The Mt Vernon Register-News, Tuesday, September 30, 1975 Charles Nash Moss Mt. Vernon - Charles N. Moss, a lifelong resident of Jefferson County, died at 2:25 a.m. today at Hickory Grove Manor, where he had been a patient for 18 days following hip surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital earlier. Mr. Moss, 91, resided at 113 N. 12th Street. Friends may call at Myers Chapel after 5 p.m. Wednesday. Graveside services will be conducted by Dr. Clyde R. Funkhouser at 11:00a.m. on Thursday. Burial will be in West Salem Cemetery. Mr. Moss was born in Shiloh Township on March 18, 1884, the son of Angus I. and Ida (Johnson) Moss. He was a descendant of two pioneer Jefferson County families. His great grandfather, Ransom Moss, was among the first white men to settle in the Shiloh Township area of Jefferson County in 1809, and the Johnson family also located in that area before Illinois was admitted to the Union in 1818. Mr. Moss was a postal service employee and was serving as supervisor of the mails in the Mt. Vernon Post Office at the time of his retirement several years. He was a long-time member of the First United Methodist Church in Mt. Vernon. He is survived by two brothers, Allen J. Moss of Elkhorn, Nebraska and Ernest I. Moss (formerly of Mt. Vernon), now living in Venice, Florida; one nephew, Robert Merritt Moss of Fort Worth, Texas; and three nieces, Mrs. Gilbert (Pollyann) Van Natta of North Hollywood, California, Mrs. John (Joan) Kent of Mt. Vernon and Mrs. Martin (Sue) Henn, Jr. of Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Moss was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters, and two brothers. One brother, William Merritt Moss, was the first Jefferson County casualty in World War I.