Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — DEATH OF DR. MOSS. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF DR. MOSS.

Dr. Gordon A. Moss was born In New Richmond, Ohio, August (ith, 1822. and died in Rensselaer, Ind., petober 25th, 1870. His disease was gangrenous erysipelas, supposed to have been produced by virus from a diphtheritec patient. He attended medical lectures at Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered upon the practiceof his profession at Terre Haute. Moved from the latter place to Rensselaer in 1818. March 15th, 1840, was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Saylor. Three childreu were the fruit of their union, who, together with their mother' are dead, June 22d, 1856, he was married to Miss Lydia Greenfield, who survives with four children. August 80tli, 1862, Gordon A. Moss was commissioned assistant surgeon of United States volunteers, with rank of first lieutenant, and assigned to dutv with the S7th regiment Indiana infantry; resigned February 13. 1863. March 23d, 1863, he was commissioned surgeon, with rank of major, and assigned to the 151st regiment Indiana infantry; remained until the close of the war and was mustered out with his regiment. He had been a member of the Masonic order since 1843, and of the Odd Fellows since 1862. In both orders lie was respected for his judgment, morality and inflexible integrity. For thirty-one years the life of Dr. Moss was as an open book to the people of Jasper countv. His profession brought him into most intimate relationlTwith hundreds of families and thousands of persons. He never betrayed a confidence or proved unfaithful to a trust. As a frieud, steadfast; as a counsellor, wise; as a member of society, pure; as a citizen, patriotic, faithful, zealous. Those who have known him longest and most intimately. have the highest regard for him. Indeed, those whom Dr. Moss honored with his friendship, could but admire his sterling qualities that made him conspicuously a gentleman—a man who respected the rights and feelings of his fellow-men. In his death Rensselaer has lost one of her best citizens; one whose voice and thought were ever to promote her best interests. The funeral services were attended at his late residence Sabbath afternoon,and the burial conducted by the Odd Fellow and Masonio orders. The Rensselaer Cornet Band and a large concourse of friends and neighbors escorted the remains to Weston Cemetery.