Oliver C. Rogers Founder of Cashier Magic City Bank in Hattiesburg, Miss

Oliver C. Rogers

Oliver was born in Hattiesburg, Perry, Mississippi on May 1871. His mother's birthplace was Virginia and his father's birthplace was Mississippi according the 1900 United States Federal Census.  He was reared in Jasper County, Ms. 

According to the 1880 United States Census, Oliver lived in the home with his mother Mary and his sibling. His sibling were; Lucy, Moody, Henrietta, Columbus, John, and Tammie. Mary's parents were from South Carolina. 

Oliver was one of six children born to he is mother. After his father died, Oliver had to work hard to help support his mother and family. He worked hard in the heat and cold very proudly to take some of the burden off of his mother. He had a deep love for. education and took on the challenge of walking over miles to a night school near his home. This is were he received his literary training. 

At the age of twenty-years old Oliver worked on a farm earned five dollars a month. He held that position for fives. He only missed three days of works during the entire time of employment on the farmer. He saved part of his money and upon arrival to Hattiesburg he had forty-dollars and he increased his money by good investments and good managements to fifty-thousands. He felt that his wife, Mrs. Roger  was behind is success.

He, his wife, and children resided in Chicago until his death on August 28, 1960. They were parents of; Vinnie,  Dr. David Charles Rodgers.

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Multa In Parvo by I. W. Crawford

Enslaved People Sold at Sheriff's Sale in East Feliciana Parish 1856

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The Feliciana Democrat (Clinton, Louisiana)
April 19, 1856

The State of Louisiana, Parish, of East Feliciana., 7th District Court. No 167. If your ancestors belonged to Aletha Shropshire of East Feliciana. Here is a list of twenty-five people on that was been sold that day;

Negro man Tim, Ben, Frank, Bill, Isaam, Aaron, woman Such, Miranda, girls; Henrietta, Mary, Lucinda, woman Sal, girl Lavilla, little Lucy, woman Emily, little Harriett, boy Edmund, girls Louisa and Fatima, boy Simon, woman Hannah, boy, John, girl Phillis. 

Fatima is a female name given of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. I wonder if this name was passed down through her African ancestors.

In Relations to Negroes, Slaves, & c.

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The St. Helena Echo (Greensburg, Louisiana) 16 Jun 1860, Sat

Sec 8.  Be it further ordained, & c. That no slave or slaves shall be allowed to own any poultry or livestock within the limits of the corporation, under a penalty of forfeiture to the corporation: provided, however, all slaves shall have fifteen days from the promulgation of the section from disposing of their stock. 

No Slaves Shall Occupy A Houses in the Corporate Limits In the Town of Greensburg

Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, & e., that no slave or slaves shall be allowed to occupy a house or houses within the corporate limits of the town of Greensburg, separate or apart from the premises occupied by their owner or person who may be hired; and any person or person who shall rent a house to a slaves or slaves, or suffer any slaves or slaves to occupy a house or houses other than as above stated, shall pay a fine of not less than ten nor more than thirty dollar, at the discretion of the Mayor. 

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The St. Helena Echo (Greensburg, Louisiana)  16 Jun, 1860, The Imperial (Board of Aldermen)