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Show DEATH TAKES .PiONEER NURSE AT ROCKVILLE Several Months Suffering of Mrs. Sarah Arietta Cox Ended Friday; Funeral Held Sunday at Orderville Mrs. Sarah Arietta Cox, 72, a pioneer nurse of eastern Washington Wash-ington and Kane counties, died at her home in Rockville on Friday, October 16, of diabetes. She had been ailing for several months, and was taken seriously ill a week before her death. Funeral services were held in the Orderville ward meeting house Sunday under the direction direc-tion of Bishop Carroll of Mt. Carmel. Music was furnished by the Orderville ward choir, the first number being "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." Invocation was by Elder Alfred Al-fred R. Meeks of the high council coun-cil of the Kanab stake. Singing by the choir, "O, My Father." The speakers were Patriarch John D. Hardy, Bishop Henry Esplin, Heber Hirschi of the Rockville ward, and Elder Ernest Er-nest Croft. All were eloquent in their praise of the departed, who lived only for the service she could give and the comfort and cheer which always followed her in every home. The closing selection was "I Need Thee Every Hour." Benediction was by Elder. McDonald. Mc-Donald. At the grave side the choir sang "Shall We Meet Beyond the River," and the grave was dedicated by Henry Blackburn. Mrs. Cox was born July 21, 1859, at Provo, a daughter of Zemira and Caroline Jacques Palmer. Her early life was spent in Panaca, Nevada, Panguitch and Springdale. In 1S7 6 she moved mov-ed to Orderville and with the people of that community lived the United Order until it was dissolved. She was married to Amos Cox on July 10, 1876, in the Endowment Endow-ment house in Salt Lake City, and in 1S9 0, the family moved to Old Mexico, returning to Orderville Or-derville in 1912. In addition to rearing a family fam-ily of brothers and sisters, she followed the vocation of maternity mater-nity nurse, being set apart for this work by Bishop George Hardy of Chihuahua, Mexico. She assisted at the birth of several sev-eral hundred children, having attended 331 births since her return re-turn from that nation. Because of ill health she moved mov-ed Rockville to be near her sister, Mrs. Brigham Dalton, and died there Friday. She was respected re-spected and admired by all who knew her, and had a strong testimony of the gospel. Her entire en-tire life was devoted to the care of little children, and the sick and needy. |