Clay-Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....ROSS, MRS. April 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 29, 2011, 12:29 am FT. GAINES SENTINEL, APRIL 23 1897 THE FRIENDS OF MR. J.L. ROSS SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM IN HIS SORROW OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, WHICH OCCURRED VERY SUDDENLY AT HER HOME IN TALBOTTON LAST FRIDAY. MR. ROSS RECEIVED THE SAD INTELLIGENCE SOME TIME FRIDAY EVENING, AND UPON COMMUNICATING THE FACTS TO THE RAILROAD AUTHORITIES AT MACON A SPECIAL TRAIN WAS ORDERED OUT THE SAME NIGHT TO TAKE HIM TO SMITHVILLE, WHERE HE MADE CONNECTION BY WHICH HE ARRIVED AT TALBOTTON IN TIME FOR THE FUNERAL. THIS IS ANOTHER INSTANCE SHOWING THE KINDNESS OF THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES TO WORTHY EMPLOYEES, MR. ROSS BEING THE FIREMAN ON THE FORT GAINES BRANCH OF THAT ROAD. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/r/ross10464gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb