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1847–1868

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Birth Date
23 July 1821
Death Date
1855
Gender
Male
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Merritt Rockwell

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  • and family.  Husband of Martha Ann Condit Rockwell; brother of Orrin Porter Rockwell.  Merritt died in San Jose, California, USA.

Edward Hunter Company (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 28
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Martha Ann Rockwell (Age: 21)
  • Porter Jeptha Rockwell (Age: 1)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census, Weber County.
  • Edward Hunter and Robert Campbell letter to Brigham Young, 17 July 1850.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1850, 11.
  • Martha S. Heywood reminiscences, undated, Journal, 1850 January-1856 August.
  • Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register.
  • "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.