THE SPELLING OF THE FAMILIES LAST NAME ON THE HEADSTONES IS A MISSPELLING OF SURNAME ROQUET. FRANK ROQUET CHOSE TO GO BY THE SURNAME ROCKEY, WHICH HIS FAMILY WENT BY THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFETIMES. MY ORIGINAL MEMORIAL WITH THE MISSPELLED SURNAME RAQUET IS HERE FRANK RAQUET

Boarded 'The Hulburt' in Le Havre France, arrived 12/02/1851 in New Orleans LA. Mother Kathrina and young sister Louise Roquet died in IN in 1852.

Father Frederick married Sarah Beaver in 1854. The family went by wagon train headed west and settled in Mahaska county Iowa at the trading post named Fremont

Siblings: Frances 'Frank Rockey' Roquet 1841-1915, Charles Wade Roquet 1838-1927, Lewis Cole Roquet 1846-1943, Louise Roquet 1850-1852

Half siblings: Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Roquet 1857- , Mary Roquet 1859- , Susanna Roquet 1862- , Henry Roquet 1869-1875, Catherine Aurora Roquet Pratt Palmer 1866-1941, William 'Willie' Roquet 1872-

Married Rachel Emmeline White Feb 29, 1872
Daughter of John Quincy White and Alvira Elizabeth Hough

Children Otis Rockey, Rella Rockey Kennedy, Norman F Rockey, Ross C Rockey

According to Frank's baptism document, he was born on 7/29/1841 and baptised on 8/1/1841. So his birthdate on his headstone is wrong.

Franz Raquet
Gender: männlich (Male)
Event Type: Taufe (Baptism)
Birth Date: 29 Jul 1841
Baptism Date: 1 Aug 1841
Baptism Place: Laumersheim, Preußen (Germany)
Father: Friedrich Raquet
Mother: Katharine Raquet
Parish as it Appears: Laumersheim
City or District: Frankenthal, Heßheim, Heuchelheim u Laumersheim
Page Number: 12;13
Author: Evangelische Kirche Heuchelheim (BA. Frankenthal)

THE SPELLING OF THE FAMILIES LAST NAME IS ROQUET. SOME WENT BY ROQUET PRONOUNCED ROWKAY. SOME WENT BY ROQUET PRONOUCED ROCKY, SOME WENT BY ROCKEY, SOME WENT BY ROQUETTE PRONOUNCED ROW KET WITH A SHORT E....ALL THE SAME ORIGINAL FAMILY OF 4 SONS OF FATHER FREDERICK ROQUET.