Rogers - Mary Keller - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mary Magdalene Keller was born in Fountain County Oct. 9, 1836. She united with the Newlight Church in early womanhood and was ever afterward a consistent Christian woman. She was married to Lewis Rogers on the 8th day of June, 1856, and died from the effects of the grip at her home near Wallace, Feb. 28, 1901.

Mrs. Rogers was one of those plain, neat, kind, unassuming women who had no higher aspirations than her family cares. She loved her husband and children with that tender affection born only of a true mother. No work was too hard for her to do, no sacrifice too great for her to make that would add to their comfort or make them happier; and certainly no one reaches a higher sphere than such characters as she. The devotion of this aged couple was often spoken of. Where you would see one, you would almost always see the other. Especially was this so as the infirmities of age crept upon them. Their marriage was one born of heaven; they were not simply united by the laws of the land.

She was the mother of thirteen children, and leaves behind to mourn her death, besides her husband and aged mother, the following ones: Mrs. Tate Wilkinson, Mrs. Mart Wilkinson, Jack, Alfred, Will, and George, of Fountain County, Mrs. Lester Hall and Mrs. George Turbitt, of Peoria, Ill., Mrs. Leonard Sharp, of this city, and John, who has been so kind and devoted to his parents and yet at home. Three preceded her to the spirit world. Henry died in infancy; Philip met with a tragic death by the falling of a tree. Mrs. Lee Reichard died a few years ago, leaving her little son, Ray, to this good mother, who tenderly cared for him until death, too, took him to his own mamma. She was so fondly attached to this child that she never became reconciled to his death.

The funeral occurred at the home on Saturday morning. She was laid to rest by the side of her children in the Zachmire graveyard, her sons-in-law acting as pallbearers.