BIOGRAPHY: # ID: I16460
# Name: Pehr Jonsson Nordqvist
# Sex: M
# Birth: 7 JAN 1775 in Nordanå, Alfta Parish, Gävleborg Län, Sweden
# Note: AS 10N8BIOGRAPHY: Father: Jonas Jonsson b: 1747 in Bollnäs Parish, Gävleborg Län, Sweden
Mother: Anna Pehrsdotter b: 8 NOV 1736 in Nordanå 10, Alfta Parish, Gävleborg Län, SwedenBIOGRAPHY: Marriage 1 Rebecca Wåxström b: 1769 in Dalkarlsbo, Voxna Parish, Gävleborg Län, Sweden
BIOGRAPHY: Children
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Has No Children Jonas Pehrsson b: 14 JUL 1799 in Flät, Alfta Parish, Gävleborg Län, Sweden
2. Has No Children Anna Cajsa Pehrsdotter b: 9 NOV 1800 in Flät, Alfta Parish, Gävleborg Län, Sweden
3. Has No Children Pehr Abraham Pehrsson b: 1803
4. Has No Children Lars Eric Pehrsson b: 1805
DEATH: --Rev. Myron Rockwell, [SRGP 04495] one of the oldest and best known citizens of this county, died at his home in Roseville last week Monday, at the advanced age of eighty years. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1830 at Columbia, Bradford County, where he preached the gospel for ten years. He afterwards moved to this county and engaged in farming in Sullivan township and at the same time preached at Gray’s valley. He was pastor of the Baptist church at Stony Fork for several years, and afterward preached for a time in Jackson township. In 1863 he was elected County Commissioner. He then moved to Rutland, and about five years ago he located in Roseville. He relinquished his pastorate a few months ago on account of failing health. In 1825 he married Miss West, of Troy, who died about thirteen years ago. Six years after her death he married Mrs. Wilcox, of Stony Fork, who survives him. Elder Rockwell was a devout self sacrificing minister, and his life was full of good works. He will long be held in grateful reflection by the Church that he so faithfully served and by the people for whose spiritual welfare he earnestly labored. 30 June 1885
BIOGRAPHY: yron Rockwell (1804-1876) of Bradford and Tioga Co., Pennsylvania [R146 in edition 1, R142 in ed. 2]: Descendant Bob Lefler reports that Myron founded the State Road Baptist Church between Covington and Troy, Pennsylvania. He preached at Jobs Corner Baptist Church in the 1860s and 1870s. He was buried in the churchyard of the old Roseville Baptist Church, where he also preached. Bob Lefler found his stone in poor repair and shored it up. [This is about a half-mile up the road from the present site of the church.] Myron's home was on Pumpkin Hill, overlooking both Roseville and Jobs Corner.
BIOGRAPHY: Further details on Myron's descendants:
BIOGRAPHY: Daughter Nancy Jane Rockwell and husband Joel Webster, of Rutland, Pa., had the following children:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Joel O. Webster, b. 25 Jan. 1851 at Sullivan, Pa. He married, 24 May 1874, at Roseville, Pa., Fanny Ely. They lived at Daggett's Mills, Pa. in 1876.
2. Elizabeth A. Webster, b. 10 Aug. 1853 at Sullivan, Pa.
3. Myron L. Webster, b. 10 August 1855 at Rutland, Pa.
4. Horace F. Webster, b. 26 Nov. 1859 at Rutland.
5. Roswell H. Webster, b. 31 Oct. 1861 at Rutland.
6. Frederick E. Webster, b. 9 April 1865 at Rutland.BIOGRAPHY: Son Myron Adriel Rockwell and wife Elizabeth Bessey, of Troy, Pa., had the following children:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Effie E. Rockwell, b. 20 Dec. 1853 at Troy; d. 19 Dec. 1862.
2. Annie Jane Rockwell, b. 30 Sept. 1859; d. 9 June 1864.
3. Adriel B. Rockwell, b. 25 Dec. 1863.BIOGRAPHY: Myron Adriel Rockwell and second wife Isabel Wilson, of Towanda, Pa., had the following children:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Myron Clark Rockwell, b. 9 March 1873 at Monroeton, Pa.
2. Edward P. Rockwell, b. 23 July 1875 at Towanda, Pa.BIOGRAPHY: Son Warren Allen Rockwell and wife Sylvia E. Johns, of Sullivan, Pa., had the following children:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Helen Eliza Rockwell, b. 22 April 1858; died 26 Feb. 1859.
2. Burt J. Rockwell, b. 18 August 1861.
3. Samuel B. Rockwell, b. 23 Nov. 1872.BIOGRAPHY: Son Horace Wesley Rockwell and wife Harriet Emily Hinman had the following children [Phoenix, Whitney Family, p. 2111-2112]:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Frances Ladesha Rockwell, b. 1 Jan. 1867. She married Coly Beach. Their son Horace Beach attended Columbia University in New York City and became an educator. In the 1920s he was Principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, where a cousin, Mark Rockwell Lefler, served as Supervisor of Schools. [For further, see below, under Myron's daughter Ella.] Another son of Coly and Frances Beach, Frederick Beach, was the Chief of the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s and 1940s. (Thanks to Bob Lefler for this information.)
2. Mary Elizabeth Rockwell, b. at Monroeton, Pa., 24 Jan. 1869.
3. Horace Hinman Rockwell, b. at Monroeton, Pa., 3 Dec. 1871.
4. Harriet Grace Rockwell, b. at Monroeton, Pa., 21 Jan. 1875; d. 16 Apr. 1875BIOGRAPHY: Daughter Mary E. and husband Ira Bement, of Jackson, Pa., had the following children [Phoenix, Whitney Family, p. 2112]:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Adriel J. Bement, b. 4 July 1869.
2. Mary Edith Bement, b. 21 Nov. 1865.BIOGRAPHY: Daughter Emma P. and husband Frank L. Miller, of Williamsport, Pa., had the following children:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Caroline E. Miller, b. 26 April 1860.
2. Henry Rockwell Miller, b. 28 July 1868.BIOGRAPHY: Son Oscar went to Pennsylvania State Medical School and became a physician in Monroeton, Pa., before he married. He and wife Catharine M. Hanson, of Monroeton, Pa., had the following child, as of Phoenix's information:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Mary C. Rockwell, b. 14 June 1872.
BIOGRAPHY: Daughter Ella and husband Marsall James Lefler lived about a mile from the Jobs Corners Church and would entertain new ministers there. They had the following children [Phoenix, Whitney Family, p. 2112, supplemented by Bob Lefler's information]:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Myron Charles Lefler, b. at Jackson, Pa., 11 March 1874, d. 21 April 1875.
2. Mark Rockwell Lefler, b. at Jackson, Pa., 15 Jan. 1876. He was an educator and became a principal supervisor in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, for 17 years, also serving as President of the New Jersey Association of School Administrator. Later he settled in Westport, Connecticut--in Fairfield County, from which his ancestors had moved in the 1760s. He was Superintendent of Schools in Westport. Interestingly, another descendant of Myron Rockwell, Mark's first cousin once removed, Horace Beech, served during the same period as Principal of Westport's Staples High School. Together, they brought Staples High up to state standards. Mark's daughter Berneta Lefler became President of the Staples Student Body and later, after graduating from Mansfield Normal, where she was also student body president, she became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Wilton, Connecticut. This was all in the 1920s and 1930s. [Thanks to descendant Bob Lefler for this.]
3. Lillian May Lefler, b. at Jackson, Pa., 20 April 1877. [Phoenix called her "Lilla," but Bob Lefler has record of her first name.] She married Arthur Alan Watkins of Arnot, Tioga Co., Pa., a physician. Watkins attended the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by farmer Benjamin Harrison on the condition that he name his first child after Harrison, which he did. His father was a coal miner, and Arthur Watkins spent his career treating the miners, eventually dying of the tuberculosis that afflicted them.
4. Verne Myron Lefler (born since Phoenix), who became a science and physics teacher at Troy High School, Troy, Pa., ca. 1914, and had a long career there, about 35 years.
5. Victor Blaine Lefler, who also became a teacher for a time, at Daggett School House.
6. Ida Belle Lefler, the youngest child, also became a teacher.
DEATH: Catharine Cemetery
Town of Catharine, Schuyler co., NYDEATH: (AKA St. John Cemetery /North Settlement Cemetery)
DEATH: List composed by William E. Fenton.
This is considered the most up-to-date list which is
kept on file in the local historical society.
DEATH: "Located about .4 miles east of the Village of Catharine on the south
side of the road. All stones checked Sept. 16, 2002 by W.E. Fenton.
Any line with an * after it is a name I didn’t see. That info came from the old DAR lists.
It appears that many of the graves are not marked as there is a large area with no stones".DEATH: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEATH: Lovell, William b.5-23-1799 d.5-26-1855 *BIOGRAPHY: 1825 census:LOVELL, William 31-1-----1-----1
DEATH: Lovell, Olive b.5-4-1811 d.12-26-1861 *
LOVELL, George W b. 10-13-1836 d. 5-15-1907
Ida May dau of George and M D d. 1-23-1881 age 9yr 6mo