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"Thomas J. Ross, aged 72 years, died at his home at Selica Saturday after an extended illness.
Mr. Ross was a Confederate veteran and was a man well liked by those who knew him. Last spring he attended the Confederate reunion in Richmond, Va., and was exposed to the downpour of rain there for several days and as a result was taken down with pneumonia after returning to his home. While he rallied from the attack he did not fully recover and on January 1 was seized by a severe case of grippe, and...
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"Thomas J. Ross, aged 72 years, died at his home at Selica Saturday after an extended illness.
Mr. Ross was a Confederate veteran and was a man well liked by those who knew him. Last spring he attended the Confederate reunion in Richmond, Va., and was exposed to the downpour of rain there for several days and as a result was taken down with pneumonia after returning to his home. While he rallied from the attack he did not fully recover and on January 1 was seized by a severe case of grippe, and pneumonia developed rapidly in both lungs.
The funeral was conducted Sunday afternoon by Rev. J. R. Liner and burial was made at Mr. Moriah. The deceased was a member of Cathey's Creek Baptist Church.
Surviving are six children, Mrs. Estella Bryson, Mrs. Addie Waldrop, Misses Ola and Nora Ross, Edwin and Boyd Ross, and the widow, the second wife of Mr. Ross.
Since the foregoing was written J. M. Hamlin has contributed the following:
Thomas Jefferson Ross was born in Greenville county, S.C., May 17 1843, and died near Selica, N.C., January 8, 1916, aged 72 years, 7 months and 21 days. He enlisted Company "F" 16th Regiment S.C.V. early in the war and served until the surrender in 1865. His father, Sergeant Wiley Ross, and brother Morgan Ross, were members of the same company, all serving in the Mississippi and Tennessee campaigns. His father died on the retreat from Chattanooga, and the brother also died before reaching home. These sad circumstances placed Thomas at a premature age largely in charge of a well nigh demolished home that was forced to move out on a new line, but, meeting this unforeseen obligation manfully, he was molded into the man known and revered by the people of Transylvania county, his adopted home for the last thirty-five years. These onerous duties coming upon him with the years of the war preceding when he should have been in school, robbed him of an education, but for all that, "Tom" Ross was a gentleman—plain, pure, obliging, hospitable, truthful, honest and in every sense of the term, honorable.
Mr. Ross in 1865 married Miss Mary Vaughn, who died a few years after marriage. On December 25, 1879, he was married to Miss Martha Peace, also of Greenville. She and six children survive him, also one brother and sister, Mr. Richard Ross and Mrs. Elizabeth Kinsberry of South Carolina.
The esteem in which Mr. Ross was held by his neighbors was exemplified last Sunday afternoon at the funeral in Mt. Moriah church. It was the request of the family that he be buried by his comrades in arms, but their ranks are so depleted a sufficient number could not be gotten together for the purpose; the sons of veterans were requested to act as pallbearers; C. R. Sharp, Eugene Southern, C. M. Whitmire, J. A. Bryson and S. A. Bryson, while R. J. Wilson, L. W. Brooks, J. L. Lance and J. M. Hamlin constituted an honorary guard."
Transylvania Times, January 9 and 12, 1916
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