Source: HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA 1879
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     WILLIAM ROGERS: ẦNicholas Rogers, grandfather of William Rogers was one of the earliest pioneers of this section. He emigrated from England to this county, sometime previous to the revolutionary war and settled in what is now Ohio county, West Virginia, a short distance from the Brooke county line, on the farm now known as his home place, and owned by John Rogers. Abram Rogers, father of the subject of this sketch, was born on his fathers place in Ohio county. At the commencement of the revolution he was but sixteen, but he enlisted in the service, though he was not taken from the border. He was in Fort Henry, at Wheeling, at the siege in 1777, and was with Colonel David Williamson in his expedition against the Moravian town in 1782. He always denounced that terrible massacre, but stated that the finding of garments of the murdered wives and children of some of the volunteers, exasperated them beyond control. He died in October 1837. For many of the latter years of his life, he drew a pension for his services in the revolutionary struggle.

     William Rogers, the subject of our sketch, was born in 1800 on his fathers farm on Castleman's run, in Brooke county, and which he owned till 1875, and where he resided till 1862, when he purchased the old Glass farm, rendered memorable by the capture of Mrs. Glass (who afterwards became Mrs. Brown), by the Indians on the 28th of March 1789. Mr. Rogers still owns the farm but lives in Bethany. The old house in which Mrs. Glass was captured, was burned in March 1879. He was married December 24, 1839 to Miss Margaret Atkinson, by whom he has had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Rebecca E., now the wife of Dr. C. Shriver, of Bethany; A Linn, who was elected a member of the legislature for the term of 1874-6; Albert S, James P, Mary R, now the wife of George C Curtis, of Bethany; William A. Elizabeth H, Joseph S, Sarah B., and Sansom M. They are all living.

     Mr. Rogers is in easy circumstances and respected by all who know him.