Dwindling Pioneers In Utah Cut to Two Utah immigrant pioneers once 80,000 strong — who trekked across the plains prior to completion of the railroad in 1869 have now dwindled to two. One by one the years have plucked them off, until now only Mrs. Hilda Erickson, 103, Grantsville, and Heber Charles Cox, 96, Woodruff, remain. Latest to go was Mrs. Har¬riet Paris Sweeting Clawson, 95, 1729 Cornell Circle, who died at her home earlier this month. She was born on a ship crossing the Atlantic in 1867 and came across the plains with her parents in an ox cart in1868. Mrs. Erickson, the oldest and yet the most agile of the pioneers in recent years, cele¬brated her 103rd birthday on Nov. 11. Came in Ox Cart She was born in Sweden and came with her family to Utah by ox cart in 1866. She has led a long and active life as a teacher, doctor, storekeeper and rancher. Mrs. Erickson still lives alone in her home in Grants¬ville and does her own cook¬ing and housework. She is still a little piqued at having her driving license taken away nine years ago, but she estimates she has worn out at least a dozen automo¬biles in her busy lifetime. Delivered 200 Babies She served for many years a dentist and midwife and figures she delivered 200 ba¬bies. She was married to John A. Erickson when she was 21 and in 1883 they went on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Ibapah Indian Reservation and served there for some time. They later bought a ranch at Ibapah which they operated until 1937 when they returned to Grantsville. Mr. Erickson died in 1943. Mr. Cox was only eight months old when his parents brought him from England to America. He attended the Uni¬versity of Deseret in Salt Lake City and later was Rich County attorney and superintendent of schools in Rich County. Born In London He was born Jan. 14,1866, in London, and arrived with his family in Utah in September of that year. They settled in Centerville and later moved to Woodruff where Mr. Cox has spent most of his life. He engaged in business for several years in Salt Lake City and farmed in Rich County. He was active in the Church, serving as Woodruff Ward clerk for 20 years, and as a counselor in the bishopric and a Sunday School teacher. He married Teenie Bowns in the Salt Lake Temple on May 6, 1896. They had six children and a large number of grand¬children and great-grandchil¬dren.