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Orrin Porter Rockwell (June 28, 1813 or June 25, 1815 – June 9, 1878) was a figure of the Wild West period of American history. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed Old Port, The Destroying Angel of Mormondom and Modern-day Samson.
Rockwell served as a bodyguard, and was a personal friend, of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith. After Smith's death in 1844, Rockwell became a bodyguard of his successor, Brigham Young, and traveled with him and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to the Salt Lake Valley in the present-day U.S. state of Utah.
Rockwell was born in what was known as the "Dark Corner" section of Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, to Orin and Sarah Witt Rockwell, on June 25, 1813. Orin Rockwell came from Tolland, Connecticut, arriving in Belchertown by 1809, where he married Sarah Witt who was born there. Both were swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening.
At age 4, in about 1817, Rockwell moved with his family to western New York's Burned-over district, to Manchester and Palmyra. They became neighbors of the Smith family, who had moved there from Vermont the year before.
Rockwell was said to be related to Joseph Smith through a "jumble of ancestral lines" through his paternal grandmother, Irene Porter, who descended from John Porter and Ann White, "progenitors of the Mormon prophet."
Rockwell was eight years younger than Smith. While Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell picked berries at night and hauled wood into town to help pay for the publishing.
In 1830, at 16 years old, Rockwell was baptized into Smith's Church of Christ in Fayette, New York. Historically, the date of Rockwell's baptism is April 6, the day the church was organized, but original documents suggest a probable date of June 9. Rockwell was the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church.
On February 2, 1832, Rockwell married Luana Beebe in Jackson County, Missouri, and was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 5, 1846.
Porter Rockwell
Orrin Porter Rockwell (June 28, 1813 or June 25, 1815 – June 9, 1878) was a figure of the Wild West period of American history. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed Old Port, The Destroying Angel of Mormondom and Modern-day Samson.
Rockwell served as a bodyguard, and was a personal friend, of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith. After Smith's death in 1844, Rockwell became a bodyguard of his successor, Brigham Young, and traveled with him and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to the Salt Lake Valley in the present-day U.S. state of Utah.
Rockwell was born in what was known as the "Dark Corner" section of Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, to Orin and Sarah Witt Rockwell, on June 25, 1813. Orin Rockwell came from Tolland, Connecticut, arriving in Belchertown by 1809, where he married Sarah Witt who was born there. Both were swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening.
At age 4, in about 1817, Rockwell moved with his family to western New York's Burned-over district, to Manchester and Palmyra. They became neighbors of the Smith family, who had moved there from Vermont the year before.
Rockwell was said to be related to Joseph Smith through a "jumble of ancestral lines" through his paternal grandmother, Irene Porter, who descended from John Porter and Ann White, "progenitors of the Mormon prophet."
Rockwell was eight years younger than Smith. While Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell picked berries at night and hauled wood into town to help pay for the publishing.
In 1830, at 16 years old, Rockwell was baptized into Smith's Church of Christ in Fayette, New York. Historically, the date of Rockwell's baptism is April 6, the day the church was organized, but original documents suggest a probable date of June 9. Rockwell was the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church.
On February 2, 1832, Rockwell married Luana Beebe in Jackson County, Missouri, and was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 5, 1846.
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