Rogers Campbell Goree
b. 25 February 1895, d. 26 November 1918
- Father: Robert Campbell Goree b. 16 January 1870, d. 8 September 1943
- Mother: Mary F. Rogers b. 13 August 1873, d. 12 April 1960
- Rogers Campbell Goree was born on 25 February 1895 in Texas.
- Robert Campbell Goree and Mary F. Rogers appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, living next to Mary's parents.. Other members of the household included Rogers Campbell Goree, Jonathan D. Goree.
- Robert Campbell Goree and Mary F. Rogers appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Knox County, Texas. Other members of the household included Rogers Campbell Goree, Jonathan D. Goree, Paul R. Goree, Robert Lee Goree, Frances Goree and Edwin C. Goree.
- He was attending school and also working on the home farm, according to the 1910 census.
- He married Roselle Gould, daughter of Robert Gould and Rose Adams, on 9 September 1918 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
- His wife Roselle Gould became a widow at his death.
- Rogers Campbell Goree died on 26 November 1918 at age 23 in France.
- He was interred at Knox City Cemetery, Knox City, Knox County, Texas.
- The following appeared on 10 December 1918 in the Calexico Chronicle: Today, what was to have been a merry family party at the home of Robert G. Goree, has been turned into a house of mourning by a message which told of the death in France of Lieut. Rogers C. Goree, American aviator and nephew of R. G. Goree.
There were no details -- memely the cold and awful facts flashed by the wife of the dead aviator, who less than three months ago became his bride in New Orleans and at once said good bye as he was then ordered to the front.
Saturday night R. G. Goree was in Los Angeles and took dinner with Leiut. John Goree, also an aviator, and an instructor in the aviation school, and today the mother of the Goree boys, with another son, Paul, who is home on a furlough from the navy, came here, along with Mr. Goree's father to spend the day and to hear from and about Lieut. John.
Standing on the street and ready to go home to meet his relatives and guests, a messenger boy handed Mr. Goree a message telling of the death of Rogers by an airplane accident. Filled with emotion he said, "And the is the message I must take home to the mother!?
The marriage of Lieut. Rogers Goree and Roselle Gould of Austin, Texas, was a pretty romance. The grandfather of the bride, Colonel Gould, commanded a regiment in the Confederate army in which the grandfather of the groom commanded a company. The two veterans were not only comrades but friends, and when their grandchildren were married it was a source of great satisfaction.
Then at the alter, almost, came the summons to war, and the young husband, with the fighting blood of his southern ancestors in his veins, cheerfully said good bye and his bride, with the same red blood in her veins, said "Godspeed" and gave him to his country. Then came the anxious days and then the news of peace and the thoughts of home for the soldier and of his return by his bride, and then -- the fateful message that ended the dreams of the future and left life cold and gray.
And so there will be a commingling this Christmas time of the cypress and the holly in the Goree homes and tears of the wife and the tears of the mother will bear once again silent but eloquent testimony that "men must fight and women weep."
Rogers Goree, as he was known here to many, had a host of friends who will be deeply grieved to hear of his death. S. T. Tyler, of the Irrigation district, called at the Chronicle office this morning and said, "He was one of the best men we ever had." This brief but feeling tribute tells what was thought of the dead man here. Faithful in his private life, he was a good soldier and faithful to his country. No greater honor may be given to any man. - The following appeared on 11 December 1918 in the San Antonio Express: (Austin, Dec. 10) Mrs. Rogers C. Goree received advice from Washington yesterday that her husband, Lieut. Rogers C. Goree, attached to the Aviation Section in France, had met with an airplane accident on November 26, and was killed. Lieutenant Rogers C. Goree trained at San Diego, Cal., Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex., and Payne Field, West Point, Va., and left this country about October 1, 1918. It is presumed that he was finishing his training in France, when the accident occurred. Mrs. Goree, nee Miss Roselle Gould, is the daughter of Mrs. Richard Corner of Austin, where she is at present residing.
- Last Edited: 16 Jun 2017