Obituary found in Newspaper in 1949.
NEGRO WOMAN, 100, FORMER SLAVE, DIES
Mrs Mary Anne Rogers, born a slave 100 years ago on a farm four miles East of Columbia, died at 2:20 o'clock this morning at the home of her son David Rogers, 211 West Park Avenue.
On her last birthday, June 14, Mrs Rogers was adopted by the children of the colored nursery Fifth and Lyons Streets. On March 8 she suffered several fractured ribs in a fall at her home.
Mollie Rogers was sold at the age of 3 in front of the Boone county courthouse for $850 for a deed of trust. She was resold and taken to Callaway county, where she was living at the time she was freed.
In 1932 Mrs Rogers moved into Columbia soon after the death of her husband Henry Clay Rogers Sr. She was a member of the Mt. Moriah A.M.E. church.
Mrs Rogers is survived by 7 of her 14 children and 102 living grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
The children are Henry Clay Rogers, King David Rogers, Smith Thomas, Rogers and Mrs Winnie Mae Coats of the home: Ollie C. Rogers and Mrs Dora Owen Williams, Kansas City, and Mrs Mary Ann Mathew, Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be conducted by the Rev L.S. Goolsby at the St. Paul A.M.E. church at 2 o'clock Sunday. The body will remain at the Brown Freeman Funeral home until burial in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
NEGRO WOMAN, 100, FORMER SLAVE, DIES
Mrs Mary Anne Rogers, born a slave 100 years ago on a farm four miles East of Columbia, died at 2:20 o'clock this morning at the home of her son David Rogers, 211 West Park Avenue.
On her last birthday, June 14, Mrs Rogers was adopted by the children of the colored nursery Fifth and Lyons Streets. On March 8 she suffered several fractured ribs in a fall at her home.
Mollie Rogers was sold at the age of 3 in front of the Boone county courthouse for $850 for a deed of trust. She was resold and taken to Callaway county, where she was living at the time she was freed.
In 1932 Mrs Rogers moved into Columbia soon after the death of her husband Henry Clay Rogers Sr. She was a member of the Mt. Moriah A.M.E. church.
Mrs Rogers is survived by 7 of her 14 children and 102 living grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
The children are Henry Clay Rogers, King David Rogers, Smith Thomas, Rogers and Mrs Winnie Mae Coats of the home: Ollie C. Rogers and Mrs Dora Owen Williams, Kansas City, and Mrs Mary Ann Mathew, Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be conducted by the Rev L.S. Goolsby at the St. Paul A.M.E. church at 2 o'clock Sunday. The body will remain at the Brown Freeman Funeral home until burial in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
Obituary found in Newspaper in 1949.
NEGRO WOMAN, 100, FORMER SLAVE, DIES
Mrs Mary Anne Rogers, born a slave 100 years ago on a farm four miles East of Columbia, died at 2:20 o'clock this morning at the home of her son David Rogers, 211 West Park Avenue.
On her last birthday, June 14, Mrs Rogers was adopted by the children of the colored nursery Fifth and Lyons Streets. On March 8 she suffered several fractured ribs in a fall at her home.
Mollie Rogers was sold at the age of 3 in front of the Boone county courthouse for $850 for a deed of trust. She was resold and taken to Callaway county, where she was living at the time she was freed.
In 1932 Mrs Rogers moved into Columbia soon after the death of her husband Henry Clay Rogers Sr. She was a member of the Mt. Moriah A.M.E. church.
Mrs Rogers is survived by 7 of her 14 children and 102 living grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
The children are Henry Clay Rogers, King David Rogers, Smith Thomas, Rogers and Mrs Winnie Mae Coats of the home: Ollie C. Rogers and Mrs Dora Owen Williams, Kansas City, and Mrs Mary Ann Mathew, Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be conducted by the Rev L.S. Goolsby at the St. Paul A.M.E. church at 2 o'clock Sunday. The body will remain at the Brown Freeman Funeral home until burial in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
NEGRO WOMAN, 100, FORMER SLAVE, DIES
Mrs Mary Anne Rogers, born a slave 100 years ago on a farm four miles East of Columbia, died at 2:20 o'clock this morning at the home of her son David Rogers, 211 West Park Avenue.
On her last birthday, June 14, Mrs Rogers was adopted by the children of the colored nursery Fifth and Lyons Streets. On March 8 she suffered several fractured ribs in a fall at her home.
Mollie Rogers was sold at the age of 3 in front of the Boone county courthouse for $850 for a deed of trust. She was resold and taken to Callaway county, where she was living at the time she was freed.
In 1932 Mrs Rogers moved into Columbia soon after the death of her husband Henry Clay Rogers Sr. She was a member of the Mt. Moriah A.M.E. church.
Mrs Rogers is survived by 7 of her 14 children and 102 living grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
The children are Henry Clay Rogers, King David Rogers, Smith Thomas, Rogers and Mrs Winnie Mae Coats of the home: Ollie C. Rogers and Mrs Dora Owen Williams, Kansas City, and Mrs Mary Ann Mathew, Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be conducted by the Rev L.S. Goolsby at the St. Paul A.M.E. church at 2 o'clock Sunday. The body will remain at the Brown Freeman Funeral home until burial in the Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
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