Person:Jefferson Rogers (4)

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Jefferson Davis Rogers (known within the immediate family as "Daddy Jeff," met Katherine Louise Chewning, who lived in Paris, Texas, while she was visiting a relative or friend in Denison, where Daddy Jeff lived, according to the recollections of her daughter, Willa Burr Chewning. Billie said Muddy was probably visiting with her cousin, Samuel Dobbs Chewning, who was a mail carrier in Denison. Her recollection is that Daddy Jeff and Muddy met at a dance in Denison or nearby Sherman. Jeff moved to Sherman with his parents, probably in about 1908, when Jeff was about six. He worked for Coca-Cola Bottling Co., both as a bottler at the Sherman plant and as a driver in both Sherman and Denison. His son, Jay, can recall taking his dad a sack dinner regularly at the Denison plant. The dinner included a hot coffee, for Jay can recall dropping the dinner once, resulting in a soggy mess on the sidewalk. Jeff also worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, or was it for the CCC working for the Corps of Engineers, on the huge dam on the Red River between Sherman and Denison which formed Lake Texoma. He later worked with his son, Sammy, at both Ling-Temco-Vaught and then Chance-Vaught in Grand Prairie as an aircraft mechanic. Jeff was baptized by his Dad, the Rev. Ephraim Hicks "Red" Rogers. Jeff probably was named after his uncles, William Jefferson Rogers and Amonel Davis Rogers.

1. ↑ Cerebral hemorrhage