Deceased was the son of Ichabod and Mary Perham Rollins, born January 15, 1805 at Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine; was a professor of religion from early youth; emigrated with his family to New York in 1837; was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints February 8, 1841, in Pelham, West Chester County, New York; started in 1843 for Nauvoo, Illinois and for lack of means stopped in Akron, Summit County, Ohio eleven months, and while there heard the sad news of the death of the Prophet Joseph; started again shortly after and landed in Nauvoo; in August 1844 he was ordained a member of the Eighth Quorum of Seventies; he spent a great deal of his time working on the Temple and other public works until the winter of 1845 and 1846, when he went into the wagon shop and assisted the brethren in making and repairing wagons for the benefit of those who intended to move west in the spring; attended to the ordinances in the temple that winter, and in the spring made himself a wagon, but having no team was compelled to stay there until driven out by the mob. He had been afflicted with ague for some time, but notwithstanding his weakness, with the aid of Brother Refus Allen he pried an old log canoe out of the sand that had been bedded down there all summer. With the assistance of Brother Allen, who was also afflicted with chills, and Brother Allen's wife and her sister, four families were moved across the Mississippi River that night by eleven o'clock. They commenced about four o'clock in the afternoon. They made several trips, the women rowing like men. Two of the mobocrats had tried to get the boat loose a day or two before but had to leave it. He had no trouble in getting it loose. He was compelled through circumstances to stay in that part of the country. He endured much sickness and privation until the spring of 1848, when he removed to Council Bluffs. In 1852 he emigrated to Salt Lake City. He was one of the last to leave the Bluffs that season, being counseled by Brother Benson to stay and fit up wagons for the journey as long as he possibly could. He arrived in Salt Lake City October 28th and went to work on the public works. He spent most of his time there until the spring of 1856, and since that time he has lived in various settlements. He has been ever ready to respond to every call made of him by those that were placed in authority over him in the priesthood. He never murmured or complained, and through his sickness which lasted eight months, his only desire was to live to go into the temple and finish up a little of the work that he had already commenced for this friends that had passed behind the veil, of which he had several hundreds of names. He was the father of fifteen children, had 39 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. He died, as he had lived, a faithful Latter-day Saint, and in hopes of a glorious resurrection.
The Deseret News, Dec. 19, 1877, Pg. 11 /Page 731
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