Patriot Soldiers Buried in Iowa

 

 
Keokuk County

Achilles Rogers

 

Achilles Rogers was born 1761/1762 in Albemarle County, Virginia.  He died July 1854 during a cholera epidemic.  He is buried in Pennington Cemetery, three miles south of Sigourney in West Lancaster Township of Keokuk County, Iowa.  The James McElwee Chapter DAR of Sigourney placed a boulder with an official bronze tablet at his gravesite on April 12, 1925.  Achilles enlisted in the Quartermaster General’s Department in the District of Charlottesville.

 

                  

 

 

 

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