Name: Ross, Amy Almira
Burial Date: 1909, 05/05
Age at Death: 32
Plot Location: 409 G

Daughter of : Rev. John Sample Ross and Margaret G. (Bender) Ross
Notes: Sister of Dr. Harry Reath Ross,  Wilson Ross,  Irena Ross Lindsay, and Cora Cynthia Ross Black.

OBITUARY

When Miss Amy Ross breather her spirit out last Monday night in her sister’s home at Viola, Kansas, there passed into the heavenly world a soul beautified with the beauty of Christ. Heaven is richer and earth is poorer by the transfer of this soul to the spirit world. Miss Ross was born April 30, 1877, at Birmingham, Iowa.  Sickness some fifteen years ago left her with heart lesion, which incapacitated her for heavy physical work. She graduated from Cooper College in 1902.  She had chosen the foreign mission field for her life work but the Lord chose his field for her and kept her in the homeland.  The affliction which ended in her death on Monday, May 3, 1909, has lasted six years.  She has been almost helpless physically since the disease commenced its work. A great part of that time she spent in Sterling at the home of her brother Dr. Ross, and at the Sterling Hospital.  She has also spent considerable time with her brother Wilson Ross and her sisters Mrs. Lindsay and Mrs. Black.  Wherever she was she gave herself to mission work for and with her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Her life has been like Mary’s box of precious ointment – a blessed aroma in every place she has been whether in the hospital or in the homes, and that aroma has filled very many hearts. By her prayers, her sweet Christ-like spirit, her kind words, and letters, she bore a blessed message from Christ to many souls, Tho a shut-in for six years, there was really no limitation to her service for Christ. She was accustomed to sending this little verse in many of her letters. She had derived much comfort from its counsel and she wanted everyone to share that comfort with her.

A Cure for the Blues

The little sharp vexations

The briers that catch and fret,

Why not leave all with the Helper

Who has never failed us yet.

Tell Him about the heartache

Tell Him the longing too

Tell Him the baffled purpose

When we scarce know what to do,

Then leaving all our weakness

With the on divinely strong

Forget we bore the burden

And carry away the song.    By Phillip Brooks

Her funeral service was held in the United Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, at 2:30 p.m., conducted by the pastor assisted by Dr. Spencer. The casket was covered with beautiful floral offerings from her college class, the hospital, and many other friends. The last word she was heard to utter was,  “I received it yesterday, the welcome. plaudit “well done, good and faithful servant. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.  Yea saith the Spirit, they do rest from their labors and their works do follow them.

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Miss Amy Almira Ross, age 32 years, died  at 10 o’clock p.m., at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. H. Lindsay, at Viola, Kansas.

After a short service was held, Tuesday morning, the remains were shipped to Sterling, Kansas for burial. She was well known in the Viola neighborhood, as she taught school there a few years ago.

Birth:	1877
Death:	1909
age 32
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 409 G
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