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[DAY, AUGUST 20 1886.Governor Sul. floss.St. LouU Globe-Democrat.tion, winning plaudits alike from friend and foe- He wsis never : wounded wbilein the ConfederatennGen- Lawrence Sullivan Ross • ^, ^ , _ ■, service but had seven horses scoxwas bora at Rentonsport, Iowa, j nncjerSeptember 37, 3833, and ta there- j ^he battle of Coriotb, Mtrt, fore forty-eight yew. old. Jl.«!his r imcut. tb„ sij[th- TeM»,,father Capt. Shapely P. Roes, end charg6d Battei7Eobtacltt andlostCatherine H. Boos of Viwdm, h» w meu Qut of 3-0 ; a ^mother, were married in Missouri, _ ~ OAA A , - ‘ ^ »’ _ _ ’ j tanee of 300 vards before the fort jand came t-o Texas in 1839. They « , , U _ aamU . aJ ; manned by heavy guns could became directly to the then Indian ' ^ ^ u ^ ^, 1T\. , _ 1 reached and taken. Gen. Datneyj Tillage of V,aco, where Captain i H „ ja res t0 a lett„j Koe. wa. Indian agent, and where f „ ged(] , ofit . I * . i . ^ i t ? . ^ 1 . i . V 1 . . * , / v*Ithe subject of this sketch has re-I I! sided ever siuce. His sister, now| 7Mrs. Kate PadgiLt, was the first white child born in McLennan | county. Gen. Boss was educated| at the Florence Wcslevan nuiver-*si tv, in North Alabama, and grad-* * *_ | uated in with distinction.His boyhood, in the intervals be-» j’ | tween the sessions of his university j were spent in actual service against d j the Comanclies on the frontier ofThis warlike tribe werewarin the Confederate service, askiDg hi in to furnish to the department the name of the man who displayedthe most distinguished gallantry at1the battlfe of Corinth, sent the | ’8t.i-d1.d8is j Texas.•t always hostile, always alert andialways dangerous. Yonngposswon his spurs in this dangerous Warfare, and made a gforious record as the4“boy captain* while other lads of similar age were dawdling about their mother's drawing rooms. Inone of his vacations, in 1858, with*ti- : a few’ followers, he had a battleb : with the Couiauehes, in which.ninetv-five Indians were killed, 350 *horses captured, with a little white girl, whose parents were never known, but whom Rorts raised anil educated, giving her the name of | Lizzie Ross. The heroic yonng i | captain was dangerously woundedi• i in the action by a rifle ball through , his arm and side. He lay on the ■ i battle-field for five days and was - then carried on a stretcher by fouri tVi i men a distance of ninety miles to ?. , a remote United States post (Rad-i, j zinsky). As soon as lie was able ' to travel he returned to his alma , j mater and graduated the next snmmer.lVname of L. S. Ross, aud hence he s has always be?n called in the South ! “the Hero of Corinth.”HOME IN THE ERA/OS BOTTOM. IHe served with distinction until; the close of the war. when he re-_ iturned home without a dollar. He :went at farming as he did at the Indians and soon bought him a little plantation in the Brazos bot-torns, where he raised and educated his family. In 1873, during the time when the criminal classes were in the ascendant, and whentneither life nor property were safe, } bis law-abiding neighbors selected him as the lilting man for sheriff.VHe served a two years’ term, and*left the office a poorer man thanAwhen he went in. but the law was ; “on top/’ In 1875 he was elected 1 a delegate to the constitutional convention and served faithfully in 'jthat brdv. IIis name is endurable :V •iconnected with all that is best in •ithat document. In 1881 he was elected to the senate and served 1tthere with oouai distinction. Gen. Ii iBoss is a man of fine literary tastes,; |of ripe education and a high order 1of intellect. Indeed, he is a manand no man sinceil3(1tyIa1tj nAmong nuMi.DEFENDING THE FBOS-TIEH.When he returned to Texas in ^859 Gov. Sain Houstou, the im-j mortal, put him. boy and all as he was, in supreme command on the frontier, and well did the “boy captain’’ ratify the clear judgment i of the governor. lie at once or-Houston's palmiest days ever held ’ such a place in the hearts of the -people ns does thin simple, plain, , unpretending, modest gentleman ;who has a record of noble deeds, \- .unselfish life and honorable acts ! behind him which recalls thetChevalier Bayard of happy mem ‘ orv, when rank and fortune were *VY Ct1liItSaaitsaeasslt;re*I'%uTswon at the sword's point iu the age !c«of chivalry. Gen. Ross has a per-1w.j ganized a force and went at the i bloody Comanches in dead earnest.: l€sona! magnetism about him which 1r aiHe captured and destroyed their principal villages, then on Tease | river, killed a great number, cap-! tured over 400 head of horses and| rescued Cynthia Ann Parker, who * had been a captive, for thirty yearswins men and attaches them to his person as by hooks of steel. Hisname and history are without blem-* *ish. as becomes the knightly gentleman whom the people will make governor next November if he lives.osi. a]».i33I mi a
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Abilene Taylor County News
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