This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACE/3280 Message Board Post: 12 Sep 1917 - Indiana Evening Gazette - JOSEPH ROSS JOSEPH ROSS, aged nearly 84 years, a resident of Washington township, for 47 years, died at his home in Dravosburg, on Friday, with infirmities, inident to age. He was born in Somerset county, but located in Washington township with his parents when a young man. He conducted a farm near Willet until five years ago when he sold his property and moved to Dravosburg. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a Republican and a highly esteemed man. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Co. K, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, under the late Capt. D. K. Duff, of Willet, and served throughout the conflict. He was a good soldier and was considered one of the most fearless men in tho army: Sixty-one years ago he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Weaver, a daughter of John Weaver, who survives him with these children: John L. and William A. Ross, of New England: Lewis A., Mrs. Harriet Ross Smith, Samuel E. an! d James Ross, of Dravosburg; Edmund Ross, of Silas Ross, of Homer City; three sisters are living. They are Mrs. Caroline McAfoos, aged more than 90 years, of Deckers Point; Mrs. David Potts, an aged woman of Washington township; Mrs. Alice Anna Sheesley, of Montgomery township. There are 51 grandchildren and 50 great-grandchildren, living. services were held at his late lorhe on Tuesday and burial was made in Richland cemetery