George Henry Roggeman was born May 11, 1890 and died on November 15, 1977.  He was the fourth and final child of Charles and Louisa (Raymond or Rehman) Roggerman.

He was married to Flossie May Getty on September 27, 1911. She was born January 30, 1893 and passed away on December 17, 1978. Flossie's sister, Addie, was married to Geroge's brother, Ralph Raymond Roggerman.


They had two children, Florence (Toburen) and Charles G. Roggeman.
 

George and Floss were living in Dundee Township with their 1 child and working a 40 acre farm as a tenant. They had 3 horses and 4 cows and a telephone.

On January 10, 1921, a fire in the Commerce Department building, Washington, DC, resulted in the destruction of most of the 1890 census.

 

Charles (55) was listed as living in Dundee Township with his wife, Louisa (45) with their son, Leonard (25). At that time, their daughter, Hulda Fitzpatrick (23) was also living with them along with her daughter, Seignora I. (1)

Note: George might have been living as a boarder at this time. He got married to Floss Getty in 1911.

 

 

 

Roggerman or Roggeman or Roggermann? In U.S. census forms, the name is listed as either Roggerman or Roggeman. With the exception of Charles' youngest child, George who chose to use the name Roggeman without the "r", the rest of the family regularly used Roggerman. In some German records it is spelled Roggermann and that is how it appears on the headstone for Charles, the ancestor who came from Germany although he used Roggerman during his life in America... from what we can tell.