Fanny Augusta Rockwood

Brief Life History of Fanny Augusta

When Fanny Augusta Rockwood was born on 20 December 1842, in New York, United States, her father, Samuel Rockwood, was 38 and her mother, Lucy Ann Kellogg, was 26. She married Thomas Jefferson Hewitt in 1862, in Boone, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lexington, Dawson, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States in 1910. She died on 31 January 1915, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lexington, Dawson, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Jefferson Hewitt
1837–1886
Fanny Augusta Rockwood
1842–1915
Marriage: 1862
Hewitt
1863–1863
Annie Mary Hewitt
1863–1864
Lucy Rockwood Hewitt
1865–1956
George Washington Hewitt
1866–1941
Samuel Kellogg Hewitt
1868–1947
Philo Judson Hewitt
1870–1955
Thomas Miner Hewitt
1875–1944
Theodore John Hewitt
1877–1929
Irenaeus Prime Hewitt
1879–1961
Louis Percival Hewitt
1883–1945

Sources (15)

  • Fany Rockwood in household of A Fager, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Fanny A. Rockwood, 1862 "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935" Thomas J. Hewitt 1862
  • Fanny A Hewitt, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Ogle, Illinois, United States

1867

Nebraska is the 37th state.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English rok(e) ‘rook’ + wod(e) ‘wood’ (Old English hrōc, wudu). The name may be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a wood inhabited by rooks, or habitational, for someone from any of several minor places so named, such as Rookwood Hall in Abbess Roding (Essex), Rook Wood in Finchingfield (Essex), or Rockwood in East Grinstead (Sussex).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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