Parlie Blackfish ^{1 2}

   Other names for Parlie were Betty Blackfish, Parlie Chalakatha Blackfish, Parlie Chalakatha and Betty Rogers.

  Research Notes:

From an email dated 9 May 2020, summarizing information provided by Julia Ann Stinson in Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by George W. Martin (Topeka, 1908), pp. 401-402.

I think Kentucky is the correct [birth]place [of Mary Elizabeth Rogers], at least reading these entries from documents in the Kansas Historical Society. See below:

My grandmother [Parlie Blackfish Rogers] said they came to where there were great barracks, where they stayed quite a while. Grandfather [Lewis Rogers] died in Missouri. Then my grandmother came to Kansas. She brought 20 slaves with her and $4000. They had sold their land in Ky and everything and brought the money with them. She loaned The Shawnee Manual Labor School. He returned the money when to her afterwards.

Another statement:
She said ..When the Shawnee left Kentucky to go to Ohio, my father Henry Rogers remained in Kentucky. He accumulated property and slaves. I remember four children Henry, William, Mary my mother [Mary Elizabeth Rogers Beauchemie] but they called her Polly, and Betsy. There were several others…

Julia said in her documents that her grandmother was with her mother when she was born. So we know that Parlie was alive in 1834. Also Julia relates a story about her grandmother coming to visit. I am assuming that Julia was at least 6 yrs old and that would place this about 1840. ³

  Birth Notes:

May have been born in 1756

  Death Notes:

From an email dated 9 May 2020, summarizing information provided by Julia Ann Stinson in Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by George W. Martin (Topeka, 1908), pp. 401-402.

Julia said in her documents that her grandmother was with her mother when she was born. So we know that Parlie was alive in 1834. Also Julia relates a story about her grandmother coming to visit. I am assuming that Julia was at least 6 yrs old and that would place this about 1840.

Parlie married Lewis Rogers, son of Benjamin Rogers and Jane Moss. (Lewis Rogers was born about 1764 in Virginia, (United States) ⁴ and died in 1830 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri, United States ⁵.)