He was born 26 March 1838 in New York, the son of Samuel D Rockwell and Orilla James Sherman. [1]
In 1880, he was 42 years old working as a coal shipper living in Yonkers, Westchester, New York with his wife Phebe and children Grace, Samuel and Jarvis Waring. [2]
He died 18 Mar 1862 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York. [3]
He is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Yonkers, New York. A burial place for many in the Waring and Rockwell family. [4]
Sources
Footnotes
↑ *Christopher D. Desloge. Desolge Chronicles, A Tale of Two Continents. An Amazing Family's Journey. Volume Two Genealogies. 2012.
↑ "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M824-SMS : accessed 15 Aug 2014), John W Rockwell, New York, United States; citing p. 160, family 1222, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552615.
↑ Ancestry.com, New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.com, Record for John W Rockwell.
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