P. A. Rogers

        P. A. Rogers, miller and farmer of the Second District, was born March 2, 1846, in Hamilton County, the son of Joseph and Rebecca (Hixon) Rogers. The father was born in 1803, in the Sequatchie Valley, and died in August, 1855. The mother was born in 1806, also in the Sequatchie Valley, and was for over sixty years a zealous Christian worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She died in 1882. Our subject received his education mostly in the country schools of Hamilton County, and attended Sequatchie College one term. He worked on the farm until the breaking out of the late war, when he enlisted in Company I, Second East Tennessee Infantry, and served until the latter part of February, 1865, when he war, mustered out at Knoxville. He was engaged in all the battles and skirmishes in which his command took part, the principal battle being, Stone River. After the cessation of hostilities our subject returned home and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he followed until 1875. He then engaged in the milling business with his brother, under the firm name of Rogers & Bro. Our subject also owns 500 acres of fine land on the Tennessee River, in addition to his interest in the mill, and is in very comfortable circumstances. In 1869 he married Miss Mary E. Rogers, a native of Hamilton County, born in 1845, and the daughter of Henry and Charity (Wingo) Rogers. To our subject and wife were born seven children: Lenora E., Earnest A., Arabell, Volney E., Larance A., Leon A. and Gertie. Mr. Rogers is a Democrat in politics, casting his first presidential vote for H. Seymour.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887