Macon Weekly Telegraph, Georgia
30 January 1912
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Deaths and Funerals
ROSS
The news has reached Macon of the death of Mrs. Jack Ross at "The Plant," her country home, near Granada, Miss.
For many years her home was in Macon and her many friends and relatives will regret to learn of her death. Before her marriage she was Mary Ann Lamar, the sister of Judge L. Q. C. Lamar. At the time of her marriage to John B. Ross she was Mrs. James C. Longstreet. She leaves three sons, Judge James Longstreet and Lamar Ross, of Jackson, Miss., and Donald Ross, of Grenada, and the widow and children of her son, the late John Ross, of Memphis, Tenn. She was buried Sunday afternoon at Oxford, Miss., where Judge Lamar is buried. Her nearest relatives in Macon are Mrs. Anderson Reese, Mrs. Robert Plant, Sr., Miss Martha Ross, Judge John Hardeman and Mrs. R. M. Patterson.
Mrs. Ross led a beautiful Christian life and was for many years a member of Mulberry Methodist church. She was a woman of remarkable intellect and strength of character, leaving a strong personal influence with all whose lives touched hers. When she moved to Oxford to be near her brother, Judge Lamar, one Macon friend expressed a wish to follow, that Mrs. Ross' influence might aid her to rear he children. One relative who knew her well said: "She was my model woman, as near perfect as people ever are in this world."
