ID: I18396
Name: Willie Bruce Ross
Sex: F
ALIA: /Bea/
Birth: 13 FEB 1882 in Greene County, Tennessee
Death: 6 FEB 1942 in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas of Colon Cancer
Burial: Prairie Grove Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas
Note: Mary E. Bullen Appointment Guardian Willie B. Ross Comes now on this day the said Mary E. Bullen and files and presents to the court her application to be appointed Guardian of Willie B. Ross a minor under the age of 21 years and presents to the court her bond in the sum of Two hundred dollars with James Ross and S.M.M. Prewitt as her securities thereto which said Bond and Securities and by the court considered Good and sufficient and the Said Mary E. Bullen appointed said Guardian as aforesaid.
Probate Book H, pages 547-549. March 11, 1887
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Mrs. Neal Cruse Dies Here Early Today
Mrs. Willie Ross Cruse, wife of Neal Cruse, former Fayetteville chief of police, now living near Prairie Grove, died this morning at the home of her cousin, Miss Ethel Moore in Fayetteville. Funeral Services will be conducted by Rev. H. S. Mobley at Prairie Grove Cumberland church at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Cruse, a native of Tennessee was the daughter of Will and Mary Hunter Ross. She was a resident of Fayetteville for many years. Surviving are her husband and four children: Mrs. Lillian Woods, Wilmont; Gerald Cruse of Springfield, Mo.; Mrs. Vernon Miller of Slaton, Tex.; and Miss Wanda Cruse of Fayetteville. One sister, who lives in California, also survives.
Northwest Arkansas Times, February 6, 1942
Father: William Gravnor Ross b: 1847 in Greene County, Tennessee
Mother: Mary Caroline Hunter b: 8 DEC 1844 in Carter County, Tennessee
Marriage 1
Lacy Neal Cruse b: 17 JAN 1881 in Arkansas
- Married:
18 SEP 1901
in Washington County, Arkansas
- Note: Book L, page 573.
Children
Montreville Cruse b: 2 AUG 1902 in Washington County, Arkansas William Noel Cruse b: 7 JUL 1906 in Washington County, Arkansas Lillian Cruse b: 18 AUG 1911 in Washington County, Arkansas Gerald Alexander Cruse b: 16 MAR 1914 in Washington County, Arkansas Vera Emma Cruse b: 14 SEP 1918 in Washington County, Arkansas Wanda Iris Cruse b: 11 AUG 1921 in Prairie Grove, Washington County, Arkansas | |