Probate Court, Anderson County, Kansas, Estate of Jno R Rockers minor heir of Harmon H. Rockers. Harmon H. Rockers, Guar.
Filed, Dec. 2nd 1869
State of Kansas, Anderson County}
Harman H Rockers being duly sworn says that upon information garnered from a creditable source His minor son John F. Rockers of the age of Four years has by the death of John G. F. Moeller late of Cole County, State of Missouri became heir to certain property in said state of Missouri. (signed) H. H. Rockers.
Subscribed and sworn on this 2nd day of December AD 1869. M A Paye, Probate Judge
Another page in the file dated April 28, 1870, states that John F. Rockers was the heir of $110 dollars and Harmon H. Rockers was appointed guardian.
I knew John F. Rockers mother was Anna Margretha Mueller. I didn't know when she married Harmon H. Rockers and I could only find her listed with him in the 1865 Kansas Census. In February 1869, Harmon married Elizabeth Meimers in Anderson County, Kansas. While visiting in Anderson County, we stopped at the St. Boniface Cemetery in Scipio. This is where most of the Rockers ancestors are buried. I forgot my camera so I didn't get a photo of the tombstone I found. It states "Margareth A. Rockers 5 June 1830 - 15 July 1866"
I returned home to Missouri and following a job interview, I paid a visit to the Missouri State Archives. I browsed microfilm of estates in Cole county looking for the surname Moeller. I found a will for Johann Gerhard Muhler dated 1868 and read through it. The grandson mentioned in this will was John Bernard Rockers of Germany. I switched to another source I found in the index which was on microfiche. It was the estate settlement of John G. Moller filed in 1866 in Cole county. I found John Rockers among the heirs in the settlement.
"To be distributed as follows:
J. B. Schneeders & wife $58.19 2/3
Minor heirs of John H. Moller, dec $58.19 2/3
Guardian of John Rockers $58.19 2/3"Dated April 23, 1869 on the previous page.
J G Moller's estate was quite large and I have yet to decipher the handwriting on all of the pages. There were in total, three settlements.
The Missouri State Historical Society has digitized some of the newspapers and made them available for searching on their website. I searched for Moller and found a notice of Sheriff's Sale of Real Estate in Partition.
Now I have the names of all of the heirs. I still don't know anything about John G. Moller.
In the Missouri State Archives is a book of Baptisms and Marriages from St Francis Xavier Church in Taos, MO. In this book I found the marriage of Harmon H Rockers and Anna Margaret Mueller on 11 June 1861. Why Harmon went back to Taos, MO at that time, I have yet to determine. I am still looking for the death time and place of his mother, Anna Catherine ( nee Wolken) Rockers. I have not found her following the 1860 census. Her husband, Herman Federick Rockers, is buried in St Boniface Cemetery, but haven't found a tombstone for Catherine.
Still have plenty of mystery to solve in this line but excited to find this connection!
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