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intention to call on Mrs. Rockwood ; but on reaching Cort- 

 land I found that she had died on November 26. I was thus 

 enabled to attend her funeral on the next day, and to follow 

 her remains to the grave. It was a source of sad satisfaction 

 to pay this last token of respect to the memory of one who 

 had known my mother from her earliest infancy. 



Mrs. Rockwood was the second daughter and fourth child 

 of the Reverend Daniel and Susanna (Prescott) Chaplin, and 

 was born at Groton, on November 8, 1785. She was married, 

 on May 1, 1828, to Abel, son of Samuel and Lucy (Hubbard) 

 Rockwood, who died on November 21, 1828. She attended 

 school at Groton Academy in the year 1797 under the precep- 

 torship of Asahel Stearns. 



The following account of the venerable lady, with an 

 engraved portrait at the head of the article, is found in the 

 "Cortland Standard," November 28, 1889. In the reprint 

 I have taken the occasion to correct some inaccuracies of 

 statement. 



Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rockwood, whose portrait is published above 

 and who was the oldest person in Cortland County, died Tuesday 

 afternoon, November 26, from pneumonia, at the advanced age of 

 one hundred and four years. She was conscious nearly to the time 

 of her death. Although up to a year ago Mrs. Rockwood had re- 

 tained all her faculties, excepting hearing, to a remarkable degree, 

 during the past few months her eyesight began to be seriously af- 

 fected. Mrs. Theo. Chaplin Walton, of Chicago, her only near, 

 relative, was with her during the last week of her life. To the last 

 Mrs. Rockwood maintained a lively interest in the events of the day, 

 and was an ardent Republican. For a number of years her home 

 had been with Mrs. Samuel Bangs on Groton Avenue, and the funeral 

 will be held there Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. From a notice of 

 Mrs. Rockwood published in the " Standard " at the time she cele- 

 brated her one hundred and third birthday, we reprint the following 

 sketch of her life, furnished by Mrs. Walton : — 



Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rockwood was born Nov. 8, 1785, in Groton, 

 Mass. Her father, the Rev. Daniel Chaplin, D.D., was a grandson 

 of the Hugh Chaplin who settled in that part of Rowley which is now 

 Georgetown, Mass., in 1639. Several of the family lived to an ad- 

 vanced age, and Dr. Chaplin himself was eighty-six at the time of his 



