shares stone with Ella M. Ross
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ROSS, Commodore L. The Pulaski Citizen 23 May 1951
Commodore L. Ross, 79, former mail carrier in Giles and Lawrence Counties for many years, died at 5 o'clock Friday morning, May 18, at his home in Columbia, Miss., after several years of declining health.
Funeral rites were held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Baptist Church in Columbia. The burial took place late Sunday afternoon in the family lot in the Yokley Cemetery at Campbellsville in Giles County, conducted by O. L. North of Lawrenceburg.
Mr. Ross, who served for many years as carrier on Route 1, Ethridge, which comprised areas of both Giles and Lawrence Counties transferred to a route in Mississippi approximately twenty-five years ago, when he swapped routes with a carrier there.
He was born in September, 1871, in Hickman County but in his youth moved with his family to Campbellsville. He was the son of the late James Marshall Ross and Annette Cotham Ross. His wife, Mrs. Ella Upshaw Ross, died in 1933. He had been a member of the Baptist Church since he moved to Mississippi.
Mr. Ross, the last member of his immediate family, is survived by four sons, James Marshall Ross, New Orleans, La., Albert Ross, Birmingham, Ala., Campbell Ross, Baton Rouge, La., and George Upshaw Ross, Nashville; four daughters, Mrs. Solon Collins and Mrs. Hugh Westbrook, Fairborn, Ohio; Miss Sophia Ross and Mrs. Homer Lutz, both of Nashville, and several grandchildren.
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ROSS, Commodore L. The Pulaski Citizen 23 May 1951
Commodore L. Ross, 79, former mail carrier in Giles and Lawrence Counties for many years, died at 5 o'clock Friday morning, May 18, at his home in Columbia, Miss., after several years of declining health.
Funeral rites were held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Baptist Church in Columbia. The burial took place late Sunday afternoon in the family lot in the Yokley Cemetery at Campbellsville in Giles County, conducted by O. L. North of Lawrenceburg.
Mr. Ross, who served for many years as carrier on Route 1, Ethridge, which comprised areas of both Giles and Lawrence Counties transferred to a route in Mississippi approximately twenty-five years ago, when he swapped routes with a carrier there.
He was born in September, 1871, in Hickman County but in his youth moved with his family to Campbellsville. He was the son of the late James Marshall Ross and Annette Cotham Ross. His wife, Mrs. Ella Upshaw Ross, died in 1933. He had been a member of the Baptist Church since he moved to Mississippi.
Mr. Ross, the last member of his immediate family, is survived by four sons, James Marshall Ross, New Orleans, La., Albert Ross, Birmingham, Ala., Campbell Ross, Baton Rouge, La., and George Upshaw Ross, Nashville; four daughters, Mrs. Solon Collins and Mrs. Hugh Westbrook, Fairborn, Ohio; Miss Sophia Ross and Mrs. Homer Lutz, both of Nashville, and several grandchildren.
shares stone with Ella M. Ross
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ROSS, Commodore L. The Pulaski Citizen 23 May 1951
Commodore L. Ross, 79, former mail carrier in Giles and Lawrence Counties for many years, died at 5 o'clock Friday morning, May 18, at his home in Columbia, Miss., after several years of declining health.
Funeral rites were held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Baptist Church in Columbia. The burial took place late Sunday afternoon in the family lot in the Yokley Cemetery at Campbellsville in Giles County, conducted by O. L. North of Lawrenceburg.
Mr. Ross, who served for many years as carrier on Route 1, Ethridge, which comprised areas of both Giles and Lawrence Counties transferred to a route in Mississippi approximately twenty-five years ago, when he swapped routes with a carrier there.
He was born in September, 1871, in Hickman County but in his youth moved with his family to Campbellsville. He was the son of the late James Marshall Ross and Annette Cotham Ross. His wife, Mrs. Ella Upshaw Ross, died in 1933. He had been a member of the Baptist Church since he moved to Mississippi.
Mr. Ross, the last member of his immediate family, is survived by four sons, James Marshall Ross, New Orleans, La., Albert Ross, Birmingham, Ala., Campbell Ross, Baton Rouge, La., and George Upshaw Ross, Nashville; four daughters, Mrs. Solon Collins and Mrs. Hugh Westbrook, Fairborn, Ohio; Miss Sophia Ross and Mrs. Homer Lutz, both of Nashville, and several grandchildren.
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ROSS, Commodore L. The Pulaski Citizen 23 May 1951
Commodore L. Ross, 79, former mail carrier in Giles and Lawrence Counties for many years, died at 5 o'clock Friday morning, May 18, at his home in Columbia, Miss., after several years of declining health.
Funeral rites were held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the Baptist Church in Columbia. The burial took place late Sunday afternoon in the family lot in the Yokley Cemetery at Campbellsville in Giles County, conducted by O. L. North of Lawrenceburg.
Mr. Ross, who served for many years as carrier on Route 1, Ethridge, which comprised areas of both Giles and Lawrence Counties transferred to a route in Mississippi approximately twenty-five years ago, when he swapped routes with a carrier there.
He was born in September, 1871, in Hickman County but in his youth moved with his family to Campbellsville. He was the son of the late James Marshall Ross and Annette Cotham Ross. His wife, Mrs. Ella Upshaw Ross, died in 1933. He had been a member of the Baptist Church since he moved to Mississippi.
Mr. Ross, the last member of his immediate family, is survived by four sons, James Marshall Ross, New Orleans, La., Albert Ross, Birmingham, Ala., Campbell Ross, Baton Rouge, La., and George Upshaw Ross, Nashville; four daughters, Mrs. Solon Collins and Mrs. Hugh Westbrook, Fairborn, Ohio; Miss Sophia Ross and Mrs. Homer Lutz, both of Nashville, and several grandchildren.
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