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Facts and Events
"Mr. and Mrs. Rockwood were reared on farms; they were educated in the common schools of the State of New York. They were trained at their homes by religious and patriotic parents to revere their God, to honor their parents and to respect and obey the laws of their country. They were also taught to be industrious, temperate and prudent in their habits and to exercise a spirit of charity toward others. They in their turn, as their children advanced in age and increased in numbers charged or imparted to them similar lessons and rules of action.
This family lived on a farm at FAIRCHILD'S CORNERS, near REMSEN, until the spring of 1854, when they moved to UNION CITY, ERIE CO, PA, near which place Mr. Rockwood purchased a farm, which was the home of the family for many years. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Rockwood moved into the village where she spent the remainder of her life.
In their religious convictions they were Baptists and in politics Republican."
Per the 1870 Mortality Schedule of Erie Co, PA, Nathaniel died of paralysis in Sep 1869 at age 57, and had been born in NY. He was a farmer. He appears there with a David Rockwood and a Sumner Rockwood.
References
- various (see below), (i)The Rockwood Family: A bit of Genealogy(/i) ("Probably started by Jerome Edwin Rockwood (1835-1912) and completed (wit.
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