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- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141073902/charles-rockhold
Son of John Rockhold and Elizabeth Elinor Talbott
Married Ruth Marsh 21 Jan 1773 in Maryland
From "Scenes from the Bluffs "
Sullivan County has achieved its present place of prominence in East Tennessee through the efforts of many of its early citizens, whose memory is preserved in many place names, and whose tradition of leadership is carried on by their direct descendants.
One of these prominent citizens was William Rockhold, a native of Maryland and the son of Charles Rockhold of English and German descent. The family came to Sullivan County about 1795, settling near the Bushong Furnace near King's Port. From 1805-1806 the brothers William and Thomas sold goods in Blountville. Thomas was also sheriff of Sullivan County, and William was Justice of the Peace and State's Attorney.
In 1815 William Rockhold married Harriet Netherland of King's Port, the daughter of Richard Netherland and sister of John Netherland who, incidentally, raised his voice in the state senate against the removal of Indians from their eastern homes to the territory beyond the Mississippi. The newly married Rock- holds bought a farm on the southside of the Holston River four miles east of Bluff City, and lived there with their family more than four decades. In 1847 William Rockhold deeded twelve acres to the Methodist Episcopal Church "for a Camp and Meeting House." Though church services were held in the Edward Cox house close by until his death in 1852, Camp Meetings were regularly held at the Rockhold site. After Cox's death, services were held at Rockhold in the first meeting house, a log structure which continued to be used until destroyed by a flood. The Rockhold Campground is the only one in the county which has continued its meetings annually.
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1749 - 1844 (94 years)