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1.	Title: U.S. Federal Census
2.	Title: Death Certificate/or Death Record Page: #7223
3.	Title: WARREN COUNTY MARRIAGE REGISTER 1885-1978, Volumes, A -G; H-P, Q-Z Author: North Carolina State Archives, Microfilm C.100.63003; C.100.63004
4.	Title: Marriage Index or License Page: MARRIAGE LICENSE- JOE RODGERS & ADELINE ROBINSON:
5.	Title: Marriage Index or License Page: MARRIAGE LICENSE- JOE RODGERS-MARY EVANS
6.	Title: Marriage Index or License Page: NORTH CAROLINA MARRIAGES 1759-1979
7.	Title: NORTH CAROLINA, MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1741-2011 Publication: Ancestry.com Text: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
8.	Title: Marriage Index or License Page: MARRIAGE LICENSE- JOE RODGERS - LACENIA PERRY

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Note: t recent family stories indicate that he was actually mostly Caucasian looking, with blonde hair. It may be possible that his mother, Edie, was part Native American, however, it is known that she was the daughter of her slavemaster, Simon Gray Jeffreys. Joe Rodgers made his living by selling his herbal remedies to the folks around Warrenton. He was born in Wake County, North Carolina, born Josiah Rogers, where he was one of 10 children of Nathaniel and Edie Rogers.
A Family Story from cousin Cynthia Kelly via Facebook: (July 2/2016)
I remember getting that story from aunt Mary Davis when I had to do a family tree report while in college. There was also, according to aunt Mary a sister named Sidney who they had to put in the field (Grandma Edie and here children were house slaves, Aunt Mary said.
A first hand account from Cousin James Davis (James Henry Davis Jr.): Accordding to James, grandpa was a reala nice pearson. "he and I use to hang togather. He treated me just like I was his son. He stayed right in the house with us." I remember the day he died. He died that night in the bed sleep. I got up that morning and getting my clothes on and everythin and he hadn't got up. I said to momma, wonder why grandpa ain't go up. Why he laying down so late this morning. Momma told me go in there and wake him up then. So I went in his room to wake him up, I started calling him and he didn't answer. I went there and shoot him and he still didn't answer. I went and told momma, I couldn't wake him up. Me and momma went back in there and momma said, "he's dead. We got the people to come down and check him over and they found out he was dead for real. So he died in his sleep. He didn't give nobody no problem at all. I went to bed and he went to bed and the next morning he was dead.
he (Cousin James) and grandpa Joe were close.James and grandpa use to caatch the Greyhound bus going to Warrenton. Grandpa would go drug store to sell and make his linoment called Joseph Rodgers' Linoment and James would walk on to school. When school was out James would set around at the drugstore until grandpa was finished and then they would catch the bus on down the road.
James continued: Grandpa was a very light skinned person and had blond hair. He was a very tall man about 5 foot something (type meant 6 feet something). My oldest brother, Willie was tall like him.
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The RODGERS family were first found living in St. Matthews Township, probably on the border between there and Forestville, which was listed as the Post Office location in 1870; Forestville later became Wake Forest.
Note: Joseph Rodgers was supposedly part Cherokee Indian, according to his daughter Mary Ellen, bu

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