At his home in Alfred, N. Y., November 2, 1918, Albertus C. Rogers, aged 82 years, 7 months, and 16 days. Albertus C. Rogers, the second son of Clark and Lydia Stillman Rogers, was born in the town of Wirt, Allegany County, N. Y., March 16, 1836. When Mr. Rogers was nine years of age, his mother having died and his father having gone to California for his health, he came to Alfred to live in the family of his uncle, Silas Stillman, where he lived until he was grown.
For five or six years he attended Alfred College, working his way by teaching occasional terms and having charge for one year of the university grounds. The completion of his education was broken off by the Civil War.
When the call came for volunteers, he enlisted September 7, 1861, for three years as a private in Company D, 86th New York Volunteer Infantry, serving in the Army of the Potomac throughout the term of his enlistment, when he was reenlisted for another three years. He was wounded May 5, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness and taken to the Lincoln Hospital, Washington, and thence to a hospital in Baltimore, where he remained some months doing hospital duty until he was sufficiently recovered for field duty again. He was then transferred and made first lieutenant of the 13th Regiment of Heavy Artillery and stationed at Louisville, Ky., where he remained until he was mustered out October 28, 1865.
On July 16, 1864, Mr. Rogers was married to Alice I. Ennis, of Little Genesee, and to this union four children were born, -Agnes L. Saunders, of Robbinsdale, Minn., Orra S. Rogers, of Plainfield, N. J., Walter E. Rogers, of Milton, Wis., and Miss Ruth A. Rogers, of Alfred, N. Y., all of whom survive him.
In the spring of 1866, following his discharge from the army, he and his young wife went West, and took up their residence on a farm at Farina, Ill., where they braved the hardships customary to the development of a new country. In 1903, they sold the farm and came back to Alfred to spend their declining years.
In his early life he was baptized and joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred under the pastorate of N. V. Hull, where he retained his membership until he went West, when he became one of the constituent members of the Farina Seventh Day Baptist Church, in which he served for many years as trustee and church treasurer. On his return to Alfred, in 1903, he transferred his membership back to the church at Alfred, of which he was a member at the time of his death.
The deceased had three full brothers, all of whom volunteered in the Civil War as follows: Orra S., who died in Andersonville Prison in August, 1864, William H., who died in Farina in 1916 and Orville M., who died in Alfred in February, 1917. He had one half brother, Frank L. Rogers, who is now living in Providence, R. I., also a step-sister, Mrs. Amanda Langworthy Clawson, wife of Lewis T. Clawson, who died in May, 1911.
Interment occurred in Alfred Rural Cemetery, November 4, 1918, the funeral service being conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. L. Burdick.
Wm. L. B.
