My Chester County ancestors begin with John R. Rodgers
b. 1814. I have no idea who his parents were after 25 years of
searching for them. He married Priscilla Jane Riggins. I think
her father's name was Nasa Riggins but I can't prove it. She
had a brother by that name and a son she called Nacy Rodgers.

The Rodgers family moved to York County in the 1840s and
settled southeast of Rock Hill at a place called Catawba Junction.
During the Civil War, John R. and his two oldest sons, Marion
DeKalb and Doctor John Blair Rodgers, joined Co. H, 12th
Division of SC Volunteers, a unit that was to be involved in
28 battles. John R. died of disease, apparently typhoid fever,
and perhaps Doc died there also for there seems to be no
record of him after enlistment. Marion DeKalb (my great-
grandfather) returned and settled in the Indian Land section
of Lancaster County with his wife, Adeline Josephine Sparks,
whose parents had come from Surry County, NC and settled
in the same Catawba neighborhood as the Rodgers.

Will be happy to share information on other children of John
R. Rodgers and Priscilla Jane Riggins and would greatly appreciate
any information about their parentage and siblings.

Louise Pettus