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Rogers, Andrew Locy, 1854-1943

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Dates

  • Existence: 1854 - 1943

Biographical History

Andrew Locy Rogers (1854-1943) was a Utah native who helped establish a Latter-day Saint community in Northern Arizona.

Andrew Locy Rogers was born on December 19th, 1854 in Farmington, Utah, to Thomas Edward Rogers and Aurelia Read Spencer Rogers. Answering the call of President Brigham Young in 1876 for volunteers to help establish a Latter-day Saint community in Northern Arizona, Locy relocated immediately. On August 27th, 1879 he married Clara Maria Gleason in Salt Lake City. The couple soon returned to Arizona where they raised a family of ten children. Known as “Uncle Locy” or “Honest Locy” in his hometown of Snowflake, Arizona, Andrew Rogers also served two missions, one in Arizona as a young man and another to Ireland and Scotland when he was in his mid-fifties. His wife Clara died in 1932. Five years later, in 1937, he married Florence Evelyn Thomas Blaine. Andrew Rogers died November 20, 1943 in St. Johns, Arizona.

Citation:
Familysearch, via WWW, Jan. 13, 2016 (Andrew L. Rogers; A. L. Rogers; Locy A. Rogers; Andrew Locy Rogers; b. Dec. 19, 1854 in Salt Lake City, Utah; parents: Thomas Edward Rogers and Aurelia Read Spencer; m. Aug. 28, 1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Clara Maria Gleason, ten children; m. after 1932 to Isabella Wells; m. Aug. 27, 1937 in Salt Lake County, Utah to Florence Evelyn Thomas; d. Nov. 20, 1943 in St. Johns, Ariz.)

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David King Udall papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305580]
Identifier: MSS SC 803
Scope and Contents Photocopy of typescripts. Contains deed and transfer of title to Ammon M. Tenney, land agent for the Mormons, from Solomon and Morris Barth for land in St. Johns, Arizona and a written petition from the non-Mormons residents of St. Johns objecting to Mormon settlement in their area. Also includes a letter from LDS Church president John Taylor (1807-1887) confirming Udall's assignment as bishop over the St. Johns Ward and a letter from Udall to Marcus Baba de Padila, a local anti-Mormon...
Dates: 1879-1880

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