A.O. Rockenbach Family

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What’s New

2/28/2025 Added Audio Interviews with Sarah Belcher

2/22/2025 Added descendants for Johann Christian Rockenbach & Catherine Hilger to the Rockenbach Tree

2/14/2025 Updates and corrections for History/Coming to America

2/7/2025 Added a video of Cynthia Rockenbach’s presentation at the Lake County History Symposium titled “See the USA in Your Chevrolet from Rockenbach’s

3/4/24 Upgraded the genealogy addon module to TNG v14.0.4. Minor bug fixes.

11/17/23 Upgraded the genealogy addon module to TNG v14.0.3. Minor bug fixes.

5/18/23 Upgraded the genealogy addon module to TNG v14.0.2. Minor bug fixes.

1/3/23 Upgraded the genealogy addon module to TNG v14. Updates the pages for readability.

2/8/2022 – Added entire  Royal Spear’s History Book

2/6/2022 – Added Almon & Lizzie Love Letters

Purpose

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Editor’s Note: The header image for this site is a composite of the two images shown below. Both photos were taken in 1887.

This is a photo of the George Rockenbach farm on Saunders Road. Those pictured are, from left to right: George Rockenbach III, Preston Rockenbach (sitting), Samuel Rockenbach (on horse) , Orman Rockenbach (standing by wagon), and Almon Rockenbach.

Lorenz_Ott Farm - left - Copy

This photo is also of the George Rockenbach farm, likely taken at the same time as the photo above. Those pictured are, from left to right: Sarah Ott (sitting), and her daughters Ella RockenbachIrene Rockenbach (sitting), Viola Rockenbach, and Adelaide “Addie” Rockenbach.

Lorenz Ott_Farm-right cropped - Copy