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Dr. Bruce Travis
Cockrill, pioneer physician, one of the oldest residents of Bloomfield, and one
the best known men in Sonoma county died at four o'clock this morning at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. A. Simonet on Davis street, Santa Rosa. He had been
failing for some time and recently recovered from a serious surgical operation,
but was apparently in better health than for months prior to his last illness
of a few days. He attended a case of child birth but a few days ago and last
August was able to enjoy a deer hunt. He died almost on the second anniversary
of the death of his late wife, who passed away two years ago this
month. Soon after the body was brought to Petaluma by auto
hearse and reposes at the parlors of John C. Mount where it will remain until
the funeral which will take place from the parlors on Monday morning with
internment in the family plot at Bloomfield churchyard where he wife rests and
where both will sleep close to their home of half a century.
Dr. Cockrill
was born at Jefferson City, Missouri, on Jan. 4, 1852, so was aged 71 years, 11
months and 24 days. He came here with his late parents as a little child, and
crossed the plains. He settled with his people at Bloomfield where he has since
resided. He engaged in farming and mercantile pursuits for some time, finally
studying medicine and becoming a good physician and surgeon who looked after
the people from Cazadero to Two Rock and probably no man in Sonoma county had a
wider range of acquaintances or more friends. He was kind hearted to a fault;
plain spoken and was a diamond in the rough. He had a personality which
attracted friends and to know him was to become his friend and no man was a
greater favorite. His friends were many and loyal. He has had more then his
share of trouble and sorrow but always smiled in the face of it and he reared a
large family. He never ceased sorrowing over the death of his late
wife. He has been for nearly 50 years a member of Vitruvius
Lodge, F. & A. M., of Bloomfield and was a past master and was also a past
grand of Tomales Lodge of Odd Fellows and a past chief patriarch of Bloomfield
Encampment, I. O. O. F. He was an enthusiastic member of each organization. He
used to make frequent trips to Cazadero where he was very popular and only
Thursday Mrs. Trosper, a close friend, of
that place, who had a foreboding that all was not well with the doctor, went to
Santa Rosa to inquire of his heath and to visit him.
He had a most
eventful life and much could be written of its history which would be filled
with interest. Since the death of his loved wife the late Martha D. Cockrill,
he has lived most of time with his daughter, Mrs. Simonet at Santa Rosa and she
devotedly cared for her parent in his declining days. He was an unusually
rugged and strong man and up to his last serious illness appeared much younger
than he actually was. He is survived by the following adult children:
William A., O. A., Robert L., George B., Larken B., and Logan D. Cockrill, Mrs.
M. L. Black and Mrs. A. Simonet. One so died some years ago, the result of an
accident. He also leaves several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. The
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Dr. Bruce Travis
Cockrill, one of the widely known residents of Sonoma county, who had made his
home in Bloomfield for many years, passed away at 4 o'clock yesterday morning
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. Simonet on David street Santa Rosa. He had
recovered from a serious operation performed several weeks ago, and was
apparently in the best of health when he was stricken. The end was unexpected.
He passed away on the second anniversary of his late wife, Mrs. Martha
Cockrill's death. Bruce Cockrill was born in Jefferson City, Mo., Jan.
4, 1852, and was aged 71 years, 11 months and 24 days. he crossed the plains
with his parents when a child and settled in Bloomfield where his folks were
among the pioneers. After receiving his education, Mr. Cockrill engaged in
farming and later studied medicine. He practiced in Western Sonoma county for
50 years. He had patients as far north as Cazadero. Since leaving Bloomfield he
had been practicing in Santa Rosa and attended a patient only a few days before
he passed away. The late Mr. Cockrill was the true type of pioneer and
held in high regard by his friends who will regret to learn that he has passed
from life. For more than fifty years he had been a member of
Vitruvius Lodge, F. & A. M. of Bloomfield and was a past master of the
lodge. he was also past noble grand of the Tomales Odd Fellows and past
patriarch of Bloomfield Encampment, I. O. O. F.
He was the
father of William A., O. A., Robert L., George B., Larkin B., and Logan D.
Cockrill: Mrs. M. L. Black and Mrs. A. Simonet of Santa Rosa. He leaves grand
and great grandchildren and other relatives in the county.
The body has
been removed to the John C. Mount parlors from which place the funeral will
take place Monday morning and the internment will be in the family plot in the
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 Dr. Bruce T. Cockrill is dead. His soul winged its
flight at 4 o'clock Friday morning. The end came at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. A. Simonet in Santa Rosa, where he had made his home since
returning from a San Francisco hospital, where he underwent an operation.
For some time relatives and friends of Dr. Cockrill
had noticed that he was failing. His stalwart erect form and become slightly
bend and weak, and his step had become uncertain. He knew and told his friends
that he felt it would not be long before the shadows would lengthen and that
soon for him would come the purpling of a last earthly sunset. He did not lose
heart, however, but was cheerful, even though his bodily weakness increased.
Two years ago his wife passed on and he never ceased to grieve for her.
Some months ago Dr. Cockrill underwent an operation.
He made a remarkable recovery but did not regain his former strength
completely. He was well enough, however, to go into the Cazadero hills for a
deer hunt last August. He had counted on this for a long time as he had never
missed his annual hunt in half century. While in the hills he suffered a bad
fall which shook him up considerably. He came home and from then on began to
fail perceptibly and heart weakness developed.
The deceased was a native of Missouri, and with his
father and family crossed the plains from Missouri to California and located at
Bloomfield in Sonoma county in 1853. He was a little over one year at the time.
He was 72 years of age at the time of death, so that in point of years of
residence in the county he was one of its oldest residents. He attended the
public schools in this county and engaged in various pursuits for years. He was
an accomplished musician and in the early days played in orchestras that
furnished the dance music at many of the frolics of the countryside.
Over
30 years ago he graduated as a physician and surgeon and while he had his
office in Bloomfield he practiced over an immense territory, frequently making
long and perilous drives to see the sick. For many years he was the justice of
the peace at Bloomfield. As intimated he was an ardent sportsman all his life
and only a few days before his death he was examining his rifle and looking
forward to the next deer hunt.
Dr. Cockrill was
a member of the Masonic fraternity for over half a century. He was a past
master and member of Vitruvius lodge of Bloomfield, and of the Scottish Rite
bodies of San Francisco. He held implicit faith in the teachings of Masonry and
under the auspices of the lodge he will be buried in the family plot in
Bloomfield. He was also an Odd Fellow.
The
deceased came of an old-time family in Missouri and his father was one of the
earliest pioneers of Sonoma county. He was a cousin of the late United States
Senator Cockrill of Missouri. He was a lifelong Democrat. An only sister of the
deceased is Mrs. O. H. Hoag of this city. He is also survived by eight sons and
daughters:
W. A. Cockrill of Oakland; O. A.
Cockrill, R. L. Cockrill, George Cockrill and Larkin and Logan Cockrill of
Santa Rosa; Mrs. M. L. Black of El Bental, Calif., and Mrs. Al Simonet of Santa
Rosa. Members of the family are prominent citizens of Sonoma
county.
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The funeral of the
late Dr. Bruce Cockrill took place yesterday morning from the John C. Mount
parlors and was attended by many relatives and friends. Rev. B. L. Brittin,
pastor of the Two Rock church, and an old friend of the family, conducted the
services. At the conclusion the cortege formed and proceeded to the Bloomfield
cemetery where the interment took place. The Vitruvius Lodge, No. 145, F. &
A. M., of Bloomfield to which order the deceased had been a member for 50
years, conducted the burial service. Many friends of the pioneer gathered from
different towns in western Sonoma county and were present at the churchyard
when the funeral arrived from this city. The floral
offerings were beautiful and covered the last resting place of the pioneer. The
pallbearers were: W. Cornet, W. W. Freeman, Tomales; William Gilman and C. W.
Jessup, Santa Rosa; James [torn page]ningham and W. J. Kirkland [torn
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 Dr. Bruce T. Cockrill, well known pioneer of Sonoma
county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Al Simonet, here at 4 o'clock
this morning, following a long illness. The Cockrill family is one of the most
widely known in this county, and the doctor had hundreds of friends who will
learn with regret of his death.The late Dr. Cockrill was born in
Missouri, January 4, 1852, and came across the plains to California when a
small boy. The family settled in the Bloomfield section, and it was only after
the doctor was stricken with illness two years ago that he came here to be with
his daughter, who gave him every care and attention during his long
illness. The deceased was married in 1877. His wife died about
two years ago. The doctor would have been 72 years of age had he lived until
next Friday. The deceased was graduated from medical college in 1892 and
practiced medicine up until a short time before his death. A few months ago he
underwent a critical operation in San Francisco and since that time has been
confined to his bed. Dr. Cockrill has been a member of the Masonic
fraternity for 56 years. He also belonged to the Odd Fellows, and he was loved
and respected in lodge circles. Practicing medicine in Bloomfield had its
hardships, and especially was this so for Dr. Cockrill, who had, in addition to
those in the town and the surrounding country, patients as far away along the
coast as Cazadero, and many times was he called to make a long night trip over
rough roads to attend some sufferer. He numbered as his friends patients all
along the coast section. The Cockrill family moved to Bloomfield from the east,
arriving in 1853, and taking land where the present town now stands. Later the
town proper was laid out by members of the family and other settlers moved
in.Dr. Cockrill was the youngest of eleven children, one
of whom, Mrs. O. A. [sic] Hoag, survives him. In 1877 he was married to Miss
Martha Bellingham, daughter of one of the later Bloomfield residents. He
belonged to the Bloomfield lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows.Dr. Cockrill will
be buried in the old cemetery, deeded so that the lots are free of charge, by
Dr. Cockrill's father, among many other relatives.In addition to his
sister, Mrs. O. A. Hoag of First street, the deceased is survived by the
following sons and daughters; W. A. Cockrill of Oakland, O. A. Cockrill, R. L.
Cockrill, George Cockrill and Larkin and Logan Cockrill of Santa Rosa; Mrs. M.
L. Black of El Bental, Calif., and Mrs. Al Simonet of Santa Rosa. Members of
the family are prominent citizens of Sonoma county.The funeral, to be
conducted by the Masonic brotherhood, will take place in Petaluma late Monday
morning, and it is expected that many will gather to pay their final respects
to the late pioneer, who has taken such a prominent part in the history of
Sonoma county. The Masons and friends will accompany the body to Bloomfield
where the late doctor will be laid to rest beside the body of his
wife. |
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