Coshocton County OhArchives Obituaries.....Gross, Sheldon M. June 17, 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Laurie Sullivan lasquilter@comcast.net October 6, 2008, 2:34 pm Coshocton Tribune Friday June 17, 1949 Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2pm at the Bonnell funeral home in Newcomerstown for Sheldon M. Gross, 78, of 651 Cross St. Newcomerstown, who was drowned yesterday in an attempt to pull his granddaughter from the Tuscarawas river into which she had slipped while fishing. Rev. Charles Foust will officiate and burial will be in the State St. cemetery. Mr. Gross was born Sept. 5, 1880, in Tuscarawas county a son of Jacob and Elvira Johns Gross. He was married to Eva Howe, who died in 1922. He was a member of the Moose lodge at Morgantown W. Va. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Charles Cutshall, Newcomerstown, with whom he resided; two sons, Melvin of Newcomerstown and Charles of Morgantown W. Va., father of the rescued girl; four grandchildren, a brother, Ray of San Ysidro, Calf., four sisters, Mrs. John Fogarty and Mrs. Charles Zane, Akron, Mrs. Cary Brown, Cleveland and Mrs. Daniel Kees, Newcomerstown Route 3. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/coshocton/obits/g/gross1183nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb