Roger Pleaugh

Roger Pleaugh was a 45-year-old man who lived in and around the West Georgia Street area of Tallahassee. Public records and local summaries indicate he spent time near a makeshift camp behind West Georgia Street, where neighbors and local outreach workers would have been most likely to encounter him. While the public record about Roger’s earlier life and family is limited, the facts that are available make clear he was a real person who faced hardship and who belonged to a community of fellow residents and passersby in downtown Tallahassee.

In mid-November 2005 Roger was found near 448 West Georgia Street with serious head injuries and taken to a hospital. He was 45 years old at that time. Reports show he later died from those injuries; the verified date tied to his passing is November 11, 2005 (with hospital care and later reporting noting he succumbed to his injuries on November 21, 2005). Though details about his work, family, and personal interests are not present in public notices, these fragments indicate a life lived in difficult circumstances and in proximity to others in the neighborhood who likely knew him by sight and routine.

A remembrance of Roger honors him first as an individual whose life had worth beyond the sparse public record. Even when records are brief, it is right to acknowledge the human being at the center: a man who navigated daily challenges, who occupied a particular place in Tallahassee, and whose passing touched people in the area. The limited sources emphasize the need for compassion toward people experiencing homelessness or instability and a respectful remembering of those whose names appear only briefly in official pages.

Those who knew Roger or who may remember him are encouraged to reflect on the small, ordinary ways people leave a mark on their neighborhoods — a familiar presence on a sidewalk, a conversation at a corner, a face seen regularly by nearby residents. In that spirit, this page remembers Roger Pleaugh with quiet respect for his life and an acknowledgment that every person deserves to be remembered with dignity.