Notes:
CUMBERLAND GAP PROGRESS May 2, 1888
J. C. ROGERS IS DEAD.
Jesse C. Rogers died very suddenly at the residence of his father-in-law,
Jas. R. Cawood, on April 27. It has been expected for some time that he had not
long to live, and that his end would be sudden. It has not been many days since
he was here at Tazewell, and able to attend to his business as usual. He was
buried Sunday, at the residence of Henderson Rogers in Powell`s Valley. Mr.
Rogers at the time of his death was only about forty-three years old, and ought
to have been in the prime of his manhood. He was elected Revenue collector at
the August election 1872, and re-elected in 1874. About the time of his
election to his second term he was made deputy clerk of the county court, which
latter position he held until the Fall of 1878.At the October term 1877 of the
Chancery Court, he was appointed Clerk & Master for the term of six years. At
this time he was considered very wealthy, and he probably had more political
influence than any other man in Claiborne county.In the Fall of 1878 he had some
domestic trouble, and he, with others was indicted at Williamsburg, Ky., for
the murder of Ed. Jackson, colored, said to have been committed about the time.
When he was tried for this crime, he was acquitted, but the enormous outlay of
money which it was necessary for him to make in order to secure his
acquittal, materially crippled his wealth.From the time Mr. Rogers had the trouble with
Jackson in Mayes stable, short time before Jackson was killed, his influence
began to wane.A great many people believed he was guilty of the murder of
Jackson, and besides losing a great deal of money, he began to drink excessively.
Toward the last he was seldom free from the influence of whiskey, or other
alcoholic stimulants, and this fact probably hastened his death. Before he
started on his downward course, few men in this county had more friends than Jesse
C. Rogers.When we consider what he had done, at his early age; what he might
have done, and what he finally did do, we may well say that his life is a fit
subject to Po_____t a moral, or adorn _______le.
J. R. D.
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