In Westerly (Stonington), April 18, 1916, Orson C. Rogers, in the eightieth year of his age.
Orson C. Rogers was the son of Rev. Lester T. and Susan Crandall Rogers and was born at Waterford, Conn., February 14, 1836. His education was received from the common schools of his native town and from Alfred Academy. When the war broke out he enlisted in Company I, First Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in on May 2, 1861, and honorably discharged in August of the same year.
In 1865, Mr. Rogers went away to the mining fields of the great West, spending eighteen years in California and Nevada. Returning to the East, he married, December 27, 1882, Miss Mary Noyes, daughter of George W. and Martha Noyes of Westerly.
While a young man Brother Rogers took on Christ in baptism and united with the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Waterford, where he always held his membership; yet he was a regular attendant upon the services of the Pawcatuck Church and as ready and helpful in its affairs as if a member here.
Brother Rogers was a well-read man, being interested in political and historical affairs. He had ideas and expressed them in striking terms. He always was a willing worker in the G. A. R. and had been commander of Trumbull Post of Stonington, and it was from a reunion of veterans that he returned home in the last sickness. He was young in feeling and action and will be sadly missed by many friends, young and old. He was a brother of the late Rev. Lester Courtland Rogers, of Alfred University. To the wife who is left to mourn him the sudden taking away came as a great shock and she has the sympathy of many friends.
The funeral was on Friday, April 21, at 4 o'clock p.m., from the home on Lester Street, Westerly.
