{"id":8784,"date":"2014-11-05T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8784"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:50:47","slug":"mayflower-pilgrim-thomas-rogers-are-you-a-descendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-pilgrim-thomas-rogers-are-you-a-descendant.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Pilgrim Thomas Rogers: Are You a Descendant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Atwood Ordway (1852-1904) is a descendant of Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers\u2014and he thought so much of that genealogical fact, it was included in his obituary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8785\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/springfield-republican-newspaper-0506-1904-joseph-ordway-obituary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8785\" title=\"springfield-republican-newspaper-0506-1904-joseph-ordway-obituary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/springfield-republican-newspaper-0506-1904-joseph-ordway-obituary.png\" alt=\"Death of Joseph A. Ordway, Springfield Republican newspaper article 6 May 1904\" width=\"402\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/springfield-republican-newspaper-0506-1904-joseph-ordway-obituary.png 402w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/springfield-republican-newspaper-0506-1904-joseph-ordway-obituary-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), 6 May 1904, page 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a detailed obituary that gives us a lot of family history information about Joseph:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His date and place of birth: 12 May 1852 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States<\/li>\n<li>His date and place of death: 5 May 1904 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States<\/li>\n<li>One of his brothers was \u201cthe late\u201d General Albert Ordway (1843-1897) who served in the Civil War.<\/li>\n<li>He was survived by his wife: Carrie L. Ordway<\/li>\n<li>He had two sisters: Mary Emma Ordway (1849- ) and Annie Freeman Ordway (1857- ) who became Mrs. Charles E. Folsom (Charles Edward Folsom, Jr., 1855-1926)<\/li>\n<li>He had one surviving brother: Frank Foster Ordway (1862- )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obituaries give good core research information for genealogists.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like that Joseph\u2019s obituary mentioned he was a <em>Mayflower<\/em> descendant. I am also a descendant of the Pilgrim Thomas Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that enables me to start with Joseph Atwood Ordway and trace his lineage back to his <em>Mayflower<\/em> ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick way to speed up your genealogy research and ensure that all of your cousins are found and documented in the family history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Mayflower Ancestry Articles &amp; Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-heritage-jack-howland-loved-his.html\">Mayflower Heritage: Jack Howland Loved His!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/researching-your-pilgrim-ancestry-from-mayflower-ship-passengersintroduction-mary-harrell-sesniak-is-a-genealogist-author-and-editor-with-a-strong-technology-background-in-this-guest-blog-post.html\">Researching Your Pilgrim Ancestry from Mayflower Ship Passengers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/genealogybank\/mayflower-genealogy-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayflower Genealogy Tips<\/a> (GenealogyBank Pinterest Board)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Atwood Ordway (1852-1904) is a descendant of Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers\u2014and he thought so much of that genealogical fact, it was included in his obituary. This is a detailed obituary that gives us a lot of family history information about Joseph: His date and place of birth: 12 May 1852 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[8247,8250,8248,8251,1658,2233,8252,8253,12,465,2424,8245,8249,1074,2020,27,4818,1084,5059,8246,2636,2177,7986],"class_list":["post-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-albert-ordway","tag-annie-freeman-ordway","tag-carrie-l-ordway","tag-charles-edward-folsom","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-folsom","tag-frank-foster-ordway","tag-genealogy","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-historical-obituaries","tag-joseph-atwood-ordway","tag-mary-emma-ordway","tag-mayflower","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-newspapers-for-genealogy","tag-obituaries","tag-obituary-archives","tag-ordway","tag-pilgrims","tag-rogers","tag-thomas-rogers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78445,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions\/78445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}