Jackson-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Ross, Elizabeh Hopwood  September 1904
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Morning Oregonian  September 11,1904
Last Friday Mrs.Elizabeth Hopwood Ross,widow of the late General John 
E.Ross,died at he rhome in Jacksonville,after a prolonged illness.Mrs.Ross was 
born in Pennsylvania on August 19,1830,and came across th eplains to Oregon 
with he rparents in 1851,arriving at Portland in October of that yeat.After 
spending the Winter in this city,the family removed to Jacksonville early in 
1852. General and Mrs.Ross were married in Jacksonville January 7,1852,and 
they were probably the first white couple married there. Their first 
child,Mrs.Mary Louise Ross-Stanley is,so far as is known,the first white 
female born in Jacksonville.Mrs.Ross was the mother of 10 children,nine of 
whom survive her.General Ross,as it may be remembered,came to Oregon from 
Illinois in 1847,and served in the Cayuse War in 1848 under Captain H.A.G. Lee 
as Second Lietenant.He rendered efficient service as Colonel in the later 
warsin Southern Oregon from 1851 to 1856,and also in the Modoc War as 
Brigadier General of Oregon Volunteers under the appointment by Governor 
Grover.Mrs.Ross was greatly beloved by a large circle of acquaintances and 
friends in Southern Oregon,and her loss will be mourned by many.

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