William F. Rogers
1830 – 1891
Co. C, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery
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William F. Rogers was born December 12, 1830 in New York.
He married Elizabeth F. Skinner in Rensselersville, New York in 1854; they had one daughter.
The couple moved to Cuba Township shortly after their marriage, where Rogers farmed and worked as a mechanic and a mason.
Rogers was recruited into Company C, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery on September 28, 1864, and mustered out on August 3, 1865; the Company performed Garrison duty at Fort Donelson and Clarksville, Tennessee.
The family lived in Detroit for several years, where Rogers as a laborer, then returned to Barrington.
William Rogers died on October 30, 1891; he is buried in Evergreen Cemetery with his wife.
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