In his build, he was a gladiator in his humor, a Yankee lumberman in his memory, a Bourbon in his vengeance, an Indian. īut he was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity.
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According to legend, Rockwell told a crowd listening to United States vice president Schuyler Colfax in 1869, "I never killed anyone who didn't need killing", a quote used by actor John Wayne in a movie decades later. Rockwell killed many men as a gunfighter, a religious enforcer, and Deputy United States Marshal. On February 2, 1832, Rockwell married Luana Beebe in Jackson County, Missouri, and was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 5, 1846. Rockwell was the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church. 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. In 1830, at 16-years old, Rockwell was baptized into Smith's Church of Christ in Fayette, New York. While Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell picked berries at night and hauled wood into town to help pay for the publishing. Rockwell was eight years younger than Smith. He was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Rockwell was born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, to Orin and Sarah Rockwell, who were neighbors of the Smith family. 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. Rockwell served as a bodyguard, and was a personal friend, of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed Old Port and The Destroying Angel of Mormondom. Orrin Porter Rockwell (Jor J– June 9, 1878) was a figure of the Wild West period of American history.
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