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Myron Rockwell (1804-1876) of Bradford and Tioga Co., Pennsylvania [R146 in edition 1, R142 in ed. 2]: Descendant Bob Lefler reports that Myron founded the State Road Baptist Church between Covington and Troy, Pennsylvania. He preached at Jobs Corner Baptist Church in the 1860s and 1870s. He was buried in the churchyard of the old Roseville Baptist Church, where he also preached. Bob Lefler found his stone in poor repair and shored it up. [This is about a half-mile up the road from the present site of the church.] Myron's home was on Pumpkin Hill, overlooking both Roseville and Jobs Corner.

Further details on Myron's descendants:

Daughter Nancy Jane Rockwell and husband Joel Webster, of Rutland, Pa., had the following children:

  1. Joel O. Webster, b. 25 Jan. 1851 at Sullivan, Pa. He married, 24 May 1874, at Roseville, Pa., Fanny Ely. They lived at Daggett's Mills, Pa. in 1876.
  2. Elizabeth A. Webster, b. 10 Aug. 1853 at Sullivan, Pa.
  3. Myron L. Webster, b. 10 August 1855 at Rutland, Pa.
  4. Horace F. Webster, b. 26 Nov. 1859 at Rutland.
  5. Roswell H. Webster, b. 31 Oct. 1861 at Rutland.
  6. Frederick E. Webster, b. 9 April 1865 at Rutland.
Son Myron Adriel Rockwell and wife Elizabeth Bessey, of Troy, Pa., had the following children:
  1. Effie E. Rockwell, b. 20 Dec. 1853 at Troy; d. 19 Dec. 1862.
  2. Annie Jane Rockwell, b. 30 Sept. 1859; d. 9 June 1864.
  3. Adriel B. Rockwell, b. 25 Dec. 1863.
Myron Adriel Rockwell and second wife Isabel Wilson, of Towanda, Pa., had the following children:
  1. Myron Clark Rockwell, b. 9 March 1873 at Monroeton, Pa.
  2. Edward P. Rockwell, b. 23 July 1875 at Towanda, Pa.
Son Warren Allen Rockwell and wife Sylvia E. Johns, of Sullivan, Pa., had the following children:
  1. Helen Eliza Rockwell, b. 22 April 1858; died 26 Feb. 1859.
  2. Burt J. Rockwell, b. 18 August 1861.
  3. Samuel B. Rockwell, b. 23 Nov. 1872.
Son Horace Wesley Rockwell and wife Harriet Emily Hinman had the following children [Phoenix, Whitney Family, p. 2111-2112]:
  1. Frances Ladesha Rockwell, b. 1 Jan. 1867. She married Coly Beach. Their son Horace Beach attended Columbia University in New York City and became an educator. In the 1920s he was Principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, where a cousin, Mark Rockwell Lefler, served as Supervisor of Schools. [For further, see below, under Myron's daughter Ella.] Another son of Coly and Frances Beach, Frederick Beach, was the Chief of the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s and 1940s. (Thanks to Bob Lefler for this information.)
  2. Mary Elizabeth Rockwell, b. at Monroeton, Pa., 24 Jan. 1869.
  3. Horace Hinman Rockwell, b. at Monroeton, Pa., 3 Dec. 1871.
  4. Harriet Grace Rockwell, b. at Monroeton, Pa., 21 Jan. 1875; d. 16 Apr. 1875
Daughter Mary E. and husband Ira Bement, of Jackson, Pa., had the following children [Phoenix, Whitney Family, p. 2112]:
  1. Adriel J. Bement, b. 4 July 1869.
  2. Mary Edith Bement, b. 21 Nov. 1865.
Daughter Emma P. and husband Frank L. Miller, of Williamsport, Pa., had the following children:
  1. Caroline E. Miller, b. 26 April 1860.
  2. Henry Rockwell Miller, b. 28 July 1868.
Son Oscar went to Pennsylvania State Medical School and became a physician in Monroeton, Pa., before he married. He and wife Catharine M. Hanson, of Monroeton, Pa., had the following child, as of Phoenix's information:
  1. Mary C. Rockwell, b. 14 June 1872.
Daughter Ella and husband Marsall James Lefler lived about a mile from the Jobs Corners Church and would entertain new ministers there. They had the following children [Phoenix, Whitney Family, p. 2112, supplemented by Bob Lefler's information]:
  1. Myron Charles Lefler, b. at Jackson, Pa., 11 March 1874, d. 21 April 1875.
  2. Mark Rockwell Lefler, b. at Jackson, Pa., 15 Jan. 1876. He was an educator and became a principal supervisor in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, for 17 years, also serving as President of the New Jersey Association of School Administrator. Later he settled in Westport, Connecticut--in Fairfield County, from which his ancestors had moved in the 1760s. He was Superintendent of Schools in Westport. Interestingly, another descendant of Myron Rockwell, Mark's first cousin once removed, Horace Beech, served during the same period as Principal of Westport's Staples High School. Together, they brought Staples High up to state standards. Mark's daughter Berneta Lefler became President of the Staples Student Body and later, after graduating from Mansfield Normal, where she was also student body president, she became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Wilton, Connecticut. This was all in the 1920s and 1930s. [Thanks to descendant Bob Lefler for this.]
  3. Lillian May Lefler, b. at Jackson, Pa., 20 April 1877. [Phoenix called her "Lilla," but Bob Lefler has record of her first name.] She married Arthur Alan Watkins of Arnot, Tioga Co., Pa., a physician. Watkins attended the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by farmer Benjamin Harrison on the condition that he name his first child after Harrison, which he did. His father was a coal miner, and Arthur Watkins spent his career treating the miners, eventually dying of the tuberculosis that afflicted them.
  4. Verne Myron Lefler (born since Phoenix), who became a science and physics teacher at Troy High School, Troy, Pa., ca. 1914, and had a long career there, about 35 years.
  5. Victor Blaine Lefler, who also became a teacher for a time, at Daggett School House.
  6. Ida Belle Lefler, the youngest child, also became a teacher.