Harrison County

Lebanon, Ore. – George Ross, a prominent farmer of this vicinity, died at the farm home two miles north of Lebanon, May 10. Mr. Ross was born at Cadiz, Ohio, September 24, 1840, and had been a resident on the farm on which he died for 30 years. He came to Oregon in 1875, and first settled at Milwaukee, where he resided for a few years. He was a veteran of the civil war, having enlisted in July, 1861, in the Second Illinois cavalry. At Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1863, he was seriously wounded in battle. In 1865 he was married to Ida F.
English at Bloomington, Ill. She died December 27, 1907. He leaves five sons and one daughter, Frank E., Will H., Charles V., and George E. of Lebanon, and Mrs.Ida May Simonds of Clearwater, Kan.

Submitted by Shauna Williams & Robyn Greenlund
The Spokesman-Review, May 27, 1910