U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rodgers, Naomi Skidmore (b. 1815) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Pages 420-421 Aunt Naomi Rodgers, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Skidmore, was born November 29, 1815. She married Elija Rodgers in 1833. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Three Forks of Sandy, now Roane county, West Virginia, where she lived in one house for sixty years. After the death of her husband, she lived with her son, Jackson Rodgers, where she died at the age of ninety-six years. She lived for many years a close neighbor to the celebrated Adam O'Brien, and vividly remembers that noted Indian fighter and adventurer. She describes him as a man of powerful physique, a keen piercing eye, always dressed in the full garb of a hunter in buckskin, decorated with hunter's tomahawk and rifle. She often listened to the primitive John O'Brien, son of Adam, whom she described as a man with a wonderful voice. He was a minister of the Baptist faith. It was said that he could be heard from mountain top to mountain top when properly warmed up in his discourse. The country in which she lived, she described as a wilderness in 1833. There were only three or four families living between her girlhood home and her later home on Sandy. Perhaps the seventy- eight years that she lived on Sandy marked a period and locality that came nearer being in its primitive and original state than any other section of country in central West Virginia. This simple life was to Aunt Naomi's liking. She was a plain unassuming woman, a devout Christian and for many years a member of the Baptist church. She is resting beside her husband and many relatives and friends in the Greenhill cemetery near her old home. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Roane County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/roane/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------