A. P. Rockhill Family

Burlington Independent, July 15, 1898ROCKHILL--In Burlington, Kansas, July 9, 1898, A. P. Rockhill, aged 72 years.

A. P. Rockhill was born in New Jersey, June 14th, 1826, and died on July 8th, 1898. He had been a resident of Coffey county quite a number of years, and for the past thirteen years

has resided in Burlington. He had been a great sufferer for many years. Mr. Rockhill was a member of the M. E. church for twenty-six years. The funeral services were conducted by

Dr. B. Robbins, assisted by Elder Park C. Herbert. His remains were buried in a cemetery near Gridley.

United States Census for Coffey County, Ks
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
A. P. ROCKHILL Self M Male W 53 NJ Farmer NJ NJ
Anna ROCKHILL Wife M Female W 52 OH Keeps House NJ PA
S. W. ROCKHILL Son S Male W 13 OH NJ OH
Source Information:
Census Place Liberty, Coffey, Kansas

Name: Adonijah Peacock ROCKHILL

Birth: 14 JUN 1826 in Evesham Twp., Burlington Co., NJ

Death: 9 JUL 1898 in Liberty Twp., KS

Burial: Teachout Cemetery, Liberty Twp., Coffey Co., KS

Father: Samuel ROCKHILL b: 2 MAY 1793 in Mansfield Twp. Burlington Co., JN
Mother: Mary Frances PEACOCK b: 24 NOV 1796 in Mansfield Twp. Burlington Co., JN

Marriage 1 Susannah PARKER b: 1832 in Ohio

Married: 29 NOV 1849 in Allen Co., Ohio

Children

Loretta ROCKHILL b: 17 MAY 1851
Henry Leslie ROCKHILL b: 7 JAN 1852 in Rockport, Allen Co., Ohio
Arletta ROCKHILL b: ABT 1855
Alice A. ROCKHILL b: ABT 1858
Ladena (Lydia) ROCKHILL b: ABT 1859
Flotellil H. ROCKHILL b: FEB 1861 Archy P. ROCKHILL b: JUN 1864 Sheldon Wentworth ROCKHILL b: 1867 in Rockport Monroe Twp., Allen Co., Oh

2nd Marriage Hannah PARKER b: ABT 1831 in Allen Co., Ohioe

*Note Source. Susannah Parker is buried in Rockport Methodist Cemetery as Susan Rockhill. no birth date but death date is 20 Aug, 1869.Sometime after that Adonijah Peacock Rockhill moved to Kansas and may have re-married to a Hannah Parker . This may be incorrect information ,Note Source:

United States 1880 Census for Coffey County, KS
Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
H. L. ROCKHILL Self M Male W 27 OH Farmer NJ OH
Nettie ROCKHILL Wife M Female W 24 OH Keeps House OH OH
Clarence ROCKHILL Son S Male W 4 KS OH OH
Walter ROCKHILL Son S Male W 2 KS OH OH
Harry ROCKHILL Son S Male W 6M KS OH OH
Source Information:
Census Place Liberty, Coffey, Kansas

* Around 1870 Henry Leslie Rockhill moved to Coffey, KS, before his father or after is not known.
Henry, who worked as both a carpenter and farmer, lived in Kansas until around 1909, when he, Nettie and all their children moved to Oregon.

There, with the exception of Harry Menich Rockhill, all lived out the remaining years of their lives. Henry died February 23, 1916, in Salem, Polk County, Oregon;

Anetta died December 2. 1919, also in Salem. Both were buried in the Lee Mission Cemetery in Salem

Coffey County , KS Marriage Records
Rockhill, H.M. age 22, of Burlington, Kansas, and Maude Smith [sic], age 18, of Hartford, Kansas, were married November 27, 1901, in Burlington, by Rev. Bascom Robbins, Methodist
For the first few years of their married life, Harry and Amanda lived in Burlington. Then Thomas Smith, Amanda's father, gave them a 40 acre farm near Hartford, where they lived until 1909,when

they joined Harry's parents and siblings in a move to Salem, Oregon. After about a year they returned to Lyon County, Kansas, where they farmed a 100 acre farm near Hartford,

adjacent to the farms of Thomas Smith and his son, Fred. In 1918 or 1919, Harry's brother, Walter Rockhill, convinced them to sell their farm and join him in Springfield, Colorado

, where they bought one section of farmland. After a year they were offered twice the original price for their farm, which they accepted. They returned to Kansas where they owned

and lived on a farm alongside the Cottonwood River, outside Hartford, Kansas.

During the 1920s, Harry, a life-long Republican, was also a member of the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan--as were so many other men of that period. They remained on their farm outside Hartford for nearly 30 years--then moved into town Where they lived until their death
E-mail records from Don Rockhills biographical sketches of his Rockhill family for Rockhill familie files of Norita Shepherd Moss

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