Locy: Volume 1

Locy: Voume 2 [transcripts]

Andrew Locy Rogers, the son of Thomas and Aurelia Spencer Rogers, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on December 19, 1854. He grew up in Farmington, Utah. In 1876 he settled on the Little Colorado River in Arizona. He married Clara Maria Gleason in 1879. Ten children were born from this union, three of whom died in infancy from diphtheria. Clara Maria died in December of 1933. Rogers fulfilled a mission for the Mormon church to Great Britain from 1908 to 1910. He also served a second mission to California from 1927 to 1928. He married Isabella Wells in 1933, but they were soon divorced. He married Florence T. Blain in 1937. Andrew Locy Rogers died in St. Johns, Arizona, on November 20, 1943. Andrew Locy Rogers, Jr., the oldest son of Andrew Locy and Clara M. Rogers, was born on November 16, 1880, in Sunset, Arizona. He served a mission in Europe in 1901. His first wife, Nellie May Smith, died in 1910. He married Rebecca Smith in June 1912. The writings of his second wife appear at the end of his journal. Further biographical information can be found in the autobiographical sketch by Andrew Locy Rogers. These two volumes include the journal kept by Andrew Locy Rogers between 1882 and 1897 and a transcription of the journal. The transcription notes that the journal dates from 1882 to 1902. However, the last journal entry was made in 1897, but additional genealogical information was made after that date. The journal was not kept on a regular or daily basis but rather important incidents and observations by the writer were entered. The journal also includes a lengthy section on incidents in the writer's youth up to the date the journal was begun. Genealogical information is included in the front and the back of the volume. The xerox copy of the original journal is difficult to read, thus the register was prepared from the transcription. The pages listed below indicate pages from the transcription.