The Greensborough Patriot

July 17, 1862

Page 3

DEATHS.

Died—Of typhoid fever, at Richmond, Va., on the 19^th 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 31^st May, and 1^st 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.