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The Rogers
The Roger’s were of distinguished tribal lineage. The Cherokees were not the Plains Indians who lived nomadic, chasing buffalo, and raiding white settlers. The Cherokee cultivated fields and learned how to build log homes. Indians like John Jolly, Walter Webber, John Drew and Capt. John Rogers, cultivated cotton and corn tended by black slaves. They had overseers, and several Indians owned as many as one hundred slaves. The Roger’s managed a distillery in Tennessee, and began operations in the Cherokee Nation west, where Charles Rogers had a profitable distillery. Three principal chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (C.N.) came from the Roger’s family, as well as dozens of representatives in Cherokee, and Oklahoma Senate, and House of Representatives. The Roger’s family is known for fine orators, entertainers, and sportsmen. The following families are related to the Roger’s: Adair, Bushyhead, Coodey, Drew, Field, Foreman, Gulager, Hicks, McSpadden, Martin, Vann, and West. My great-grandfather several generations back, William Rogers, left Tennennse when the Cherokee was being pushed west to Arkansas. He settled in the mountains of Amherst County, Virginia, with the Cherokee and Monicans. Grandfather William Rogers, a nephew to Tiana Rogers, used the surnames of Rogers and Branham. To this day, the Monican Indians still live in Amherst County, Virginia. The Cherokee and a few other tribes living in Amherst County mixed together, and as far as I know, the Monicans are the only Indians left in Amherst County, and many of them live on Bear Mountain.
Bib: C: 2000 jpinkerton
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The white came into the Roger’s blood from John Rogers, a British officer of the American Revolution. The Cherokee Rogers was also related to other Indian tribes: