Person:John Rooker (3)

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John Bunyon Rooker
b.1810 York County, SC
d.1858 Resaca, Gordon Co., GA
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  1. James Marion Rooker1833 - 1925
  2. Margaret Rooker1835 - 1901
  3. Catherine L. Rooker1838 -
  4. Mary Jane Rooker1841 -
  5. John Alexander Rooker1844 -
  6. William Duncan Rooker1847 - 1905
  7. Randolph Augustus Rooker1850 -
  8. Leroy Terry Columbus Rooker1853 -
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Name[1][2] John Bunyon Rooker
Gender Male
Birth[3] 1810 York County, SC
Marriage to Nancy Ann McCallum
Occupation[4][6] 1836 Resaca, Gordon Co., GA
Census? Listed As John Ruker, 1840 Census, Cass Co. GA
Occupation? Hotel Business
Death? 1858 Resaca, Gordon Co., GA
Burial? Gideon Family Cemetery, Calhoun, Gordon Co. GA

During the Civil War, the Yankees demolished John Rooker's home, using it for breastworks. Nancy, his wife, took the children and lived in South Carolina until the end of the war. When she returned, she lived in the slave quarters while the house was being rebuilt. There is still a Rooker Lane where the old plantation used to be. John was a bridge builder for the Chattenooga-Atlanta Railroad. In 1836, he helped build the Tunnel Bridge near Resaca. He was walking into Calhoun, GA, when he had a heart attack and died. They shaved his beard before "laying him out" and some of his children insisted it was not their dad.

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  1. ↑ Water Valley Chruch Deed John B. Rooker is a trustee 9 Aug 1847.
  2. ↑ Gordon County Deeds 25 Nov. 1856
    Pag.
  3. ↑ Gordon County Deeds 25 Nov. 1856
    Book C Pages491-495 LDS film 0422609.
  4. ↑ Eastern Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs. (Ancestry.com. Eastern Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, Inc., 1998. Original data: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.)
    John Bunyon Rooker, 10 Apr 2004.

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  5.   Calhoun City Newspaper. (Calhoun, GA, 6 August 1975.)
    Rooker Hotel Has Seen Decades of City's Growth, 27 Mar 2004.

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  6. ↑ John B. Rooker, a native of South Carolina, and Nancy A. (McCallum) Rooker, who was born in Scotland. John B. Rooker was a mechanic, a bridge carpenter, and moved from his native State to Georgia, where he was engaged in building bridges on the first railroad from Atlanta to Chattanoogs. He subsequently located on a farm in Gordon County, and there received his final summons about 1857. He served as magistrate for a number of years, and was a much respected citizen.
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