The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-07-13
w. A. KOgers.

Our harp is turned to mourning, and
our voice unto those that weep, fol
Brother w. A. Rogers, q prince OF no.
BILE spirits, is fallen in our midst to-day
Goods finger touched him and ht
slept"
He was the son of John Rogers anG
Cynthia Rogers, and was born neal
Hillsboro, o, Aug. 20, 1868; died July
s. 1899. aged 80 years, II months and
days. He graduated from the New
Lexington High school in 1889.
His disease was that pull monary
trouble which resists the most skillfu
medical treatment and remains incura.
Bile. Although never strong and 70.
bust, his health did not begin to fai
until the early spring Of '92, when he
was seized With hemorrhages Of the
lungs, which caused him to resign bis
chosen profession, that of teaching, and
under the advice Of DR.. Beeson and DIR.
Judkins he sought the bright and
healtb-restoring climate OF the noun
tain air at Asheville, N. c., where he
remained for nearly two years. His
sojourn there greatly benefited bis
health, and to all appearances he was
fast on bis way to recovery. SO devot-
ed to his friends at home and 90 worried
because OF bis separation from them,
his health being go much improved; he
risked q return to his home In Ohio
In '93, at the opening of the fall term
Of school, he resumed labor In bis old
position as teacher in the Leesburg
schools, believing that he was strong
enough to take up his lie work again,
for surely be felt the world bad work
for him to do. To him the future must
bring great success, noble deeds and
high achievements.
Life to him became real and earbest,
and high ideals were formed. We re-
member the bright aud glorious day
when he came back to US from the
sunny South, with his new life all open
before him the sky of God was bend
ing over mutual affection between
him and true and noble girl; long
aud glorious years seemed waiting for
their united footsteps. Every wood
and every meadow OF time, as it were,
was pausing for that bright, happy day
Of their blissfuI wedding, to make their
lives one and unseparable, to bloom
with new hopes and new joys. Ga
The 25th day of October, 1898. the SOL
smn vowsi of the marriage cerem ony
placed Missl Lizzie v. Moore and him.
'elf In the diadem OF each others love
md hope; one in hand, heart and soul,
Until death should sever them. To this
,nionswas born darling boy, Willie.
Who died in infancy.
In 1895 he resigned his position as
escher at Leesburg to- accept that of
OF the Rainsboro
chools. After few months of faith
ul work there. he again broke down.
I seemed as if be would not be able to
inish his years. work, but with energy
md pluck he completed the term, and
hen bade farewell to teachers ar
luous duties, never to resume them
gain. He decided to seek again the
of Southern climate, and
pent the summer of '96 at the Red
sulphur Springs in: Virginia, accom-
'anied this time by his truly devoted
wife. He soon began to improve, but
did not continue. The
.ttack OF hemorrhages became more
requent and severe. He sought the
'dvice of specialist for lung trouble,
u Thrasher, of Cincinnati, and after
carefully the sanitary advan-
ages of several places, it was decided
o try that OF Roswell, New Mexico.
IN the morning of Thanksgiving day,
1896, he and his faithful com panion
ook the train at Highland, O., en- route
o the objective point In the great South
Vest, where the balmy air and mild
unshiDe overcame to certain extent
he ravages Of his disease. Again he
allied, and hopes of re.overy were
Iindled afresh. He at once put him.
elf in touch: with the business interests
# that new aud growing city iD
TRANCE land, where, as b. himself once
wrote, "they dig for wood and climb
or water"
His energy, his ability, his happy,
heerful disposition, his great ambition
made him friends innumerable. He
vas appointed Deputy Dist. Clerk of
he U. b. Court, which position he held
lutil his recent return to Ohio. The
luties Of that responsible position dur.
i.g IA session of Court at Eddy. New