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Marriage: Children:
  1. Louisa Maylantha Rock: Birth: 20 DEC 1869 in Canton, Fulton, IL. Death: 19 FEB 1951 in Page Co., IA

  2. Lewis William Rock: Birth: 27 JUL 1875 in Fulton Co., IL. Death: 2 NOV 1946 in Taylor Co., IA


Sources
1. Source:   Pauline Utzinger

Notes
a. Note:   Subj: Rock Family History
 Date: 9/15/02 8:33:18 PM Central Daylight Time
 From: [email protected]@attbi.com (blmadunk)
 To: [email protected]@credible.com
 CC: [email protected]@aol.com, [email protected]@kc.rr.com, [email protected]@aol.com
  Hello - I am wondering if this is the same family - our #6 - Johann Ludwig Rock has the same birthdate as this Lewis Rock. Is it one and the same? My Aunt Violet Groff was married to Wayne Rock - 1.1.2.2.
 Mary Ann (Hendrickson) Dunkin
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  FAMILY HISTORY
  OF
  SIMON AND ELIZABETH ROCK
  PARENTS OF LEWIS ROCK
  1. SIMON ROCK, b Hesse-Darmstasrdt , Germany, m ELIZABETH ?????, coming to the United States in 1855, settling in Fulton County, Illinois. They were the parents of four children. One known name: LEWIS ROCK.
  L E W I S R O C K
  1.1. LEWIS ROCK, only known child of SIMON and ELIZABETH ROCK, b 23 Oct 1844, Hesse-Darmstardt, Germany, d 18 Aug 1909 of a heart attack, while working in the oat field, age 64, bu Guss Cemetery, Taylor County, Iowa, m 12 Mar 1868, Canton, Fulton County, Illinois to ANNA MARGARET MAHR, dau of PETER and MARY MAHR, b 23 Sep 1845, near Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, moving with her parents, two brothers and one sister in 1846 to Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois. Her mother died in 1847 and she was raised by her grandparents. Her father remarried and had eight sons and two daughters from this second marriage. Lewis and Anna Rock migrated to Taylor County, Iowa, 12 Feb 1880. Anna d 9 Jul 1927 at age 81. Lewis and Anna were the parents of two children: LOUISA MAYLANTHA and LEWIS WILLIAM ROCK.
  L O U I S A M A Y L A N T H A R O C K
  1.1.1. LOUISA MAYLANTHA ROCK, first child of LEWIS and ANNA (MAHR) ROCK, b 20 Dec 1869, Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, d 19 Feb 1951, age 82, Page County, Iowa, bu Guss Cemetery, m 16 Oct 1884 to JOSEPH PHILIP CLEMENT, son of CLAUDE and MARY JANE (NORET) CLEMENT, b 28 Mar 1849, Stark County, Ohio, d 1 Apr 1918, Taylor County, Iowa, of self-inflicted bullet, bu Guss Cemetery. His father died when Joe was a small boy and his mother m PETER GURNEY. Mary and Peter Gurney and family migrated to Taylor County, Iowa ca 1856. Louisa and Joe were the parents of three children: CLIFTON ELLIS, DALE FRANCIS and LENA MAYLANTHA CLEMENT. (See the Clement family history - pg. 3).
  L E W I S W I L L I A M R O C K
  1.1.2. LEWIS WILLIAM (BILL) ROCK, the second child of LEWIS and ANNA (MAHR) ROCK, b 27 Jul 1875, Fulton County, Illinois, coming to Taylor County, Iowa with his parents in the spring of 1880, d 2 Nov 1946, age 71, Taylor County, m 26 Apr 1899 to LENA (EMMA) WERNER, dau of JOHN (ADAM) WERNER and ELIZABETH PHILIPANA (CHRISTINA) STACK. Emma was b 7 Feb 1883, Page County, Iowa, d 14 Mar 1951, age 68, both bu Guss Cemetery.
  JOHN (ADAM) WERNER, father of EMMA (WERNER) ROCK, was b 26 Apr 1852, Nassau, Germany, immigrating to the USA in 1872, m 1 Jan 1882, Chicago, Illinois to ELIZABETH PHILAPANA (CHRISTINA) STACK, b 29 Dec 1864, Germany. She immigrated with her parents to the USA in 1881, residing in Chicago, Illinois. Christina had a sister Minnie Stack (Mrs. Charles Opitz), a brother Philip Stack of Los Angeles and a brother George Stack of Chicago. John and Christina Werner were the parents of three children: LENA EMMA, ALBERT and ESTLEY WILLIE WERNER.
  ALBERT WERNER, b 16 Jun 1885, d 2 Dec 1927, m twice, first m 16 Dec 1906 to CARRIE TIMMERMAN. Three children: GERALDINE WERNER, d 1912, in infancy, GERALD JAMES WERNER, b 4 Jan 1912, and ARLENE MAXINE WERNER, b 20 Mar 1916. ALBERT'S second m to HAZEL SWISEGOOD, of Illinois, one child of this union, LOIS JEAN WERNER.
  ESTLEY WILLIE WERNER, b 10 Dec 1894, Page County, Iowa, m 5 Jan 1916 to IONE RAE MUCKEY, d 1 Dec 1984, Gering, Nebraska. They had farmed Estle's family farm for 34 years before moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming and then to Gering, Nebraska, where their dau resided. Two children: WILMA and YALE WERNER.
  Bill and Emma Rock farmed near Guss, in Taylor County, Iowa. Two children: EDNA MARIE and WAYNE EDWARD ROCK.
  E D N A M A R I E R O C K
  1.1.2.1. EDNA (MARIE) ROCK, first child of BILL and EMMA (WERNER) ROCK, b 21 Feb 1900, near Guss, Taylor County, Iowa, m 23 Aug 1922 to VERN EVERARD LEWIS, b 21 Apr 1898, Victor, Iowa County, Iowa, d 24 Apr 1980, the son of FRANK E. and HATTIE (BANGHART) LEWIS. They were farmers southeast of Villisca, Iowa, residing on the same farm for 50 years before moving to Villisca. He also was an agency manager for the Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company for 30 years. Marie resides Villisca Care Center (1993). Marie and Vern were the parents of one son: DWIGHT HOLLIS LEWIS.
  DWIGHT HOLLIS LEWIS
  1.1.2.1.1. DWIGHT HOLLIS LEWIS, only child of MARIE (ROCK) and VERN LEWIS, b 26 Mar 1928, m 18 Jun 1950 to CAROL (JANICE) FOCHT, b 12 Feb 1929, dau of FRED LAWRENCE and BELVA IRENE (GOURLEY) FOCHT. Dwight and Janice both taught in the Villisca Community Schools. Reside on a farm southeast of Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa. Two dau: CAROL JEAN and KAREN KAY LEWIS.
  1.1.2.1.1.1. CAROL JEAN LEWIS, b 27 Apr 1955, m 16 Jul 1977 to MARK F. ENO, son of FRED and ARLENE (PRATHER) ENO, Villisca, Iowa. Children: SCOTT FREDRICK and BLAKE LEWIS ENO.
  1.1.2.1.1.1.1. SCOTT FREDRICK ENO, b 18 Aug 1979.
  1.1.2.1.1.1.2. BLAKE LEWIS ENO, b 11 May 1982.
  1.1.2.1.1.2. KAREN KAY LEWIS, b 8 Jul 1958, m 14 May 1977 to RICHARD DEAN FAST, son of ORVILLE and PEGGY (COZAD) FAST, b 22 Dec 1956. Children: DUSTIN JERAMIAH and TRISH NICOLE FAST.
  1.1.2.1.1.2.1. DUSTIN JEREMIAH FAST, b 23 Aug 1977.
  1.1.2.1.1.2.2. TRISH NICOLE FAST, b 11 Feb 1982.
  W A Y N E E D W A R D R O C K
  1.1.2.2. WAYNE EDWARD ROCK, the second child of BILL and EMMA (WERNER) ROCK, b 15 Mar 1905, Guss, Taylor County, Iowa, d 15 Nov 1990, Clarinda, Page County, Iowa, m 9 Feb 1927, at the home of her parents, to VIOLET MARIE GROFF, second child of JOE and LENA (SPRING) GROFF, b 12 Jun 1905, on the family farm west of Iveyville, Adams County, Iowa, d 18 Nov 1974 of cancer, bu Clarinda Cemetery, Page County, Iowa. Wayne and Violet farmed in Nodaway Township, Taylor County, later retiring to Clarinda, Iowa. Wayne spent the last 13 years of his life in the Good Samaratin Center in Clarinda. Two children: LOLA JEAN and BILLY JOE ROCK. (See Groff family history - pg. 16).
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 04/12/93
 Mary Ann (Hendrickson) Dunkin



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