NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 13, 1892CAPT. N.J. ROSS KILLEDOn last Thursday, a telegraphic dispatch announced that Capt. Newton J. Ross was dead, and that one of his tenants on his farm near Tallahassee, Florida had shot him causing his death. This telegram though meager in its details contained enough of said intelligence to cast a gloom over this entire community. Captain Ross was raised within three miles of this town, and the town is built on lands that were once all his and of which he owned at his death nearly or quite half. He had besides, two or three other large farms in this county and Calhoun county. His possessions in Florida are very valuable. It has been his custom for several years past to spend his winters on his farm in Florida and his summers among his many friends in this county. Capt. Ross was about 55 years old, a true democrat, and highly honorable in all of his dealings. There are many institutions and individuals in and around Heflin that fully attest his liberality, although he sounded no trumpet when he did! his alms. He was never married. His immediate surviving relatives are Capt. John Ross, Mrs. Blackman and Mrs. Tumlin.
Submitted by Peggy Collum
Submitted by Peggy Collum
NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 13, 1892CAPT. N.J. ROSS KILLEDOn last Thursday, a telegraphic dispatch announced that Capt. Newton J. Ross was dead, and that one of his tenants on his farm near Tallahassee, Florida had shot him causing his death. This telegram though meager in its details contained enough of said intelligence to cast a gloom over this entire community. Captain Ross was raised within three miles of this town, and the town is built on lands that were once all his and of which he owned at his death nearly or quite half. He had besides, two or three other large farms in this county and Calhoun county. His possessions in Florida are very valuable. It has been his custom for several years past to spend his winters on his farm in Florida and his summers among his many friends in this county. Capt. Ross was about 55 years old, a true democrat, and highly honorable in all of his dealings. There are many institutions and individuals in and around Heflin that fully attest his liberality, although he sounded no trumpet when he did! his alms. He was never married. His immediate surviving relatives are Capt. John Ross, Mrs. Blackman and Mrs. Tumlin.
Submitted by Peggy Collum
Submitted by Peggy Collum
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MOTHER
SHE HATH FADED A WAY TO
SHINE BRIGHTLY IN HEAVEN.
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Daughter of Frederick Ross & Nancy Scurry
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