Historical Marker

Mrs. Martha Rogers

Historical marker location:
FM 3371, Lost Prairie, Texas
( Lost Prairie Cemetery, FM 3371)
Marker installed: 1978

(about 1795 to about 1865) According to family tradition, Martha Rogers was the daugther of United States Army General James Wilkinson (1757-1825) and his wife Ann Biddle of Philadelphia. When she married Benjamin Rogers (b. 1781) in Perry County, Ala., in 1809, Martha was disinherited. She and her husband had ten children. As a widow she moved to TX in 1847 with sons Allen Jefferson, M.C. ("Lum"), and James Rogers. A true Southwestern pioneer, she lived in Lost Prairie community.

Recorded - 1978.