with a daughter, Mrs Fred Lee, and a granddaughter Julia Katherine Lee, of Columbus, and two sisters, Mary E. Bethel of Hendrysburg and Laura Pflug; of Marietta.
When a young girl Mrs. Hoffman united with the Salem Methodist church near Hendrysburg, and has retained her membership there, but a regular attendant and active in the First M.E. church, this city. All her life she has been identified with organizations of the highest ideals and purposes. Besides her church she was active in the Tacoma branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, in Belmont Grange and in the Eastern Star Lodge. She will be greatly missed in all of these but especially in her home and among her wide circle of friends.
The remains were brought to the home on East Main street Thursday, and funeral services were conducted this afternoon at two o'clock by Rev. J.M. Wolfe and Rev. W.C. Patterson. Burial will be made Saturday morning at Marietta.

[her remains are in Oak Grove Cemetery - Marietta, Ohio]

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James R Rogers Obituary

Marietta Semi-Weekly Register, Tuesday, 7 Jul 1885 [pg 3, col 1 -, Local jottings]

Death of James Rogers, Mr. Rogers died in this city, on Saturday evening, aged 78 years. He was quite wealthy in his time and was a considerable man of note in the east end of the county, but at last fills a pauper's grave, at least the township authorities defrayed his funeral expenses. He has sons in the county, well off, who were not present at his funeral.

James Rogers is buried in Oak Grove cemetery - section 9 - Marietta, Ohio

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Frank Rogers obituary - Spirit of Democracy

A horrible tragedy was enacted Saturday evening on a shanty boat at Cochransville. Frank Rogers, aged 20, went to one of the disreputable boats moored along the river and talked to a woman named Alice McClelland, wanting her to leave the boat and live with him. Suddenly he flashed a revolver into her face, but she pushed it away as he fired and the bullet went through her wrist. A second shot struck her in the right breast. He then, evidently thinking he had killed her, shot himself through the heart. The woman may possibly recover.

Spirit of Democracy
Woodsfield, Ohio, Thursday, January 2, 1896

Now I know what happened to Frank Rogers - does anyone know what happened to Alice McClelland?
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Roseann Bowersock-Rogers Obituary

Obituary of Roseann Bowersock-Rogers as printed in the St. Marys Oracle - St Marys, Pleasants Co., WV

Mrs Rosezana Rogers
Mrs Rosezana Rogers 82, wife of the late Samuel Rogers, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Davis of Mt. Carmel on Friday, February 5
Funeral services were held at the Ruttencutter Funeral Home on Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. C.B. Johnson, pastor of the M P Church and burial was made in the Mt Carmel Cemetery.
Surviving are the following children; Mrs Addie Stervent[sic] of Wheatland, Wyoming; Mrs Jessie Yawnly[sic] and Everett Rogers of Akron, Onio; George Rogers of Detroit, Mich; Mrs Lon McGibben[sic] of Kansas; Mrs Harry Davis, of Mt Carmel; Harvey, Arthur and John Rogers, all of St. Marys.

[paper published Feb 1939]
[Addie Sturdivant - Jessie Yonally - Mrs. Lon McKibbon.]
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Simon Ernest Earley Obituary

Rockford Morning Star, Wednesday, April 29, 1942, Pg 15 [Illinois]

Funeral services for Simon Ernest Earley, 75, of 318 North Horsman Street, who died at 2:20a.m. Tuesday at St. Anthony hospital after an illness of three weeks, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Fred C. Olson mortuary, 1001 2nd avenue. Dr. O. Garfield Beckstrand of Trinity Lutheran church officiating, and with burial in Greenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary between 7 and 8 o'clock this evening.
Mr Earley was born in Noble County, Ohio, April 5, 1867, and had been a grocer in Constitution, O., for many years before coming to Rockford 25 years ago.
He leaves a son, Harold F. Earley of this city; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Nelson and Mrs. Ada Croy, both of Mount Vernon, O.; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Nora Roland, South Olive, O. His wife, Nannie, and a daughter Mrs. Gladys Wilson preceded him in death.
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