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Raymond Rogers, Persis & Calvin 20180119JMBemail

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What a wonderful compliment, John. Thank you so much.

From: john christy wetzel
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 7:06 PM
To: Kimber Hershberger ; Christy Kiely Esq. ; Wetzel ; Markster Wetzel ; Jeannette Buck ; Brenton Mitchell
Subject: FW: This Week: Persis Lovina Raymond Rogers

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What a wonderful compliment, John. Thank you so much.

From: john christy wetzel
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 7:06 PM
To: Kimber Hershberger ; Christy Kiely Esq. ; Wetzel ; Markster Wetzel ; Jeannette Buck ; Brenton Mitchell
Subject: FW: This Week: Persis Lovina Raymond Rogers

Jeannette Morley Buck, the writer of this awesome insight into times past, is my 3rd cousin 1x removed, which would make her your 3rd cousin 2x removed. Persis, her great-great-grandmother about whom she writes, was the mother-in-law of your 4th great uncle, Charles Edsil Williams and this piece goes back into history of the very early days of Potter County (where your mom and I grew up.)

I am sharing, as before, in the hope that you will take a little time-out and imagine a time long ago when things were very different, ways of life long gone, but which nonetheless still helped form you, and me.

Here is another picture of Calvin & Persis that Jeannette had shared with me earlier.

I don’t seem to have a photo of Amos, that 14 year old boy who had been left in the wilderness on his own for the winter, not knowing if he would ever be rejoined by his family or not. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around that.

Love,
Dad

PS- Thank you, Jeannette for an awesome story wonderfully told!

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Subject: This Week

She was a pretty girl! No doubt about it. The earliest picture I have of my Great-great Grandmother, Persis Rogers was probably taken for her wedding. She is looking solemnly into the camera, as everyone seemed to do in those days. However, her sober expression can not hide her beauty. Not at all.
Persis Lovinna Raymond was born on May 1, 1836 in Richford, NY, the daughter of Daniel and Amanda Freeland Raymond. She was the baby whose impending arrival kept them from joining her oldest brother Amos in the wilds of Potter County during the long winter of 1835-1836. When she was no more than three weeks old, so the story goes, her family finally made the long journey to their new home, not knowing if Amos would still be alive or not. He was, and at last the then fourteen year old boy understood why he had been left alone for so long. As many times as I heard the story, I never once was given any hint that he ever held it against her.
I have no way of knowing what it was like for her as she grew up in the growing community that eventually became known as Raymond?s Corners. I have no idea how much education she received. However, she was her parents? ninth child, having three older sisters and five older brothers. No matter the time period, older siblings are what they are. I?m sure they saw to it that Persis, and the two that came after her, were well educated in what was necessary for the times.
When she was nineteen, Persis married Calvin Rogers, who was nearly 10 years older than she. The son of another early settler in the area; Calvin, it would appear from a couple of diaries he kept, was a man with a sense of humor and with great love for his wife and family.
The picture of them that I remember the best hung on my Great-Grandma Williams? bedroom wall. It is not the early one taken when they were young and handsome. Rather, the wear of time and living shows on their faces. ?Who are they?? I would ask Gramma Williams now and then, repeating just because I liked to hear her tell about them.
?My Papa and Mother,? she would say, and she would look at the picture for a moment with a soft expression that, back then, I failed to understand.
The Rogers built a house and a farm out of an area that was labeled ?over back? when I was a kid. Nothing was left of it by my time, other than the well. I never saw it, because we were always warned to stay a good distance away from it.
There they raised their six children. Their first born, apparently never named, died at birth. Thomas was born in 1859, Mary, 1862, Eliza, 1865, David William (Will) was born in 1868 and Betsy, our Gram, was born in 1870. Their little brother Ray came along in 1873. I grew up knowing that Gram loved them all; every one.
Persis was the hard working woman of her day, cleaning house, keeping her children clean and in line and making sure that everyone had enough to eat.
Thomas married and lived near by. Mary, the ?Aunt Mate? whom I have written about so many times, married a wandering Westerner and broke her parents hearts when she went with him to live in Wyoming, of all places. Eliza settled down close to home, as did Betsy. Both Will and Ray married but suffered losses; Will apparently by separation and Ray became a widower. Persis and Calvin, of course, fussed over their grown children, just as all parents do.
By 1896, 40 years after their marriage, Persis? and Calvin?s family were each one on their own. Calvin kept a diary from July of that year until the end of March, 1897. It was handed to me one day, the lined sheets tied together with a frayed ribbon. There are a good many intriguing, amusing and interesting entries. The ones I enjoy most, however, take place in November of 1896, when the baby girl who would someday be my grandmother, was born.
Amid the day to day entries: Sunday, Nov. 1 ?went to meetin in the afternoon and evening? ? . Nov. 2, ? Ray has got home. He has been with his best gal.?
And then, on Nov. 4 ? ?Pirt? (Calvin?s nickname for Persis) has gone to Betsy?s. She is sick. I am alone tonight.? And again, on Nov. 5. ?Pirt went to Edsils (Betsy?s husband) Betsy is sick.?
Then, at last: Nov. 6, ?Helped D. W. Green butcher his pig. Betsy had a girl baby this morning. Wife got home.?
Two days later the grandparents went back to Edsils and Betsys to see the ?Baby?, who would be named Mary.
Persis lived to see that baby grow up to become a mother, herself. She died on February 24th, 1915, just six months after my father was born to Betsy?s daughter, Mary Williams Morley and her husband, Seth. . Persis held him at least once, I was told.
And , through him, I was touched by her.

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