From the Ipswich Tribune July 13, 1927 edition

OLD PIONEER PASSES AWAY

Boliver Amos Rogers, a resident of Ipswich for forty-four years and one of the oldest men of the city, died on Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. D. Doolittle, at the age of eighty-six years, ten months and twenty days.

Funeral services are to be held at the Doolittle house at 2:30 Thursday afternoon with Rev. H. T. Owen officiating. Burial will be in the Ipswich cemetery.

B. A. Rogers was born August 22, 1840, in Ohio. He was married to Emma Jane Fish November 6, 1862. He moved to Osage, Iowa in...