Individual Details

Death

Mrs. Mary E. Rogers Passes to Reward Last Thursday, April 17, 1938, marked the passing of Mrs. Mary E. Rogers, whose long and useful life, as a sainted "Mother in Israel", was a blessing and benediction to unnumbered hosts, who have known and been influenced by her gentle nature. Mrs. Rogers died, at the home of her daughter and only surviving child, Mrs. J. Walter Furr, after an illness, from the infirmities of age, since last October. As Mary Elizabeth Gilmer, the deceased was born, in the old Lebanon neighborhood, in the extreme western part of Pontotoc County, July 16, 1846. She was, therefore, in her 92nd year and all of her active life was spent in the same general neighborhood. Her marriage, to Mr. James F. Rogers, endured for more than half a century. Until his death, in 1917, Mr. Rogers was a merchant and a planter at Toccopola. He was a man of unquestioned character and integrity, and their marriage was the ideal mating of congenial souls. Both were pioneer members of the old Lebanon Presbyterian Church, and their Christian home and useful lives were shed abroad, throughout the community, and wherever they were known and loved. After the death of Mr. Rogers, his bereaved widow came to Pontotoc and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Furr, as stated, where she was loved and cherished, not only by the household, but throughout the community of her adoption. Funeral services were held Friday, in Lebanon Presbyterian Church, where the deceased had worshipped many years, with Reverend Paul S. Rhodes officiating. Burial followed in Old Lebanon Cemetery. There were many other tributes of love and esteem, by the large concourse of friends attending the rites.
From the Pontotoc Progress