ROCKWOOD, Marcellus Orestes 1843-1920

ROCKWOOD, BROWN, PRATT

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 2/15/2007 at 13:51:53

Marcellus Rockwood

Marcellus Orestes Rockwood was born in Burlington, Vt., Aug. 2, 1843, to Zodok and Caroline Pratt-Rockwood. He departed this life at 11:30 a.m. last Thursday, April 1, 1920.

In 1868 he came west to Beloit, Wis., thinking a change in climate would be beneficial to his health. Here he met Miss Fannie Brown, who on April 16, 1873, became his wife and together these two have faced life's joys and sorrows with a loyalty that has ever been an inspiration to those who knew them best.

In the fall of 1877, Mr. and Mrs. Rockwood and Mr. Rockwood's partner, C.M. Carpenter, and wife, came to Osage, and that first winter the two families spent in what is now the H.B. Taylor home on east Chase street. In the spring of 1879 Mr. Rockwood purchased the home on east state street, where he lived until his death.
For fourteen years he was associated with C. M. Carpenter in the painting and paper-hanging business, but for the past twenty years his health has been so impaired that he has been unable to do more than care for the garden and keep up the homeplace.

His was a kindly, quiet nature that shone in the home circle, and we can pay him no higher tribute than to say that he was passionately fond of flowers and little children. His parents were members of the Congregational church, but when he came west to Beloit he attended the Methodist church, uniting with the Osage church under the ministry of the Rev. Brindell.

He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife; two children, Myrta, of Osage, and Lloyd of Moffett, N.D., and three brothers and two sisters-Mrs. Mattie Nay, H. W. Rockwood, of Underwood Vt.; George Rockwood of Hydes Park, Vt., and Mrs Jennie E. Williams and W.A. Rockwood of Holdrenyke, Mass. Two children preceded him in death-Celestna Caroline, at the age of 10, and Lee Allison, who died in infancy.

All through Mr. Rockwood's illness, which during the past year has confined him quite closely to the house, his wife and daughter have cared for him with a devotion so loyal that no sacrifice was too great, that would minister to his comfort. They were both at his bedside when he quietly fell asleep, the sleep that knows no waking.

[Mitchell County Press, April 7, 1920]