History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
627.

REV. PATRICK M. J. ROCK, son of Michael Rock, was born in Armagh, 
Ireland, July 2, 1850, and was educated at St. Patrick's College in his 
native town.  He came to America in 1870, and taught in the theological 
seminary in Louisville fifteen months.  He was ordained in Louisville 
Cathedral by Bishop McCloskey, June 15, 1872.  He was pastor of the 
church at Elizabethtown nine months, and of St. Cecelia Church, 
Louisville, three years and nine months.  In February, 1879, he came to 
this precinct and has since that time been pastor of St. Lawrence 
Catholic Church, situated two miles east of Knottsville.

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