Aleri was the son of John Rodgers and Isabel Ireland. His name is Ireland spelled backwards dropping the ND. He married Mary Davidson on June 23, 1813 in Rockbridge Co, VA. During the year 1814 with the rank of first lieutenant, Aleri together with Aniel and one other brother, entered the service of their country and remained until the close of the war. In 1822, he and his family (he had ten children) emigrated to the west settling in Monroe County, Missouri. The journey was performed overland and passing through the states of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois, they reached St. Louis, at that remote period but a small village, after three months. Aleri settled with his little flock on a half section of land near Florida, Monroe County, which had previously been entered by Col. Benton, of St. Louis. He soon increased his domain to 600 acres, but with many disadvantages attendant upon wrestling a living from the soil in that very early day, he became dissatisfied with his location and determined to seek a new one. He finally settled in Hale Township, Warren County, Illinois in 1836 and remained there until his death in 1863. Aleri Rodgers, along with his brother Andrew, introduced the first reaping machine brought west of the Alleghenies. It was the McCormick pattern (his sister Iren was married to a James McCormick) and was shipped from Lynchburg, Virginia via Richmond, New Orleans and up the Mississippi to Oquawka, Illinois and thence by wagon to the old Rodgers homestead in Hale Township.
Aleri was the son of John Rodgers and Isabel Ireland. His name is Ireland spelled backwards dropping the ND. He married Mary Davidson on June 23, 1813 in Rockbridge Co, VA. During the year 1814 with the rank of first lieutenant, Aleri together with Aniel and one other brother, entered the service of their country and remained until the close of the war. In 1822, he and his family (he had ten children) emigrated to the west settling in Monroe County, Missouri. The journey was performed overland and passing through the states of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois, they reached St. Louis, at that remote period but a small village, after three months. Aleri settled with his little flock on a half section of land near Florida, Monroe County, which had previously been entered by Col. Benton, of St. Louis. He soon increased his domain to 600 acres, but with many disadvantages attendant upon wrestling a living from the soil in that very early day, he became dissatisfied with his location and determined to seek a new one. He finally settled in Hale Township, Warren County, Illinois in 1836 and remained there until his death in 1863. Aleri Rodgers, along with his brother Andrew, introduced the first reaping machine brought west of the Alleghenies. It was the McCormick pattern (his sister Iren was married to a James McCormick) and was shipped from Lynchburg, Virginia via Richmond, New Orleans and up the Mississippi to Oquawka, Illinois and thence by wagon to the old Rodgers homestead in Hale Township.
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