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Lincoln County Deaths
BROWN, Benjamin, M.D.,
a surgeon in the
Navy during the Revolution, and a Representative from Lincoln Dist.,
Maine, then part of Maschusetts, in the 14th Congress, died Sept. 17 at
Waldoboro, Maine, age 75. (Oct. 7, 1831)
(Source: Source: National Intelligencer, as pub. in the NGSQ,
vol 55, No. 1, March 1967, submitted by K.
Torp)
Rockwood, Angeline
Horne
Death of a Pioneer:
Died in
Centreville, Davis county (Utah), Dec. 1, 1902 at the residence of her
son, M.P. Rockwood, with whom she has resided the past 16 years, Angeline
Horne Rockwood., wife of the late A.P. Rockwood and daughter of Franklin
and Sarah F. Hodgkins born in Friendship, Lincoln County, Maine in 1835,
she married Moses Horne in 1844. they with their three little girls
embraced the everlasting gospel and moved to Nauvoo. Brother Horne
was one of the Prophet Joseph Smith's escorts when he went to Carthage,
just before he was killed. Her husband was killed by an accident
while working for the Nauvoo Temple. She was afterwards married to
Albert Perry Rockwood in the nauvoo Temple when the exodus of the Saints
took place, by whom she bore two children, a daughter who died in infancy
and a son, M.P. Rockwood, now living. She emigrated to utah in 1848,
and endured all the privations and hardships of pioneer life, but was full
of energy and untiring in perseverence and industry until overcome by old
age. She died as she had lived, having full faith and hope of a
glorious resurrection. She leaves three daughters, one son, 27 grand
and 68 great granchildren.
The funeral services were held at the
Centreville Tabernacle Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1902. Speakers were Elders
John E. Wooley, Loring Wooley, Charles Smith and John Ford.
Benediction by Joseph Ford.
The services at the grave dedicatory
prayer was offered by A.P. rockwood. The casket was covered with
beautiful flowers and was borne to its last resting place by four sons of
A.P. Rockwood and two grandsons.
[source: Deseret
evening News, Salt Lake City, Utah, December 11, 1902
edition]
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