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- !NOTES:Sellers said he was murdered on Sunday 1 Oct 1855, however 1 Oct 1855 wasn't a Sunday, but 1 Oct 1854 was. Also his estate papers begin in Nov 1854, so Sellers was off by one year.;
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!PROBATE ROLL # 1117 Marion Co., SC Evan A. Rogers 1854
13 Nov 1854 Adm Bond, bondsmen: Levi Legget, Nathan Evans and David Legget
... Mrs. Anna Rogers, widow and two children Louisa Rogers and Ean A. Rogers, both minors 27 Jul 1859 ...;
!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 178-183
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Old Lot Rogers' youngest son, William, and perhaps his youngest child, born in 1799, inherited the old homestead of his father, and is now owned by his youngest son, our good fellow-citizen. Lot B. Rogers; he married the youngest daughter (Mary) of old Henry Berry, as hereinbefore stated; he and wife lived and died on his father's homestead at an old age-not many years ago; the fruits of the marriage were sons, Charles, Evan, Frank, Philip B. and Lot B., and daughters, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Ann, Nancy and Margaret.
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Evan grew up and married Miss Anna Legette, daughter of Colonel Levi Legette, below Marion, and where Evan Rogers settled. He was killed on Sunday, 1st of October, 1855, by a man by the name of Harrelson, who was tried the next week after at Court in Marion, and very ably defended by the late Chancellor Inglis and Julius A. Dargan, two very eminent and able lawyers, and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on a certain day fixed ; before the day appointed for his execution he escaped from jail; a large reward, two hundred dollars or more, was offered for his recapture and delivery at the jail in Marion by General Elly Godbold, then Sheriff; great efforts were made to find and recapture him, but all in vain; about eighteen months thereafter he was recaptured in Columbus County, N. C, brought back and lodged in the jail in Marion, and at the succeeding Court, in March, 1857, was resentenced or a new day assigned for his execution, and he was accordingly hanged by the then Sheriff, N. C. McDuffie, on the 5th day of June, 1857.
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