When Joseph Calvin Adellmore Rockwell was born on 27 October 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Orrin "Porter" Rockwell, was 31 and his mother, Luana Hart Beebe, was 30. He died on 11 April 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Wythe Presbyterian Cemetery, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
English (Buckinghamshire): habitational name either from Rockwell End in Hambleden (Buckinghamshire), derived from Old English hrōc ‘rook’ + holt ‘wood, thicket’, or from one or more unidentified places in southwestern England apparently named Rockwell. This surname is now rare in Britain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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