The
Greensborough Patriot
July
17, 1862
Page 3
DEATHS.
Died—Of typhoid fever, at
Richmond, Va., on the 19th of June, 1862, Alpheus
Arnolphus Ross, aged about 21 years.
The deceased was a member of Capt.
C. C. Cole’s Company, and among the first to volunteer for the defence of the south, having been more than a year in the
army, a tried and faithful soldier. Up
to within two weeks of his death, he had enjoyed good health and spirits, and
was in the battle fought near Richmond the 31st May, and 1st
June, of which he gave an account in a letter written to a relative.
As long obituary notices are a
trespass upon the columns of a newspaper, and are not often read, suffice it to
say that Arnolphus, while living, was much esteemed
for his frankness and manly bearing, his kind and generous disposition, his
habits of industry and sobriety; while in death he is lamented by a large
circle of relatives and acquaintances.
