"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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ISAAC W. ROOKER was born in Blount County, Tenn., November 25, 1806, and
came to Indiana in 1818, with his parents, who settled in Wayne County.
>From Wayne the family removed into Morgan County in 1822, and located upon
land entered from the United States Government in Brown Township, and here
the father and mother, William and Nancy (Saffell) Rooker, spent the
remainder of their lives. They were natives of England and Old Virginia
respectively, and lived to a very old age, being each about eighty-four
years when they departed this life. They were married in Virginia, and
lived together as man and wife about sixty-five years, rearing a family of
eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of which number Isaac W. was
tenth. He was reared as a farmer, and had the benefit of about nine months'
schooling in Brown Township, but seems, however, to have improved his
opportunities for learning, for he was employed several months at teaching
the young children in his neighborhood. April 6, 1826, Mr. Rooker was
married in Morgan County to Polly Ballard, a native of Ohio, by whom he had
born to him nine children--Elizabeth J., Nancy A. (deceased), Rachael E.
(deceased), Mary Ann, Calvin F., Rufus R. (deceased), John W., William A.
(deceased), and Catharine L. William A. died in the United States Army, and
the mother of these children died October 8, 1883, at the age of about
seventy-six years. Mr. and Mrs. R. both became members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church when young, and Mrs. R. lived and died as a Christian
should. His property, aside from a small inheritance from the estate of his
father, has been acquired by his own industry, and like most of the pioneers
of a new country, he learned lessons of hardship ad privation, and has eaten
of the bread earned by the sweat of the brow. He has always been of a
somewhat retiring disposition and to attend strictly to his own business and
allow other people to do the same, has been the rule of his actions through
life. His declining years are being spent peacefully upon his old
homestead, where his wants are administered to by his daughter and her
husband, who live with him, and who spare no efforts to make his old age
comfortable and happy.
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