DIED
ROSS – At McCulloch's Mills, Juniata county, on the 7th inst., Rev. Joseph A. Ross, aged 70 years (Source: Huntingdon Globe, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 9, 1888, Page 3).
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Joseph Alexander Ross was born in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pa., 4 July 1816. In 1839, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his first field of labor being in Clearfield County, Pa. Other appointments which he filled later were at Danville, Berwick, Jersey Shore, Sunbury, Bloomsburg and Lewistown, Pa. In 1859-60, he was stationed at the Beaver Street M.E. Church, York, Pa., and while there was instrumental in organizing the Duke Street church.
He was, in his prime, a very successful revivalist, and under his ministry in York there occurred the greatest revival known to Methodism in that town.
From 1861 to '65, he was Chaplain at the United States military post in Carlisle, Pa.
About 1882 he retired from the active work of the ministry to his farm near East Waterford, Juniata County, Pa., and there he died 6 Feb 1888, in the seventy-second year of his age, and in the forty-ninth year of his membership in Central Pennsylvania Conference of the M.E. Church.
[Wife] Mary J. (Harvey) Ross died 13 Nov 1892
Children (Ross):
Elizabeth born 13 Nov 1843; died 24 Dec 1896; md. 3 Oct 1872 to Irvin Torrence Andrews, D.D.S.
Benjamin Harvey, born 13 July 1846; died 28 April 1849
William Harvey, born 7 Dec 1848; md. in 1889 to Ada Myton
Josephine Alexine, born 20 Feb 1852; md. in 1880 to Joseph B. Erwin
Nesbit Sargent, born 3 May 1857
Sarah Harvey, born 21 Sep 1860; md. in 1888 to Dr. William M Schull
Frank Stanwood, born 28 Feb 1864
SOURCE: NORTH AMERICAN, FAMILY HISTORIES, 1500-2000 "The Harvey Book"
ROSS – At McCulloch's Mills, Juniata county, on the 7th inst., Rev. Joseph A. Ross, aged 70 years (Source: Huntingdon Globe, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 9, 1888, Page 3).
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Joseph Alexander Ross was born in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pa., 4 July 1816. In 1839, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his first field of labor being in Clearfield County, Pa. Other appointments which he filled later were at Danville, Berwick, Jersey Shore, Sunbury, Bloomsburg and Lewistown, Pa. In 1859-60, he was stationed at the Beaver Street M.E. Church, York, Pa., and while there was instrumental in organizing the Duke Street church.
He was, in his prime, a very successful revivalist, and under his ministry in York there occurred the greatest revival known to Methodism in that town.
From 1861 to '65, he was Chaplain at the United States military post in Carlisle, Pa.
About 1882 he retired from the active work of the ministry to his farm near East Waterford, Juniata County, Pa., and there he died 6 Feb 1888, in the seventy-second year of his age, and in the forty-ninth year of his membership in Central Pennsylvania Conference of the M.E. Church.
[Wife] Mary J. (Harvey) Ross died 13 Nov 1892
Children (Ross):
Elizabeth born 13 Nov 1843; died 24 Dec 1896; md. 3 Oct 1872 to Irvin Torrence Andrews, D.D.S.
Benjamin Harvey, born 13 July 1846; died 28 April 1849
William Harvey, born 7 Dec 1848; md. in 1889 to Ada Myton
Josephine Alexine, born 20 Feb 1852; md. in 1880 to Joseph B. Erwin
Nesbit Sargent, born 3 May 1857
Sarah Harvey, born 21 Sep 1860; md. in 1888 to Dr. William M Schull
Frank Stanwood, born 28 Feb 1864
SOURCE: NORTH AMERICAN, FAMILY HISTORIES, 1500-2000 "The Harvey Book"
DIED
ROSS – At McCulloch's Mills, Juniata county, on the 7th inst., Rev. Joseph A. Ross, aged 70 years (Source: Huntingdon Globe, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 9, 1888, Page 3).
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Joseph Alexander Ross was born in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pa., 4 July 1816. In 1839, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his first field of labor being in Clearfield County, Pa. Other appointments which he filled later were at Danville, Berwick, Jersey Shore, Sunbury, Bloomsburg and Lewistown, Pa. In 1859-60, he was stationed at the Beaver Street M.E. Church, York, Pa., and while there was instrumental in organizing the Duke Street church.
He was, in his prime, a very successful revivalist, and under his ministry in York there occurred the greatest revival known to Methodism in that town.
From 1861 to '65, he was Chaplain at the United States military post in Carlisle, Pa.
About 1882 he retired from the active work of the ministry to his farm near East Waterford, Juniata County, Pa., and there he died 6 Feb 1888, in the seventy-second year of his age, and in the forty-ninth year of his membership in Central Pennsylvania Conference of the M.E. Church.
[Wife] Mary J. (Harvey) Ross died 13 Nov 1892
Children (Ross):
Elizabeth born 13 Nov 1843; died 24 Dec 1896; md. 3 Oct 1872 to Irvin Torrence Andrews, D.D.S.
Benjamin Harvey, born 13 July 1846; died 28 April 1849
William Harvey, born 7 Dec 1848; md. in 1889 to Ada Myton
Josephine Alexine, born 20 Feb 1852; md. in 1880 to Joseph B. Erwin
Nesbit Sargent, born 3 May 1857
Sarah Harvey, born 21 Sep 1860; md. in 1888 to Dr. William M Schull
Frank Stanwood, born 28 Feb 1864
SOURCE: NORTH AMERICAN, FAMILY HISTORIES, 1500-2000 "The Harvey Book"
ROSS – At McCulloch's Mills, Juniata county, on the 7th inst., Rev. Joseph A. Ross, aged 70 years (Source: Huntingdon Globe, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 9, 1888, Page 3).
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Joseph Alexander Ross was born in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pa., 4 July 1816. In 1839, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his first field of labor being in Clearfield County, Pa. Other appointments which he filled later were at Danville, Berwick, Jersey Shore, Sunbury, Bloomsburg and Lewistown, Pa. In 1859-60, he was stationed at the Beaver Street M.E. Church, York, Pa., and while there was instrumental in organizing the Duke Street church.
He was, in his prime, a very successful revivalist, and under his ministry in York there occurred the greatest revival known to Methodism in that town.
From 1861 to '65, he was Chaplain at the United States military post in Carlisle, Pa.
About 1882 he retired from the active work of the ministry to his farm near East Waterford, Juniata County, Pa., and there he died 6 Feb 1888, in the seventy-second year of his age, and in the forty-ninth year of his membership in Central Pennsylvania Conference of the M.E. Church.
[Wife] Mary J. (Harvey) Ross died 13 Nov 1892
Children (Ross):
Elizabeth born 13 Nov 1843; died 24 Dec 1896; md. 3 Oct 1872 to Irvin Torrence Andrews, D.D.S.
Benjamin Harvey, born 13 July 1846; died 28 April 1849
William Harvey, born 7 Dec 1848; md. in 1889 to Ada Myton
Josephine Alexine, born 20 Feb 1852; md. in 1880 to Joseph B. Erwin
Nesbit Sargent, born 3 May 1857
Sarah Harvey, born 21 Sep 1860; md. in 1888 to Dr. William M Schull
Frank Stanwood, born 28 Feb 1864
SOURCE: NORTH AMERICAN, FAMILY HISTORIES, 1500-2000 "The Harvey Book"
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