"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 140, No 6, p 126, Feb. 11, 1946.
Mertilla M., daughter of David and Floretta Robertson Gardiner, was born March 3, 1855, at Nile, N. Y., and died December 16, 1945, at Plainfield, N. J.
While a young girl, Mrs. Rogers joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Nile, N. Y. She brought her membership to Plainfield in 1880. On October 2, 1879, she married William Henry Rogers. Hers was a long and useful life in which she made countless friends.
Close survivors are her two daughters, Mrs. Eva. R. Davis and Mrs. Helen R. Titsworth.
Services in her memory were held at the Runyon Funeral Home in Plainfield and were conducted by Rev. V. W. Skaggs. Interment was at Hillside Cemetery. V. W. S.

Census: 1880 Plainfield, Union Co., New Jersey: age 25

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 94, No 17, p 543, Apr. 23, 1923.
William Henry Rogers was born near Little Genesee, Allegany County, N. Y., on February 4, 1855, and passed away in Plainfield, N. J., March 1, 1923, having just entered upon his sixty-ninth year.
Mr. Rogers was the son of Henry C. and Sarah Ann Enos Rogers. He was the third child. A brother and sister died before he was born and his younger brother passed away several years ago in Plainfield, N. J.
When William was about seven years of age his father joined the colors for service in the Civil War and died in Andersonville war prison. When William was about twelve years old his mother moved to Nile, N. Y., with her two little boys, near the home of her parents, where they lived until the boys were grown.
In 1873, when William was eighteen years of age, he went to Westerly, R. I., where he learned the machinist's trade in the Cottrell and Babcock Printing Press Works. Later he was employed as salesman in the clothing store of Mr. Joseph Potter in Westerly, with whom he made his home.
On October 2, 1879, he united in marriage with Miss Mertilla M. Gardiner, of Nile, N. Y., at the home of her brother, Rev. Theodore L. Gardiner, in Mystic, Conn., by whom the marriage ceremony was performed. In the following year, 1880, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers moved to Plainfield, N. J., where for some years he served in the Potter Press Works until 1890, when he took up the bicycle business in his own shop at 408 West Fifth Street, Plainfield.
For several years he was engaged in the silver business with headquarters in Plainfield, N. J., and in Muncie, Ind. His last years were spent in a quiet way with his family in their home. Mr. Rogers was a loving and genial husband and father, generous hearted and hospitable, always loyal to his friends. When a young man he joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Nile, N. Y., and in 1881 united with the same denomination in Plainfield, where he was a loyal member until called away.
He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Roland Davis and Mrs. Roy Titsworth, to mourn their loss. Funeral services were conducted at the home on Sabbath afternoon, March 3, 1923, by his pastor, Rev. James L. Skaggs, and his body was laid to rest in beautiful Hillside Cemetery near Plainfield.
A great company of friends sympathize with the bereaved family, and pray that the everlasting arms of their heavenly Father may uphold and sustain.


Census: 1880 Plainfield, Union Co., New Jersey: age 25, machinist