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Birth	:	22 Jul 1832 Columbiana County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	1913
Burial	:	Hansford Cemetery, Spearman, Hansford County, USA
Coordinate	:	36.1988983, -101.2957993
Description	:	MRS. RACHEL ROCKHILL. The life history of the amiable and popular lady whose name heads this sketch most happily illustrates what may be attained by faithful and continued effort in carrying out noble purposes. It is a story of a life whose success is measured by its usefulness - a life that has made the world better and brighter. Her career has been dignified and womanly, her manner unaffected, and her actions, springing from a heart charged with love and good feeling for humanity, have been a blessing to all who were within the range of her influence. She is... Read More	MRS. RACHEL ROCKHILL. The life history of the amiable and popular lady whose name heads this sketch most happily illustrates what may be attained by faithful and continued effort in carrying out noble purposes. It is a story of a life whose success is measured by its usefulness - a life that has made the world better and brighter. Her career has been dignified and womanly, her manner unaffected, and her actions, springing from a heart charged with love and good feeling for humanity, have been a blessing to all who were within the range of her influence. She is a representative of one of the pioneer families of northern Indiana, and for many years was the wife of one of Kosciusko county's most worthy and honorable citizens. Rachael Teegarden, daughter of George and Sarah (Teel) Teegarden, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 22d day of July, 1832 Her paternal grandfather, a native of Germany, came to the United States a great many years ago and settled in Greene county, Pennsylvania, where his son George was born and reared. George Teegarden was reared a farmer and when a young man married Sarah Teel, whose ancestors also came from Germany and in an early day settled in the county and state where the Teegardens originally located. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in Greene county and continued to live there till he came to Columbiana county, Ohio. He later disposed of his possessions in that county and migrated to Kosciusko county, Indiana, about 1831, settling in the township of Harrison. Here he purchased land, cleared a farm and became one of the substantial and enterprising men of his community. He was a pronounced Methodist in his religious views and as long as he lived worked zealously to establish organizations of that faith in various parts of the country. His moral character was pure and clear, his influence was always exercised in behalf of the good of his kind and he left to his children a name and fame which the tongue of slander never attacked and which today are deemed of far greater worth than a heritage of lands and gold. George and Sarah Teegarden had nine children, whose names are Eliza, Lavica, Salomon, Thomas, Moses, Wil1iam, Jeremiah, George and Rachael. Rachael spent her childhood days and youthful years amid the bracing airs of the country and grew to womanhood among the beautiful rural scenes of her native county of Columbiana and the newer county of Kosciusko. The influence which close communion with nature in its varied loveliness had upon her youthful character was very marked and the early religious impressions made upon her mind and heart by the teachings of godly parents had a decided tendency in moulding her life for good and shaping her destiny towards high ideals. In the common schools she received a fair education and while attending them made acquaintances and formed ties which time has not dimmed nor circumstances severed. She grew up strong and healthful in body and mind and was early taught the lessons of industry and thrift which have had such a marked influence upon her subsequent career as a maiden and matron. On the 7th day of April, 1853, two years after coming to Indiana, she was happily married to Mr. Aaron Rockhill, a young gentleman of blameless character, whose arrival in Kosciusko county antedated that of her father's family about one year. He also settled in Harrison township, but purchased an eighty-acre farm one mile west of Etna Green, Marshall county, and it was on this place that the young couple set up their domestic establishment and began married life. Mr. Rockhill was a man of much more than ordinary energy and but few years elapsed before he began adding to his original purchase. He possessed sound judgment and superior business abilities, and as a farmer took high rank among his neighbors, nearly all of whom looked upon him as a model agriculturist and regarded him with favor as a man of broad intelligence and a leader in enterprises for the general prosperity of the community. He continued from time to time to purchase real estate until he became the owner of two hundred acres of as rich and valuable land as northern Indiana could boast of, part of which lay in Kosciusko county and part just across the line in the county of Marshall. He was very fortunate in all of his business transactions and everything in which he engaged seemed to prosper. By successful management and continual industry he acquired quite a respectable fortune, his real estate alone representing a value of over twelve thousand dollars. Mrs. Rockhill proved an able and valuable assistant to her husband in the labor of clearing the farm, and deemed it not beneath her womanly dignity to go into the clearing and gather and pile brush and attend to firing the log heaps. She also made a full hand in the harvesting and hay making, at the same time looking after her household affairs with the most scrupulous care, never neglecting a single domestic duty. Always cheerful and kindly disposed, she labored by the side of her husband and made the time pass merrily while engaged in the most severe and exacting toil. Much of the success which Mr. Rockhill attained is directly attributable to the willingness and self-sacrifice of his companion, and when the bright day of prosperity finally dawned she shared with him its welcome rays and together they enjoyed the ample fortune which in the end crowned their mutual efforts. Mrs. Rockhill bore her husband six children: Anna, born April 19, 1854, is the wife of Henry Plummer and lives in Etna Green; George, born February 7, 1858, married Amanda Beck and resides in Marshal1 county; Nathan F., whose birth occurred June 3, 1861, married Minnie Porter and is a business man of Plymouth; Solomon was born June 16, 1863, and died October 10, 1893: Homer, born October 24, 1866, married Lillian Hayherst and resides in the town of Knox, this state; Nora, the youngest of the family, was born on the 28th day of October, 1869. She became the wife of William Wissler, who died February 21, 1894, since which time she has lived with her mother in Etna Green. In his political affiliations Aaron Rockhill was a Republican, later a Prohibitionist, and in religion he was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was quite active in religious work and for a period of about twenty-five years held the office of class leader, besides filling other important official positions in the church at Etna Green. To him religion was seemingly as essential as the food he ate and the air he breathed; he was a close student of the Holy Scriptures and by living a life consecrated to the service of the Most High was inspired to noble deeds and great activities in his life and amply prepared to "see the King in His beauty and behold the land that is afar off" when the time came to exchange the church militant for the church triumphant. He was a good man and a just one and when the final summons came, November 7, 1899, he fearlessly entered the valley of shadows, cheered by the presence of Him who is the "resurrection and the life." Since her husband's death Mrs. Rockhill has manifested fine business abilities in the management of the large estate and she looks carefully after the interests left in her charge. In the year 1890 Mr. and Mrs. Rockhill turned the farm over to other hands and retired from active life, purchasing a neat and comfortable home in the beautiful village of Etna Green, where she now resides. Like her husband, she, too, is of a sincerely religious nature and her life has abounded in good works in the church and among the deserving poor in the world outside. Among her neighbors she is held in the highest esteem and she numbers warmhearted friends by the score in the town where she is spending her declining years. She has experienced many of life's vicissitudes, enjoyed many of its triumphs and is now surrounded by those who have long known and respected her for her kindly disposition and sweep moral nature. She is passing down the shady side towards the journey's end, honored by all and cheered by a living faith in Him who in the afterwhile, when "life's fitful fever is over," will welcome her with the sweet plaudit, "Come thou blessed of the Father, enter into the joys of thy Lord." Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana B. F. Bowen, Publisher Logansport, Indiana 1902

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Latitude: 36.1988983
Longitude: -101.2957993

Family Members:

Parent

George Teegarden

(1784 - 1870)

Sarah Teel Teegarden

(1789 - 1856)

Spouse

Aaron Rockhill

(1831 - 1899)

Siblings

Lavisa Teegarden Hartley

(1815 - 1908)

Children

Sarah Anna Rockhill Plummer

(1854 - 1929)

George Ellis Rockhill

(1858 - 1917)

Solomon O Rockhill

(1863 - 1893)

Nora L Rockhill Wissler

(1869 - 1915)

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Coordinate: 36.1988983, -101.2957993

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