Daughter of John & Elizabeth Jenkins Logan

Wife of 1) Robert B. Logan, m. August 5, 1850, Franklin County, Illinois

Wife of 2) Israel Blanchard, m. January 30, 1856, Jackson County, Illinois . She and Israel had one son, John Enos Blanchard, born in 1859.

Wife of 3) William S. Rogers. He was born in 1849 in Indiana and is listed as a merchant on the 1880 U.S. census. They were living in Murphysboro with her son, John Enos Blanchard and his wife, Addie.

The following is an excerpt of an article from The Southern Illinoisan written by Mike Jones, June 3, 2011.

September 1861: Trouble at home

Mary Logan later wrote of Logan's activities during this month, saying, "Colonel Logan was so absorbed with the details of raising his regiment, and so sure that Southern Illinois would be true to the Union, that he seemed almost happy...as he went to recruit the ten companies of which his regiment was composed." [Reminiscences of a Soldiers Wife, page 100]

Mary wrote her biography 42 years after her husband worked to raise the 31st and it is understandable that some of the facts might be forgotten or confused. It seems that it may not have been a bad memory but a conscious decision that left the following story untold.

Despite what Mary wrote, her husband's family was not happy with his decision to raise a regiment for the Union. Tradition relates that his mother, Elizabeth, refused to speak to her son after he joined the Union army. It was Logan's sister, Dorthula Angeline, called Annie, however, who was the most outspoken member of the Logan family.

Michael Swortzcope, a member of the 31st and a resident of Murphysboro, was an eyewitness to the following event. Annie and her sister-in-law Mary Logan watched John and other members of his regiment from a second-floor window of the Logan Hotel as they marched off to war. Annie, overcome with rage, yelled at her brother, "Damn you, I hope you will be killed before you get to Cairo."

Incensed, Mary hit Annie and a rolling around, hair-pulling fight ensued. Swortzcope later reminisced to family that the fight ended when Mary hit Annie over the head with a chair.