The person who established Rogers' station and had a toll bridge over McGee Creek was a Cherokee Man who married twice First to: Crawford, I have seen it Pattie and also Martha. He married second to Mary Eliza Eugenia Garland Spencer. She was the daughter of the Choctaw Chief Samuel Garland and his wife Mary Pitchlynn. She had been married first to William S. Spencer. John P. Rogers had three children by his first wife: William Penn; John Hogue; and Walter Scott and 5 children by his second wife. I am in the process of finding the Act of the Choctaw Nation that give him permission to have the toll bridge, but yesterday found that on the 17th of October 1877 the Choctaw Nation give permission for Mrs. M. E. Rogers to have a toll bridge over the McGee Creek on the Fort Smith and Boggy Depot road. It was also about 12 miles northeast of Stringtown. This information was found in the Choctaw Records at the Oklahoma Historical Society Library in Oklahoma City, where I work as a volunteer. Mr. John P. (Pendergrass) Rogers was born 6 October 1831 in Georgia. Will Rogers was not the son of John P. Rogers who had the toll bridge over the McGee River in Indian Territory. John P. and Mary Garland is the grandparents of my husband. Jodie Cole