Beyond our Elusive William Daniel

Info on this line from Broyce McCormack from correspondence in 1972 with Wayne Rogers living in Marietta GA in 1993. The Rogers family was in Butler Co, AL as early as 1830, if not before but many of the records were destroyed in the courthouse fire. Many of the Isaac Rogers children and many of the Lyles & Daniel families went to Texas following the Civil War.

Isaac Rogers was shown on the 1840 Butler Co, AL census living "next door" to Hampton Lyles (who was not enumerated on the 1850 census, but was there) Isaac is on the 1830 Butler Co census, Saville Community, along with the Dockins, Shews (Shows), Loften, Soloman, Goodson, and Stringer families, NE of Honoraville. He first appears in Butler Co, AL in the 1830 census. He acquired land in 1836 in Township 10 N, Range 17 E, Section 12. The land was crossed by a branch of Sweetwater Creek. Wm. Liles & Henry W. Shows had land east of him and Hampton Liles to the west. His sons moved to the east & north, also settling on the banks of this same creek. There is some evidence that malaria was a major problem, epidemics which caused many of the early settlers to move to higher ground. Such an epidemic between 1840-50 may well have caused Isaac's death. He and his wife are probably buried in an unmarked grave in the Rogers family cemetery located a mile north of his original farm. (Section map in cca's files showing how the Rogers, Liles and Shows all lived
close to each other.)

For more on descendants of this family see the book "Gone To Texas" by W. Wayne Rogers, 1978, pgs 207-240. Copy in cca's files.

Isaac's 3 unnamed sons may be the 3 Rogers men & their families, living next to each other in the 1850 Butler Co census, (saved here just until they can be connected correctly, in order not to lose the the information):
Rogers, Francis 45 SC, Nancy 42 SC, WM 11 AL, Elizabeth 9 AL, James 7 AL,
Richard 5 Al, Eliza 11/12 AL & Robert Elan 10 AL.

Rogers, William 35 SC, Sophronia 20 SC, Mary 3/12 AL, Elizabeth 2 AL, and
Matilda 3 AL.

Township 7 D 164, 165 & 166:
Rogers, Henry 28 AL, Margaret 30 NC, Margaret 60 NC
Rogers, Richard 38 NC, Martha 20 , Martha 6/12
Rogers, William 45 NC, Ellen 26 Al, Elizabeth 12, Jane 10, Mary 8, Louisa 5,
John 1, all children b. in AL.

Rogers Chapel Cemetery (it was with a Methodist church) is located a mile north of Isaac's original farm which was in Butler County, Alabama (Crenshaw County today). There are no grave markers. He may have been buried there or in a Rogers family cemetery. These may have been the same cemetery. (Mary Adams, information from Fern Rogers who got her information from Doris Thomas, Broce McCormack, and Wayne Roger "Gone to Texas.")