Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Monday, January 7, 1957
William Goss
William GOSS, 96, a native of Rochester, died at 3:34 p.m. Sunday at his home in Bartow, Fla., after an illness of two years.
Born in Rochester on May 23, 1860, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian GOSS. He left here in 1906 to reside in Florida. His wife was the former Dora PYLE, and aunt of Charles and Donald PYLE of this city.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mabel GILES, Haines City, Fla.; a son, Robert [GOSS], Albany, N.Y.; a naphew, Obie GOSS, Plymouth; three nieces, Mrs. Otis HUNTER, Greensburg, and Mrs. Grace APT and Mrs. Minnie IRVINE, both of Rochester; eight grandchildren and several other nieces and nephew.
The body will arrive here via Erie railroad at 8 p.m. Wednesday and friends may call at the Foster funeral home until 10 a.m. Thursday, when graveside rites will be held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
_____
GOSS, WILLIAM [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
William Goss, of Rochester, is one of the recognized enterprising young men of the county. His advantages for the best general mental equipment were not in keeping with the ambitions of the boy. There seemed greater need on his father’s farm of boys of strong muscles than of well-stored brain. However, he picked up such of the rudiments of an education as have enabled him to become a successful competitor in the race of life. He made his full hand on the farm early after entering his teens, and before he was twenty was the main manager of the farm.
On becoming of age he followed the plow and drove the reaper for a few years, both in Rochester and Newcastle townships and gradually drifted into the business of buying, feeding and shipping stock; at one time handling the bulk of that product brought to this market. Although he has dropped out as a regular shipper he is still handling cattle and trading stock generally and in real estate. He owns a farm in Liberty township and one in Rochester, aggregating 246 acres, and besides improved property in Rochester. For a few months he was a hardware merchant in Rochester in company with J. R. Barr. His political faith is democratic. Mr. Goss was born in this county May 23, 1860. He is a son of Sebastian Goss, a well known pioneer of this county, and a farmer of influence and means. The Gosses are of German extraction, and the pioneer ancestor of this family was Jacob Goss, who came from Europe and entered land in Fairfield county, Ohio, and laid out a town on it. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Sebastian Goss is the youngest of seven children. His mother died in 1831, aged 33. In 1833 Jacob Goss came to Fulton county and entered 280 acres and died here in 1877. Sebastian Goss was born Aug. 29, 1825. He married Elizabeth Rouch, daughter of George and Mary Rouch, Sept. 23, 1847. William Goss married, Sept. 9, 1882, Dora Pyle, whose father, James Pyle, was born in Virginia and was killed in this county by accident years ago. Mrs. Goss was born in 1861. Her children are: Caroline and Mabel.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co,. Chicago 1896, pp. 75-76]
Source:
Fulton County Indiana Handbook G-F
by Wendell C. and John B. Tombaugh
Monday, January 7, 1957
William Goss
William GOSS, 96, a native of Rochester, died at 3:34 p.m. Sunday at his home in Bartow, Fla., after an illness of two years.
Born in Rochester on May 23, 1860, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian GOSS. He left here in 1906 to reside in Florida. His wife was the former Dora PYLE, and aunt of Charles and Donald PYLE of this city.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mabel GILES, Haines City, Fla.; a son, Robert [GOSS], Albany, N.Y.; a naphew, Obie GOSS, Plymouth; three nieces, Mrs. Otis HUNTER, Greensburg, and Mrs. Grace APT and Mrs. Minnie IRVINE, both of Rochester; eight grandchildren and several other nieces and nephew.
The body will arrive here via Erie railroad at 8 p.m. Wednesday and friends may call at the Foster funeral home until 10 a.m. Thursday, when graveside rites will be held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
_____
GOSS, WILLIAM [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
William Goss, of Rochester, is one of the recognized enterprising young men of the county. His advantages for the best general mental equipment were not in keeping with the ambitions of the boy. There seemed greater need on his father’s farm of boys of strong muscles than of well-stored brain. However, he picked up such of the rudiments of an education as have enabled him to become a successful competitor in the race of life. He made his full hand on the farm early after entering his teens, and before he was twenty was the main manager of the farm.
On becoming of age he followed the plow and drove the reaper for a few years, both in Rochester and Newcastle townships and gradually drifted into the business of buying, feeding and shipping stock; at one time handling the bulk of that product brought to this market. Although he has dropped out as a regular shipper he is still handling cattle and trading stock generally and in real estate. He owns a farm in Liberty township and one in Rochester, aggregating 246 acres, and besides improved property in Rochester. For a few months he was a hardware merchant in Rochester in company with J. R. Barr. His political faith is democratic. Mr. Goss was born in this county May 23, 1860. He is a son of Sebastian Goss, a well known pioneer of this county, and a farmer of influence and means. The Gosses are of German extraction, and the pioneer ancestor of this family was Jacob Goss, who came from Europe and entered land in Fairfield county, Ohio, and laid out a town on it. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Sebastian Goss is the youngest of seven children. His mother died in 1831, aged 33. In 1833 Jacob Goss came to Fulton county and entered 280 acres and died here in 1877. Sebastian Goss was born Aug. 29, 1825. He married Elizabeth Rouch, daughter of George and Mary Rouch, Sept. 23, 1847. William Goss married, Sept. 9, 1882, Dora Pyle, whose father, James Pyle, was born in Virginia and was killed in this county by accident years ago. Mrs. Goss was born in 1861. Her children are: Caroline and Mabel.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co,. Chicago 1896, pp. 75-76]
Source:
Fulton County Indiana Handbook G-F
by Wendell C. and John B. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Monday, January 7, 1957
William Goss
William GOSS, 96, a native of Rochester, died at 3:34 p.m. Sunday at his home in Bartow, Fla., after an illness of two years.
Born in Rochester on May 23, 1860, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian GOSS. He left here in 1906 to reside in Florida. His wife was the former Dora PYLE, and aunt of Charles and Donald PYLE of this city.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mabel GILES, Haines City, Fla.; a son, Robert [GOSS], Albany, N.Y.; a naphew, Obie GOSS, Plymouth; three nieces, Mrs. Otis HUNTER, Greensburg, and Mrs. Grace APT and Mrs. Minnie IRVINE, both of Rochester; eight grandchildren and several other nieces and nephew.
The body will arrive here via Erie railroad at 8 p.m. Wednesday and friends may call at the Foster funeral home until 10 a.m. Thursday, when graveside rites will be held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
_____
GOSS, WILLIAM [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
William Goss, of Rochester, is one of the recognized enterprising young men of the county. His advantages for the best general mental equipment were not in keeping with the ambitions of the boy. There seemed greater need on his father’s farm of boys of strong muscles than of well-stored brain. However, he picked up such of the rudiments of an education as have enabled him to become a successful competitor in the race of life. He made his full hand on the farm early after entering his teens, and before he was twenty was the main manager of the farm.
On becoming of age he followed the plow and drove the reaper for a few years, both in Rochester and Newcastle townships and gradually drifted into the business of buying, feeding and shipping stock; at one time handling the bulk of that product brought to this market. Although he has dropped out as a regular shipper he is still handling cattle and trading stock generally and in real estate. He owns a farm in Liberty township and one in Rochester, aggregating 246 acres, and besides improved property in Rochester. For a few months he was a hardware merchant in Rochester in company with J. R. Barr. His political faith is democratic. Mr. Goss was born in this county May 23, 1860. He is a son of Sebastian Goss, a well known pioneer of this county, and a farmer of influence and means. The Gosses are of German extraction, and the pioneer ancestor of this family was Jacob Goss, who came from Europe and entered land in Fairfield county, Ohio, and laid out a town on it. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Sebastian Goss is the youngest of seven children. His mother died in 1831, aged 33. In 1833 Jacob Goss came to Fulton county and entered 280 acres and died here in 1877. Sebastian Goss was born Aug. 29, 1825. He married Elizabeth Rouch, daughter of George and Mary Rouch, Sept. 23, 1847. William Goss married, Sept. 9, 1882, Dora Pyle, whose father, James Pyle, was born in Virginia and was killed in this county by accident years ago. Mrs. Goss was born in 1861. Her children are: Caroline and Mabel.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co,. Chicago 1896, pp. 75-76]
Source:
Fulton County Indiana Handbook G-F
by Wendell C. and John B. Tombaugh
Monday, January 7, 1957
William Goss
William GOSS, 96, a native of Rochester, died at 3:34 p.m. Sunday at his home in Bartow, Fla., after an illness of two years.
Born in Rochester on May 23, 1860, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian GOSS. He left here in 1906 to reside in Florida. His wife was the former Dora PYLE, and aunt of Charles and Donald PYLE of this city.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mabel GILES, Haines City, Fla.; a son, Robert [GOSS], Albany, N.Y.; a naphew, Obie GOSS, Plymouth; three nieces, Mrs. Otis HUNTER, Greensburg, and Mrs. Grace APT and Mrs. Minnie IRVINE, both of Rochester; eight grandchildren and several other nieces and nephew.
The body will arrive here via Erie railroad at 8 p.m. Wednesday and friends may call at the Foster funeral home until 10 a.m. Thursday, when graveside rites will be held at the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
_____
GOSS, WILLIAM [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
William Goss, of Rochester, is one of the recognized enterprising young men of the county. His advantages for the best general mental equipment were not in keeping with the ambitions of the boy. There seemed greater need on his father’s farm of boys of strong muscles than of well-stored brain. However, he picked up such of the rudiments of an education as have enabled him to become a successful competitor in the race of life. He made his full hand on the farm early after entering his teens, and before he was twenty was the main manager of the farm.
On becoming of age he followed the plow and drove the reaper for a few years, both in Rochester and Newcastle townships and gradually drifted into the business of buying, feeding and shipping stock; at one time handling the bulk of that product brought to this market. Although he has dropped out as a regular shipper he is still handling cattle and trading stock generally and in real estate. He owns a farm in Liberty township and one in Rochester, aggregating 246 acres, and besides improved property in Rochester. For a few months he was a hardware merchant in Rochester in company with J. R. Barr. His political faith is democratic. Mr. Goss was born in this county May 23, 1860. He is a son of Sebastian Goss, a well known pioneer of this county, and a farmer of influence and means. The Gosses are of German extraction, and the pioneer ancestor of this family was Jacob Goss, who came from Europe and entered land in Fairfield county, Ohio, and laid out a town on it. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Sebastian Goss is the youngest of seven children. His mother died in 1831, aged 33. In 1833 Jacob Goss came to Fulton county and entered 280 acres and died here in 1877. Sebastian Goss was born Aug. 29, 1825. He married Elizabeth Rouch, daughter of George and Mary Rouch, Sept. 23, 1847. William Goss married, Sept. 9, 1882, Dora Pyle, whose father, James Pyle, was born in Virginia and was killed in this county by accident years ago. Mrs. Goss was born in 1861. Her children are: Caroline and Mabel.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co,. Chicago 1896, pp. 75-76]
Source:
Fulton County Indiana Handbook G-F
by Wendell C. and John B. Tombaugh
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