52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (2020) – Week 22: Uncertain—What Was the Maiden Name of Rebecca Ro(d)gers?
This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. For the theme of “uncertain,” I decided to find a female with no maiden name, or at least an uncertain maiden name. This blog post will review what I know about Rebecca, wife of David Ro(d)gers and mother of Eliza Ro(d)gers, who married Ebenezer Loveless in 1871. Through the process, I will be creating a plan for future research. I will start with what I know about her daughter, Eliza. I am also going to standardize the spelling of the surname to RODGERS for simplicity. Chattooga County, Georgia I first wrote about Eliza in this blog post . At the time I was trying to verify her parents’ names. Eliza Rodgers was born May 1854 in South Carolina. [1] She first appeared in the 1860 population census in