Phoebe Rodgers

  General Notes:

The tail of Phebe weaves an interesting web in the story of what became of poor Phebe? (read the story of her second husband, Henry Munger who married Phoebe's niece many years younger) Phoebe was divorced from two husbands. Her only daughter Mary A.E. Clark was locked in the mental ward of the Marshall County home at Marshalltown. Phebe died suddenly at age 66 of heart failure on Sunday morning, December 18, 1892, at the home of her eldest son, Lebbeus Bash, in Liscomb township, Marshall county, Iowa. The funeral was from the Bash home on Tuesday morning, and Phebe was buried on the Bash lot in Riverside Cemetery at Marshalltown, near the grave of her youngest son Sherman F. Bash, who had died in 1876, age 22. Eight years later, Henry J. Bash, her first husband of 30 years, was laid to rest beside her.

Phoebe married Henry John Bash, son of Christian (Christopher) Bash and Elizabeth George, on 14 Oct 1847 in Mercer County, PA. (Henry John Bash was born on 31 Dec 1826 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, died on 18 Mar 1900 in Liscomb Township, Marshall County, Iowa and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Marshalltown, IA.)

Phoebe next married Henry Munger on 11 Mar 1880 in Marshall County, Iowa. (Henry Munger was born on 10 May 1828 in Fenner, Madison County, New York.)