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John Rodgers arrived back in what was later the Edison vicinity after1935 and before 1850. The following is his 1850 US Census Report: #493 Mr. Newman Wiggins did considerable research on JOHN RODGERS and had a wealth of information on his family. J. R. and I met with Mr. Newman one Saturday night to learn what we could about John Rodgers and his daughter, Martha, who married Thomas Holloway. According to Mr. Newman, John Rodgers and his family lived in North Georgia in the early 1800s, Sometime in the 1820s, he packed his family in a covered wagon and headed for Florida. He had relatives in the vicinity of Quincy, Florida, who spoke highly of the area and indicated that there were opportunities for John there. On the way down to Florida, John and his family came through what is now Calhoun County. For some reason, John remember this area and specifically remembered crossing Bay Branch, a full and fast flowing branch, Southeast of what is now Edison. John went on to the Quincy area and build a grist mill on a stream down there. He operate the mill and lived in that area for several years. It was here in 1835 that Martha Rodgers was born. Sometime between then and 1850 he sold his mill and moved back to a homestead West of the Pachitla (Big Creek) Creek near what is now Edison. He had intended to build a grist mill on Bay Branch, that full and fast flowing stream he had crossed on his way to Florida. But he found that there had been a long dry spell and the branch was practically dry and not suitable for the mill.. In addition to farming, he and his sons operated a post office and carried the mail on horse back to settlements from Albany to the Chattahoochee River. John Rodgers and his wife are buried in a small cemetery (10 to 12
graves) in what is now (2004) the western boundary of the grounds of the
Calhoun County High School in Edison, Ga.
Saturday, 17 May 2008
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