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Lamar Ross
[The Macon Daily Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, January 9, 1920]
DEATH OF LAMAR ROSS IN MISSISSIPPI REPORTED
Born and Reared Here. He Became Prominent Attorney at Grenada. - Relatives Live in Macon.
News of the death in Grenada, Miss., of Lamar Ross, prominent Mississippi attorney, who was born and lived here until his young manhood, was received in Macon yesterday by relatives of the deceased among them, Mrs. R. H. Plant, and Mrs. Anderson Reese. He was the son of J. B. Ross, formerly of Macon and a half-brother of William Ross. In addition he has numbers of relatives in Macon, among them some of the Lamar family. An account of the death, published in the Jackson, Miss., Daily News follows:
Lamar Ross, a former prominent attorney of Jackson, died at one o'clock this morning at his home in Grenada. The death of Mr. Ross was due to a deplorable accident. A stray dog had invaded the yard at the Ross home, and was robbing a hen's nest. Mr. Ross secured a pistol and started out to chase the dog. His feet became entangled in some wire, he was thrown to the ground, and the weapon accidentally discharged, the bullet striking him in the chest near the heart. At first it was thought he would recover but complications developed.
He was a nephew of the late I. Q. C. Lamar, member of the __?__ cabinet, United States Senator from Mississippi, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court at time of death. he was also a half-brother of the late Judge James Longstreet, of beloved memory. Mr. Ross is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Juanita Brunker, one son, Lamar Ross, jr., aged 13 years and one brother Donald Ross of Grenada.
Funeral services will be held at Grenada Sunday morning at ten o'clock. A large number of Jackson relatives and friends left this afternoon to attend his obsequies.
Mr. Ross was engaged in legal practice here for several years, a member of the Firm of Mays, Longstreet, & Mayes, district council for the Illinois Central and Y & M V roads. He retired from the firm on account of failing eyesight and returned to his old home at Grenada, hoping that outdoor life would benefit his physical condition. he was a man of brilliant education, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and of Harvard, and prior to returning to his native state was engaged in law practice in New York for several years. He was a man of genial nature, passionately devoted to his friends, and his untimely death will be sincerely mourned by all who enjoyed his acquaintance.
Dr. H. J. Ray
[Brookhaven Ledger, Brookhaven, Mississippi, Published May 5, 1881]
Dr. H. J. Ray of Grenada was killed on the 2nd inst., by the explosion of
a soda fountain generator, and W. P. Towler was badly, probably fatally, injured. The accident occurred in
the latter's drug store.
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