Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, May 29, 1903

Mr. & Mrs. John GOSS, Geo. GOSS and son, Loyd [GOSS], and Mr. & Mrs. Lon LOWE went to Columbia City today to arrange the funeral of Sebastian GOSS.
A telephone message to relatives here brought the sad intelligence yesterday evening that Sebastian GOSS died at his farm home near Cresco, in Whitley county.
It was not known here that he was worse and it is presumed that he died suddenly as he has been afflicted with heart trouble for some time, which was liable to terminate fatally at any moment.
Sebastian Goss was widely known in Fulton county as one of its foremost farmers and stockmen. From 1870 to 1890 he was the principal stock dealer in the county and owned and operated a large farm in the Salem church neighborhood for more than forty years. About ten years ago he sold the large farm and bought a smaller one six miles west of Rochester and in the winter of 1902 sold that and went to Whitley county where three of his sons are located.
He came to Fulton county with his parents in 1840, and married Elizabeth ROUCH, who died two years ago. To the union twelve children were born ten of whom are living, viz: John, George, Edward, Alfred, Jacob, William and Charley [GOSS], and Mrs. Andrew [Ellen GOSS] BAUMAN, Mrs. Lon [Alonzo L.] [Angie GOSS] LOWE and Mrs. Wilber [Libbie GOSS] BEATTIE. One brother, George GOSS and one sister, Mrs. PLUNK, both of this city, also survive.
The family were active members of the Evangelical church for more than a half century and Mr. Goss was one of the pioneer Masons of Fulton county. He was always pleasant, energetic and progressive and was widely known over the county as a conscientious, reliable gentleman.
The remains will be brought to Rochester and laid to rest beside the graves of the wife and two daughters but the time of the funeral has not yet been announced.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1921
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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GOSS, SEBASTIAN [Liberty Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Sebastian Goss. - Jacob Goss, the father of the subject of this sketch, ws born in
Germany and died in this country in March, 1877, aged seventy-seven years. Sebastian’s mother
was a native of Ohio, and died in Fairfield County, that State in 1831, at the age of thirty-three
years. His father had seven children by his first marriage, of whom Sebastian, the youngest, and
four others, viz., John P. Goss, Elizabeth Ream, George Goss and Sarah Bowman, are living and
in this county. Their grandfather Goss, at a very early day, entered 80 acres of land in Fairfield
County, Ohio, and laid out the town of Basser. Their father was in the war of 1812, and received a
land warrant of the Government for 80 acres. He came to this country with his young family in
1833, and entered 280 acres of land, to which he afterwrd added 40 acres more, making a halfsection in all. He then deeded his children 40 acres each. Mr. Goss, Sr., marrid Miss Margaret
Zellers for his second wife, and belonged to the Albrights. Sebastian was born in Fairfield
County, Ohio, August 29, 1825, and married Miss Elizabeth Rouch, the daughter of George and
Mary Rouch, of Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1847. Mr. Goss is the father of twelve children,
ten of whom--John, George, Mary E., Alfred, Edward, William, Jacob, Angeline, Charlie and
Sarah E. are living. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and an extensive dealer in cattle
and hogs, his sales amounting to $70,000 per annum. This gentleman owns 700 acres of land in
Liberty Township and 320 in Rochester, all of which he has gained through his efforts, with the
exception of the 40 acres his father gave him.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 43]

Source:
Fulton County Indiana Handbooks - F-G
by Wendell C. and John B. Tombaugh