The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County Friday November 11, 1898 A dispatch to his parents, received Tuesday morning, brought the sad news that Roscoe RANKIN had died of typhoid fever at Fort Monroe, to which point the had been started from Jacksonville, Fla., when too sick and weak to stand the long journey. Roscoe was a superior young man, a general favorite, and his parents receive deep sympathy in the loss of their only son. (Mound City)