Item Detail
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Rogers, Clara Maria Gleason
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1860-1932
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MSS SC 776 fld 6
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Biography
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Clara Maria Gleason Rogers was born 28 May 1860 in Farmington, Utah to Johan Streeter Gleason and Desdemona Chase. Clara grew up in a well-established pioneer home and was able to receive a high level of education. Clara was an excellent student and eventually graduated from the University of Utah. On 28 August 1879, after urging from her mother Clara, married Andrew Locy Rogers. Together they moved to Sunset, Arizona were Andrew had been called three years previously to help settle. It was a dramatic change for Clara from her life in Utah which had been of relative ease compared to frontier living in a fort in Arizona. At Sunset the community took part in a united order and for many years Clara and Andrew were assigned to watch the communities flock of sheep. Clara was a hard worker and would help her husband watch the flock with a baby in her arms and another hanging on to the brim on her skirt. Clara had ten children, first six boys (five of which grew to adulthood) and then four girls (two of which grew to adulthood). She was an excellent nurturer and educator. Her house was known for being warm and inviting and she always had a large meal ready for her family when they came home from a hard days work. Later when the united order failed, the family moved to Snowflake, Arizona and continued to work, providing well for themselves. When all of Claras children were married she and her husband were called to serve in the newly constructed Mesa, Arizona Temple. However, in 1929 Clara became ill with indigestion diarrhea and was bed ridden for three weeks. Slowly but surely she recovered and returned to her work in the Mesa Temple. Then in 1932 she became ill with a severe case of yellow jaundice and passed away on 26 December 1932. Her funeral was attended by her family and friends from far and wide and she was laid to rest in the Snowflake cemetery.
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This manuscript is a collection of papers under the heading Andrew Locy Rogers Papers. This manuscript contains an eight-page typewritten life sketch of Andrew Locy Rogers followed by a three typewritten page history of Andrews wife Clara Maria Gleason Rogers and a second five-page biography of Clara. Followed by biographies of all three wives of Claras father, John Streeter Gleason. The First of the wives, Desdemona Chase Gleason, (Claras mother) has a two-page biography. Following this the second wife, Eliza Ann Malin Gleason, has a half-page biography and finally the third wife, Mary Ann Sutherland, concludes the collection with a three-page biography. The first three-page typewritten biography on Claras life is entitled Incidents Taken From the Life of Mrs A.L. Rogers. One of Arizonas Pioneer Women and was written by Florence C. McCarthy. It begins with her birth and goes through her marriage and some experiences/stories they experienced while living in the Sunset, Arizona settlement. The biography briefly covers the latter part of her life ending with her sicknesses and eventual passing. The second of the two biographies is a five-page typewritten history written by her daughter-in-law Lenora S. Rogers. The first three pages are similar to the first biography and cover her major life events. The last two pages are comments from Claras children. Each child expresses their love for their mother and some loving characteristic they remember. A few memories from her children are also recounted.
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1860-1932