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Show DEATH SUMMONS BISHOP ROCKWOOD Salt Lake, March 7. The death of Bishop Charles W. Rockwood of lona ward, Binghnm county,' Idaho, who passed away at his home Thursday, a victim of cancer of tho stomach, marks the close of a notable career of a Utah pioneer and churchman. Continued ill health caused the release re-lease of Bishop Rockwood from hiB ecclle8iastical duties about a year ago. He started for California in .the hope of recuperation, but upon reaching Salt Lake City went to a local hospital for examination and there learned the cause of his illness. Then he returned home nnd patiently awaited the end. convinced that neither nei-ther climate nor surgeons could save his life. Bishop Rockwood Is survived by his widow, seven children, one slater and four brothers. The children are Mrs Lulu Hall, Mexico City, Mexico; Mrs Mattte Telford, lona, Idaho; Mrs. Eva ChaTfin. Ogden; Miss Ella Rockwood, lona; Jedcdlah, Amos and Bryant Rockwood, all of lona. The brothers are Samuel ( Alpheua and J. A. Rockwood Rock-wood of Salt Lake City; tho sister Utah11"5' RUth 'No111 of Charleson, Charles W. Rockwood, who was born in the "Old Fort," Salt Lake Uty, March 2, 18B0, left a brlof autobiography auto-biography in which he recounts his recollection of the hardships through which ho passed in the late fifties, as witnessos ono significant sentence: i? passetl through the famine of lbbb and 1857, when we were reduced ;2 s"staInns on bran broad After the bran was all gone wc wore three weeks without bread, meat or milk, and had to sustain life from what could , be gathered in the fields-roots, fields-roots, thistles and big weeds." |