Samuel Edward Dr. Rogers

Dr. Samuel E. Rogers, of Prairie Grove, Ark., was born at Pendleton Court

House, S. C., January 28, 1834, and is a son of Hugh Rogers, who was a native

-0f the same State. His father and three brothers were born in Ireland, and

were among the very early settlers of South Carolina. Hugh Rogers was married

to Miss Martha W. McWhorter, and moved to Hall County, Ga., in 1839,

making that State their home until 1851, whei;t they moved to Arkansas, and

settled in Washington, where the father is still residing at the extreme old age of

ninety-two years. His wife died in 1873. Dr. Samuel E. Rogers received a good

education in the common schools and academies of Georgia and Arkansas, and

began the study of his profession in the former State, continuing the same after

coming to Arkansas under the preceptorship of Dr. Clark and, afterward, Dr.

Rogers. He began practicing his profession during the war, and has continued

the same until the present time, and now ranks among the first physicians of

the county. He has also been largely engaged in farming, and has upward of

900 acres in three farms, with 500 acres under cultivation. He was married

January 23, Hl34, to Miss Julia Ann West, a native of Ea3t Tennessee, and by

her is the father of four children: Samuel H., Annie (wife of W. T. Neal),

James C. and John E. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist

Episcopal Church, South, and he is a Master Mason.