The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-01-21
In MemOriani.

Eliza Ross was born in Fayette county,
Pa, September 10, 1921, her parents be.
ing John and Mary Langley, the former
of whom dying III 1880 and the latter in
1862. In January, 1856, she was married
to Robert j. Ross, OF the same county and
State, who died in Perry county, Illinois,
February 26ih, 1868. OF this marriage
two children were born, Olin j. and
Arthur B., the latter dying when he was
three years of age. After the death OF
her husband and son, Arthur, in Illinois,
she and her surviving son returned to
Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1868, at which place
she has resided ever since.
When she was quite young girl,
about Is years of age, she was converted
during the progress of camp meeting
near her home in Pennsylvania and
Joined the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, in which she was consistent
and faithful member until she and her
mother and brothers and sisters moved
to this State few years after her fathers
death, when che handed her letter into
the M. f. Church at Pleasant Hill, near
Hillsboro, there being no Cumberland
Presbyterian Church here.
She lived quiet and unpretentious
life, but she would often get gloriously
happy in telling of her conversion and
religious experience. At her mothers
death she secured her family Bible, and
by long and constant reading knew large
portions of it bv heart. She derived great
comfort from its words, and on dark,
gloomy nights when the rain poured
down in torrents and the wind moaned
solemnlyaround the corners of the house,
or her son was compelled to be absent,
in her loneliness she would get down this
old book and seek communion with the
Almighty in it's pages. Hers was a faith
that triumphed over fear.
She was good as well as brave. She
was kind and generous to the poor,
thought she was not rich herself. She
never turned beggar from her door
one would say that she was likely to be
imposed upon, she would reply that she
could not tell, that it was not her place to
Judge, and then she would cay something
about entertaining angels unawares, and
then again she would speak of him of
whom it was said, "the foxes have holes
and the birds have nests" and who said
"I was in hunger and ye gave me no
meat" She had warm sympathy for
the sick and afflicted and almost without
exception, when visiting them, took some
tempting morsel to eat. She had keen
sense of honor and integrity. She loved
principle, endured suffering with forti-
tude, disappointment with resignation,
and died with calm assurance of life in
a better world. In speaking of death on
her death bed, she said it had no terror
for her, that she had prepared for it years
ago. She was plain and simple in her
mode of life and had little respect for
aristocratic pretentions unless based on
personal merit. She belonged to the
great common people, and yet she had a
patent of notility greater than that which
comes by devise, gift or inheritance.
She delighted to talk to children and
young people by her side about life,
building a character and serving the
Lord. She had sturdy notions on the
subject of character-notions she had gOt
out of the old book she loved so we'll
She always said that it always pays to dc
right, and that sturdy manhood and
womanhood will be recognized at last al
| its true worth, and to encourage the
young she would say that good name
was rather to be chosen than great riches
and that outside appearances were O
no account without character behinC
| them. r.