Spirous ROGERS, one of the old and much esteemed citizens of the county, was originally from Tennessee, his birth occurring in Bedford County, April 10, 1816, and is the son of Henry and Sarah (JOHNSON) ROGERS, natives of North Carolina. ..... and finally in Arkansas, whither he moved as early as 1845. In 1848 he moved to Dallas County, and settled on his present farm, which was then in the woods. ....During the late war Mr. ROGERS served in Flippin’s regiment, Confederate army, and served as lieutenant and first orderly. While in Tennessee he was lieutenant of militia. He has served eighteen years as constable, and it is hardly necessary to ad that he filled that position in a highly credible manner. He is a Democrat in politics, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Sampson ROGERS, brother of our subject, is now over one hundred years of age, but looks as young as a great many men who are fifty or sixty years of age. He is a farmer.

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