Clara E. Weiler

b. 31 May 1880, d. 20 October 1942
  • Clara E. Weiler was born on 31 May 1880 in New York.
  • Gottlieb Weiler appeared in the New York state census of 16 February 1892 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Other members of the household included Clara E. Weiler, Wilhelmina Louisa Weiler, Charles Henry Weiler, Anna Weiler, Frederick Weiler and Amelia Weiler.
  • Daniel V. Hurley and Elisabetha A. Weiler appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, at 958 Ontario Avenue. Other members of the household included Clara E. Weiler, Florence Marie Hurley, Emma Margaret Hurley and Francis Joseph Hurley.
  • She was a servant in the household of her father's half-sister Lizzie Hurley, according to the 1900 census.
  • She married Ernest Alfred Rodgers, son of James Wilson Rodgers and Caroline Amelia Neal, circa 1904.
  • Ernest Alfred Rodgers and Clara E. Weiler appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at 520 East 41st Street. Other members of the household included Evelyn M. Rogers, Dorothy Rogers and James A. Rogers.
  • The following appeared on 15 June 1919 in the Buffalo Courier: Charles Weiler, seventy-two years old, died yesterday at the home of his son, Charles H. Weiler, No. 131 Hickory street.
         Mr. Weiler was a harness maker and was commander of the A. J. Myer post, No. 239, G. A. R.
         He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Herman Oelheim, Mrs. Ernest Rogers, Mrs. Robert Heiler and Miss Anna Weiler, and two sons, Charles H. and Frederick Weiler.
  • Ernest Alfred Rodgers and Clara E. Weiler appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at 2637 Fulton Street. Other members of the household included Evelyn M. Rogers, Dorothy Rogers, James A. Rogers, Clara Louise Rogers and Maria Francis Lucia Rogers.
  • She was a machine operator making envelopes, according to the 1920 census.
  • Ernest Alfred Rodgers and Clara E. Weiler appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at 1048 Garfield Avenue. Other members of the household included Maria Francis Lucia Rogers.
  • Ernest Alfred Rodgers and Clara E. Weiler appeared in the 1934 Buffalo, New York, City Directory at 109 Baynes Ernest is listed as a porter for Biagio Mendola.
  • Ernest Alfred Rodgers and Clara E. Weiler appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 166 Arkansas. In 1935 they were living in Buffalo.
  • Clara E. Weiler died on 20 October 1942 at age 62.
  • Ernest Alfred Rodgers became a widower at her death.
  • She was interred at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York.
  • The following appeared on 22 October 1942 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: [Died] October 20, 1942, Clara Rogers, wife of Ernest; mother of Mrs. William Werner, Mrs. Carl [sic] Lindquist, Clara Rogers and Mrs. Kenneth Jueckstock. Funeral from the Funeral Home of John J. Ray & Son, 615 Elmwood Avenue, Friday morning at 8:30, and from the Church of the Nativity at 9 o'clock.
  • The following appeared on 30 November 1954 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: [Died] Ernest A. Rogers of 343 Hampshire St., Nov. 28, 1954, husband of the late Clara Weiler Rogers; father of Mrs. William Warner and Mrs. Carl Moore of Chicago; and Mrs. Kenneth N. Jueckstock, and the late Mrs. Dorothy R. Lindquist; brother of Mrs. Gertrude R. Lenze and the late Clarence D. and Lillian M. Rogers. Funeral from the Austin Funeral Home, Inc., 563 Elmwood Ave., Wednesday at 9:30 and from Nativity Church at 10. Friends invited.
  • Last Edited: 17 Aug 2015

Family: Ernest Alfred Rodgers b. November 1870, d. 28 November 1954