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I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR,
97005 USA.
Welcome to e-familytree.net. E-familytree.net is my personal genealogy hobby site.
The data contained here has been gathered through 20 years of genealogy. Some small
part of it is my original research, but most of it has been shared with me.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: Robert RodgersMale
Born: Abt 17401740-1-1 at IrelandIreland
Married: Abt 17851785-1-1
Died:
WIFE
Born: 1744 at County Antrim, Ireland
Died: 1827 at South Carolina
Other Spouses: James Adger
Father: Andrew Crawford
Mother: ??? Cunningham
CHILDREN
Born: 1 May 1785 at Ireland
Died: 3 Jan 1877 at Fairfield County, South Carolina
Husband: William Herron
Born: Abt 1788
Died:
Husband: Charles Whiting
Born: Abt 1790
Died:
Husband: James Clark Iii
Name: Isabella Rodgers
Born: Abt 1792
Died:
NOTES
2). Margaret Crawford Adger Rodgers in 1794 faced a perso nal dilemma. She had been the wife of James Adger, a prospe rous linen manufacturer in Dunean, County Antrim, Ireland . But he had died in 1783 at the age of 41. She married hi s mill foreman, Robert Rodgers. Rodgers, as an Adger descendant has written, was not th e husband Margaret had hoped he would be. He soon ran thro ugh her property, being too fond of whiskey, a family his torian has written. Margaret now had a family of seven children at home he r two sons and a daughter by James Adger James, Robert an d Betsy and four little girls by Rodgers Esther, Margare t, Mary and Isabella. How would they survive? The couple decided to come to America. Perhaps they woul d join her oldest son, William Adger, who had emigrated ear lier and was now living in South Carolina. He wrote enthusi astic letters about his land and his hopes for success ther e. The family sailed from Ireland, arriving in New York in J anuary, 1794. Tragedy struck three days later. The Rodgers infant daughter, Isabella, who had been sick aboard ship , died three days after their arrival. Sometime after their arrival, the Adger book reports, R obert Rodgers reformed . The couple ran a grocery store i n New York. The two Adger boys, who were teen agers, got jo bs. The family soon, had enough money to move to Fairfiel d County, South Carolina, and join William there. Some of t he Rodgers daughters later lived with relatives in Kinderh ook, New York. Several of Margaret s children had all the success she co uld have dreamed of when they left Ireland for New York. On e, James Adger II, settled in Charleston, established sever al businesses, organized a railroad, and at one time was ra nked the fourth richest man in the United States. This and more are recorded in Rev. John B. Adger s book , My Life and Times , published in 1899. !BIRTH Adger Law Ancestral Notebook by John Adger Law, Adge r Law Ancestral Notebook by John Adger Law, 37 !DEATH Headstone, Second Presbyterian, Charleston, South, H eadstone, Second Presbyterian, Charleston, South Carolina
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