This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Miller, Ross Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADE/686.2.1 Message Board Post: Mendocino Beacon Mendocino, Mendocino Co., CA Saturday, January 29, 1944 TALENTED WOMAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS ELIZABETH ROSS-MILLER 76; PASSES AWAY AT CLEONE The passing of Elizabeth Ross Miller, whose death occurred Thursday at the family home at Cleone, removes one whose unusual talents made her a much sought after speaker and lecturer up to the time of her serious illness some twenty years ago. A daughter of that famed early day minister, Rev. J. S. Ross, who was known, respected and loved by people of every grade and calling, she as a very young woman had established a wide acquaintance through association with her father, and in later years she gained for herself a Statewide reputation through her temperance work. Born 76 years ago January 11th in Thurso, Canada, she came with her parents when but a year old to California, and her girlhood days were spent at the old Ross home at Caspar. She returned to Canada after completing her schooling here and spent two years at Woodstock Academy. Returning to this coast at the end of that period, she sometime later was united in marriage to D. W. Miller, a school principal, and with him settled at Fort Bragg where he was principal of the elementary schools for some time. When the Nome gold discovery was made, her husband decided to go north, and she accompanied him. His health failed in the rigorous Alaska climate and they returned to this coast where he passed away after a long illness. Since that time Mrs. Miller has made her home most of the time at the Ross ranch at Cleone but up to the time of her last illness she was much occupied with church work in coast communities and in State-wide temperance work. Always a frail body, she was ill for some time after her husband's death, and only by resolution and fortitude did she overcome this illness, and for many years thereafter was able to give of her time and talents for the welfare of others. She is survived by three brothers, William H. Ross, John S. Ross and Robert R. Ross, and one sister, Anna H. Ross. To these is extended the sympathy of many friends. Mendocino County Indexes http://www.pacificsites.net/~pcarna Mendocino County Tombstone Photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendocem/