William Penn Adair Rodgers Will Rogers shaped provided many people with laughter throughout the early 1900's abroad and here in the United States through his many careers he chose. Will Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 in a home his father had built near the Verdigris River bottom lands in the Cooweescoowee District of Indian Territory. His parents were Mary and Clem Rodgers. They named there first son William Penn Adair Rodgers after a distinguished Cherokee, …showed first 75 words of 959 total…

…showed last 75 words of 959 total…be still for long. Will thought it best to always be doing something or to be resting. He enjoyed both very much. Will Rodgers died in a plane crash on August 1935 near point barrow Alaska. The last time Will spoke to Betty was on August the eighth around noon. It was just before he took of for Juneau. She would never speak to him or see him again. Just a few days later he died.